...Essam Mansour Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the potential for research collaboration amongst Egyptian library and information science (LIS) faculty members. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was used, which ran from the beginning of June to the middle of July...

...Stanislaus L. Agava; Peter G. Underwood Purpose This study aims to assess the information and communications technology (ICT) proficiency of library and information science (LIS) professionals working in Tangaza University College (TUC) Library, Kenya. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative...

...Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map and visualise collaboration patterns and citation impact of the library and information science research in sub-Saharan Africa between 1995 and 2016. Design/methodology/approach Data were extracted from the Thomson Reuters...

..., the practical side of it among Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals is not yet notable or evident. Design/methodology/approach Taxonomy building and Delphi method were two means of research deployed to achieve the declared purpose. Findings It was possible to achieve several steps...

...Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou; Evgenia Vassilakaki; Anna Tsatsaroni Purpose – Library and Information Science (LIS) has for a long time tried to gain legitimacy. In an ever changing environment due to technological and economic developments, the motivations behind choice of LIS are still...

... referring to the dismal fact that very few librarians seek out librarianship as a first career choice. This was the case in 2003, and it is still the case today […]”. Laura Townsend Kane Working in the Virtual Stacks: The New Library and Information Science Chicago, IL American Library...

...). The first bibliometric analyses ever have been carried out by librarians (Cole and Eales, 1917 ; Gross and Gross, 1927). As a new discipline of library and information sciences, bibliometrics developed as a tool for measuring and monitoring scientific output. This opened the door for new scopes...

...Chengzhi Wang Purpose No scholarly publications have systematically studied the evolution and growth of China's scientific papers of library and information science published in the English language and covered by ISI during the reform era starting in 1979. It is intended that this paper should...