Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…

Intellectual questions that must be solved jointly by librarians and scholars concern the optimum amount and character of the literature that requires library preservation throughout the world, in this country, and within a particular institution. (MF)

Briefly reviews research on citation indexing and citation analysis as techniques for determining relationships between documents and presents the results of a citation analysis of 31 library/information science articles in which source of cited work and source of citing work were considered as predictors of relatedness. Included are 24…

The proliferation of non-book materials currently being produced for use at the junior college and college level offers the learning resources center the unique opportunity to serve the special needs of each student and to supply the student with materials and facilities for optimum learning. The library can become comprehensible to the user if…

Nineteen documents on various aspects of information science are included in this introductory book of readings. The documents were selected because they are relatively easy to read for beginning students and are likely to be useful for a number of years. The documents cover the literature from 1958 to 1970. They are: (1) Information Science: What…