#library-science — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #library-science, aggregated by home.social.
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📢 New publication!
Wrzesinski, M., @pampel, @ztirfhtor & Khamis, C.O. (2026) examine the challenges and opportunities for innovation in the institutional repository landscape in Germany – based on an interview study.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 14(1), eP19047
🔗 https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.19047#OpenAccess #InstitutionalRepositories #LibraryScience #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience
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Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian is a guardian of information, a champion of freedom, an embedded member of the community aiming to serve those in most need. The homeless people who need the information resources to get educated, to connect with resources for healthcare, housing, employment etc.
I was once married to a woman who was studying to become a librarian, and libraries have always held a special place in my heart.
Until 2023, when I turned whistleblower against the US government, and Accenture Federal Services. The persecution I faced, came from many sides, though the unkindest cut of all, was that some librarians turned out to be on the side of the establishment.
Read my account here. ( The PDF version is probably easier to read. )
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#Hawaii #library #librarian #libraries #librarians #LibraryScience #Liberty
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neue Folge im "New Books Network"-#Podcast, Abteilung #LibraryScience: "Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam" https://newbooksnetwork.com/bibliotactics
Das vorgestellte Buch von Cindy Anh Nguyen ist #openaccess verfügbar!
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Ahead of Print in BFP: New article: ‘Mehr als Methoden!’ on library pedagogy theory. Dennis Kranz calls for deeper theoretical grounding in library pedagogy, beyond methods and output metrics. #libraryscience #education #pedagogy #openaccess
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The informational disciplines – Lorcan Dempsey
At Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.The informational disciplines
This is a further excerpt from my response to the LIS Forward paper. It considers some of the history and contours of the informational disciplines – information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.
Lorcan Dempsey, Oct 22, 2025, 20 min read
At Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, where Shawshank Redemption was filmed.This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools. [pdf].
It is a sketch only, and somewhat informal, but I thought I would put it here in case of interest. It occasionally references the position paper, and the longer piece of which it is a part. It is also influenced by the context in which it was prepared which was a discussion of the informational disciplines and the iSchool in R1 institutions.
This section could of course be much expanded in a fuller treatment. It is striking to me how much LIS and Information Science can still reference different intellectual, disciplinary or institional boundaries depending on context.
If you wish to reference it, I would be grateful if you cite the full original:
Dempsey, L. (2025). Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward. In LIS Forward (2025) Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools, The Friday Harbor Papers, Volume 2 pdfThis informational diffusion has given the iSchool great latitude and it can accommodate a great diversity of disciplinary lenses – from the very technical, to the social sciences and humanities, to design, to marketing and communication, to public policy, to critical theory, and so on. The Deans’ interviews suggest that this is at once a great strength and a potential weakness, as the iSchool does not have exclusive ownership of a foundational discipline, but rather a multidisciplinary focus on a hard to define phenomenon. Furthermore, this phenomenon has become an object of study in many other disciplines also.
In this section I discuss the informational disciplines (sic), LIS and Information Science, and conclude with some comments about Library Studies, LIS and the iSchool.
Informational disciplines
Library studies
First, here is a brief note on LS. Buckland (2005) traces the emergence of ‘library science’ to Martin Schrettinger in the early 19th century. The first American library school was opened by Melvil Dewey at Columbia in 1887. Unsurprisingly, a central focus of each of these figures is organization of the collection.
In general, the ‘library school’ has not been a story of optimism and growth. Some closed. Many changed their name to lose ‘library.’ Some were merged into other schools or departments, with various disciplinary emphases.
There is now some variety of provision across types of university and disciplinary configuration. It is common within iSchools who have a library focus to use the term LIS.
Information science(s)
What is Information Science or the Information Sciences? It seems to me that one can identify two very provisional emphases here to help scaffold a discussion. The first is in terms of the emergence of Information Science in the mid twentieth century, with a set of shared concerns, intellectual and personal influences, and professional venues. I label this Information Science Classic in this section, and this is what I usually mean when talking about Information Science (IS). The second is more generic, as Information Science or Information Sciences (or Informatics) is used as a designation of convenience for an academic interest in a range of information-related topics, with or without any specific reference to or acknowledgement of Information Science Classic. We see this emphasis in various places, including in some of the iSchools with non-Library Studies backgrounds (see Cornell or Penn State for example). This may sometimes be used to designate an applied technology focus with more of a social or business dimension than you might typically find in Computer Science.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The informational disciplines
#2025 #America #Books #Education #History #InformationScience #InformationalDisciplines #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #LibraryScience #LIS #LorcanDempsey #Opinion #Reading #Science #Technology #UnitedStates
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Harper, C., & Groth, P. (2025). The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2025.2539787
#ArtificialIntelligence #LibraryScience #Librarians #Libraries #EducationSkills #EducationalCompetencies #AI #ResponsibleAI #SocialJustice
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Cool job at University of Maryland working on metadata for Indigenous Archival Search
https://umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/details/Metadata-Specialist_JR101772?q=metadata
#Libraries #Academia #GetFediHired #Indigenous #LibraryScience
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective
In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.
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How do we know how much we know-- and what?
"Over the past decades, several methods have been proposed to ease the laborious task of searching for relevant papers. Various books and review articles summarize these methodologies, findings, and implications. However, they often fail to provide a detailed retrospective of recent advances, including their evolution, current state, and challenges. This article addresses that gap by reviewing the most relevant and authoritative literature on advances in academic search systems. It proposes a generic layered architecture of scholarly retrieval systems and provides a detailed analysis of ranking methodologies, datasets, and evaluation methods. Additionally, it identifies critical open research challenges and issues, offering a promising foundation for future research and development in this vital field."
#AcademicSearch
#ScholarlyRetrieval
#LIbrarySciencehttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-025-01476-1
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🤯 This week! Join Apereo Foundation for our July Micro Conference
July 9th at 11 am Eastern
Free and Online📚 Florida Atlantic University staff will share their insights on creating a more #open community within the library system.
#FOSS #openaccess #highered #LibraryScience
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?id=316&reset=1
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Anmeldung ab jetzt möglich!
Ankommen in der Bibliotheksarbeit in Deutschland - Brückenkurs für Menschen mit ausländischem Bibliotheksabschluss, die in deutschen Bibliotheken arbeiten möchten.
📅 24.09.-01.10.2025
👉 Weitere Infos: https://hu.berlin/brueckenkurs-bibliotheksarbeit
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For library professionals who’ve immigrated/fled to Germany: a free online course to prepare you for job applications!
📅 24 Sep to 01 Oct, 2025
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The other temples of democracy
How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
#PBS #Library #LibraryScience #Humanities #History #Law #Democracy #Literacy #Learning
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Trans day of visibility display at the Lexington Public Library :QueerCat_Trans:
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Did you know that #libraries are launchpads for student innovation?
Join Cyril Oberlander (Cal Poly Humboldt) on April 9th at 11 AM ET to explore:
💡 Adaptable strategies for engaging students as co-creators
📚 The power of open learning infrastructure
🌱 How students built a 3D Digital HerbariumFree virtual MicroConf:
https://www.apereo.org/conferences/2025/04/april-2025-open-innovation-lab-library-cyril-oberlander#EdTech #FOSS #HigherEd #OpenEducation #InstructionalDesign #LibraryScience #STEMEducation
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Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of Hans-Christoph Hobohm’s 'Informationsverhalten'. Joachim Griesbaum reviews Hobohm’s comprehensive, transdisciplinary study on human information behavior. A must-read for information science scholars. #InformationScience #LibraryScience #Research
