Indiana University South Bend
Reference, Instruction and Outreach
This work identifies changes in dominant topics in library and information science (LIS) over time, by analyzing the 3,121 doctoral dissertations completed between 1930 and 2009 at North American Library and Information Science programs.... more
There has been a longstanding debate on the merits of collaborative research, with most studies focusing on the citation advantage of such research. However, citation studies provide only one lens on the issues. New methods of inquiry are... more
This article examines authorship of LIS literature in the context of practitioner and nonpractitioner production of published research. 4,827 peer-reviewed articles from 20 LIS journals published between 1956 and 2011 were examined to... more
Librarians and archivists are intimately involved in scholarly communication systems, both as information providers and instructors. However, very little is known regarding their activities as scholars. This study seeks to examine the... more
and abstracts were examined for the presence of library-related keywords drawn from the core curriculum of ALA-accredited schools, and trend data were created to describe the evolution of LIS doctoral research over the last 80 years. The... more