There is an abundance of evidence in the literature that corroborates the hypothesis that African librarianship has its roots in the colonial era. In developing African librarianship, the colonial masters set in place a library and information service infrastructure that propagated western philosophies and imperatives. As pointed out by duPlessis (2007), the colonial powers, to support their an...

What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject field like medicine, sociology or music? What approaches have been used in information science to produce kinds of domain-specific knowledge? This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis. Together these approaches make a unique competence for information specialists. The approaches are: producing...

Introduction Academic libraries have long had individuals responsible for social science data services, providing access to government and other types of data. Traditionally, these individuals included the social science subject librarian or the government document librarian. 1 However, recently it has become more common for the social science data librarian position to be independent, probably...

Building upon Ettarh’s call to dismantle vocational awe in librarianship, this article outlines the shared components of Western libraries and music that lay groundwork for each these institutions explores ways which uniquely manifests workers interdisciplinary field librarianship. The narrative music’s goodness, disciplinary training, manifestations as they appear institutional cultures practi...

Abstract This article addresses the concept and practice of liaison librarianship newly introduced in 2019 at University Library Freie Universität Berlin. Chances challenges library-faculty collaboration two librarians assigned to work with Department Earth Sciences Seminar East Asian Studies, respectively, are discussed. The contribution seeks give a stimulus for academic libraries connect wel...

This article reviews the E-Prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) open access archive. ELIS is part of the Research in Computing, Library and Information Science (RCLIS) project, an international effort to organize and disseminate scholarly papers in librarianship and related fields. E-LIS uses open source applications, and joins a growing number of OAI-compliant services dedicated t...