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Jaeger, Paul T.; Bertot, John Carlo; Subramaniam, Mega – Library Quarterly, 2013
The field of library and information science (LIS) continues to struggle with the issue of diversity and inclusion. As we are perpetually working to increase racial and gender diversity in the profession, the definition of diversity continues to broaden to include socioeconomic status, education, language, literacy, age, sexual orientation,…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Science, Cultural Relevance, Ethnic Diversity
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. – Library Quarterly, 2013
Eleanor (Edwards) Ledbetter, who served immigrant populations in Cleveland throughout most of the Progressive Era and the Great Depression, was one of the first librarians to advocate for multiculturalism (then called cultural pluralism) as opposed to Americanism. In providing multicultural and multilingual library services for immigrants,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Librarians, Cultural Pluralism, Library Services
Hunter, Nancy Chaffin; Legg, Kathleen; Oehlerts, Beth – Library Quarterly, 2010
Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperation, Archives, Library Development
Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2009
This article presents the narrative accounts of the beginnings of digital library programs in five European national libraries: Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. Based on interviews with policy makers and developers of digital…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Development, Government Libraries, Cultural Influences
Nitecki, Danuta A. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Purposeful assessment of space for the understanding and improvement of the academic library is a relatively new area of inquiry. This essay offers a framework to consider different factors affecting such an assessment and insights for undertaking a meaningful inquiry about the relationship of space to an academic library's evolving purpose as…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Performance Factors, Space Classification
Johnson, Eric D. M.; Kazmer, Michelle M. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Library scholars and practitioners have frequently reflected on the various factors that in combination make up a hospitable library, but there has been little theoretical synthesis of the notion of the library as a place of hospitality. The hospitality industry provides a rich vein of theoretical material from which to draw definitions of…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Libraries, Library Services, Definitions
Templeton, Thomas Clay – Library Quarterly, 2008
Place reminds us to tailor our professional work to the shifting concerns, and indeed the shifting criteria, of our shifting constituencies, rather than to a placeless professional vision of what librarianship, society, and literacy should be. Every place maker must make do, make sense, and make place in an environment that is technologically…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Human Geography, Familiarity, Phenomenology
Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Jochumsen, Henrik – Library Quarterly, 2007
The public library is a product of modernity that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization, and popular movements, while at the same time the public library itself supports the building up and development of the modern. This article will examine the arrival of modernity and the prerequisites for the rise of public libraries, as well…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Postmodernism, Library Development, Library Research
Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2008
This study examines the influence of culture on digital libraries of the first wave. The local cultures of innovation of five European national libraries (Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library) are reconstructed in case histories from…
Descriptors: Innovation, Government Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Olson, Hope A. – Library Quarterly, 2006
This article reports the results of a quantitative and thematic content analysis of the organization of information literature in the "Library Quarterly" ("LQ") between its inception in 1931 and 2004. The majority of articles in this category were published in the first half of "LQ's" run. Prominent themes have included cataloging codes and the…
Descriptors: Library Science, Periodicals, Content Analysis, Time Perspective