Explains regulations and guidelines for becoming a professionally qualified librarian in England, revised by the Library Association. These regulations will affect students who begin post-graduate study in January 1981. The new structure of regulations for professional librarianship features a licentiateship, or two-year license, to practice as a…

In this survey, librarians were asked to list leaders in librarianship and their reasons for selecting them to investigate (1) where leadership is perceived in librarianship; (2) how well integrated the field is; (3) whether there is a fieldwide definition of leadership; and (4) similarities among perceived leaders. Sixteen finalists are listed.…

Replicating to a high degree the results of the Olsgaard profile of authorship characteristics in academic library journals, this study analyzed five journals of interest to special librarians to determine gender, geographic location, and occupation of author contributors. Results indicate that women are consistently underrepresented in the…

Indicates that Bradford's law may be applied with a relatively high degree of confidence to citations in library science periodicals. The study tests verbal and graphical formulations of the law using 5,628 citations to journal literature referenced in College and Research Libraries and Special Libraries between 1940 and 1974. (RAA)

Analyzes subject trends from 1975-84 in nine influential journals in library and information science. Thirty-two subjects which constitute 89 percent of the subjects published are discussed under five categories according to their distribution characteristics: (1) boom topics; (2) declining topics; (3) roller coaster issues; (4) stable subjects;…

Discussion of the Library History Seminars, founded by Louis Shores, focuses on various characteristics of the first nine seminar participants, including their gender and institutional affiliation. Analyzes the data to provide a picture of who does library history and how the discipline's research interests have evolved over the past 30 years.…

This study describes the research articles published during 1980 in 41 core library journals and reports data for each source article: journal, research methodology, subject, total number of references, and number of references to journal articles. List of journals included in study and 12 tables are appended. (9 references) (EJS)

No significant differences were found between the Bem Sex-Role Inventory scores of library science students enrolled at a large university in the western United States and those of a normative group provided by the author of the inventory. (Author)

Seventy-two graduates of the School of Librarianship of Western Michigan University who attended the school during the years 1965-1970 responded to a survey questionnaire. Data were compiled on the background and personal characteristics of the graduates, as well as their estimation of the relevance of courses taken to their professional duties…

This research project attempts to provide a basis for systematizing the book ordering process by collecting data on the performance of suppliers now used to provide various types of monographic publications and by evaluating this data in terms of speed, reliability, and cost. Information was gathered from copies of orders for materials which…

In this report, a task force appointed by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) to prepare a plan for a National Periodicals program recommends a three level program consisting of: (1) local, state, and regional library systems responsible for meeting a substantial portion of routine needs for periodicals; (2) a…

Reports on a study which examined a random sample of library science Ph.D.s who received their degrees between 1969 and 1979 to compare publishing histories of males and females with regard to quantity and type of publication. Results of data analyses are presented in five tables. (15 references) (MES)

Considers the current state of publishing practice in the library and information science literature based on data from 48 journals. Rejection rates, openness to unsolicited manuscripts, the review process, criteria for publication, and publication delays are discussed, and data are presented in three tables. (16 references) (MES)

A study of 100 article citations from 11 library science journals showed only 45 article citations that were completely free of errors, while 11 had major errors--i.e., errors preventing or hindering location of the reference--and the remaining 44 had minor errors. Citation accuracy in library science journals appears similar to accuracy in other…