...Carlos-Miguel Tejada-Artigas; Juan Carlos Fernández-Molina Purpose This study examines perceived social recognition, professional identity and future prospects among public librarians and archivists in Spain, analysing shared patterns and profession-specific differences across gender, age...

... Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Public libraries Librarians Post-structuralism Aporia DEI Universalism Queer theory Qualitative case study Diversity work Velux Fonden VEL67752 Funding: This work was supported by Velux Fonden...

... lies in the ALEA framework, a comprehensive, integrated model addressing Digital Darwinism, specifically within academic libraries. It moves beyond standard digitization approaches by synthesizing technology, user behavior and librarian competencies. It offers significant value by providing...

... derived, theory-building structure that informs future empirical work and offers actionable strategies for librarians, educators, and policymakers navigating the adolescent mental health crisis. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a critical-realist, abductive methodology that iteratively...

...Riie Lotta Solveig Heikkilä Purpose The purpose of this article is to understand how librarians perceive the advent of algorithm-based collection management (ACM), which helps them recognise patrons' loaning patterns, and what threats or possibilities ACM is seen to bring to public libraries...

.../methodology/approach This study involved ten semi-structured interviews with academics and five with librarians in the TU sector. Reflexive thematic analysis informed by Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological principles was used to explore transcribed interview data. Findings The results demonstrate...

... 2024 27 05 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information services Public libraries Librarians Philosophy Politics International politics “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think...

... research that tends to focus the support of research productivity of academic librarians in North American universities for the purposes of career development. Here wider aspects of research engagement are considered of value for LIS practitioners from a range of sectors and institutions, beyond North...

...Nanna Kann-Rasmussen Purpose This article presents a discussion of how librarians' engagement in certain social movements manifests itself in public libraries, how librarians justify their engagement with specifically the LGBT + movement and the climate movement and what it might entail in terms...

...Jamie Johnston; Ágústa Pálsdóttir; Anna Mierzecka; Ragnar Andreas Audunson; Hans-Christoph Hobohm; Kerstin Rydbeck; Máté Tóth; Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen; Henrik Jochumsen; Mahmood Khosrowjerdi; Sunniva Evjen RQ2. How do librarians perceive the role of public libraries as public...

..., “librarians […] are strictly committed to neutrality” (IFLA, 2012, cited in Johnson, 2016 , p. 26). This neutral trace is integral to European codes (see VVBAD, 2017 ; ABF, 2003 ; Italian Library Association (AIB), 2007 ; Public Library Section of the Netherlands Association of Librarians, 2001...

... the first detailed study of the impact of a UK research council networking grant. Hazel Hall can be contacted at: h.hall@napier.ac.uk 19 12 2018 06 03 2019 08 03 2019 Collaboration Research Skills Librarians Research methods Communities Practitioners...

... user. This approach, however, raises a number of questions. Literature on the philosophical aspects of libraries and library science is scarce. Through this review we try to kindle a discussion that involves the basic mission statement of the modern library. Librarians Politics Library...

...Gary P. Radford; Marie L. Radford; Mark Alpert Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the work of philosopher Slavoj Žižek to gain insights into representations of the librarian and the library in contemporary popular culture. Design/methodology/approach – A psycho-analytic reading...

... institution in late modernity is largely lacking. Furthermore, the status of librarianship and the professional expertise of librarians, in light of the social web, need to be further addressed. Originality/value – The rising interest and investment of library professionals into the practices...

...Isto Huvila Purpose – Considering the perceived significance of librarians and information experts as professional information seekers and information seeking educators and of the institutional setting of information work, very little is known about the information practices of librarians...

...C. Sean Burns; Jenny Bossaller Purpose This study aims to provide insight on the meaning of communication overload as experienced by modern academic librarians. Communication is the essence of reference librarianship, and a practically endless array of synchronous and asynchronous communication...

...Lorri M. Mon Purpose This study aims to examine librarianship and education in virtual world settings, focusing particularly on how librarians and educators establish professional identity and trust while teaching and providing information services as avatars within Second Life. Design...

...Niels Ole Pors Barbara   Allen . Supporting Research Students . London : Facet Publishing   2009 . 192 pp. , ISBN: 978 1 85604 685 5 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Research Librarians LIS Research methods PhD Professional development...

... of the unavoidable obsolescence of assigned subject headings is presented. The discussion relates to libraries, but the same issues arise in any context in which subject description is expected to remain useful for an extended period of time. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 The librarian's formal...