Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this new directions in library and informati...

A WIDE RANGE OF PEOPLE are just beginning to equate information service in their communities with the institution they once believed served a primarily recreational and educational function-the public library. At present, many rural libraries have inadequate numbers of staff, and many others have staff which are seriously undereducated to meet the expanded information needs of the people in the...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 391–401 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article articulates the findings of two research studies. The first, a national survey, explores the educational background and current job responsibilities of media librarians. The second, a web analysis, assesses media-related curriculum components of accredited libra...

The authors thank both Rhonda J. McGinnis and Kent Yates. Ms. McGinnis, currently a Graduate Assistant at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, provided able assistance in drawing the samples, mailing the paper-based survey and coding responses for all surveys. Mr. Yates, Manager of Computing and Network Resources, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, ...

The researcher was fortunate to be a member of an international development programme for library and information science (LIS) in South Africa (DISSAnet), and has benefited from the experience to the extent that research and development in the LIS field is on-going. In order to promote this kind of initiative and to share the experience with those not fortunate to be part of the programme, it ...

Library and information studies education in Australia is characterised by unresolved tensions, some of which have persisted for several decades. Among its characteristics and conflicts are a multi-tiered system of qualification, a high number of schools per capita with a wide range of discipline affiliations, a wide acceptance of distance learning, pressure for curriculum review, and the perce...

Introduction. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in ethnographic research within the field of library and Information studies. Although ethnography has been used by information researchers for studying a wide variety of phenomena, discussions concerning methodological developments and directions, as well as ethnography’s wider applicability within the field are rare. Our intent ...