From the Publisher: This work is a general and synthetic study of the Post-Industrial era and
its implications for library and information services in the United States. Since Daniel Bell …

O artigo tem por objetivo levantar e discutir as relações entre a arqueologia do saber de
Michel Foucault e a bibliometria. Propõe categorias de análise comuns entre ambas as …

This article argues that modern conceptions of the library are informed by a particular view of
knowledge grounded in early twentieth-century positivism. From this standpoint, the ideals of …

This article explores the idea of the democratic public sphere, and it is grounded in the work
of Jurgen Habermas. Libraries help make possible the democratic public sphere ideal in the …

Despite quantities of popular rhetoric, democratic theory holds an aposiopetic place within
library and information science (LIS) in both senses of that word: It is both in a stasis holding …

The period covered by the publication of Library Quarterly (LQ) has been one characterized
by the arc of three defining contexts. First, libraries have been inextricably tied to educational …

This grounded theory project asked:“How do Library and Information Science (LIS)
graduates in non-library roles experience professional identity?” This is an important …

Research traditions in library and information science (LIS) are deeply rooted in
Enlightenment notions of Western science. A central element of this tradition is the …

This paper tells a story of a practitionerâ s experience in a First Nations library and how it
shaped a doctoral research project on knowledge organization. It connects the landscape …

Why have libraries and schools---both public institutions committed to community-based
learning---adopted new technologies in dramatically different ways? Exploring the …