Examines 855 documents relevant to library and information science (LIS) and categorizes them according to whether they were written by persons inside or outside LIS and whether they were published inside or outside the LIS literature. Author affiliation, document type, audience, and subject content are covered. (50 references) (KRN)

This study examined journals in the field of library and information science to determine the institutional affiliation of authors and their use of descriptive versus inferential statistics. It was found that academic librarians published more research but relied on descriptive statistics, whereas faculty published less, but used inferential…

Describes a citation analysis of public library journal articles which shows that the public library literature functions as an interactive communication system between public librarians and library and information science educators. Prior research on communication in public librarianship, the role of journals, authorship, and citation patterns is…