Purpose – The convergence of librarianship and information science to form library and information science (LIS) is seen as a recent phenomenon, with the term “information science” originally focused on the application of ...

The movement from online catalogues to search and discovery systems has not addressed the goals of true resource discoverability. While catalogue user studies have focused on user search and discovery processes and ...

In many iSchools, the convergence of professional education for Librarianship, Archival, and Museum (LAM) Studies is becoming relevant to the discussion of improving and expanding the iSchool curricula related to the ...

This theoretical paper aims to develop a new model for the assessment of LIS education courses, to prepare students with the fundamentals of librarianship so they are useful in their jobs locally and internationally. Arguing ...

Current search engines satisfactorily return relevant, ranked results to most posed queries. However, when searching on a dense topic for individual or collaborative learning purposes, the highest ranked results retrieved ...