.... 3. To explore the impact on the library and information profession of those with an academic/professional legal qualification, especially the professional support lawyer. The next section of the paper reviews the literature that provides the background and context for the study...

... and it was found that newspapers were not perpetuating negative stereotypes. Research limitations/implications Although The Times and The Mirror are important publications in terms of circulation, their depiction of the library and information profession does not form a complete picture...

... by social software. An attempt is made to identify positive and negative patterns of interaction from this perspective and to argue for more positive intervention on the part of the information profession. Design/methodology/approach The paper outlines social epistemological and related theory...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Generation and dissemination of information Information profession Digital libraries User studies Citizens of today's postmodernist knowledge society seem to crave information to an extent that is surely unparalleled in the history of mankind...

...Rosemary McGuinness; Luke Tredinnick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of post‐structuralist theory to understanding hypertext and the World Wide Web, and the challenge posed by digital information technology to the practices of the information profession. Design...

... librarianship has been viewed as one of a number of information professions which exists in a turbulent environment in which other professions and academic disciplines vie for what librarians have seen as their traditional jurisdiction (Van House and Sutton, 1996 ; Myburgh, 2005). Danner (1998) argues...