This glossary of terms includes definitions for over 500 words, acronyms, initialisms, and phrases generally used in librarianship or used specifically in Colorado State University (CSU) libraries. The glossary is in alphabetical order. Cross references and multiple definitions are provided where necessary. A four-item annotated bibliography…

Postwar librarians have sacrificed the humanistic basis of librarianship and regard the use of science in librarianship as a settled issue. American librarianship is currently dominated by the physical thinking of scientific systems theory, which includes Bertalanffy's general system theory, Wiener's cybernetics, and the Hartley-Shannon theory of…

Examines critically a personal selection of the concepts and activities of librarianship during the past 100 years. (Author/PF)

Describes the schools attended and the courses studied by prospective librarians. (PF)

The history of the American Library Association and the development of librarianship as a profession are outlined. (PF)

This paper prepared at the request of the South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science develops a scientific definition for librarianship and guidelines for librarians based on that definition. An abridged version of the author's doctoral dissertation, the paper shows that a definition of librarianship is essential for the…

The two fundamentally different technologies of cathode ray tube and photon composition are examined in order to analyze their impact on library and information science. (Author/PF)

There is no common basis for determining what constitutes the literature of a subject. Although knowledge exists on the bibliometric and documentation characteristics of many subjects, library schools continue to teach basic reference sources in large groups of subject areas. Four criteria for determining the scope of subject literature are…

Lists Unesco field activities, fellowship holders, meetings, and publications for the period. (PF)

The central focus of this research was to analyze the impact of ideas originating from within librarianship and information retrieval and those from other disciplines. Twelve most cited journals in librarianship and information retrieval (source specialties) were chosen for citation analysis. From these journals, 40 articles were randomly selected…

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING THE CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM FOR MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE. THE SPECIFIC AREA EXPLORED BASIC OR INTRODUCTORY REFERENCE. THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO (1) OBTAIN THE JUDGMENTS OF PRACTICING REFERENCE LIBRARIANS RELATIVE TO THE USEFULNESS OF A SELECTED LIST OF BASIC REFERENCE…

More than 2,000 documents about citations, citation analysis, citation indexes, and bibliometrics are cited in this bibliography. Some documents on communication in science, scientometrics, the science of science, and information retrieval have been included where they apply to citation indexing. Although most of the documents cited are in…

This glossary was compiled to provide reference material for participants at Hawaii's Second Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services and is especially useful to those individuals not familiar with the terminology of the library and information sciences. Entries consist of 194 names, acronyms, and other terms which are arranged in…

The "CumIndex" cumulates the back-of-book indexes of 96 English-language works in the field of library and information science and thus provides an in-depth index to important works in the field. The list is the result of a sequence of computer programs which edit, modify, and reorganize index entries from individual books to provide a coherent…

The Case Western Reserve University, School of Library Science bibliography has been revised to restrict its contents to current items, except where older documents are listed to preserve a series. The listings are broken up into six sections: (1) basic research in information science, (2) experimentation, (3) professional applications, (4)…