Recent trends in LIS research

[Vimal Kumar V.]

Dear Friends,

What are the things we have to cover in the essay question

"Recent trends in Library and Information Science research?"

[Dr. Amit Kishore]

*History of LIS research

*New topics in LIS Res.

*LIS Res. new trend more than res. topic is going on ICT and Relative but before 2-3 decade res. topic mostly in the area of classification and catalo...

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Sri Vimal Kumar,

Thanks for your post. Doing the trend analysis of LIS research seems to be an important proposition. However, practically speaking as far as the queries are concerned, In our Country there are two major areas in this field where most of the students are concentrating. One is on your own area of activities: Open Sources and the other is Digitization & Institutional repositories. These two are most popular issues as I see now. Among other which are less techno oriented are Trend analysis of Information resources by researchers working in various disciplines with the proverbial titles Information seeking/use habits/patterns of....   . There is another domain of research which however require suitable infrastructure for access & that is Scientometric/Bibliometyric Studies. I would like to add in this respect that we often come across catchy titles like Citation Analysis of...... Research; a case study of .... University  which are mostly studies of just referencing patterns by researchers and have around 50% similarity with those with title Information use patterns ... I understand that many among the workers are genuinely interested to do actual Citation studies but they lack access to requisite citation databases!! that is why I have mentioned that it require requisite infrastructure.This is a field of study where a brilliant analytical mind and and a good knowledge of the subject are prerequsite. You may find many such works are done by NISTADS people (National Institute of Science Technology & Development Studies of CSIR) & by an gentleman named Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam to name a few. However, in case you have to write an essay on this topic, you please consult the issues of UNIVERSITY NEWS and ILSA for Indian trend  & LISA for International Trend. the University News is an weekly journal published by Association of Indian Universities & it regularly publishes Research in Progress and Theses of the Month. You can see LIS materials under Humanities & Social Sciences. You can have a quantitative estimate of research activities in the field of LIS and can see by your self the most active areas of research. You can consult ILSA as well so that your observation can be more compact and concrete! If you have access to LISA you can have an idea of research trend on International perspective.and on various geographical areas. may be you can deduce a trend for the Global South!! Regarding subject oriented Research, in the field of say, Medical Librarianship, you can have access to Bulletin of Medical Library association.The last issue of the year bear the Index of articles. So in case you consult just 10 such issues you will have a fair idea of the trend.

I hope I could clarify your query.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

[MALA.A]

Respected Siddhartha Shankar Ray sir,

Thank you very much for your valuable information....

with redards,

A.Mala

[Surbhi Saini]

sir,

this is interview question these days.

the answer is social networking  sites used by the library websites to make it explore to large audience in context to library services,collection development and retrieval of information.

cloud computing and policies related to that.

citation and cited work problem among researchers in citation indexing and analysis research area.

In the evaluation study why user is important factor why not professional views are to be consider as authentic.

With regards

surbhi