I have pondered of two: customer service and it's evolution in the age of internet and AI

On the other hand how to lead and institution of literacy and culture when either are economically considered important when budget is decided

The field of Information Science and Library Management is vast and continually evolving. Based on the recent literature, here are some areas that have been identified as requiring more research or have been the focus of recent studies:

1. **Infopreneurship Education**: There's a need to investigate perceived gaps in infopreneurship education and research, especially in the context of Library and Information Science (LIS) education. Topics like business analysis, innovation and idea generation, market research, technology entrepreneurship, and financial management and planning within infopreneurship are areas that need more attention. [Link to the study](https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-659x/6982)

2. **Knowledge Management Curriculum**: Research has been conducted to explore the perception of students on knowledge management, identifying key skills needed, existing gaps between required skills and imparted skills, and the challenges faced by students. [Link to the study](https://doi.org/10.4314/ict.v16i2)

3. **Employability Skills in LIS**: There's a focus on creating ‘real-life’ case studies to enhance teaching materials in library and information science departments, especially in the context of employability skills. [Link to the study](https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2007.06010002)

4. **Research Topic Specialization**: Studies have been conducted to understand the specialization of research topics in universities offering Information Science and Library Science courses and its impact on inter-university collaboration. [Link to the study](https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159000)

5. **Trends in LIS Research**: There's an interest in understanding the evolution and shift of research topics in LIS over the years. Topics like bibliometrics, citation analysis, and library science's relevance over time have been explored. [Link to the study](https://dblp.org/rec/journals/scientometrics/Han20)

6. **E-Government Service Gaps**: Research has been conducted to develop models for assessing e-government service gaps, which can be relevant for library and information science professionals working in government or public sector libraries. [Link to the study](https://doi.org/10.4102/sajim.v22i1.1234)

7. **Social Media in Health Communication**: With the rise of social media, there's a need to understand its role in health communication, especially in terms of information quality. This can be relevant for librarians and information professionals working in health libraries or institutions. [Link to the study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33818176)

There are a wide range of research topics ranging from Archives Management, Knowledge Management, Digitization of Records, Information needs of the users, Bibliometrics Analysis, Altmetrics to Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Library and Information Science. The field of LIS is witnessing new transformations and developments thereby, increasing the scope of research. To keep yourself informed about the current research trends go through LISA & LISTA abstracting journals. I hope this will help.

Archives Management, Knowledge Management, Digitization of Records, Information Needs of Users, Bibliometrics Analysis, Altmetrics, Artificial Intelligence in Libraries, and Library and Information Science are just a few of the study areas available. The field of LIS is changing and evolving, broadening the breadth of research. To stay up to date on current research trends, read abstracting articles like LISA and LISTA. I hope this is useful.

Currently, the Role of AI in libraries, Digitisation in libraries, New tools and services in libraries as well as Knowledge management as per the new virtual era or 21st century.

all areas of library science deserve to be explored, especially today because this science evolves rapidly and enters into relationships with other disciplines

With information we can solve all contemporary issues being it health, business, agriculture, politics, insecurity etc. Library and information science researchers can engage to any of the above in order to solve societal problem from an information perspective. Taking into cognisance of access, use, dissemination, availability, awareness provision etc.

Emerging technology with libraries. New idea which are incorporated with academia. Libraries role, importance, Information literacy, Automation and Digitization of library. And so many more topics for research and study.

Hi,

The underground water pipeline leakage is one of the critical issues in Agriculture.

please take a look on my paper entitled "A Novel Technique for Detecting Underground Water Pipeline Leakage Using the Internet of Things" published in Journal of Universal Computer Science.

It is published online: https://lib.jucs.org/article/96377/list/18/

Hope this can help.

Regards,

Ahmad Abusukhon

The top ones on my list would be the broad subfields of open science, research data management, research evaluation, digitisation, Artificial Intelligence and the SDGs.

Now a days online resources and e documents are easily avaliable but the knowledge and awarness about this is comapratively less. so i would suggest to do the research in these areas awarness about it literacy, chatgpt etc.

Data repositories and AI

Traditional collection development, stock verification, resource sharing, human resource management etc are also important subject for research in lis