[Asis-l] New Issue of Library Trends

[GSLIS Publications Office]

Now available from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library
and Information Science Publications Office:

Library Trends, 51(4), Spring 2003
"Research Questions for the Twenty-first Century" edited by Mary Jo Lynch

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The context for this issue is that analog library service is in a period
of dramatic change but is expected to continue well into the twenty-first
century expanded by digital library service. Some would argue that
research is essential and asks: What are the most important researchable
questions for the next five to ten years and how might they be approached?
Each of the authors-people who are well known and respected
researchers-was asked to write an essay that:

*States three to five questions that the author believes could and should
be answered through research in the next five to ten years;

*Describes why each question is important now;

*Describes what previous work exists for the researcher to build on;

*Indicates appropriate methodologies.

Authors were told that the questions they chose could come from any area
of librarianship and that some overlap between articles was expected.

--From the Introduction by Mary Jo Lynch

Articles and Authors Include:

"Research in School Library Media for the Next Decade: Polishing the
Diamond," Delia Neuman

"Improving Health Care through Information: Research Challenges for Health
Sciences Librarians,"
Prudence W. Dalrymple

"Determining How Libraries and Librarians Help," Joan C. Durrance and
Karen E. Fisher

"Public Library Service to Children and Teens: A Research Agenda,"
Virginia A. Walter

"Outcomes Assessment in the Networked Environment: Research Questions,
Issues, Considerations, and Moving Forward," John Carlo Bertot and Charles
R. McClure

"Electronic Publishing: Research Issues for Academic Librarians and
Users," Carol Tenopir

"Research Questions for the Digital Era Library," Deanna B. Marcum

"The Invisible Library: Paradox of the Global Information Infrastructure,"
Christine L. Borgman

"Five Grand Challenges for Library Research," Michael K. Buckland

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