This article discusses the potential consequences of implementing bibliometrics as an institutionalized practice in academic libraries. Results are reported from a survey distributed among academic libraries in Sweden with organized bibliometric activities. Incorporating bibliometric activities is seen as a way of redefining and widening of the role of the library. Implementation of bibliometri...

by Urquhart in the development of that branch of information science termed bibliometrics, the application of mathematical and statistical techniques to information phenomena, pursuing both historical and practical aims. The article is intended not only to trace the history of the probability distributions applicable to library use and other facets of human knowledge but also to demonstrate how...

The purpose of the article is an analytical review and definition strategies for development librarianship in Ukraine at present stage. methodology consists application general scientific special methods: methods analysis, synthesis generalization, analyticalmethod, documentary which allows achieving this goal. novelty deals with important problems library sphere Ukraine. main factors that infl...

Introduction: the reference service in university libraries specialized health has certain singularities due to characteristicsof scientific field of Health Sciences, interface between teaching practices and research, as well general profile demands for information /reliable evidence by academics, professors/researchers practitioners. Objective: present discuss health, challenges/potentialities...

The aim of the paper is to discuss the nature and trends in interdisciplinary relations of information science. At thebeginning, the origin and social background of information science are presented, followed by a description of theevolution of information retrieval (IR), the main activity in information science. The evolution of interdisciplinaryrelations is evaluated in respect to...