Library Science Schools Research Articles

Propuesta de lineamientos generales para la gestión del conocimiento en bibliotecas infantiles

The objective of this research is to present a proposal for general guidelines for knowledge management in children’s libraries, taking as reference the experience of the academic activity of the School of Library Science, Documentation and Information (EBDI) of the National University (UNA) of Costa Rica with the name of the Miriam Álvarez Brenes Children’s Library (BIMAB) in the period between January 2018 and June 2020. This study had a qualitative approach and was explanatory; data collection was done primarily through bibliographic review and experiences obtained in the management of this academic activity. As main results and conclusions, it is possible to highlight the definition of a series of general guidelines for knowledge management that can be related and adjusted to the context of any children’s library; so, general guidance is provided for the continuous improvement of management processes of the information unit and to facilitate access and democratization of information products and services for its community of users.

Propuesta de Estrategia para la vinculación y seguimiento de las personas graduadas de los planes de estudio de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (2022-2026)

For the present investigation, a compilation and organization of information sources was carried out that dealt with the issue of linking and monitoring the graduates of the different study programs of the career of the School of Library Science, Documentation and Information (EBDI) of the National University of Costa Rica. The selected contents of the sources consulted were analyzed, identifying the current need to create a strategy that would guide and coordinate all the new initiatives to strengthen the link and facilitate the follow-up of these professionals with the EBDI, taking into account the topics of interest identified for updating, and continuous training. This proposal has the objective of strengthening the link, monitoring and communication between both parties considered through a strategy for the period 2022-2026 that would facilitate updated knowledge of labor market conditions, the management of alliances and the interests of updating and education. permanent considering the experience and learning achieved by graduates. This academic exercise was carried out with a mixed approach in which different techniques and sources of qualitative and quantitative information were used, facilitating the obtaining of results such as: a description of the context and identification of the updating needs of the people graduates, the identification of the context and needs of both the graduates and the EBDI in maintaining constant links and communication with each other and a strategy proposal for linking and monitoring these professionals with the EBDI.

Análisis y diseño de un sistema de información para la gestión administrativa, docente y curricular para la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Documentación e Información (SIGAB)

The analysis of the information that was managed to collect from the diagnosis that was made on the administrative, teaching and curricular management that was carried out from the academic activity of Assurance of the quality of the career taught by the School of Library Science, Documentation and Information from the National University; whose results allowed, later, to do the analysis, design and implementation of an information system that is used in the EBDI as support for the systematization, processing and integration of data that help the planning and actions of continuous improvement of the career.

Experiencia para la actualización continua del plan de estudio de Bibliotecología y Gestión de la Información, de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información de la Universidad Nacional en 2022

An investigation was carried out with the objective of defining the main national and international trends in the labor market for the continuous updating of the current study plan, contributing to the graduation of the graduates of the career as part of the research project Continuous updating of the career of Library Science and Information Management of the National University linked to the Program of Quality Assurance and continuous improvement of the Library Science and Information Management career of the National University of the School of Library Science, Documentation and Information (EBDI) of the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. This descriptive academic exercise was carried out with a mixed approach considering the following variables: main labor trends at the national level, main labor trends at the international level, current professional profile and a 10-year projection, current occupational profile and a projection to 10 years. This implied the treatment of a variety of kinds of information sources and the application of a series of qualitative and quantitative research techniques and instruments for the

Sh. M L Kachroo: A legend of school of library science, DLA

Sh. M L Kachroo: A legend of school of library science, DLA

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age by Nathan R. Johnson, and: Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer by Seth Long

Reviewed by: Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age by Nathan R. Johnson, and: Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer by Seth Long David Marshall (bio) Nathan R. Johnson, Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2020. 205 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8173-2060-7. Seth Long, Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-69514-3. Is memory the sleeping giant of the five parts of classical rhetoric? Some rhetoricians have been skeptical of the entire art of memory enterprise, denying essentially that there are any artificial means of training natural capacities for memory. But many have been believers, and there are vivid arguments asserting how memory as the fourth of those classical parts underwrites and illuminates each of the others. Memory is invention by another name, because the treasure house of previous performances is also a store of potential recombinations. In the most famous of the ancient mnemonic exercises, practitioners were asked to use a familiar architectural form—a sequence of rooms in a home they knew well, for instance—as a background and storage facility for items they wished to remember, and in the emphasis on sequencing there is a logic and practice of arrangement. (Cicero relayed an origin story for this topos about the Greek poet Simonides: during a performance at a dinner, he was called away; while he was away, the roof collapsed killing those within, mangling their bodies beyond recognition; but Simonides was able to identify the dead because he recalled where each guest had been sitting—and the inference was that visualizing figures against a ground is the secret of memorization.) When it comes to the work of symbolizing items to be set against this imagined background, moreover, we are certainly in the domain of style and trope. In the example that Pseudo-Cicero made famous (Rhet. Her., 3.20.33–34), we are asked to picture a scene in which a ram's testicles hang from the fourth finger of a man's hand. The goal of such imagining is to more securely recall facts that are relevant to a legal case we are memorizing—namely, the facts of an inheritance (Romans made purses from scrotums) and the availability of witnesses (testicle and testimony share an etymology). And, as for delivery, the deep paradox of memory is that organizing and practicing the passage of things from the present into the past is in fact one of the keys to performing in the moment: it is as if the artisan of a well-constructed and vividly-appointed memory palace is like an acrobat with every potential move memorized and at-hand equidistant as it were from the here and now of performance. There is thus a lot to say about the rhetorical dimensions of memory, and taken together the two books reviewed here, Nathan Johnson's Architects of Memory and Seth Long's Excavating the Memory Palace, make wide-ranging use of memory's rhetorical histories to make claims about contemporary mnemonic practices and possibilities. Nathan Johnson makes a pitch for the significance of the material infrastructures of memory work, and he anchors this pitch in histories of [End Page 100] the different cultures of Library Science and Information Studies after World War II in the United States. Johnson organizes his attention around two significant figures and their respective institutional contexts: Dorothy Crosland, a librarian at Georgia Tech from 1925 (and head librarian from 1953–1971), and Robert S. Taylor, who wrote the influential work The Making of a Library (1970) and who, within a year of his appointment as Dean in 1973, changed the name of the School of Library Science at Syracuse University to the School of Information Studies. Johnson does note the different trajectories that each of these individuals represents. In his narrative, Crosland represents a library sciences profession that women dominated and that was often coded as a "feminine" form of labor, and Taylor represents the rise of...

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

Pilihan rasional alumni ilmu perpustakaan pada pekerjaan non-pustakawan

Introduction. The establishment of Library Science Schools is expected to prepare professionals in library fields. In fact, there are many graduates who choose non-librarian jobs, therefore, it is necessary to examine their rational choices of the jobs.
 Research methods. This study uses a qualitative narrative to explore the rational choices of seven informants.
 Data analysis. Data were analysed by summarizing the results of interviews and sorting them based on the topics and presented in a narrative way. Interviews were conducted from April 2019 to March 2020.
 Results and Discussion. The non-librarian jobs selected were lecturers, heads of academic division, book editors, finance staff, entrepreneurs, and the drafting and reporting staff. The decisions were made by considering opportunities to learn new things, public recognition, income, and job comfort. This study found that some of the knowledge gained from library sciences (management, communication, marketing, classification, and cataloging) can be applied to non-librarian jobs.
 Conclusion and suggestions. The choice of non-librarian jobs are selected based on considerations for further learning, social appreciation, salary, and environment. The consequence is to learn new knowledge and skills. The results of this study may be a reference for future research on job selection by using rational theory and motivation theory.

Notes from the Special-Issue Editor

Notes from the Special-Issue Editor

The First Lady: Celebrating the Library Career of Louise Ferguson Bolden

ABSTRACT From its inception in 1869, Cleveland Public Library (CPL) solidified its mark in library history with the development of resources and practices that have been implemented by other library systems throughout the world. In 1940, when Louise Cornelia Ferguson Bolden made front-page news in the Cleveland Call and Post, the tide shifted for Black librarianship in Cleveland, Ohio. Her historic forty-six-year career in library science includes being the first Black student to graduate from Case Western Reserve University Library Science School and the first Black librarian at CPL. The Cleveland Call and Post, her personnel file, and annual reports provide a treasure trove of information about Bolden’s career as well as the state of the library and the city of Cleveland. Her career as a librarian not only expands the history of the library, but also tells the history and anthropology of the people in the community.

Endurance and Coherence: The Post‐2020 iSchool

AbstractThe iSchools Organization encompasses 121 information and library science schools around the globe, and is rapidly expanding. Officially begun in the early 2000s as a way to bolster a sense of field‐wide purpose and identity relevant to the twenty‐first century, among other objectives, iSchools are positioned as those sharing an interest in information, people, and technology. Early questions about endurance of the iSchools movement are now largely overshadowed by, and joined with, questions about coherence of the iSchools movement. This 90‐minute virtual panel will present international findings about issues that are currently, as of 2020–2021, top‐of‐mind for iSchool leaders, pertaining to: 1.) views on and of the field of information; 2.) faculty and institutional relationships; and 3.) extra‐unit alliances and alignments, including with and within the iSchools Organization itself. It draws mainly upon interview data from the funded project i4G: Shaping the iSchools' Identity and Interaction in a Globalized World.

Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries

Louisiana native, archivist, and historian Florence M. Jumonville is singularly qualified to write this work. Her understanding of the culture and politics of Louisiana gives her a particular insight into the complexities of the story she tells and allows her to provide a local flavor to the story.The book's title is somewhat misleading, as the actual content of the book ranges far beyond Miss Culver and the beginnings of Parish Libraries in Louisiana. A prologue provides a concise summary of Louisiana library history from 1805 to 1925, focusing in particular on the role of women's clubs and the Louisiana traveling library. It contextualizes this history within the larger American public library history, as well as Louisiana history, a practice that will be continued throughout the work.The first chapter includes a biographical sketch of Culver's early life as well as a brief overview of her work first as a public librarian in Salem, Oregon, and then as a county librarian in California under Milton J. Ferguson. The body of the work covers Culver's administration as state librarian from 1925 to 1962 and that of Sallie Ferrell from 1962 to 1975.Utilizing Culver's personal and professional journals and papers, as well as manuscript materials found in multiple archival collections at the state library and other repositories, Jumonville describes in detail the social, political, and legal challenges that Culver faced throughout those forty years. Not only was she charged with establishing parish libraries in rural areas that had never had library service, but also, before she could begin, she had to craft the legislation that would make such libraries even possible and convince a populace hostile to the concept of publicly funded services to vote for increased taxes. Later, she was be called on to meet the new demands of the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights era.Jumonville does not shy away from addressing racial issues, including both segregation and desegregation of public and school libraries. The Rosenwald Demonstration Library established in Webster Parish in 1929 to serve both the white and black populations, albeit with segregated branches, receives detailed treatment, as do the protests that led to the desegregation of public libraries in 1964. Nor does she restrict herself to events with which Culver was directly involved, but includes relevant events of the time. The history of Angola Prison and other libraries serving the incarcerated is included, as well as the beginnings of education for librarianship and the establishment of the LSU School of Library Science, for instance. Politicians and other leaders who were instrumental in promoting the cause of public libraries—or opposing it—appear throughout the work.The book includes numerous contemporary photographs of people and places, including many that illustrate the unique culture of Louisiana, with its bookmobiles serving patrons who arrive by pirogue on the banks of the bayou. It is easy to read, written in a conversational style, and of interest to anyone interested in the history of libraries and librarianship in the United States.

Moving toward democratic-transformational leadership in academic libraries

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore academic library leadership behaviors and the methods for integrating the democratic and transformational leadership styles.Design/methodology/approachEleven structured interviews were conducted with academic deans and directors. A thematic content analysis was conducted on their responses, analyzing the frequency of certain topics and identifying emergent themes. These themes were then used to construct a democratic communication model.FindingsThe interview responses were grouped into five general leadership themes: participation in decision-making, relationship building, frequent and honest communication, equality and knowing the environment.Research limitations/implicationsThe structured interview format did not permit for unplanned follow-up questions, and some topics may not have come up in every interview unless specifically asked by an interview question. Due to the qualitative nature of this study, the perspectives of the participants may not be generalizable to the larger population.Practical implicationsThis study identifies core themes of leadership practice that extend beyond the focus of transformational leadership alone. It suggests a democratic communication model to assist in integrating democratic leadership methods with transformational practices and goals.Social implicationsThis study suggests a greater emphasis on the communication and engagement practices of democratic leadership. In doing so, it suggests that the American Library Association's emphasis on transformational leadership alone should be reconsidered and that library science schools should increase focus on democratic leadership practices.Originality/valueMost library leadership style studies emphasize transformational leadership. While there are some studies that explore elements of democratic leadership such as engagement and a flattening of organizational hierarchy, there is limited research on the integration of democratic and transformational leadership practices.

Publishing in the Global South

In this episode, we talk to Samir Hachani, PhD & lecturer at the School of Library Science at the University of Algiers, about the injustice of publications between the Global North and the Global South. We also talk about Journals On Line (JOL) and INASP's effort to create a framework for journal publishing practices and standards for the Global South. The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh.
 This episode was first published 26 November 2019.

La biblioteca pública como institución política: la correlación entre bibliotecario público y bibliotecario político

El autor investiga acerca de la conexión que existe entre «bibliotecología y política», considerando en este caso la literatura especializada que ha estado cultivando el nexo «bibliotecas y política». Asimismo, determina correlativamente el concepto de «biblioteconomía política» con base en un conjunto de ideas, premisas que de manera habitual han pasado inadvertidas en la percepción teórica que se imparte en las escuelas de bibliotecología, biblioteconomía y ciencias de la información, o que han sido subvaloradas o ignoradas en la esfera de la práctica bibliotecaria. También explica el influjo de la práctica política, en contraste con la práctica bibliotecaria, en el universo de las bibliotecas públicas. Plantea discernimientos que fundamentan la esfera política del personal que labora en este tipo de centros bibliotecarios, en el marco precisamente de una sociedad política. La formulación de perfiles que sustentan la relación entre «bibliotecas y política» la considera de extrema importancia porque, a pesar de que vivimos en determinados contextos políticos durante toda la vida, se sigue privilegiando, teórica y prácticamente, el dogma ortodoxo que por tradición ha estado separando o rechazando la política en el contexto de la administración bibliotecaria. El contenido, de esta manera, gira en torno a la naturaleza política de la biblioteca pública, con la finalidad de que el bibliotecario público del siglo XXI asuma la responsabilidad de cultivar una clara praxis política (reflexión y acción). En este orden de ideas, se analiza y define el concepto de «bibliotecario político».

Libraries and language preservation: A defining generational moment

This column proposes that schools of Library Science (as well as Museum Studies and related disciplines) can contribute to language preservation and advance their own financial interests by presenting themselves as key collaborators in language preservation to governments and NGOs. By funding such programs, especially in the form of grants and scholarships for minority-language students, Library Science programs can make a significant impact on language preservation, maximizing return on the limited budgets afforded to such projects.

One Hundred Years of Libraries and the Library Profession in Catalonia

ABSTRACT The creation and development of the library system of Catalonia (Spain) started in 1915 with the drafting of a project to determine the structure and relevant elements of public libraries. The project was greatly inspired by the Anglo-American “Free libraries” model. This article discusses the implementation of the first “People's Libraries” that functioned as a network, with the support of the Biblioteca de Catalunya. It also describes the establishment of the Escola de Bibliotecàries, a pioneering school of librarianship, which was only open to female students. Finally, it argues that the quality of the current Catalan library system is largely due to the strength of the initial project, which was not abandoned even in the dark times of the two dictatorships in twentieth-century Spain. The uninterrupted operation of a library science school has also played a key role, as it has ensured the training of professionals who have contributed to the continuity of the public library project.

The GSLS Carnegie Scholars: Guests in Someone Else's House

ABSTRACT During the late 1960s and early 1970s the University of Illinois took many risks in an effort to diversify the ranks of their student body. One such initiative was the Carnegie Scholars experiment; thirty minority students were recruited to the Graduate School of Library Science, twenty-nine graduated, and many went on to become leaders in their profession. The experiences of these Scholars, told through archival records, can inform current discussions about the recruitment and care of minority students in library and information science graduate programs, and in higher education in general. The program was described as “an unusual, flawed, but ultimately successful program to increase the number of disadvantaged students, primarily black and Hispanic” in the profession. The program was shortsighted, fraught with miscommunication and low expectations, and a definite product of the racial climate of the time.

Utilizaciin De Moodle En La Gestiin De Informaciin, Documental Y Del Conocimiento En Grupos De Investigaciin. (Moodle Learning Management System as a Tool for Information, Documentation, and Knowledge Management by Research Groups)

Two research groups at the Inter-American School of Library Science, University of Antioquia (Medellin-Colombia), share their experience and lessons learned during the adaptation and use of the Moodle learning management system LMS) platform as a useful means for information, documentation, and knowledge management in research projects. Moodle was developed as a tool for online course management. This ongoing adaptation has yielded important benefits to the researchers and become a model for the University. This type of technological platform, available to most universities for instructional purposes, has potential to become a key developmental tool for any research project or group.

Storytelling in Public Libraries The Women, the Mission, the Stories

Abstract: This article offers an introduction to the history of oral storytelling in public libraries in the United States and contextualizes selected key figures in public library storytelling in the twentieth century. These women, including Anna Cogswell Tyler, Frances Jenkins Olcott, Mary Gould Davis, Elizabeth Nesbitt, and others, were educated at Carnegie Library Training School in Pittsburgh and the School of Library Science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and subsequently trained additional librarian storytellers who took their skills to libraries across the United States. The publications of identified librarian storytellers, particularly as regards recommended story collections and instructional titles on storytelling, are briefly discussed. Content is partially drawn from Del Negro's 2007 dissertation, “A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales for Youth, 1905–2000.”