Due to the development in ICTs, the role of libraries is also changing. In line with this, we need to revisit the traditional Library Science curriculum. What are major major changes expected in the curriculum?
Dear Prof. Lessa!
You raised a crucial issue! COVID-19 forces academic libraries to take into consideration open science, and supply chain open innovation:
1) Belli, S., Mugnaini, R., Baltà, J. et al. Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications: When science advances rapidly and collectively, is access to this knowledge open to society?. Scientometrics 124, 2661–2685 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03590-7 Available at:
Article Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications: When science...
2) A case -study Muhammad Rafiq et al. (2021).University libraries response to COVID-19 pandemic: A developing country perspective, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2021, Open Access:
Preprint University libraries response to COVID-19 pandemic: A develo...
3) A webinar on the BrightTALK - platform - a free of charge portal to join:
a) https://www.brighttalk.com/join/
b) The webinar: Professor David Baker, Dr Lucy Eliis, Diana Chan,Caroline Williams, Melissa Fulkerson (2020). COVID-19: The Future of Digital Information for Libraries - Partnership, Supply, October 27, 2020, available on demand, further details: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18191/450620/covid-19-the-future-of-digital-information-for-libraries-partnership-supply
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
To come into the twenty-first century
A. academic libraries still need to master twentieth-century technology for research purposes
1. Video especially documentaries but we don't know how to incorporate just the video from the British Open University for undergraduates never mind MIT.edu et al
2. Audiobooks especially for the visually impaired, but everyone who likes to grasp our world with imagination needs to utilize them from time to time.
3. Videogames especially mastering subjects and skills via playing
4. The convergence of the Pirate Libraries, open-source journals, and organizations like the internet archives, plus the still potent abilities of search engines.
B. I imagine that each library must find a way to create a vibrant multidisciplinary community that finds this particular athenaeum home as was the case for print-based sanctums. I find it a shame that these spaces might disappear forever...
Check out this paper by Luciano Floridi about library science as applied philosophy of information. I find it very interesting. Floridi is today a professor at Oxford Internet Institute.
Article On Defining Library and Information Science as Applied Philo...
As someone who works predominantly with public libraries, one thing the pandemic has really highlighted is the need for facilitation training in LIS programs. Folks can normally get through in-person programs because they can read the room, but folks don't have the facilitation skills in their back pockets like museum staff doing similar programs do.
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