This study examines the evolution of current interests and emerging characteristics in library and information science (LIS) from Chinese iSchools, including an analysis of the LIS landscape, space distribution, citation, emerging characteristics, and collaborations. This study considers a non-parametric approach to outline the structure of the…

The iSchool movement is a controversial topic within the library and information science (LIS) community. While some argue that the movement isolates small size schools and splits the LIS community others insist it will broaden the field of LIS and form an open and boundaryless iField. This study investigates the evolution of the iSchool movement…

The necessity of library and information research is pointed up by referring to some of important categories of research now in progress. Reasons are advanced for the necessity such research in Australia and ways suggested in which students wishing to make a career research and practitioners anxious for research opportunities may be accommodated.…

Library and information science research in library schools, apart from personal research of faculty, has been characterized as non-cumulative, fragmentary, weak, and oriented to immediate practical needs. The record is examined and this criticism found justified in part. (Author)

Describes a research sequence of three courses taught at the library school at Brigham Young intended to teach students to become good consumers of research literature and to carry out simple research projects. (FM)

The purpose of this historical study of the Association of American Library Schools (AALS) was to determine the actual role and influence of the AALS in library education. The author's hypothesis is that the influence of an association of professional schools on professional education is related to the level of involvement of the association with…

Addresses the problem of insufficient research in library schools, reviews pertinent literature, and offers a proposal for investigation of library education. (FM)

The conceptual approach and procedures which have been developed for this program provide the basis for initiating a similar training program in any large library within commuting distance of a library school. (4 references) (Author/NH)

Identifies those aspects of education for librarianship that are likely to change in the near or longer term future. (Author/PF)

This essay analyzes and explains the movements, events, and influences that made distinctive contributions to the development of education for librarianship between 1919 and 1939. Special attention is given to the proposals of Charles C. Williamson, Emma Baldwin, and Ernest J. Reece. Also considered are the activities of the Committee on Library…

Barriers to research in library schools are identified; and some alternative means of eliminating or lessening the barriers are considered. (Author)

Argues that the academic goals and commitment to interdisciplinary research as a rationale for the new University of Chicago Graduate Library School as described by Douglas Waples in "Library Quarterly" (1931) have yet to be fully achieved. It is concluded that a new graduate library school ought to be reinvented. (Author/EM)

Discusses the problem of how library education fits into higher education. The aspects of library education that are most compatible with academic rather than professional values are described, and organizational models of library education are defined that can respond to the problems noted. (EM)

This summary of the 1988 Conference of the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) focuses on faculty participation in academic policy formation. Association politics, the ALISE research awards program, and special interest group programs on the role of catalogers and student participation in policy formation are also…

Results of questionnaire survey on research courses in library schools. (KP)