Library and information scientist

A library and information scientist, also known as a library scholar, is a researcher or academic who specializes in the field of Library and information science.

Bibliometric mappings

Bibliometric methods have been used to create maps of library and information science, thus identifying the most import researchers as well as their relative connections (or distances).

White and McCain (1998) ^[1] made a map of information science and Åström (2002),^[2] Chen, Ibekwe-SanJuan, and Hou (2010),^[3] Janssens, Leta, Glanzel, and De Moor (2006),^[4] and Zhao and Strotmann (2008)^[5] constructed some later maps of library and information science.

Notable library and information scientists

John Shaw Billings Suzanne Briet James Duff Brown Michael Buckland Lois Mai Chan Melville Dewey Eugene Garfield Michael Gorman Frederick Kilgour Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster

Kathleen de la Peña McCook Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov S. R. Ranganathan Hope A. Olson Paul Otlet Gerald Salton Jesse Shera Elaine Svenonius Robert Saxton Taylor Barbara Tillett

See also

• Bibliometrican
• Computer scientist
• Documentalist
• Information scientist
• Librarians
• Library science

References

1. White, H. D., & McCain, K. W. (1998). Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(4), 327–355.
2. Åström, F. (2002). Visualizing library and information science concept spaces through keyword and citation based maps and clusters. In: Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Ingwersen, P. & Vakkari, P. (Eds.), Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4) (pp. 185–197). Greenwood Village: Libraries Unlimited.
3. Chen, C., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., & Hou, J. (2010). The structure and dynamics of cocitation clusters: A multiple-perspective cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7), 1386–1409.
4. Janssens, F., Leta, J., Glanzel, W., & De Moor, B. (2006). Towards mapping library and information science. Information Processing and Management, 42, 1614–1642.
5. Zhao, D., & Strotmann, A. (2008). Information science during the first decade of the Web: An enriched author co-citation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(6), 916–937.

Further reading

• Cuadra, C. A. (1964). Identifying key contributions to information science. American Documentation, 15(4), 289-295.
• Feather, J. & Sturges, P. (eds). (1996). International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. London & New York: Routledge.
• Persson, O. (1995). Forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap i bibliometrisk belysning. IN: Biblioteken, kulturen och den sociala intelligensen. Aktuell forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap. Ed.: Lars Höglund. Göteborg: Valfrid. (pp. 47–56).
• Persson, O. & Åström, F. (2005). Most cited universities and authors in Library & Information Science 1990-2004. Bibliometric Notes, 7(2). http://www.umu.se/inforsk/BibliometricNotes/BN2-2005/BN2-2005.htm

External links

• List of Information Science pioneers, American Society for Information Science & Technology (1998):