Library education all over world is under many pressures, which are enumerated. The paper concentrates on the relation between subject of librarianship, the subject of information science and the accommodation of information science in library education. Library education needs to take into account advances in information science because they provide neva theoretical frameworks and new professi...

This paper describes two initiatives based in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College that contribute to meeting educational and training needs in digital stewardship: the online Digital Stewardship Certificate and the Digital Curriculum Laboratory. Keywords—Digital, curation, stewardship, Digital Stewardship Certificate, Digital Curriculum Laboratory, Simmons.

The paper provides an overview of the field of scientometrics, that is: the study of science, technology, and innovation from a quantitative perspective. We cover major historical milestones in the development of this specialism from the 1960s to today and discuss its relationship with the sociology of scientific knowledge, the library and information sciences, and science policy issues such as...

Purpose Reports on research undertaken into the use made of library and information science (LIS) journals in dissertations written by students undertaking the Master’s course in Information and Library Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Design Analysis of the citations of 100 (post 2000) dissertations submitted gives an indication of the range of material used in dissertations. In...

Meta-analysis is a method for summarizing statistical fi ndings across multiple research studies. It is a useful method for assessing the level of agreement or disagreement surrounding a given research question. The ability to perform meta-analysis is dependent on the level of consistency in measures and the amount of data shared in published research. Guidelines to minimum standards for report...

In history of human civilization, reading has always been considered as a cultural element. Through reading humans got the recognition of life and the environment around themselves and satisfied their curiosity. Development of information technology gives birth to digital media and has influenced the reading behavior in contemporary era. The new media offers new opportunities and increases the ...

In theory, articles can attract readers in the social reference sharing site Mendeley before they can attract citations and so Mendeley altmetrics could provide early indications of article impact. This article investigates the influence of time on the number of Mendeley readers of an article through a theoretical discussion and an investigation into the relationship between counts of readers o...

AFSTRACT To PREPARE FUTI’RE INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS for the rapidly changing environment in which they will work, library and information science (LIS) educators have an obligation to ensure that their graduates understand, conceptually and pragmatically, the major methodological paradigms of research. Most LIS programs offer only a single course in research methods. Within that constraint, a...

Introduction. Disciplinarity and other forms of differentiation in science have long been studied in the fields of science and technology studies, information science and scientometrics. However, it is not obvious whether these fields are building on each other’s findings. Methods. An analysis is made of 609 articles on disciplinarity selected through a combination of automatic and manual metho...

The University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) participated in TREC’s microblog track this year–the track’s first iteration. In keeping with the foundational status of the track, our goals were chosen to emphasize the role of a single factor in microblog IR: time. As such, we adhered to the strictest guidelines of the task description, using only real-tim...