Scope of the Journal
It covers a wide range of areas, including the following:
- Role of Libraries in Information Management
- Libraries and knowledge management
- Library Automation / Digitization
- Automation tools/case studies
- Digital libraries /trends , techniques /tools / experiences
- Information commons
- Information literacy
- Library and information service marketing
- Resource sharing among libraries and information centers
- Preservation & conservation of digital and traditional libraries
- Innovation in information management
- Interdisciplinary and collaborative initiatives
- Curriculum Design
- Research directions
- Universal bibliographic control
- Cataloging/classification issues
- Subject access
- Authority data
- Formats, tools, and standards (e.g., RDA, ISBD, UNIMARC)
- Use and reuse of metadata (e.g., opening our data to other communities and our reuse of the data from outside sources)
- Chain of supply in the creation of metadata
- Innovations in information, knowledge and content management
- Knowledge economy
- Intellectual capital
- Indigenous knowledge systems
- Business & competitive intelligence
- Records management
- Information entrepreneurship, design and delivery
- Social media & online social networking
- Accreditation and the role of libraries
- Acquisition and deployment of technology in the library environment
- Adaptive equipment technology
- Consortia, cooperatives, networks
- Advances in search engine technology
- Challenges and opportunities in migrating to Web-based information services
- Changing role of the librarian
- Clientele expectations as exacerbated by e-business practices
- Ethics of information
- Impact of demographic and cultural changes on library services
- Intellectual property and copyright
- Knowledge management and its application
- Libraries and life-long learning
- Library Services for disabled persons
- Literacy programs
- Management and operation of information systems
- The marginalization of the library (academic, public, special)
- Models of library service
- Open-access data
- Information architecture
- Information and knowledge audit
- content management
- Outsourcing of services
- Web-based bibliographic instruction