New Beginnings: Introduction to the Special Issue on AERI 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Leisa Gibbons ◽  
Karen F. Gracy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
State University ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
Archival Education ◽  
New Beginnings

Abstract:On July 8–12, 2016, the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University hosted the eighth Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI). AERI is an annual event that brings together researchers, educators, students, and professionals from North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and mentor new and emerging scholars in the areas of archival research and pedagogy. The conference was attended by ninety-five participants from eight countries, including faculty members, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and ten undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the AERI-affiliated Emerging Archival Scholars Program (EASP). The five-day event included sixty-three paper presentations, fifteen posters, seven workshops, two plenaries, and a half-day unconference event.In this introduction, the hosts of the conference and co-editors of this issue, Leisa Gibbons and Karen F. Gracy, provide a brief overview of the conference highlights and introduce the research papers presented here.

AERI 2016 Student Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-55
Author(s):  
Eileen Horansky
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
State University ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
Archival Education ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Research Institute

Abstract:The Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) supports research and education in the archival field. This paper describes highlights from the the eighth annual meeting, which was hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

Comparing Research Output in Library & Information Science: A Bibliometric Study of Panjab University and Guru Nanak Dev University

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupak Chakravarty ◽  
Jyoti Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Doubling Time ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Authorship Pattern ◽  
Document Type ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Personal Visit

The present study focuses on analysis of research output in the discipline of Library and Information Science at Panjab University, Chandigarh and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar till 31 December 2014. The curriculum vitae (CV) and publication details of faculty members of Department of Library and Information Science were obtained by personal visit to universities and bibliographic information on their papers were recorded. The study deals with 152 publications of Panjab University, Chandigarh and 111 publications of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, in the field of Library and Information Science. It examines the Library and Information Science output by different ways like document type, authorship pattern, and degree of collaboration. The study also examines the relative growth rate of publications and doubling time for publications.

scholarly journals First-generation students’ information literacy in everyday contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Darren Ilett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Deficit Thinking ◽  
First Generation Students ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Us

Historically, much of the Library and Information Science (LIS) literature on first-generation students (FGS) framed them using deficit thinking, emphasising what they lacked to be successful in higher education. In contrast, recent scholarship has turned to asset-based pedagogies, shifting the focus onto the strengths that FGS bring to college. Further, LIS research on FGS has examined how students engage with information solely in academic contexts, such as completing research papers or navigating higher education procedures. The current study contributes to the discussion of asset-based pedagogies by using a funds of knowledge approach to explore the ways in which FGS at a mid-sized university in the US engage with information, and it expands the scope of inquiry to several everyday contexts, including students’ households, workplaces, and communities. The findings reveal a variety of funds of knowledge concerning participants’ information literacy (IL) and lay the foundation for IL instruction that meets FGS where they are, thus serving them more equitably.

Extent of Job Enlargement in University Libraries in Kerala: An Investigative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
A. Naseer ◽  
B. Mini Devi
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University

Rapid changes in information and communication technology require application of managerial techniques, human resource management and integration of several technologies in library and information Centers. The present research aims at studying the extent of job enlargement in selected eight state university libraries in Kerala. Data of the study was gathered from a total of 266 qualified and permanent library and information science professionals. Analysis of data was done using SPSS and Micro Soft excel. The important finding of the research is that there is no significant level of job enlargement among library and information science professionals. It also finds that job enlargement situation of libraries in the universities in Kerala is low and different. The study reveals that there is significant variation in the level of job enlargement among the university libraries in Kerala. The highest level of job enlargement is found in Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady followed by Kannur University.

Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools

2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Cox ◽  
Elizabeth Yakel ◽  
David Wallace ◽  
Jennifer Marshall
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Archival Education ◽  
American Library

scholarly journals Still Minding the Gap? Reflecting on Transitions between Concepts of Information in Varied Domains

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bawden ◽  
Lyn Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unified Theories ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary Special Issue of Information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information. A selective literature review is used to update a 2013 article on bridging the gaps between conceptions of information in different domains, including material from the physical and biological sciences, from the humanities and social sciences including library and information science, and from philosophy. A variety of approaches and theories are reviewed, including those of Brenner, Brier, Burgin and Wu, Capurro, Cárdenas-García and Ireland, Hidalgo, Hofkirchner, Kolchinsky and Wolpert, Floridi, Mingers and Standing, Popper, and Stonier. The gaps between disciplinary views of information remain, although there has been progress, and increasing interest, in bridging them. The solution is likely to be either a general theory of sufficient flexibility to cope with multiple meanings of information, or multiple and distinct theories for different domains, but with a complementary nature, and ideally boundary spanning concepts.

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