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Canadian academic libraries and the mobile web
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess how Canadian academic libraries have responded to the rapidly evolving mobile environment and to identify gaps in the services provided, while suggesting areas for future development.Design methodology approach - The paper conducted an examination of the mobile content and services provided by the libraries of the member institutions of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). Based on this examination, the paper describes the current state of mobile librarianship in Canadian academic libraries. A review of the literature places the investigation in its broader context.Findings - Only 14 percent of AUCC libraries currently advertise some type of mobile web presence, with mobile web sites being prevalent over downloadable apps. Examples of content and services are highlighted to illustrate current trends and to provide insight into future directions for developing mobile services.Practical implications - This study raises awareness of the importance of mobile technology for academic libraries and the need to address the lack of mobile content and services provided by most Canadian post-secondary institutions. The paper also identifies best practices exhibited by the surveyed libraries.Originality value - This is the first exploration of this type into how academic libraries in Canada have responded to the mobile environment. The value of this research is in helping libraries identify and address shortcomings in the mobile content and services they provide, and in highlighting efforts by libraries to address their users' needs in this area.
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Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 1996-2000: a bibliometric study
A bibliometric examination of all the periodical articles published in the Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science from 1996-2000 was carried out. The range of articles published per volume is between 14 and 17; average number of references per article is 22.5; the average length per article is 41.2 pages; 53 (69.74 per cent of the articles are research oriented, the percentage of multi-authored papers is slightly higher at 52.6 per cent or 40 papers out of a total of 76; the most prolific author contributed 12 articles; 36 (45 per cent) of the authors are geographically affiliated to Malaysia; authors affiliated to library schools were well represented (55.2 per cent); the most productive institution is Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya with 26 out of 80 author's affiliation; the most popular subject is Scientific and Professional Publishing; 30 (39.5 per cent) articles contained author's self-citation, while the rate of periodical self-citation is found to be 27.6 per cent and most of the articles (67.1 per cent) contained no formal acknowledgement. (The author may be contacted by electronic mail at [mailto:wstiew@hotmail.com,] [mailto:abrizah@fsktm.um.edu.my] and [mailto:a4kiran@umcsd.um.edu.my]). (Original abstract)
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Library and Information Science Journal Prestige as Assessed by Library and Information Science Faculty
This prestige study surveyed full-time faculty of American Library Association (ALA)–accredited programs in library and information studies regarding library and information science (LIS) journals. Faculty were asked to rate a list of eighty-nine LIS journals on a scale from 1 to 5 based on each journal’s importance to their research and teaching. Mean and mode calculations were used to rank results. Additionally, LIS faculty were asked to list the five most prestigious journals to be published in for tenure and promotion purposes at their institution. Several journals were rated highly by each method. LIS faculty ratings of LIS journals are useful for assessing journal quality not only for decisions regarding collection management but for tenure and promotion as well.
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Mergers and Alliances: The Wider View
Volume 36 provides a broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation. The chapters include original research, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual papers.
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Our words, our story: a textual analysis of articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association/Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1961 to 2010
This lecture explores changes in the medical library profession over the last fifty years, as revealed by individual word usage in a body of literature.
I downloaded articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association between 1961 and 2000 to create an electronic corpus and tracked annual frequency of individual word usage. I used frequency sparklines of words, matching one of four archetypal shapes (level, rise, fall, and rise-and-fall) to identify significant words.
Most significant words fell into the categories of environment, management, technology, and research. Based on word usage changes, the following trends are revealed: Compared to 1961, today's medical librarians are more concerned with digital information, not physical packages. We prefer information to be evidence-based. We focus more on health than medicine. We are reaching out to new constituents, sometimes leaving our building to do so. Teaching has become important for us. We run our libraries more like businesses, using constantly changing technology. We are publishing more research articles.
Although these words were chosen by individual authors to tell their particular stories, in the aggregate, our words reveal our story of change in our profession.
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