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