Library and Information Sciences

Part I. Information Profession and Information Literacy

1. Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Forest Woody Horton

2. So What’s the Big Deal With Information Literacy in the United States?
Alease J. Wright

3. A Group Discussion on Information Literacy
Jason Phelps, Steve Van Tuyl, Gladys Joy E., Martin Julius V. Perez, Joseph M. Yap, Lihong Zhou, Yiwei Wang, Han Jiang

Part II. Trends of Library and Information Sciences Education

4. iSchools & the iSchool at Syracuse University
Elizabeth D. Liddy

Part III. Information Seeking and Retrieval

5. Visual Data Mining in a Q&A Based Social Media Website
Jin Zhang, Yiming Zhao

6. Information Seeking Behaviour and Usage on a Multi-media Platform: Case Study Europeana
David Nicholas, David Clark

7. Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends
Tingting Jiang

Part IV. Informatics

8. Scientific Datasets: Informetric Characteristics and Social Utility Metrics for Biodiversity Data Sources
Peter Ingwersen

9. Knowledge Discovery of Complex Networks Research Literatures
Fei-Cheng Ma, Peng-Hui Lyu, Xiao-Guang Wang

10. Bibliometrics and University Research Rankings Demystified for Librarians
Ruth A. Pagell

Part V. Development of World Libraries

11. The Development of East Asian Libraries in North America
Eugene W. Wu

Nyckelord: Business and Management, Business and Management, general, Library Science, Literacy