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Many organizations are finding that hiring staff trained in library science is instrumental in creating and managing their digital asset management system's data structure, rules, and values. This paper briefly outlines the benefits of hiring library science professionals, and the kind of education and training they commonly experience.

Mahasiswa saat ini, terutama dalam pembelajaran jarak jauh selama masa pandemi covid 19 semakin bergantung pada Web untuk memenuhi kebutuhan informasi mereka dalam perkuliahan. Pada saat yang sama, mahasiswa tanpa disadari kekurangan keterampilan berpikir kritis yang diperlukan untuk mengevaluasi kredibilitas aktual informasi sebagai aspek penting dari literasi informasi. Selanjutnya, berdasarkan hasil pengamatan ditemukan bahwa mahasiswa justru sangat jarang menelusur informasi secara online melalui akses database perpustakaan digital, mahasiswa lebih cenderung menggunakan mesin telusur umum dalam memenuhi kebutuhan informasi mereka. Penelitian ini menggunakan sebuah survei online yang dirancang untuk mengeksplorasi hubungan antara evaluasi kritis informasi online, sebagai unsur penting dari literasi informasi dalam pembelajaran jarak jauh. Penelitian ini menggambarkan kompetensi literasi informasi mahasiswa ilmu perpustakaan dan informasi yang aktif dalam masa pembelajaran jarak jauh masa pandemi covid 19 pada dua universitas yang berbeda. Secara umum hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hanya setengah dari jumlah sample yang menerapkan kemampuan literasi informasi selama kuliah daring pada tugas praktikum. Mahasiswa cenderung melakukan pencarian informasi dengan cepat namun belum memanfaatkan strategi pencarian informasi dan sumber informasi yang dipelajari selama mata kuliah Literasi Informasi. Oleh karena itu kemampuan literasi informasi harus tetap dikombinasikan penerapannya pada mata kuliah lain terutama yang ada kuliah praktikum. Kata kunci: Literasi informasi, Literasi media, Pencari informasi Mahasiswa, Elearning, Pendidikan jarak jauh, dan Berpikir kritis . ABSTRACT Student Today's, especially in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly rely on the Web to meet their information needs in lectures. At the same time, students unwittingly lack the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate the actual credibility of information as an important aspect of information literacy. Furthermore, based on the results of observations, it was found that students rarely searched for information online through access to digital library databases. students are more likely to use general search engines to fulfill their information needs. This study used an online survey designed to explore the relationship between critical evaluation of online information, as an important element of information literacy in distance learning. This study describes the information literacy competencies of library and information science students who are active in the distance learning period during the COVID-19 pandemic at two different universities. In general, the results of the study show that only half of the sample applies information literacy skills during online lectures on practicum assignments. Students tend to search for information quickly but have not made use of the information retrieval strategies and sources of information learned during the Information Literacy course. Therefore, information literacy skills must be combined with its application in other subjects, especially those with practicum courses.  Keywords: information literacy, media literacy, student information search, e learning, distance education, and critical thinking.

This paper looks at the value of wikis as a collaborative resource for library science and digital libraries, briefly explores the history of wikis, cites examples of why wikis are viewed with hope and suspicion, and illustrates a wiki in use by the Digital Conversion Team at The Library of Congress.

With the expansion enrollment of post-graduate, the situation of post-graduate employment is getting worse. This paper made the survey on the graduate students in South China Normal University from the year 2008 to 2014, and we found that the characteristics of postgraduate students majored in library science and information science are seeking for stability and security, focusing on the conversion of occupation in developed areas and low rate of changing jobs. We can make a meaningful job for post-graduate employment and gives some advice on how to improve the rate of post-graduate employment. Proposal of the Issue China's graduate education has expanded the scale since 2003. The number of enrollment of graduate students in 2014 is 551 thousands, 2.82 times than that of 2002. Under the social background of China's industrial structure transformation and adjustment, streamline government institutions and state-owned enterprise reform, the society of graduates provide jobs and without a corresponding increase; at the same time, the employment policy from the allocation of the entrance examination to the “two-way choice”, “self-employment” change. Based on the concern of the graduate employment problem, this paper uses the practical data. Analysis library and information professional graduate students view of employment and employment characteristics in order to improve and employment guidance in colleges and universities. Related Concepts and Research Background Vocational selection means choosing a career based on his professional ideals through a certain way. The view of vocational selection belongs to the content of ideological consciousness, which is the product of certain historical conditions, and closely related to social development. In order to facilitate the comparison and highlight the representative of graduate students' employment status, this paper chooses the books and the information professional graduates as the object of investigation. This paper takes the form of questionnaire survey to compare and analyze the employment situation of the seven graduate students in the school of economics and management of South China Normal University. The survey was distributed 103 questionnaires, 87 valid questionnaires were returned, reaching 84.47% of the total. In addition, we have carried out individual interviews to some of the graduates, the employment situation of the previous graduates were summarized and analyzed. Based on the data obtained from the questionnaire survey and individual interview in the library and information science major of South China Normal University, we made the following analysis of the graduates' vocational selection and employment situation. International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology (ICEMET 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 66

Dissertation advising is an important form of mentoring. To investigate the impact of dissertation advising over time, advisor and committee member names were collected for 2400 dissertations completed over a 40-year period (1964–2004) in 32 North American information and library science schools. Several mentoring impact metrics are reported for a subset of the data, including the number of dissertations advised, the number of dissertation committees served on, the ratio of advising to committee membership, and the fractional “mpact” that weights advising and committee membership. The subset consists of data for six schools that produced at least three dozen dissertations and for which complete data is available. The data and resulting “mpact” metrics offer new ways to assess faculty impact and to investigate the nature and growth of a field.

This paper analyzes the problems of interdisciplinary interactions between library science and related sciences of the social and humanitarian cycle. It proves the heuristic character of methodological communication of library science and sociology in solving the problems of interactions between libraries and society under the conditions of informatization. The prospects for introducing modern sociologic theories in library-science development are described.

This PowerPoint presentation details the content and ethos of our masters courses in Library Science and Information Science, at CityLIS, the Department of Library & Information Science, City, University of London. Presented on 13th November 2019.

SUMMARY Since library science education started in Nigeria about half a century ago, cataloguing has been regarded as a core subject in the curriculum. With the diversification of subjects, some core subjects were made electives. This did not affect cataloguing. Nigerian libraries have not gone far in electronic data processing for the storage of data and information and, as a result, libraries are still manual-oriented. Even though some libraries in Cross River State of Nigeria have taken their first steps toward automation, the library schools still find it necessary to continue drilling students in traditional cataloguing. The question of the relevance of cataloguing in an automated library system arises and, using the descriptive survey methodology, this researcher investigates the hypothesis that cataloguing is still relevant in the library school curriculum. The finding is that the manual system will continue to be used for a long time and, thus, cataloguing will continue to be relevant, even with t...

An empirical investigation of citations to 150 publications in the field of Information and Library Science (ILS) has enabled mapping of the development of the interdisciplinary scope of the ILS field. The publications were drawn randomly in six years between 1975 and 2000, with 25 articles each from the selected years. Network-based graphical presentation of number of extradisciplinary citations show that the field attracts a significant wide spectrum of disciplines in the domains of science, social science, and the humanities, and that the kinds of disciplines interested in the field vary by year. ANOVA result based on the number of extradisciplines was significant and the linear contract between the year group of 1975,1980,1985 and the year group of 1990,1995, 2000 was highly statistically significant. Interdisciplinary diversity was further examined through measures of Citations Outside Category and Brillouin's Index. Kruskal Wallis test showed significant results, however, when the two measures were considered independently, only the contrast of the year of 1990 to the prior three years was significant.

The author examines the question of where library science fits in the general system of scholarly disciplines. He argues that it is a social science, and more particularly, a social communications science.

The paper deals with some methodological problems of the modern library science. The author proposes to use two methodological strategies for researches in field of library science.

Considers the historic and contemporary import of Pierce Butler’s An Introduction to Library Science. Characterizes the content of each chapter and critically analyses the central theses. Relates Butler’s positivistic premises, assumptions and conclusions to the congeries of competing epistemological and ideological standpoints that defines current thinking in library and information science research.

This study examined the diversity initiatives at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-SILS), as they pertain to the recruitment and retention of students and faculty from historically underrepresented groups. The case study method was used to gauge the extent to which "diversity" as a core value of the Information and Library Science profession has been embraced and implemented within the context of an Information and Library Science (ILS) school. As such, this study addresses the following questions: 1.What is the history of the UNC-SILS diversity initiative? 2. How have the objectives of the diversity initiative at UNC-SILS been identified? 3. What major steps have been taken to promote diversity at UNC-SILS? 4. What steps are being taken to assess the success of the short and long term effects of the diversity initiative? What measures will be used?

As the world changes, so does information and its use. This chapter explains functions of library science as impacted by technology within the context of change. Library science provides the basis for mediation between the community and the information it needs to carry out its functions, tempered by the impact of technologies. Librarians apply library science principles as they develop and manage the community's information collection. In today's digital environment, the proliferation of information requires that librarians increasingly need to interpret, filter, and evaluate that information. Librarians apply library science-based technical processes to organize and optimize the efficient retrieval of the needed information. In addition, librarians foster information literacy in communities, largely serving as a responsive guide for all of its community members, not only for the purpose of pre-existing library comprising their catalogs and indexes, but the creation of new orders developed and made possible by the computer search capabilities. In these ways, library science is dynamic and facilitates change.

This essay focuses on how the political climate of the Cold War-era U.S.S.R. affected Soviet librarians' ability to study and write about libraries in capitalist countries. The author refers extensively to papers published in major Soviet library science journals from the 1920s to the early 1990s to support his views. Examples are given of the influence of Cold War politics on the work of Russian library science researchers. The author uses contemporary material to trace the effects of the political on Soviet librarians' view of the international library community. Volodin also makes a clear differentiation between publicly expressed "politically correct" views and unpublished, unbiased research by significant Soviet librarians. The article discusses the profound impact made in bibliographic research by humanities scholars who chose library careers to avoid the intellectual constraints enforced elsewhere in Soviet academics. The author concludes by pointing out that librarians in the former Soviet Union are still unable to consider the effects of the Cold War on their profession as past history due to the stagnant climate of research and education. He describes the continued intellectual isolation perpetuated by the domestic focus of the popular Russian library science journals.

This paper reviews the implementation of an Information Literacy Training course at the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. The training lasted seven days and involved Masters students from th...

Last summer, the University of Southern Mississippi’s Digital Collections, with support from the school’s Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), embarked on a new initiative. Called “Digi Day”, the workshop offered current LIS graduate students the opportunity to receive hands-on training and experience in digitization using The Rey Papers, one the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection’s most prized collections. The first “Digi Day” workshop, which took place in June, is just the beginning of what will become a series of similar workshops tentatively planned for Spring and Summer 2015. Digi Day workshops last one full day and involve basic training in digitization techniques, from handling items and running scanners to introductory description and metadata skills. Guest speakers from the local archival community also participate by discussing current projects and emphasizing the importance of gaining digitization experience as early as possible. Choosing an appropriate collection for Digi Day workshops is no small feat. Organizers must take into account the experience level of volunteers as well as the subject matter and physical condition of the collections. An ideal choice for Digi Day use is a collection that is engaging to digitize and describe, as well as one that is physically appropriate for handling by volunteers with little or no archival experience. This article will report the success of the first “Digi Day” and will cover the selection of materials as well as workshop structure, recruitment, basic training topics and techniques, and volunteer recognition. The Primary Source, Vol. 33, Issue 2 6 Introduction Last summer, the University of Southern Mississippi’s Digital Collections, with support from the school’s Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), embarked on a new initiative. Called Digi Day, the workshop offered current LIS graduate students the opportunity to receive hands-on training and experience in digitization using The Rey Papers, one of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection’s most prized collections. The workshop was held at the McCain Library and Archives’ Digital Lab. Elizabeth La Beaud, the library’s Digital Lab Manager and MLIS Candidate, and Emilie Aplin, a circulation supervisor at Cook Library, MLIS Candidate, and 2013-2014 LISSA President, were the workshop’s two coordinators. Workshop participants received basic training in digitization techniques and metadata creation and gained handson experience scanning documents and creating image production records. During a Lunch and Learn session, guest speakers from Mississippi Digital Library and the Aquila Digital Community addressed volunteers and stressed the importance of digitization work and the skills necessary to work in the field. Due to the success of the pilot workshop, Digi Day is projected to become an ongoing opportunity for LIS students at the University of Southern Mississippi. This article will report the success of the first Digi Day workshop and will cover selection of materials, workshop structure, recruitment, training topics and techniques, volunteer recognition, and plans for similar, future workshops. Background Archives, primary source materials, and education have had a long relationship. Some archives routinely integrate archival instruction and the use of primary sources into undergraduate curricula, particularly in the humanities fields. Common to all archival education programs is a solid 1 Magia G. Krause, “Undergraduates in the Archives: Using an Assessment Rubric to Measure Learning,” American Archivist 73, no. 2 (2010): 507-534. Student participants learn to complete an image production record during Digi Day orientation at McCain Library and Archives on June 21 2014. The Primary Source, Vol. 33, Issue 2 7 grounding in theoretical principles, and many programs also include servicebased learning, usually as a practicum or internship, as a requirement for graduation. The Society of American Archivists (SAA) advocates the linking of theory and practice aspects of archival education, especially when learning the core principles of arrangement and description. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), with its own standards for special collections professionals at academic libraries, advises that professionals understand not just the relationship between theory and practice but also “the significance of original artifacts and the nature and value of primary materials for learning” as well as “the use of digital asset management systems and metadata for providing access to digitized primary source materials”. Therefore, the union of theory and practice during archival training is essential. A recent study by Donghee Sinn explored the benefits and drawbacks of hands-on training opportunities in archival education programs. Sinn, who polled both students and archivists experienced in such training opportunities, found that students valued not only the chance to link theory to practice but also to network and “test the waters” before actually entering the archival profession. The study also found that professional archivists value their involvement in such programs since they benefited from similar opportunities when they were beginning in the field. They also view these hands-on training opportunities as effective recruitment strategies for future employment. Both students and archivists agreed, however, that the biggest challenge of such programs is the increased time demand and workload for both groups. 7 2 Society of American Archivists, “Arrangement and Description,” Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archives, accessed September 29, 2014, http://www2.archivists.org/gpas/curriculum/arrangement-description. 3 Association of College and Research Libraries, “Competencies for Special Collections Professionals,” Guidelines and Standards, accessed September 29, 2014, http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/comp4specollect. 4 Donghee Sinn, “Collaborative Education Between Classroom and Workplace for Archival Arrangement and Description: Aiming for Sustainable Professional Education,” American Archivist 76, no. 1 (2013): 237-262.

The innovative distance education program at the School of Information Resources and Library Science is a model for higher education and the information industry for instructing information specialists and librarians on how to move information from place to place and from person to person. Geographically dispersed students experience direct electronic learning and communication via the Internet. Looking ahead to the future, this electronic wave of knowledge dissemination is increasingly in demand and requires skills and expertise to successfully serve a clientele. This distance education program may be the only way a graduate student interested in information resources and library science can complete a program given his or her geographic location or other responsibilities that preclude moving near a university or driving long distances.

The article is devoted to the problem of development of typology in library science. There are presented the basic meanings of the “type” concept. There exist two approaches to its understanding: practical (pragmatic, ontological) that is often used in everyday life, and scientific (theoretical, logical), more legitimate in professional practice and science. In library science “classification” and “typology” concepts are used in parallel, sometimes considered to be equivalent synonyms, but there is a substantial difference between them. There is analyzed and presented in a table correlation between “typology” and “classification” concepts. There is discussed the development of problem of library typology in the national and foreign library science. There are presented parameters of library activities proposed by the library scientists to be the type forming criteria. Development of electronic libraries, that has become commonplace today, led to the problem of finding place for them in typological schemes or creating their own typology. There are highlighted two key parameters (criteria of classification): sphere of servicing, maintained social activities and area of interaction with the user. It is justified importance of the development of the problem of library typo-logy for the theory and practice of librarianship. Development of criteria for grouping and structuring the libraries will help the orientation in library and information space, improvement of the requirements and approaches to the management of library institutions, training of experts in different library and information areas.

Summary The gathering, organization, and archiving of critical business intelligence is a complex task. Competitive Intelligence systems gather information for use in the decision making process. Knowledge Management Systems are used to organize this knowledge. Library Science provides structure for the storage of published documents, in both printed and electronic formats. This paper proposes that the common link among the three disciplines is Archive Theory, which is the process by which an archive of information is built. This process provides a framework for analysis of what documents or information to retain and what format to use when retaining them. The paper details the linkage and concludes with an example of a working system that ties all parts together.

The library and information centres, around the world have acquired an advanced status in terms of implementation of information communication technology (ICT), as a result which they have now become centres of excellence in information delivery .The present paper is an attempt to provide an outline of the emerging database technologies that are facilitating the libraries to provide their services in a quicker, effective and more efficient manner.The five laws of library science propounded by Dr. S. R.Rannganathan are still relevant and prevalent today in the sense that they have acted as guiding principles for developing the digital/ electronic databases for efficient management of libraries with the help of information technology. The internet databases, the web databases, digital/ electronic libraries, multimedia databases, mobile databases and spatial databases have all proved that these are essential to enhance the existing status of library and information centres.

In a review on a reading-book the selection of the presented documents, their grouping and location in divisions is considered. The value of evaluation for training of researchers is marked. Several remarks on the location of documents and misprints are outlined.

This study is a case study with four classes of sophomore majoring in library ＆ information science in S woman`s college, with a questionnaire, firstly to research the students` recognition of their experience on bibliotherapy and the time, their preference of the materials` genre for the bibliotherapy. usefulness of the bibliotherapy` subject, apply possibility into library work, and the field of science that must be supplemented for the bibliotherapy. Secondly. a direction of development is presented analyzing researched contents and lecture experiences, centering on the factors that should be complemented and prepared in studying or lecturing the course of bibliotherapy as a school subject in the field of library ＆ information science hereafter.

The research output in the field of Library and Information Science by the faculties of central universities of North India has been carried out. The study covered a period of 36 years spanning between 1978 and 2014. A total of 1292 records of various types comprising Articles, conference proceedings, book & book chapter by 30 faculty members of the above said universities. It reveals that University of Delhi has contributed maximum publications 429 and Central University of Himachal Pradesh has contributed least number of publications 135.Testing of the validity of Lotka’s law has been performed. The study has been found that Lotka’s law is applicable to the present study.

Web Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is widely used electronic library catalogues giving a wealth of remote access to library information resources. The end user satisfaction of the system is vital to ensure the continuation usage of Web OPAC. Most of the previous studies focused on the interface and the system itself instead of the end user satisfaction. This study is aim to integrate end user satisfaction criteria between Library Science and Information System Expectation Disconfirmation Theory (EDT). The conclusion from this study is an integrated approach from both fields is needed to provide a much comprehensive perspective to evaluate and measure the Web OPAC end user satisfaction.

The Editor of Classification & Cataloging Quarterly, the Journal of Internet Cataloging, and co-editor of Journal of Archival Organization describes changes and continuities in editing library sciencejour-nals over nearly two decades. Topics covered include the international aspects; editorial processes from methods of submission to review and acceptance; subject content; and the impact of the Internet and digital technology on journals, especially the editor's role. Over time editors will continue to play critical roles in the transmission and preservation of knowledge.

SUMMARY The author reports on a study conducted to determine the extent to which foreign (non-Russian) studies in library and information science for the 1996–1998 period were covered by Russian indexing and abstracting in librarianship. The conclusion is that much relevant material in the library literature–particularly that published in Western Europe and North America–is missed by the Russian abstracting and indexing processes. The paper concludes with comments on the state of Russian librarianship in the post-Soviet period.

The essay is concerned with library science as a science of the artificial. This is an area of research that has in recent decades gone through a profound change. The Aristotelian paradigm has made room for an interactice, technologically oriented applied science. This development has transformed the very concepts of book, library and information. Section 2 addresses the concept of book and the history of bookmaking. Section 3 is dedicated to the historical background of libraries. Section 4 concerns the state of the art of modern library science. Section 5 clarifies, how librarians are trained in their profession and which requirements they are expected to satisfy.

Libraries provide physical and intellectual access to high quality information in its myriad formats. To fulfill their responsibilities, librarians have incorporated technology into most aspects of their practice. Librarians work with their communities to provide relevant resources and services. These resources are increasingly digital in format, and libraries incorporate technology to insure physical and intellectual access to them. Technology has transformed library spaces, both physical and virtual. Librarians also use technology to provide value-added content and services. The Library of Congress and OCLC exemplifies instititutions that leverage technology to provide optimum programs. This is explored in this chapter.

Classical librarianship drowns in the sea of change. in the United States our profession had indicated a profound change -especially in the last 20 years. Until 1976, 15 schools or departments of librarianship had been closed, and the rest had undergone a serious transformation. During the last 20 years, library education became no more homogeneous as it was in the past. New educational programs show vast diversity. The scope of the mission of library services became enlarged. Type of students, ways of teaching had also indicated a substantial change. On the other hand, the librarian of today requires lifelong self­education.

Are librarians the only ones who read and cite articles published in library science journals ? Research reported here shows that disciplines citing library science articles include computer science, medicine, psychology, the social sciences, and general sciences. This study's methodology involved using Social SciSearch on DIALOG to analyze citations to twenty-four library science journals over a twenty-year period. The authors identified the nonlibrary science fields or disciplines that cited articles published in the library journals included in this study by using the journal subject categories on DIALOG. Although citations from other fields are higher than previous studies indicate, comparison with other fields in the social sciences shows that library science is not commanding citations at the level of the more developed fields.

The article describes the genesis and evolution of the epistemological and ontological definitions of the model. There is analyzed the experience of using the modeling method in librarianship. There are consi-dered the theoretical and methodological foundations of modeling in librarianship as a method of scientific cognition.

This article analyses characteristics of the information profession with suggestions as to which characteristics are likely to remain significant in the future. It focuses on professional values, professional parameters and the impact of information technology. The author concludes with a discussion of possible changes to the education of librarians based upon this analysis. He also suggests how educators need to view the future of the profession in order to introduce the necessary changes to educational programmes gradually but consistently.

This article describes the history of the first information science department formed in the United States-at the University of Pittsburgh-and the roles of two of its principal faculty members: Allen Kent and Anthony Debons. In particular, it looks at the origins of the program in command-and-control systems, documentation of scientific literature, and library automation.

The main purpose of this article is to reveal the effect of self-archiving on the citation impact of preprints in Information Science & Library Science (LIS). The arXiv and WoS database are used and all citations from WoS are collected to address two key questions—one is the share of papers published in the core LIS journals that also deposited in arXiv and time lags in publication process, the other is the differences in aging characteristics and citation impact of journal articles deposited in arXiv compared to those not deposited—through statistical and bibliometric analysis. The results show that the proportion of journal articles deposited in arXiv is low but there is an overall increasing trend, nearly 80% of all arXiv papers are preprints and authors are more likely to post the paper to arXiv when it is received or accepted by a journal, the preprints enjoy a boost in early citations and the citation advantage decrease with the increasing author productivity, the citations to arXiv version papers indicate an OA effect of arXiv.

Attempts to clarify the position of the department of library science in relation to the university library and other university departments. Describes the early history of the library scene in post‐independence India and its eventual decline into neglect and financial crisis. With the library profession having a poor political base and with little investment put into library science projects, resulting in library school closures, library science enjoys but a feeble existence. The popular status of the university library ensures that it receives the financial muscle, while the library science department lingers in its shadow. Any criticisms about library staff from other departments are unjustifiably levelled at the library science department. Concludes with the thought that, until there is mutual respect between all university departments, library science is not going to gain the status which it deserves and will always be associated with the university library.

The structural properties of the network generated by the editorial activities of the members of the boards of "Information Science & Library Science" journals are explored through network analysis techniques. The crossed presence of scholars on editorial boards, the phenomenon called interlocking editorship, is considered a proxy of the similarity of editorial policies. The evidences support the idea that this group of journals is better described as a set of only relatively connected subfields. In particular two main subfield are identified, consisting of research oriented journals devoted respectively to LIS and MIS. The links between these two subsets are weak. Around these two subsets there are a lot of (relatively) isolated professional journals or journals characterized more by their subject-matter content than by their focus on information flows. It is possible to suggest that this configuration of the network may be the consequence of the youthfulness of Information Science & Library Science, which has not permitted yet to reach a general consensus through scholars on research aims, methods and instruments., 12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables Accepted for publication. Journal of Informetrics

This article examines the level of scholarly contribution made by public librarians to eight national library science periodicals from 1988 through 1990 and to two national library science periodicals specifically targeted for a public library audience for the same period. Contributors are profiled on the bases of gender, geographic location, and collaboration, and, comparisons are made between the authorship characteristics in the general library periodicals and the two public library-oriented periodicals. It is shown that, although public librarians' contributions to the general library science literature is practically negligible, they constitute a significant presence in the public library-oriented periodicals.

The relation between information science and library science has been debated for decades, and even attempts at utilizing methods generally acknowledged as robust for the purpose of mapping research fields have yielded results with large variations. Therefore, a set of citation analyses was performed, comparing the results of analyses on information science and library science separately but also as a joint library and information science (LIS) field. Although there are large differences, not the least in the author‐level analyses, the patterns in the citation data support the concept of a joint LIS field with information science and library science being the two main subfields; many of the variations in the analyses are caused by the interdisciplinary nature of LIS, reflected in, for example, variations in citation practices in the different subfields.

Linked Open Data (LOD) has gained widespread adoption by large industries as well as non-profit organizations and governmental organizations. One of the early adopters of LOD technologies are libraries. Since the “early years”, libraries have been key use case and innovation driver for LOD and significantly contributed to the adoption of semantic technologies. The first part of this paper presents selected success stories of current activities in the Linked Data Library community. In a nutshell, these studies include (1) a conceptualization of the Linked Data Value chain, (2) a case study for consumption of Linked Data in a digital journal environment, and (3) an approach to publish metadata on the Semantic Web from an Open Access repository. These stories reveal a strong relationship between LOD in libraries and research topics addressed in traditional fields of computer science such as artificial intelligence, databases, and knowledge discovery. Thus, in the second part of this paper we systematically review the relation of LOD in digital libraries from a computer science perspective. We discuss current LOD research topics such as data integration and schema integration, distributed data management, and others. These challenges have been discussed with computer scientists at a German national database meetup as well as with librarians from ZBW—Leibniz Information Center for Economics and at international librarians meetup.

A pilot project was begun in the Fall of 1988 that teamed first‐year graduate students from the School of Information and Library Science with graduate students from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Library science students served as search intermediaries for students enrolled in an introductory environmental science course and provided online search services on research topics related to the completion of an environmental science class assignment. Environmental science students received basic information management instruction. Planning, development of instructional objectives, materials and methods, costs and evaluation of the project are described. Changes made in the program for 1989 and 1990, as well as future plans, are outlined.

This entry presents the history of Library Science in Brazil, from the creation of the first Library Science course in 1911, in the National Library, Rio de Janeiro, to the current courses offered today. The various levels of education for the professional librarian are described as well as the evolution of the profession from the early recognition of it as such through the twenty-first century including both undergraduate and graduate courses. It also focuses on the paradigmatic changes in information demands and discusses the professional job market highlighting the opportunities open to potential entrants