Purpose–This paper aims to provide a systematic review on library and information science
(LIS) profession's image and stereotypes from 1999 to 2013. In particular, it aims to identify …

Purpose Social distancing and physical closure triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic put the
libraries' viability under stress. Although the spread of the pandemic enacted a new …

Professional identities shape the way the members of a profession interact with their clients
and society. As librarians are service-oriented professionals, a discursively informed …

Librarians run book clubs for patrons, but do they participate in book clubs themselves? The
authors of this article met while enrolled in the library and information science (LIS) master's …

How do library professionals talk about and refer to library users, and how is this significant?
In recent decades, the library profession has conceived of users in at least five different …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to examine the portrayals of librarians in world cinema.
In so doing, librarian stereotypes within film may be examined, but also those wishing to …

I denne afhandling undersøges læseoplevelser og deres kendetegn med henblik på at
kunne foretage empiriske undersøgelser af fænomenet. Læseoplevelsen indkredses dels …

The first issue of Library Quarterly was published in 1930, a couple of years after the
commercial sensation The Jazz Singer ushered in the era of movies with sound and just 1 …

Introduction. This paper presents research on how public librarians in Denmark, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden view the importance of social reading and related professional roles …

This article discusses a model that can be used in order to analyse notions on literature
promotion in public libraries. The model integrates different issues which interact with how …