Despite Library and Information Science’s engagement with other matters of social justice, nearly no scholarly attention has been paid to fat issues within the library. Through critical lens author’s own experiences as a Science scholar, discourse analysis online library furniture catalogues reveals exclusionary ways in which they perpetuate fatphobic body size standards. Given that spaces are ...

Library science students in school librarianship were surveyed to determine their information seeking and avoidance behaviors Web-based online environments. Two coping styles identified among students. Barriers student collaboration, such as individual preferences, concerns on efficiency, lack of mutual trust, observed.

OBJECTIVE This study analyzed trends in research activity as represented in the published research in the leading peer-reviewed professional journal for health sciences librarianship. METHODOLOGY Research articles were identified from the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association (1991-2007). Using content analysis and bibliometric techniques, ...

The implementation and development of effective mentoring is crucial to the growth and success of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) librarianship and staffi ng. Mentoring is necessary to fi ll the gaps for all staff members, especially students. I propose that mentoring can assuage many of the staffi ng obstacles to successful GIS programs. Effective mentoring will create a healthy and produ...

THISARTICLE USES A FEMINIST STANDPOINT to examine the beginnings of library service to children in this country and the women instrumental in designing that service. It also examines the complex institutional and interpersonal relationships among these female librarians and the women who founded children’s publishing. Together these two groups of women, as advocates both for children and for bo...

objective: a review of capability of librarianship and information science that could manifest should it be seen from a new perspective method: a historical and at the same time comparative method was used. in the historical method the field of librarianship and information science are chronicled. in the comparative method, it has been compared to other fields findings: librarianship and inform...

Health sciences librarians function in environments that are constantly undergoing rapid and drastic changes in a range of divergent arenas, including scientific, technological, social, political, and financial changes. To keep up with these changes, health sciences librarians require lifelong learning opportunities. The Medical Library Association (MLA) recommends that library educators provid...