Library and Information Sciences : : Trends and Research.

• Author: Chen, Chuanfu.
• TeilnehmendeR: Larsen, Ronald.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Heidelberg : : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg,, 2014.; ©2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Advisory Board -- Editorial Board -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I -- Information Profession and Information Literacy -- Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning -- Postscript -- So What's the Big Deal With Information Literacy in the United States? -- Background and History -- Why Information Literacy is so Important -- How Information Literacy has Affected Librarians' Role -- What's Your Information Literacy Aptitude? -- Summary -- The Big Deal with Information Literacy in the United States -- Librarians in the Academy -- Ever Changing Role for Librarians -- Other Progress -- Summary -- References -- A Group Discussion on Information Literacy -- Jason Phelps's View: Information Literacy Makes More Efficient Organization -- Steve Van Tuyl's Insight: Data Curation is Crucial in Information Literacy -- Gladys Joy E.'s Thought: Librarians' Duty on Teaching Information Literacy -- Martin Julius Perez's Analysis: Factors that Must be Included in Information Literacy Education -- Joseph M. Yap's Prediction: Library 2.0 Tools' Role in Academic Service -- Lihong Zhou and Yiwei Wang's Research: Two Orientations of China Information Literacy Framework -- Han Jiang's Experience: Information Literacy is Basic yet Need Improved -- References -- Part II -- Trends of Library and Information Sciences Education -- iSchools &amp -- the iSchool at Syracuse University -- The iSchool Movement -- The iSchool at Syracuse -- Faculty of One Overview -- Three Recent Focuses at Syracuse's iSchool -- Information Entrepreneurship -- Data Science -- Social Media/Emerging Technologies -- Conclusion -- Part III -- Information Seeking and Retrieval -- Visual Data Mining in a Q&amp -- A based Social Media Website -- Introduction.

Related Work -- Methodology -- Results and Discussion -- 'Complication &amp -- Related Disease' and 'Medication' -- 'Complication &amp -- Related Disease' and 'Sign &amp -- Symptom' -- Conclusion -- References -- Information Seeking Behaviour and Usage on a Multi-media Platform: Case Study Europeana -- Background -- Aims and Objectives -- Methodology -- Results -- Stickiness and Loyalty -- Returning Visitors -- Engagement -- Social Media -- Size and Growth in Traffic -- Individual Social Media -- Country Analysis -- Social Actions and Social Media -- Virtual Exhibitions -- Conclusions -- References -- Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Classical Theories Related to Exploratory Search -- Interactive Information Retrieval and Cognitive Information Retrieval -- Evolving Search and Information Foraging -- Important Efforts to Define Exploratory Search -- The Problem Context -- The Search Process -- Theoretical Foundations of Exploratory Search Illustrated -- A Survey of Exploratory Search Systems -- Information Classification for Exploratory Search -- Hierarchical Classification -- Faceted Classification -- Dynamic Clustering -- Social Classification -- Information Visualizationfor Exploratory Search -- Visualizations for Hierarchical Classification -- Visualizations for Faceted Classification -- Visualizations for Dynamic Clustering -- Visualizations for Social Classification -- The Future of Exploratory Search -- References -- Part IV -- Informatics -- Scientific Datasets: Informetric Characteristics and Social Utility Metrics for Biodiversity Data Sources -- Introduction -- Biodiversity Datasets in the Informetric Framework -- Biodiversity Dataset Characteristics -- Dataset Usage Index Indicators -- Concluding Remarks -- References.

Knowledge Discovery of Complex Networks Research Literatures -- Introduction -- Data and Method -- Date Source -- Methodology -- Results Analysis -- Production Trend -- Subjects Category -- Journals Analysis -- Countries Analysis -- Institutes Analysis -- Keywords Analysis -- Citation Analysis -- Co-citation Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Bibliometrics and University Research Rankings Demystified for Librarians -- Introduction -- National, Regional and International Policy and Accountability -- Historical Literature Review -- Using Bibliometric Methodology -- Factors Limiting the Number of Articles and Citations -- Contemporary International University Rankings or League Tables -- Beyond Bibliometrics -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V -- Development of World Libraries -- The Development of East Asian Libraries in North America -- The Beginning -- Developing National Cataloging Standards for East Asian Materials -- The Birth of the Committee on East Asian Libraries -- Issues in Collection Development -- Technology in East Asian Libraries -- Remembering the Pioneers -- The Future.