The findings of a bibliometric survey of research papers published in 39 core journals of librarianship provide information on study methodologies, growth of the research literature, organizations studied, computer-based operations, users, and major themes of library research. (CHC)

Presents findings on the distribution of the number of citations per page, age of citations, percentage of citations in other fields, type of study, and the distribution of citations by publication form, for research papers published in 39 core library science journals. Numerous tables and 15 references are provided. (RBF)

Discusses what librarians have written about futures research and examines the application of various methods of such research in librarianship. An extensive bibliography is included. (CHC)

This study uses method of citation analysis on 448 articles dealing with cataloging and classification to investigate following areas: distribution of publication format; mean age of documents cited; most highly cited authors and languages; distribution of articles among journals; subjects of cited journals. Ten references and a bibliography are…