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Library and information scientist

Library and information scientist

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A library and information scientist, also known as a library scholar, is a researcher or academic who specializes in the field of library and information science and often participates in scholarly writing about and related to library and information science. A library and information scientist is neither limited to any one subfield of library and information science nor any one particular type of library. These scientists come from all information-related sectors including library and book history.

University of Chicago Graduate Library School

The University of Chicago Graduate Library School was established in 1928 to grant a graduate degree in librarianship with an emphasis on research. [1] The program expanded the concept of librarianship, focused on scientific inquiry and established it as a domain for scientific study.[2]

In The Spirit of Inquiry: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-51 Richardson reviewed the history of the School and its impact on the discipline.[3]

Bibliometric mappings

Bibliometric methods have been used to create maps of library and information science, thus identifying the most important researchers as well as their relative connections (or distances) and identifying emerging trends related to LIS publications within the field.

White and McCain (1998) [4] made a map of information science and Åström (2002),[5] Chen, Ibekwe-SanJuan, and Hou (2010),[6] Janssens, Leta, Glanzel, and De Moor (2006),[7] and Zhao and Strotmann (2008)[8] constructed some later maps of library and information science.

Jabeen, Yun, Rafiq, and Jabeen (2015) [9] mapped the growth and trends of LIS publications.

Notable library and information scientists

See also Beta Phi Mu Award, Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology, Justin Winsor Prize (library)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Association of American Library Schools. New Frontiers in Librarianship; Proceedings of the Special Meeting of the Association of American Library Schools and the Board of Education for Librarianship of the American Library Association in Honor of the University of Chicago and the Graduate Library School, December 30, 1940. [Chicago]: The Graduate library school, the University of Chicago, 1941.
  2. [2]
    Wilson, Louis R. (1966). "Impact of the Graduate Library School on American Librarianship". In Tauber, Maurice F.; Orne, Jerald (eds.). Education and Libraries: Selected Papers by Louis R. Wilson. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press. pp. 268–277.
  3. [3]
    Richardson, J. V. (1982). The Spirit of Inquiry: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-51. Chicago: American Library Association.
  4. [4]
    White, H. D., & McCain, K. W. (1998). Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(4), 327–355.
  5. [5]
    Åström, F. (2002). Visualizing library and information science concept spaces through keyword and citation based maps and clusters. In: Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Ingwersen, P. & Vakkari, P. (Eds.), Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4) (pp. 185–197). Greenwood Village: Libraries Unlimited.
  6. [6]
    Chen, C., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., & Hou, J. (2010). The structure and dynamics of cocitation clusters: A multiple-perspective cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7), 1386–1409.
  7. [7]
    Janssens, F., Leta, J., Glanzel, W., & De Moor, B. (2006). Towards mapping library and information science. Information Processing and Management, 42, 1614–1642.
  8. [8]
    Zhao, D., & Strotmann, A. (2008). Information science during the first decade of the Web: An enriched author co-citation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(6), 916–937.
  9. [9]
    Jabeen, M., Yun, L., Rafiq, M., Jabeen, M. (2015). Research productivity of library scholars. New Library World 116(7/8), 433-454.

Further reading

  • Cuadra, C. A. (1964). Identifying key contributions to information science. American Documentation, 15(4), 289–295.
  • Feather, J. & Sturges, P. (eds). (1996). International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Johns, Adrian (1998). The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Kousha, K., & Thelwall, M. (2024). Factors associating with or predicting more cited or higher quality journal articles: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 75(3), 215–244.
  • Madsen, Dorte. “Liberating Interdisciplinarity from Myth. An Exploration of the Discursive Construction of Identities in Information Studies.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67, no. 11 (2016): 2697–2709.
  • O'Connor, Daniel (July 2016). "Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Intent". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67 (7): 1780–1783.
  • Pettegree, Andrew; der Weduwen, Arthur (2021). The Library: A Fragile History. London: Profile Books.
  • Persson, O. (1995). Forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap i bibliometrisk belysning. IN: Biblioteken, kulturen och den sociala intelligensen. Aktuell forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap. Ed.: Lars Höglund. Göteborg: Valfrid. (pp. 47–56).
  • Persson, O. & Åström, F. (2005). Most cited universities and authors in Library & Information Science 1990–2004. Bibliometric Notes, 7(2). http://www.umu.se/inforsk/BibliometricNotes/BN2-2005/BN2-2005.htm
  • Price, Derek De Solla. “A General Theory of Bibliometric and Other Cumulative Advantage Processes.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27, no. 5 (1976): 292–306.
  • Williams, Robert V., Laird Whitmire, and Colleen Bradley. (1997). “Bibliography of the History of Information Science in North America, 1900-1995.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48 (April): 373–79.
  • Yang, Siluo, Heyu Diao, Yifan Zou, and Aoxia Xiao. 2023. “Characteristics of Correction Practice and Its Citation in Library and Information Science Journals.” Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 55 (4): 1088–1101.
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