The role of distance education in library and information studies education

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine A. Haythornthwaite ◽  
Frances C.P. White
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies

10,000 Newly Certified Librarians, 100 Secure Jobs

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-101
Author(s):  
Daisuke Okada
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
School Library ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This chapter discusses the status, challenges, and issues encountered in librarianship in Japan, especially school librarianship. Specifically, it focuses on the certifications for school library staff, the curriculum model, and the employability of certified librarians. Topics related to Library and Information Studies schools, training programs for certified librarians, summer and distance education, qualifications and accreditation of teacher librarians are discussed as well. Currently, librarianship and school librarianship are not close to implementing internationalization; however, this discussion cannot be avoided. Hence, this chapter argues that it is necessary to incorporate the specific trends in Japan along with global trends.

scholarly journals Assessing journals in library and information studies based on altmetrical indicators

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
D. D. Demidov ◽  
Yu. I. Chavykin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Insufficient Data ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Russian Science Citation Index ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Alternative Metrics

Altmetrical indicators are characterized in brief; their advantages, disadvantages and applicability in assessing periodicals are examined. The authors attempt to define the significance of library journals based on the alternative metrics of views and loadings. Essential data are obtained from Russian Science Citation Index database. The selection of publications under examination is substantiated. The low-cited publications and those RSCI provide insufficient data on, were not considered. The comparison is made; the mostly cited, viewed and loaded journals are identified for the years 2013-2017. The key study tasks are to identify citation, view and loading level for each journal; to reveal correlation between loadings and citations and to evaluate its closeness. The main advantages of altmetrical indicators are: responsiveness, open access, wide coverage of sources. The reasons are discussed why the high-cited publications correspond to the limited number of loadings. This correspondence enables to suggest that the higher the number of loadings, the more significant it is. The authors suggest using number of loadings to reveal the most authoritative publications when developing library collections. They also suggest that the role of altmetrics will be increasing.

scholarly journals Bioinformatics education in an MLIS program: the McGill experience

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan C Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Program Objective ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Bioinformatics Education

Program objective – The objective of this course (GLIS691 – Bioinformatics) was to provide formal bioinformatics education within a master of library and information studies (MLIS) program. As bioinformatics becomes increasingly integral to biomedical research, there is a need for librarians to expand their practice into the domain of bioinformatics, supporting the efficient and accurate use of these complex resources. We developed this course, the first such course offered in a Canadian library school, in response to the demand for librarians to be able to support bioinformatics information needs. Setting – The course was offered in the winter term of 2005 in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University. Participants – Course participants were MLIS students. Program – The course took a library and information science perspective to bioinformatics. The goal was to provide students with the skills and knowledge to provide information services in the domain of bioinformatics and to collaborate in the design and development of bioinformatics resources. This included understanding the field of bioinformatics and the range of resources, the needs and requirements of user groups, practical searching skills, the creation of resources, and the role of the librarian. Conclusions – This course represents one approach to providing formal bioinformatics education for librarians. Librarians who are knowledgeable and proficient in bioinformatics will be able to expand the role of the library into this domain; apply their knowledge, skills, and expertise in a complex, chaotic information environment; and develop the essential role of the librarian in the domain of bioinformatics.

A challenge most bigly: academic archives and higher education in the Trump Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Bradley Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Democratic Norms ◽  
Trump Administration

Purpose This paper aims to provide a critical perspective on emergent issues in the Trump era directly or indirectly relevant to academic archives. It describes current operational characteristics and trends in academic archives and considers the implications of the “Trump Effect” on academic archives in support of higher education. Design/methodology/approach The author examines archival studies literature pertaining to academic archives in combination with recent research and reporting on Trump Administration higher education policy to argue for increased professional awareness and vigilance. Findings The author asserts that Trump Administration rhetoric and policies aimed at remaking American higher education and undermining democratic norms pose a threat to academic archives as institutions that support learning, memory and historical accountability. Originality/value This paper adds to scholarly discussions in the library and information studies and archival studies fields about the merits of neutrality, the legacy of memory institutions and the obligation of information professionals to take a stance on difficult issues. Additionally, there are few (if any) sources that discuss the role of academic archives specifically in the contemporary political context.

scholarly journals Libraries, democracy, information literacy, and citizenship

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1010-1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Rivano Eckerdal
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advocate and contribute to a more nuanced and discerning argument when ascribing a democratic role to libraries and activities related to information literacy. Design/methodology/approach The connections between democracy and libraries as well as between citizenship and information literacy are analysed by using Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism. One example is provided by a recent legislative change (the new Swedish Library Act) and the documents preceding it. A second, more detailed example concerns how information literacy may be conceptualised when related to young women’s sexual and reproductive health. Crucial in both examples are the suggestions of routes to travel that support equality and inclusion for all. Findings Within an agonistic approach, democracy concerns equality and interest in making efforts to include the less privileged. The inclusion of a democratic aim, directed towards everyone, for libraries in the new Library Act can be argued to emphasise the political role of libraries. A liberal and a radical understanding of information literacy is elaborated, the latter is advocated. Information literacy is also analysed in a non-essentialist manner, as a description of a learning activity, therefore always value-laden. Originality/value The agonistic reading of two central concepts in library and information studies, namely, libraries and information literacy is fruitful and shows how the discipline may contribute to strengthen democracy in society both within institutions as libraries and in other settings.

Library and Information Studies Press and Freedom of Expression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Samek
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Full Circle ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Learning Options

Analysis of the literature of library and information studies (LIS) reveals that6 the role of Practicum in LIS education has come full circle. Today, as in the early days of the profession, Practicum is a core element of LIS education, for both pedagogical and practical reasons. Practicum links theory and practice and extends learning options. Many students enroll in Practicum to gain work experience to.

scholarly journals Philosophy and the library and information studies: Vectors of interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
G. Varganova
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies

The author analyzes the origins of interest towards philosophical issues the book and library scientists and researcher bibliographers take. The need for more close interaction between philosophy and the library and information science in the circumstances of transition from information society to knowledge society and digital economy is substantiated. The process of cognitive institutionalization of philosophical knowledge in the library and information science is examined. The author analyzes several works by Arkady V. Sokolov on the content and specific features of bibliosophy as a philosophical system focused on biblioshere within the historical context. The key functions of philosophical knowledge are discussed as related to library and information science which enables rationalizing and reliable, accurate and relevant assessment of multiple and unique processes and phenomena in this disciplines. The focus is made on the worldview, ontological, gnoseological, methodological and axiological functions. The authors emphasizes the role of philosophy in developing conceptual, theoretical, logical and methodological structures for serious study of bibliosphere and its rational perception as one of the fundamental cultural segments

On "Diversity" as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David James Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Specific Exercise ◽  
Critical Information ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Diversity Discourse

Drawing on a range of critical race and anti-colonial writing, and focusing chiefly on Anglo-Western contexts of librarianship, this paper offers a broad critique of diversity as the dominant mode of anti-racism in LIS. After outlining diversity's core tenets, I examine the ways in which the paradigm's centering of inclusion as a core anti-racist strategy has tended to inhibit meaningful treatment of racism as a structural phenomenon. Situating LIS diversity as a liberal anti-racism, I then turn to diversity's tendency to privilege individualist narratives of (anti-)racism, particularly narratives of cultural competence, and the intersection of such individualism with broader structures of political-economic domination. Diversity's preoccupation with demographic inclusion and individual behavioural competence has, I contend, left little room in the field for substantive engagement with race as a historically contingent phenomenon: race is ultimately reified through LIS diversity discourse, effectively precluding exploration of the ways in which racial formations are differentially produced in the contextually-specific exercise of power itself. I argue that an LIS foregrounding of race as a historical construct - the assumption of its contingency - would enable deeper inquiry into the complex ways in which our field - and indeed the diversity paradigm specifically - aligns with the operations of contemporary regimes of racial subordination in the first place. I conclude with a reflection on the importance of the Journal of Critical Information and Library Studies as a potential site of critical exchange from which to articulate a sustained critique of race in and through our field.

Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Cifor ◽  
Jamie A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Contemporary Life

Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a "governing rationality" of contemporary life and work, has been encroaching on the library and information studies (LIS) field for decades. The shift towards a conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns in archival studies scholarship and practice since the 1990s opens the possibility for addressing neoliberalism and its elusive presence. Despite its far-reaching influence, neoliberalism has yet to be substantively addressed in archival discourse. In this article, we propose a set of questions for archival practitioners and scholars to reflect on and consider through their own hands-on practices, research, and productions with records, records creators, and distinct archival communities in order to develop an ongoing archival critique. The goal of this critique is to move towards "an ethical practice of community, as an important mode of participation." This article marks a starting point for critically engaging the archival studies discipline along with the LIS field more broadly by interrogating the discursive and material evidences and implications of neoliberalism.

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