This book explores the development trends and research of library and information sciences
(LIS) in the digital age. Inside readers will find research and case studies written by LIS
experts educators and theorists most of whom have visited China delivered presentations
there and drafted their articles based on feedback they received. As a result readers will
discover the LIS issues and concerns that China and the international community have in common.
The book first introduces the opportunities and challenges faced by the library and information
literacy profession and discusses the key role of librarians in the future of information
literacy education. Next it covers trends in LIS education by examining the vision of the
iSchool movement and detailing its practice in Syracuse University. The book then covers issues
in information seeking and retrieval by showing how visual data mining technology can be used
to detect the relationship and pattern between terms on the Q&A of a social media site. It also
includes a case study regarding tracing information seeking behavior and usage on a multimedia
website. Next the book stresses the importance of building an academic accreditation framework
for scientific datasets explores the relationship between bibliometrics and university
rankings and details the birth and development of East Asian Libraries in North America.
Overall the book offers readers insight into the changing nature of LIS including the
electronic dissemination of information the impact of the Internet on libraries the changing
responsibilities of library professionals the new paradigm for evaluating information and
characteristics and functions of today's library personnel.
