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Library and information science
Library Management, 2006PurposeTo review skills needed by library and information science (LIS) professionals in the twenty‐first century and suggest a new approach to four key skills.Design/methodology/approachConsiders the DNA skills approach of Hallam and Partridge and analyses the four skills using examples of innovative developments in library and information services ...
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Journal of Information Science, 2006 The visualization of scientific field structures is a classic of scientometric studies. This paper presents a domain analysis of the library and information science discipline based on author co-citation analysis (ACA) and journal cocitation analysis ...
Felix Moya-Anegón +2 more
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Towards mapping library and information science
Information Processing & Management, 2006In an earlier study by the authors, full-text analysis and traditional bibliometric methods were combined to map research papers published in the journal Scientometrics. The main objective was to develop appropriate techniques of full-text analysis and to improve the efficiency of the individual methods in the mapping of science.
Frizo A. L. Janssens +3 more
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Library and information science as a career in Kuwait
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2019The Library and Information Science discipline is in constant flux, facing myriad impediments with the development of technology. Per se, the field introduced information and communications technology into its curriculum which has changed librarians’ roles in information handling.
Hanadi Buarki, Mashael Al-Omar
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Twinning data science with information science in schools of library and information science
Journal of Documentation, 2018Purpose As an emerging discipline, data science represents a vital new current of school of library and information science (LIS) education. However, it remains unclear how it relates to information science within LIS schools. The purpose of this paper is to clarify this issue.
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Trends in library and information science education
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984AbstractEducational programs for library and information science will be changing during the next decade in order to meet society's need for trained information professionals capable of working in libraries, in governmental and industrial information centers, and as information consultants and entrepreneurs.
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Reductionism and library and information science philosophy
Journal of Documentation, 2008PurposeThe purpose of this article is to consider the meaning of “reductionism” within the context of renewed efforts to make library and information science philosophy.Design/methodology/approachThis article argues that the question of reductionism, as discussed in other traditions of thought, is relevant to the conversation about development of new ...
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Constructing ‘users’ in library and information science
Aslib Proceedings, 1999This article issues a challenge to information service providers and to researchers in information management to reflect on the ways the concept of ‘users’ has been constructed and applied. It is argued that we need to be mindful of the conceptual parameters we establish by our notions of users and the implications of those parameters as these inform ...
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Library and Information Science
2017Library and Information Science (LIS) is an interdisciplinary domain concerned with the creation, management, and uses of information in all its forms. Emerging from parallel developments in libraries and in information science, the field now encompasses diverse activities that are part of the information transfer cycle—such as the creation ...
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Library Hi Tech and information science
Library Hi Tech, 2012PurposeThis article aims to look at the relationship between Library Hi Tech and the academic field of information science.Design/methodology/approachThis is an opinion piece whose methodology is in part historical review, and in part observation of present and future trends.FindingsLibrary‐based information is no longer almost exclusively text ...
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