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ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

MICHAEL MIDDLETON, CHRISTINE YATES

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ALIA LIS Research Environmental Scan Report

Michael Middleton, Christine Yates

Canberra ACT, The Australian Library and Information Association, October 2014

www.alia.org.au

The national project was developed and managed by Dr Annemaree Lloyd, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, with the support of the ALIA Research Advisory Committee.

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT 1

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3

1. INTRODUCTION 10

2. SCOPE OF ANALYSIS 11

2.1 SUBJECT MATTER 11

2.2 RESEARCH DEFINITION 12

3. RESEARCH PRIORITIES OF OTHER LIS ORGANISATIONS 13

3.1 METHOD OF ANALYSIS 13

3.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN 13

4. COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS 15


4.1.1 THESIS IDENTIFICATION 15

4.1.2 DATABASE SEARCHING 16

4.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR HIGHER DEGREES 20

4.3 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR PUBLICATIONS 23

5. SOURCES OF FUNDING AND THEIR UTILISATION 37


5.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR ACADEMIC GRANTS 39

5.2.1 ARC GRANTS 39

5.2.2 OTHER ACADEMIC GRANTS 40

5.2.3 PRACTITIONER FUNDING 42

CONTENTS

2 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

6. CONCLUDING REMARKS 44

7. RESEARCH DATA FILES 49

7.1 THESIS DATA 49

7.2 PUBLICATIONS DATA 49

7.3 GRANTS DATA 49

8. REFERENCES 50

APPENDICES A1

APPENDIX A: BROAD SUBJECT CATEGORISATION A1

APPENDIX B: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT B1

APPENDIX C: LIS SEARCH ‘HEDGE’ C1

APPENDIX D: ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES IN DATABASES D1

APPENDIX E: LIS SECTORS E1

APPENDIX F: HIGHER DEGREE THESES F1

APPENDIX G: ERA 0807 JOURNAL LISTING SHOWING TOTALS FOR PRIMARY AFFILIATION G1

APPENDIX H: ADDITIONAL ERA LIS JOURNALS SHOWING TOTALS FOR PRIMARY AFFILIATION H1

APPENDIX I: SURVEY FORM I1

APPENDIX J: ARC GRANTS J1

APPENDIX K: ACADEMIC RESEARCH FUNDING (OTHER THAN ARC) K1

APPENDIX L: PRACTITIONER PROJECTS REPORTED L1


An environmental scan of Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) research was undertaken focusing on the period 2005–2013.

This was in response to a brief from ALIA that sought such an analysis to inform its decisions in relation to content of a future research agenda, support, advocacy, and future funding.

The investigation was expected to include research priorities of other library and information organisations, topics of research undertaken in Australia, types of research, persons/organisations undertaking research, and how research activities are funded, communicated and applied.

It required a definition of the scope of LIS, and of what is understood by ‘research’.

The scope of LIS [Section 2.1] is expressed in Appendix A using a broad subject categorisation that is an extension of earlier work by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). It includes reference to documentation that is specifically applied in library and information services as well as material in areas such as information behaviour, information retrieval and knowledge management that may regularly applied in these areas.

Research [Section 2.2] is defined to include material embodying systematic method, as well as scholarship including commentary, critical essays, and reports on studies or achievements.

The scan also categorised identified material in terms of sector of application (eg public libraries), using an extension of ALIA’s characterisation of sectors. These sectors are also explained in Appendix E.

The scan took into account: research priorities of LIS professional associations both within and outside Australia; production of higher degree theses over the period; publication by practitioners and academics in both Australian and international publications; and grant or other support for research or investigatory projects.

METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS

Methodologies employed included:

n Website analysis for research priorities of LIS organisations [Explained at Section 3.1];

n Database searching using Trove for higher degree theses [Explained at Section 4.1 and in Appendix C];

n Database searching using multiple databases for publications [Explained at Section 4.1 and in Appendices C, D];

n In the case of research in progress and resourcing via grants, methods employed were database searching, consultation and by survey methods [Explained in Section 5.1].

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


The limitations in these approaches are explained in each related Section or Appendix. However the major limitations were:

n Poor response to the online survey despite its wide dissemination through ALIA and other associations;

n Inconsistent responses to individual surveys directed specifically at academic departments;

n Coverage of publications by databases, particularly of material outside periodicals;

n Difficulties in categorising documents.

RESEARCH PRIORITIES OF OTHER LIS ORGANISATIONS [SECTION 3]

This was carried out principally by a review of publicly available information on websites of professional bodies. These are itemised in Appendix B and comprise LIS associations operating at national level in Australia, and international associations either with membership across countries, or working at a national level in a selection of individual countries.

Scanning was directed at two aspects: explicit statements about research that were articulated in the objectives, aims, strategy or other policy statements of an organisation, or its divisions; and practical support for research through activities exemplified by material provided by the different professional associations. Details are shown in Appendix B.

A number of areas of practical support for research were identified. These included elaboration of strategic directions; support for special interest groups; promotion of research methodologies; provision of case studies and white papers; awards for papers and theses; and provision and maintenance of resources and archives sites.

HIGHER DEGREE THESES [SECTION 4.2]

These are detailed in Appendix F. There were 115 dissertations identified of which 95 (83%) were at the Doctoral level. LIS schools were principally responsible for supervision of 72 (63%) of all the dissertations.

Most theses (41%) did not have a specified sector of application. The major specified sector of application was university & college with 27 (23%). Dissertations considered to have application in multiple sectors amounted to 10%.

Distribution of dissertations by subject category showed that major areas of investigation were information behaviour (28%), information literacy (14%), and management (13%).

Where research techniques were explicitly mentioned, either alone or mixed, predominant were interviewing which was employed 43 times (37%), survey or questionnaire (19%), and case study (14%).


A variety of methodological frameworks was used, none of which was dominant. These included grounded theory (5%), historical/historiography (4%), and phenomenography (4%).

PUBLICATIONS [SECTION 4.3]

Identification of publications depended mainly upon bibliographic database searching. It was supplemented to a limited extent by some direct reporting by academics.

Differentiation was made between work principally authored by practitioners and that authored by academics. We also differentiated between local and overseas publication, and paid particular attention to LIS periodicals identified in the ARC Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise (Appendix G, H).

A tabulation is provided of Australian LIS journals identified on the ERA list along with 4 others that have a predominant LIS content. It shows that of the 1604 items published in these journals, 62% had as principal author a practitioner, 12% an Australian LIS academic and 5% an Australian academic from other than a LIS department. The remainder (20% rounded) had an overseas principal author.

When all identified local publications are taken into account (N=1944) the proportions are practitioners 60%, local LIS academics 14% and other local academics 6%. The remaining primary authorship is by overseas primary authors (20%).

There is a very wide distribution of publication in overseas journals (N=1604) with many specialist journals being utilised. The most favoured were Library Management (4%), Scientometrics (3%), and Information Research (~3%). Several periodicals with relatively high item counts are absent from the ERA lists.

Various tables show the distribution by subject for different affiliations. For example, of locally published material overall, practitioner publication was most widely found in management (22%), role (19%), information resources (14%) and information services (13%). Academics (based on combined figures for local academics whether or not in LIS) favoured management (14%), information literacy (15%), role (11%) and information behaviour (~11%).

For Australians publishing overseas, academics as primary author represent a much higher proportion (51%) of total Australians publishing than they do for publishing within Australia (20%). Of this overseas publishing academic total, slightly less than half is by Australian LIS academics.

The predominant concerns of the authors where an Australian academic is primary author are information behaviour (17%), informetrics (12%), and information retrieval (12%). However the main focus for Australian LIS academics is on information behaviour (21%), information literacy (14%) and education (11%). In contrast, practitioner emphasis was on management (22%), information resources (13%) and information services (12%).


With respect to Australian publications and an associated focus on particular sectors, the sectors are represented thus: public libraries 13%, records and archives 15%, school libraries 22%, state and national libraries 4%, special libraries 11%, university & college libraries 12%. The balance comprises material of relevance written with respect to no particular sector (9%), or across the library and archives sectors in general (15%).

Equivalent publication overseas is: public libraries 3%, records and archives 8%, school libraries 3%, state and national libraries 5%, special libraries 5%, university & college libraries 22%.

In the case of overseas publication the balance of unspecified material (15%) and material with multiple sector application (40%) is much greater.

GRANTS [SECTION 5.2]

Identification of support for research through grants was carried out via three avenues: (i) discovery of ARC grants through Australian Research Council databases, (ii) requests for information to university LIS departments, and (iii) a survey administered through ALIA’s Survey Monkey account and which was aimed primarily at practitioners.

We are confident of achieving inclusive coverage of ARC material as detailed in Appendix J, however the collective responses from academics in Australian LIS departments and the practitioner survey are limited (Appendix K, L). Consequently the data corpus, while illustrative, is not necessarily representative of LIS.

There were 21 ARC grants for the period identified as being at least partially in LIS scope. Most of these covered either unspecified or multiple sectors of application. Academics outside LIS departments were awarded 9 of these grants and 7 were awarded to academics jointly within and outside LIS departments. Four of the grants involved practitioners from the LIS area.

Information resources may be considered the area of most success in being awarded ARC grants.

Where we sought information directly from the universities on additional grants, the principal areas addressed in the 72 grants reported were management and information literacy. Specific sectors were addressed in just 22% of cases. In most cases multiple sectors or unspecified sectors were the primary concern.

Of those reported grants that were judged to be in scope, the funding, when stated, varied widely: from $650 (information resources) to ~$477,000 (information literacy from a private benefactor). The other grant in excess of $200,000 was an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant in education.

Where funding source was stated, 40% of the grants were internal to the universities, 28% from external non-government sources, and 24% from external government sources.


With grants and projects as reported by practitioners, the subject emphasis was widely distributed, but without the emphasis on management, information literacy and information behaviour shown in the academic area. However the small number of usable items reported (N=30) means that this data should be used with caution.

Projects reported by practitioners were principally in the state and national sector (43%). Predominant subject areas addressed were information resources and information services.

Research approaches adopted were qualitative (17%), quantitative (20%) and mixed (57%). The only technique mentioned in greater than 10% of investigations was survey (67%), which was occasionally combined with other techniques.

Respondents were given the opportunity to suggest areas of research needed. A limited number of suggestions were made. Examples itemised in the report refer to such subject areas as library management, information behaviour and information retrieval.

CONCLUDING REMARKS [SECTION 6]

In Section 6 of the report we take the opportunity to show how the data summarised above, and shown in detail in the report and its Appendices, throws light on the questions outlined in the project brief. In that section we address specific questions in the project brief. Here we give a digest of those comments:

n The research landscape for LIS researchers in Australia is illustrated in the summary Tables in Sections 4, 5 and associated Appendices.

As ‘a landscape’ it cannot effectively be summarised, and the graphical material needs to be directly considered. However the topography of LIS sectors shows that all sectors are represented in published documents, although thesis material is predominantly in unspecified sectors.

Subject matter emphasis is different in completed theses (where information behaviour predominates) from periodical and other literature where the contributions of practitioners show stronger emphasis on management and role.

Significant research and publication relevant to LIS is also generated from outside Australian LIS departments.

n The management and role subject areas are those of most concern in published work.

n As an indicator of themes for future research, ARC grants have been most successful in the information resources area. Other areas of research funding provided no specific indicators. A preliminary analysis of publishing trends also provided no illumination, though publishing variation over time could be investigated more thoroughly using the collected data.


n Mixed method approaches predominated in research approaches, with a variety of analytical frameworks and techniques being employed. For practitioners survey was the preferred technique.

n The outputs being produced are principally publications and theses as indicated in Sections 4.2.3. Applications and implementations associated with these would require detailed reading of the documents. Some outcomes from practitioner grants are reported in Part B of Appendix K.

n Success in obtaining grants (in which information resources predominates for ARC) is an indicator of areas that need to be researched. It may be argued that unsuccessful grant applications also indicate gaps, however we did not elicit such data.

n It is not possible to be prescriptive about ‘significant areas of research needed’. This is a political question arising from LIS professional strategy, along with capacity in the profession. We trust that the overview of what is presently being produced will help to inform an approach. Practitioner suggestions itemised in Section 5.3 related to areas such as management, information behaviour, and information organisation.

n Evidence that exists for the impact of research on practice arises from implementations arising from grants, and from research applications stated in papers. This requires more detailed examination of the grant outcomes and publication content than is possible in a scan.

n Suggestions for better articulation and dissemination of research results are provided in examples given in Section 3.2, which references Appendix B.

n Academic/practitioner outputs may be compared in the various tables and data that differentiate research product by affiliation. In the case of academics they are further differentiated into those in or outside of LIS departments.

n Research training is available in each of the 9 universities that graduates LIS PhDs.

n Additional training may be provided through CPD for particular techniques such as survey method or statistical analysis. Collaboration between academics and practitioners including mentoring is also a training avenue.

n An overview of research funding is provided in Section 5.2.1 with Appendix J, Section 5.2.2 with Appendix K and Section 5.2.3 with Appendix L.

University staff may seek research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Relatively few research grants have been awarded in the LIS area. Of those that have, many are shared across academic areas. In addition, the majority of LIS related research grants awarded have been led by academics outside LIS departments.


Other academic funding for research activities was obtained from a wide range of sources. These included specific funds set up within a university to support research in that institution; teaching and learning grants; overseas agencies with which an academic had an association; library organisations; commercial entities; and private benefactors.

Practitioner support to the extent that it was made explicit was obtained from library organisations.

However, overall we consider that both academic and practitioner funding have been under-reported.

n The funding sources illustrated in the above Appendices are complemented by those itemised in the Australian competitive grants register.

n Sources for future funding additional to the above include support programs at different levels of government. We are unaware of a public register of these although universities maintain such registers for their own internal purposes.


In October 2013, ALIA commissioned an environmental scan of Library and Information Studies (LIS) research. Its objective was to use the results of the study as a basis for further research, and to inform ALIA’s decisions in relation to the detailed content of a future research agenda, support and advocacy, and future funding. This report provides the results of the environmental scan, which covers the period from 2005 to 2013 and comprises:

n A survey of the research priorities of other LIS organisations.

n Analysis of research undertaken and underway with focus upon:

n Communication and application of research findings:

n Higher degree outcomes;

n Publication outputs;

n Practice-based applications;

n Alternative forms of communication;

n Sources of funding and their utilisation.

1. INTRODUCTION


2.1 SUBJECT MATTER

Defining the scope of LIS, and establishing categories into which to place material, are each problematic.

Our aim was to build upon earlier work that had been done in this area, and adapt it to more contemporary work being produced. Thereby we would both corroborate with terminology being used by indexing and abstracting services, and utilise a relatively limited number of terms that may be used for manageable survey purposes.

Our resulting groupings owe something to the outline reported to IFLA in an earlier approach to LIS categorisation (Rochester and Vakkari 2004). However we have departed from their work in order to respond to the cross-section of materials being researched, and to attempt to be more definitive about what is included and excluded.

Still, value judgements were often required. As guidance, we established Appendix A: Broad subject categorisation for classification of subject content.

With respect to data collection for dissertations and publications, we attempted to identify such material whether or not it has been produced in the professional LIS environment. However differentiation is made between authoring sources, based upon institution in which work was undertaken, or affiliations provided.

The initial commission was to include material up to the ends of 2013. After consultation with project manager, it was agreed that some 2014 material could also be included if found. However this most recent material is by no means inclusive as much material from this year is yet to be reported in secondary services.

Examination of publication and thesis sources was carried out during the period February–June 2014. Most of these sources are databases that are dynamic in nature, and have varying delays in reporting data. Therefore the material identified by them cannot be regarded as having a consistent time frame.

2. SCOPE OF ANALYSIS


2.2 RESEARCH DEFINITION

Typically, research is defined along the lines of investigations involving systematic method and study of materials and sources in order to establish new conclusions or concepts. A similar definition was used in an earlier investigation of two Australian library journals (Rochester 1995).

However, for the purposes of this scan we have also included significant items of scholarship where commentary, critical essays, studies or achievements (such as implementations of novel procedures) are reported at a professional or para-professional level.

Our main avenue for identifying this material was through publication. However by complementing this with survey material we endeavoured also to identify practice-based applications and alternative forms of communication.


3.1 METHOD OF ANALYSIS

This was carried out principally by a review of publicly available information on websites of professional bodies. Scanning was directed at two aspects:

n Explicit statements about research that were articulated in the objectives, aims, strategy or other policy statements of an organisation, or by specific sections of the organisation that were established with a research focus;

n Practical support for research through activities such as:

n Publication of research and scholarly discourse, for example through journals or conferences;

n Provision of Resource sites or pages that provide links to relevant databases or research material;

n Maintenance of repositories that archive material produced by the association and its members;

n Provision of support and encouragement through awards and grants that assist research.

The results are shown in Appendix B: Professional Association research involvement.

3.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN

The Tables in Appendix B are organised firstly by Australian Associations, then a sample of the International Associations that were examined. Where appropriate, links have been included in the Tables so that the reader may consult directly the relevant website material. This Appendix is constructed so that it may be readily adapted to build a Web resource should ALIA wish to use it that way.

Articulation of research priorities varies considerably, though organisations in general do not specify specific priorities within their professional ambit.

A summary of ALIA’s own approach is included. It can be seen that it compares favourably with that of the range of other organisations. However in developing the research agenda, the following entries in the Table warrant special attention:

n Strategic directions in the manner of ALISE;

n Support for Special Interest Groups that have an emphasis on research, such as undertaken by ASI&ST;

n Promotion of research methodologies, for example as expressed by ALA in its goals;

3. RESEARCH PRIORITIES OF OTHER LIS ORGANISATIONS


n Case studies/white papers in the manner employed by AIIM. Although not necessarily LIS-oriented in AIIM’s case, such an approach might be emulated by ALIA by making available LIS case study or best practice material through a repository;

n Awards for papers and theses in the manner of ASI&ST;

n Facilitation of resources site specific to research, perhaps as aspired to by IASL through its objectives/potential activities;

n Maintenance of a research archive. Many of the Associations provide members with access to their own publications. ALIA’s arrangements in this respect remain uncoordinated. Some material is available through ALIA’s website, while some is obtained through aggregators*.

*When undertaking the database searching that is detailed in Section 4, we encountered in the databases many dead links to AARL and

ALJ material which purported to be accessible through ALIA. If a repository is to be maintained by ALIA elsewhere, it is important to facilitate

redirection from these links which are presently inactive.



Data for this section are based upon:

n Analysis of higher degree theses reported through Trove complemented by consultation with LIS departments in Australian Universities.

n Analysis of publications reported in the databases:

n APAFT (for Informaa and IQ material only);

n Hein (for Australian Law Librarian);

n Informit: A+Education;

n Informit: Health (for Health Inform);

n LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts;

n LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts;

n LLIS: Library Literature & Information Science;

n WoS: Web of Science.

n Analysis of survey responses.

4.1.1 THESIS IDENTIFICATION

The theses were aggregated by merging those discovered with Trove with additional theses reported by University LIS departments. Some of the theses reported (including those of some LIS staff) were excluded from the aggregation as they were deemed to be outside the scope of LIS as defined in Appendix A.

Some of the dissertations were also found when database searching, but these were excluded from the database files and recorded only in the theses file.

Trove searches were conducted using a strategy (Appendix C: LIS search hedge) containing various keywords that were considered relevant to LIS. Theses emanating from Honours, Masters, and Doctorate study programs were included.

Each keyword was searched individually (eg information behaviour, information literacy) using the ‘Subject’ field in the Advanced Search in order to ensure the number of results retrieved in each instance was manageable and facilitated scrutiny.

In some instances only limited details were available for LIS theses. This applied particularly to material on methodology.

4. COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS


Differentiating LIS theses produced in academic LIS Departments from those produced elsewhere was challenging and often not possible from metadata. Where necessary and possible the data were obtained from a digital copy of the dissertation itself.

Although the broad subject categorisation (Appendix A) was used to determine criteria for inclusion, there were examples (in the areas of knowledge management and information retrieval in particular) where decisions about relevance were problematic. In general we erred on the side of exclusion.

Despite limiting results from 2005 onwards, search outcomes retrieved entries that were outside the project scope due to duplication in the publication year field for some theses.

4.1.2 DATABASE SEARCHING

The bibliographic database analysis involved searching of the databases using the same strategy shown in Appendix C: LIS search hedge but varied according to database search capabilities and search elements.

Earlier analysis of databases has been carried out seeking material written by academics and searching for academics by name in databases. This work considered the period 1975–2006 (Willard, Kennan et al. 2008) and then 1967–2008 (Wilson, Boell et al. 2011). Although this work excludes material by practitioners or other than LIS academics, it is useful for comparing with the overlapping period of this study.

Individual files were produced for each of the searched databases then aggregated in three merged Endnote files respectively containing:

n Australian ‘core’ material drawn from journals which have a subject scope primarily in the LIS area and including those journals selected for ERA listing (Lamp 2010 –);

n Overseas published material where Australian contributors have been identified;

n Australian ‘extras’ material comprising references published in other Australian sources*.

* Australian conference material is included if it has been identified in the database searching, but there is very limited coverage by the

aggregated databases of individual papers from Information Online, VALA, RMAA/ASA, RAILS etc. A limited number of additional references

were added based upon lists of publications provided by some academics.

Developing the list of reference lists from the databases presented a number of challenges. In order to identify material of relevance to the scan, different search strategies were adopted for each database. These strategies are identified in Appendix D: Analysis of references in databases.


Although some databases indicated whether included records were refereed or not, it was problematic in many cases to differentiate refereed/non-refereed work. In any case, many non-refereed items could be included on the basis of scholarship. Decisions to include or exclude items were generally based upon metadata (full bibliographic records) provided using the Appendix A criteria. Complete documents were consulted on occasions to resolve classification or affiliation issues that were not made clear by metadata.

The lack of standardization between databases, meant that elimination of duplication of material, and elimination of material according to criteria of irrelevance proved difficult and time-consuming.

The database inconsistencies of expression for the same reference included:

n Variations in titles through use of subtitles or punctuation or spelling;

n Variations in author names through use of initials, inversion of names or incompleteness;

n Variations in publication source names through different spelling or abbreviation of journal titles;

n Variations in pagination.

Although the multiple database search produced a great deal of duplication. It also identified much material that may be regarded as outside scope of the analysis and was therefore eliminated making use of Appendix A and Appendix D criteria.

Nevertheless there is material that may be missed, particularly from conference publications that do not appear in journals or sections of books that database creators may avoid or cover only partially. Therefore some material was added to the files based upon publications lists notified by a few academics. ‘In press’ items were not included.

The Australian ‘core’ material may be considered reasonably inclusive for the period, bearing in mind the various deletions of material based upon the criteria given in Appendix D. The Australian ‘extras’ material and overseas published material cannot be regarded as comprehensive but is wide-ranging and should suitably indicate the overall distribution of such material by affiliation, sector and subject matter.

The Endnote files that contain all of the data are itemised in Section 7.2. These files include all of the duplicated material, but may be viewed with or without duplicates. They lend themselves to a great deal more analysis than has been possible during the environmental scan.


The files may be used to:

n Identify material from different databases;

n Carry out sector and subject (either as assigned by us, or by keywords from respective databases) searches;

n Aggregate material by year of publication;

n Examine works of particular authors;

n Sort material by affiliation of authors.

Following is an illustration of the way records have been categorised within one of the merged files:

FIGURE 1: EXTRACT FROM ENDNOTE AUSTRALIAN ‘EXTRAS’ FILE


The first three columns are derived as follows:

n Ac/Prac refers to affiliations of writers differentiated as:

n A: Australian academic or student writing within an LIS Department;

n O: Australian academic or student in an academic Department other than one focussed on LIS (students using their workplace as an affiliation are recorded as P);

n P: Australian practitioner (including staff in higher education not in academic departments) and information professionals outside library or repository environment;

n X: Overseas contributors to Australian publications (no differentiation is made between academics and practitioners), or co-publishing with Australians in overseas publications.

n Subject refers to an assessment of the primary subject content of the document using the categories from Appendix A .

n Sector refers to the area of the profession that seems most applicable to the item. The sectors used are an extension of ALIA’s own sectors as elaborated in Appendix E: LIS Sectors.

The range of publication in which LIS academics publish is wide. Their utility and relative importance has been debated in relation to such mechanisms as journal rankings. Considerable effort has been undertaken to establish priorities for academic publication with respect to government funding (Smith 2011).

Although core periodicals have been identified and ‘tiers’ assigned to emphasise journal importance, such ranking remains contentious, particularly in relation to specialist (niche) or geographically-oriented publication.

When practitioner publishing is taken into account, the avenues of publication become still more diffuse. There is less emphasis on refereeing requirements, further dispersion of publication, typically though publications of the profession for which LIS professionals are providing services (engineering, sciences , health, etc), and more attention to examples of practice rather than methodology of research.


4.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR HIGHER DEGREES

The higher degree thesis listing is shown in full at Appendix F: Higher degree theses.

This material acts as a follow-up to earlier work that reports Australian LIS thesis output up to 2006 (Macauley, Evans et al. 2010)

The theses are differentiated into:

n A: those supervised principally within a department working in the LIS Professional field;

n O: those supervised principally within a department in a field Other than LIS, but where the subject under consideration is within the scope of LIS.

Current higher degree thesis enrolments are based upon reports provided by LIS departments. No attempt was made to identify current LIS enrolments in other Faculties.

Table 1 summarises the material in the Appendix. Of the 115 dissertations identified, 95 (83%) were at the Doctoral level. LIS Schools were principally responsible for supervision of 72 (63%) of all the dissertations. A significant number (approximately a third) of relevant works, were therefore supervised from outside the LIS academic environment.

Most theses (41%) did not have a specified sector of application. The major sector of application was university and college with 27 (23%). Dissertations seen to have application in multiple sectors amounted to 10%.

TABLE 1: THESES COMPLETED BY SECTOR

LIS School (A) Other academic school (O) Totals

Doctoral Masters/Hons Doctoral Masters/Hons

MU (Multiple) 5 2 3 1 11

PL (Public libraries) 4 2 2 1 9

RA (Records & Archives) 6 1 2 9

SL (School Libraries) 4 2 2 8

SN (State & National) 1 1

SP (Special Libraries) 2 2 1 5

UC (University & College) 11 2 8 3 24

US (Unspecified) 28 3 16 1 47

Totals 60 12 35 8 115


Figures 2 and 3 illustrate graphically the distribution of supervision by academic department and the distribution by LIS sector of application.

FIGURE 2: ACADEMIC SUPERVISION BY LIS DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN AUSTRALIA

LIS Academic as primary supervisor Doctoral

LIS Academic as primary supervisor M or Hons

Other academic primary supervisor Doctoral

Other academic primary supervisor M or Hons

FIGURE 3: OVERVIEW OF THESES COMPLETED BY SECTOR

MU

PL

RA

SL

SN

SP

UC

US

Sectors: MU: Multiple; PL: Public Libraries; RA: Records and Archives; SL: School Libraries; SN: State and National Libraries; SP: Special Libraries;

UC: University and College Libraries; US: Unspecified.


The distribution of dissertations by subject category is shown in Table 2. The major areas of investigation were information behaviour (28%), information literacy (14%), and management (13%).

Social media is shown as a subject in the Table although not defined in Appendix A, because we were asked specifically to identify work in this area. However there were no theses identified that focused on it in the LIS area.

TABLE 2: THESES COMPLETED BY SUBJECT CATEGORY

LIS School (A) Other academic school (O) Totals

Doctoral Other Doctoral Other

Curation 2 2 1 5

Education 4 4

History 3 5 1 9

Information behaviour 19 2 10 1 32

Information literacy 8 1 3 4 16

Information organisation 6 1 2 1 10

Information resources 4 1 5

Information retrieval 2 2 4

Information services 2 2 1 5

Information theory 1 5 6

Informetrics 0

Management 7 4 3 1 15

Promotion 0

Regulation 0

Role 2 2 4

(Social media) (0)

Training 0

Totals 60 12 35 8 115

We endeavoured to identify methodology employed in dissertations. From metadata alone this was often not possible or uncertain. It was also not necessarily clear whether an overall methodological framework (eg grounded theory) was being differentiated from the particular techniques being used to obtain data (eg interview).


That said, of those theses where some indication was given, over half (N=53) employed mixed methods. This is less than half (46%) of the total theses listed, as methods for many were not determined. However it was not always clear which methods were being mixed.

Of particular techniques mentioned, either alone or mixed, interviewing was employed 43 times (37%), survey or questionnaire 22 (19%), and case study 16 (14%). Other examples of techniques used were focus groups, media monitoring and observation.

A variety of methodological frameworks was used, none of which was dominant. These included grounded theory 6 (5%), historical/historiography 5 (4%), phenomenography 5 (4%). Others used included action research, critical incident, and ethnography.

Much more analysis using the full dissertations would be required to determine all methodologies employed and itemise them for subject areas.

LIS Schools were asked about current enrolments (i.e. research in progress). From the limited response, insufficient information was provided overall to enable categorisation into sectors and subject areas. The total number of students presently undertaking LIS research in those Departments which provided data is 53 (Doctoral 45; Masters 8).

However this figure is presumably somewhat less than the LIS total as it includes responses from just five Departments.

4.3 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR PUBLICATIONS

A number of Tables follow. They have been created from spreadsheets derived from the three Endnote files referred to in Section 4.1.

Table 3 shows material from journals published in Australia where the primary orientation of content is towards LIS. The material is broken down by primary author affiliation (ie the first named author). It provides an indication of whether this first named author had an Australian or overseas affiliation. In the case of Australian authors they are further divided into practitioners or academics.

Local academics (A) are differentiated into those who were in ALIA LIS-accredited Departments at the time of authorship, as distinct from all other academics (O) from Australian tertiary institutions.

Practitioners are not differentiated. The overwhelming majority are information professionals. However a small amount of LIS material by other professionals, for example architects or lawyers or public administrators, is included here. It was too difficult to differentiate consistently by role based upon limited affiliation information.

For overseas authors no differentiation is made between academics and practitioners.


The tabulation shows Australian LIS journals identified on the ERA list along with 4 others that have a predominant LIS content. It shows that of the 1604 items published in these journals, 62% had as principal author a practitioner, 12% an Australian LIS academic and 5% an Australian academic from other than a LIS Department. The remainder (20% rounded) had an overseas principal author.

TABLE 3: SUMMARY OF REFERENCES IN AUSTRALIAN LIS PERIODICALS

ERA 0807 list (2012) Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas

primary author

(academic or

practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Access 13 6 115 13 147

AARL 56 22 92 20 190

ALJ 55 16 119 16 206

APLIS 3 3 146 42 194

Arch & MSS 17 13 67 47 144

Informaa ... IQ 20 7 86 54 167

LIBRES 5 3 0 55 63

Orana (ceased 2005) 1 0 2 0 3

Scan 5 0 73 10 88

SLW*

Synergy 5 2 12 19 38

Not on ERA 0807 list (A) (O) (P) (X)

Australian Law Librarian

(ERA1801)

6 17 124 23 170

Connections 7 0 12 10 29

FYI 2 0 54 2 58

Health Inform 0 0 100 7 107

Totals 195 89 1002 318 1604

* SLW (School Libraries Worldwide) is shown in databases as being published in Australia by IASL. However as its editorial is now shown to be

elsewhere, it is not included in this table. Any Australian publication in it is included in the Table for overseas publications.

Table 4 following uses the same codes for affiliation but identifies additional Australian publications carrying LIS material reported in the searched databases. As noted in Section 4.1.2 much of this material is not covered by the bibliographic databases. Conference papers and reports in particular may be regarded as ‘grey literature’ for which there will be significant omissions.


Here 46% of the publication is by practitioners and 22% by LIS academics.

TABLE 4: SUMMARY OF REFERENCES IN OTHER AUSTRALIAN PUBLICATIONS

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Books 3 0 6 1 10

Book chapters 33 4 35 31 103

Conference papers 28 6 97 39 170

Journal articles 5 12 16 17 50

Reports 5 1 1 0 7

Totals 74 23 155 88 340

Table 5 following shows the combined totals for material published in Australia. As mentioned earlier, it may be regarded as wide-ranging rather than comprehensive as the material derived from Table 4 above is known to neglect material in particular from conferences and books that has not been reported in aggregator bibliographic databases.

TABLE 5: COMBINED TOTAL FOR MATERIAL PUBLISHED IN AUSTRALIAN PUBLICATIONS

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Australian Total 269 112 1157 406 1944

When the combined totals are taken into account, proportion of publication by practitioners is 60%, local LIS academics 14% and other local academics 6%. The remainder is by overseas primary authors (20%, rounded).

Table 6 following shows overseas publications that were the most favoured for publication by Australian-affiliated authors. They are listed in alphabetical order by publication name. Most appear in the ERA 0807 listing for Library and Information Studies journals (Lamp 2010–), however shaded entries are not included in the ERA listing.

The complete listing of ERA 0807 journals is included as Appendix G: ERA 0807 journal listing showing totals for primary affiliation. There are a number of journals with LIS orientation that were excluded from the ERA 0807 lists but which are nevertheless included in other ERA lists.


Most prominent of these is Australian Law Librarian, which is shown in Table 3 above. It is shown along with these extra ERA journals in Appendix H: Additional ERA LIS journals showing totals for primary affiliation.

TABLE 6: REFERENCES (>10) WITH AUSTRALIAN AFFILIATION IN OVERSEAS PUBLICATIONS

Overseas journals with 10 or more contributions involving authors

with Australian affiliation

[Alphabetical listed; shaded items are not in ERA lists]

A O P X Totals

Archifacts 2 2 14 18

Archival Science 14 3 7 1 25

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 8 2 1 11

D-Lib Magazine 3 14 17

Education for Information 8 1 1 10

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3 1 18 1 23

First Monday 3 9 1 13

Fontes Artis Musicae 1 14 15

Health Information and Libraries Journal 8 9 17

IATUL Conference Proceedings 2 1 21 24

IFLA Conference Proceedings 4 2 14 3 23

Information Processing and Management 5 7 4 16

Information Research: an international electronic journal 24 13 6 43

Journal of Documentation 16 2 1 1 20

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 7 2 1 10

Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Tech .. 6 15 2 16 39

Library and Information Science Research 11 3 2 4 20

Library Management 16 1 45 1 63

Library Trends 10 4 2 2 18

Libri: international journal of libraries and information services 6 1 2 1 10

OCLC Systems and Services: international digital library ... 2 2 8 12

Records Management Journal 5 1 5 11

Scientometrics 2 35 1 7 45

SIGIR Forum 1 12 4 17

The Electronic Library 1 1 20 22

The Indexer 1 17 1 19


There is a very wide distribution of publication (N=1604) with many specialist journals being utilised. The most favoured were Library Management (4%), Scientometrics (3%), and Information Research (~3%). As illustrated in Table 6, several periodicals with relatively high item counts are absent from the ERA lists.

Analysis of published material by assigned subject category is illustrated in the following tables. Just one primary category has been assigned per document, normally based upon document metadata (titles, indexing, keywords, categories).

The data provides a useful indication of the distribution of subject emphasis. However we should qualify their accuracy by noting the difficulty in consistently applying a primary category when several categories may possibly be employed for an individual document. We endeavoured to achieve better consistency through frequent consultation concerning scope and categories.

The following Table 7 illustrates that local practitioner publication (N=1002) was most widely in management (23%), role (19%), information resources (14%) and information services (~13%). Academics (based on combined figures for local academics, N=284) favoured management (15%), information behaviour (12%) and information resources (~12%).

TABLE 7: SUMMARY BY SUBJECT OF REFERENCES IN AUSTRALIAN LIS PERIODICALS

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Curation 11 7 24 11 53

Education 22 0 12 9 43

History 9 3 35 7 54



Information

organisation

5 6 27 14 52

Information resources 16 17 142 22 197

Information retrieval 7 5 14 5 31

Information services 9 5 138 43 195

Information theory 5 1 5 9 20

Informetrics 7 2 4 11 24

Management 29 13 228 80 350

Promotion 3 0 32 7 42


Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Regulation 4 6 33 13 56

Role 22 8 189 57 276

Social media (4) (0) (33) (10) (47)

Training 1 0 23 4 28

Totals 195 89 1002 318 1604

The following Table 8 shows the equivalent distributions for material published in Australia through publishing outlets other than the core ones identified for the previous Table 7. Information literacy is much more prominent in these publications than for the core ones, particularly for academics for whom education is also prominent along with role.

For practitioners management and role continue to be prominent along with information literacy.

This Table also shows substantial publication in Australia by overseas authors on information literacy.

TABLE 8: SUMMARY BY SUBJECT OF REFERENCES IN OTHER AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTS

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Curation 1 0 4 1 6


History 3 0 5 1 9









Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals



Promotion 0 0 1 2 3


Role 10 2 32 15 59

Social media (4) (0) (13) (3) (20)

Training 1 0 5 0 6

Totals 74 23 155 88 340

In Table 9 following, the combined figures for local Australian publication are provided.

These show that overall local practitioner publication (N=1157) was most widely in management (22%), role (19%), information resources (14%) and information services (13%). Academics (based on combined figures for local academics, N=381) favoured management (14%), information literacy (15%), role (11%) and information behaviour (~11%).

The extent of publication focusing on social media (3%) is identified within the Table. However its contribution to total figures is already included from its use in conjunction with any of the other identified subjects.

This Table also indicates the considerable amount of publishing in LIS in Australia by overseas authors. Of the local material, 21% has an overseas primary author.

The Endnote files as constituted, lend themselves to further analysis. For example, they may be used to determine:

n Extent of co-publication by practitioners and academics;

n Extent of co-publication by local and overseas authors;

n Analysis of subject distribution in specific sectors;

n Publication in closely peripheral areas to LIS (eg aspects of information retrieval or knowledge management) that we excluded from the analysis;

n Extent of publication in non-ERA publications.


TABLE 9: OVERALL TOTALS FOR AUSTRALIAN LOCAL PUBLICATION

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Curation 12 7 28 12 59

Education 37 2 15 13 67

History 12 3 40 8 63









Management 35 17 256 92 400



Role 32 10 221 72 335


Social media (8) (0) (46) (13) (67)

Totals 269 112 1157 406 1944


FIGURE 4: DISTRIBUTION OF LOCALLY PUBLISHED SUBJECT CONTENT BY PRIMARY AUTHORSHIP

LIS Academic as primary author

Other academic primary author

Practitioner as primary author

Overseas primary author

0 100 200 300 400

Social media

Training

Role

Regulation

Promotion

Management

Informetrics

Information theory

Information services

Information retrieval

Information resources

Information...

Information literacy

Information behaviour

History

Education

Curation

The preceding bar chart (Figure 4) shows the distributions from Table 9. It utilises cumulative bars to show the proportion of material contributed by those with different affiliation types.

A similar categorization for material published overseas involving Australians is shown in Table 10.

TABLE 10: SUMMARY BY SUBJECT OF OVERSEAS REFERENCES WITH AUSTRALIAN AFFILIATION

Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals

Curation 5 4 48 1 58


History 7 3 8 1 19








Local LIS

Academic as

primary author

(A)

Other local

academic

primary author

(O)

Practitioner as

primary author

(P)

Overseas primary

author (academic

or practitioner)

(X)

Totals



Management 31 21 102 11 165



Role 17 13 44 5 79

Social media (12) (9) (7) (4) (32)


Totals 291 304 461 109 1165

Table 10 shows that publishing by Australian academics as primary author overseas represents a much higher proportion (51%) of total Australian overseas publishing than their corresponding 20% figure from the local publishing shown in Table 9. Of this overseas publishing academic total, slightly less than half is by Australian LIS academics. The data in Table 10 also show a 9% contribution (N=109) from an overseas primary author. These are included because authors with Australian affiliation have also contributed as co-authors of the material.

The predominant concerns of the authors where an Australian academic is the primary author (N=595) are information behaviour (17%), informetrics (12%), and information retrieval (12%).

However for Australian LIS academics (N=291) the subjects of attention are information behaviour (21%), information literacy (14%) and education (11%).

In contrast, practitioner (N=461) emphasis was on management (22%), information resources (13%) and information services (12%).

The ‘stacked’ bar chart, Figure 5, illustrates cumulative contribution by primary affiliation.


FIGURE 5: DISTRIBUTION OF OVERSEAS PUBLISHED SUBJECT CONTENT BY AUTHORSHIP

LIS Academic as primary author

Other academic primary author

Practitioner as primary author

Overseas primary author

0 50 100 150 200

Social media

Training

Role

Regulation

Promotion

Management

Informetrics

Information theory




Information



History

Education

Curation

The three following Tables show the distribution by Sector of material captured in the Endnote files, that is ‘core’ material published in Australia, other Australian publication, and overseas publication according to sector.

With respect to publication in Australia the combined total (N=1944), from Tables 11 and 12, focus on particular sectors are represented thus: public libraries 13%, records and archives 15%, school libraries 22%, state and national libraries 4%, special libraries 11%, university and college libraries 12%.

The balance comprises material of relevance written with respect to no particular sector (9%), or across the library and archives sectors in general (15%).

Equivalent publication overseas (N=1165) from Table 13 is: public libraries (3%), records and archives (8%), school libraries (3%), state and national libraries (5%), special libraries (5%), university and college libraries (22%).

In this case the balance of unspecified material (15%) and material with multiple sector application (40%) is much greater [NB: all figures are rounded].


TABLE 11: SUMMARY BY SECTOR OF REFERENCES IN LOCAL PERIODICALS THAT FOCUS ON LIS

Sector A O P X Totals

MU (Multiple) 49 17 109 36 211


RA (Records & Archives) 35 20 129 87 271

SL (School Libraries) 29 7 249 48 333

SN (State & National) 9 4 48 11 72

SP (Special Libraries) 8 5 181 19 213



Totals 195 89 1002 318 1604

TABLE 12: SUMMARY BY SECTOR OF REFERENCES IN OTHER AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTS


MU (Multiple) 25 4 26 23 78


RA (Records & Archives) 4 2 20 26


SN (State & National) 4 1 5

SP (Special Libraries) 1 2 3



Totals 74 23 155 88 340


TABLE 13: SUMMARY BY SECTOR OF REFERENCES IN OVERSEAS PUBLICATIONS


MU (Multiple) 55 18 80 16 169







US (Unspecified) 145 186 66 66 463

Totals 291 304 461 109 1165

The Figures following are used to illustrate graphically the differences in distribution by sector of Australian (Table 11 and 12) and overseas (Table 13) material.

FIGURE 6: SECTOR DISTRIBUTION FOR AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHED MATERIAL (N=1944)

MU

PL

RA

SL

SN

SP

UC

US


FIGURE 7: SECTOR DISTRIBUTION FOR AUSTRALIAN MATERIAL PUBLISHED OVERSEAS (N=1165)

MU

PL

RA

SL

SN

SP

UC

US

The concluding Table 14 following is an aggregation of all published material recorded in the three files.

TABLE 14: SUMMARY BY SECTOR OF ALL REFERENCES


MU (Multiple) 129 39 215 75 458







US (Unspecified) 180 211 107 109 607

Totals 560 416 1619 515 3110



This was carried out as follows:

n A review of grants awarded at national level in the field of LIS by reference to the Australian Competitive Grants Program (ACGR). Funding provided for LIS research in what we considered to be the two most likely funding schemes was examined: (i) Australian Research Council and (ii) Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). We relied for reporting of other grants via the consultation and survey mentioned next;

n Consultation with LIS departments in Australian Universities. This was undertaken by a preliminary telephone call followed by emailing a structured attachment so that material could be provided in a consolidated manner for input to spreadsheet. Unfortunately only one University subsequently provided information in this form. Of those others that did respond information was provided in a variety of piecemeal ways meaning that consolidation of material was difficult and any pretence at completeness was impossible;

n Survey of the LIS profession, the survey form (Appendix I: Survey form) being created using Survey Monkey at the ALIA account site. Requests for input to it were made via:

n ALIA weekly news;

n ALIA INCITE (accompanying an article on the environmental scan);

n Request for input at research seminar in Perth;

n Requests for distribution via email lists to:

n Australian Law Librarians Association;

n Australian School Library Association;

n Australian Society of Archivists;

n Council of Australian University Librarians;

n National and State Libraries Australasia;

n Public Libraries Australia.

The form went through a number of tests and iterations before being delivered. It was simplified in an attempt to minimise completion times and to reduce confusion of terminology. The ‘area of focus’ question is based upon classification adopted in Appendix A: Broad subject categorisation and the ‘sector’ question is based upon sectors defined in Appendix E: LIS Sectors.

5. SOURCES OF FUNDING AND THEIR UTILISATION


In their applications, ARC applicants are asked to classify proposals with a number of 6-digit codes from the (i) Fields of Research (FOR) or Research fields, courses and disciplines (RFCD) and (ii) Socio-Economic Objectives (SEO), and to indicate the proportion of the research content that is attributable to each of these codes.

Tables of FOR/RFCD and SEO codes were examined to identify and extract codes of relevance to LIS. Codes classified as relevant to the discipline of LIS as detailed in Appendix A.

Publically available datasets from the ARC were interrogated to retrieve projects where funding was allocated since 2005.

Projects where at least 60% of the proportion of research content classified to LIS related codes were identified for further examination. Project summaries were then reviewed to establish if the project was in fact undertaking research in the LIS field.

In some instances, projects met with the inclusion criteria of 60% of research content classified to LIS, but upon further scrutiny, were considered to be outside the scope of LIS research. Typically this included projects that were identified as focussing on information systems that manipulate information, rather than aspects of the nature of information or the practice of librarianship. An illustrative example of a project that was considered to be out-of-scope is shown at the bottom of Appendix J following the Table.

Requests for research grant information from University LIS departments led to the information that is displayed in Appendix K: Academic Research funding. The Appendix shows information only pertaining to grants that we judged to be in scope of LIS as set down in Appendix A.

A further 20 grants we deemed to be out of scope and 17 additional items reported were excluded for lack of sufficient information to make a decision.

Only 42 responses were received for the survey despite its wide dissemination. Of these only 30 were utilised for practitioner research data. The remaining entries had already been included in academic data, or were deemed out of scope.


5.2 SUMMARY OF SCAN FOR ACADEMIC GRANTS

5.2.1 ARC GRANTS

The analysis of ARC projects is shown in Appendix J: ARC grants. Being able to reduce the data in the Appendix to a useful summary is awkward because most of the grants are multidisciplinary and shared across different sectors and subject categories, and involve a combination of LIS and non-LIS academics.

From ARC data it is difficult to determine the affiliation and contribution of each party. There are usually multiple parties, so the variations in affiliation are used as follows:

n A: Australian academics all within an LIS Department;

n O: Australian academics all in academic Department other than LIS;

n OA: Combination of O and A;

n OP: Combination of O with Australian LIS practitioner;

n AX: Combination of A with overseas academic.

TABLE 15: NUMBER OF FUNDED ARC PROJECTS BY SECTOR OF APPLICATION

Sector A O OA OP AX Totals

MU (Multiple) 3 2 3 1 9

PL (Public libraries) 0

RA (Records & Archives) 3 2 5

SL (School Libraries) 1 1

SN (State & National) 0

SP (Special Libraries) 0

UC (University & College) 0

US (Unspecified) 3 2 1 6

Totals 0 9 7 4 1 21

Table 15 shows that there were 21 ARC grants for the period identified as being at least partially in LIS scope. Most of these covered either unspecified or multiple sectors of application. Academics outside LIS departments were awarded 9 of these grants and 7 were awarded to academics jointly within and outside LIS departments. Four of the grants involved practitioners from the LIS area.


The subject areas addressed by the grants are shown in Table 16. Information resources may be considered the area of most success in being awarded grant funding.

TABLE 16: NUMBER OF FUNDED ARC PROJECTS BY SUBJECT CATEGORISATION*

Subject A O OA OP AX Totals

Curation 3 1 4

Education 0

History 0

Information behaviour 1 1

Information literacy 2 2

Information organisation 2 1 3

Information resources 5 1 4 10

Information retrieval 2 2

Information services 0

Information theory 0

Informetrics 0

Management 1 1 2

Promotion 0

Regulation 1 1

Role 1 1

Training 0

(Social media) (0)

Totals 0 13 8 4 1 26

*Total for this Table differs from Table 15 as multiple categorisations are permitted for grants

5.2.2 OTHER ACADEMIC GRANTS

The results are shown in Appendix K: Academic Research funding. As these grants were all awarded principally to academics in LIS Departments (i.e. ‘A’), our Table 17 doesn’t show affiliation. Instead it tabulates Subject Area by Sector.

Unlike previous tables, the subject ‘social media’ is not shown as a subset of other possible subjects here. This is because there was insufficient information reported in these cases that would identify the grant as one of the subjects itemised in Appendix A.


It can be seen in Appendix K that information is in many cases incomplete. It is sourced from those universities that were running LIS courses for at least part of the period from 2005 to the present. In many cases there were partial or non-responses. Funding information and completion year is not always available. There are other data available, for example grantees, in the research data file listed at Section 7.3.

It may be seen from Table 17 that principal areas addressed in the 72 grants reported were management and information literacy. Specific sectors were addressed in just 22% of cases. In most cases multiple sectors or unspecified sectors were the primary concern.

Of reported grants that were judged to be in scope, the funding, when stated, varied widely: from $650 (information resources) to ~$477,000 (information literacy from a private benefactor). The other grant in excess of $200,000 was an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant in education.

Where funding source was stated, 40% of the grants were internal to the universities, 28% from external non-government sources, and 24% from external government sources.

TABLE 17: ACADEMIC RESEARCH FUNDING (SECTOR BY SUBJECT AREA)

Subject /Sector MU PL RA SL SN SP UC US Totals

Curation 2 2

Education 3 2 5

History 1 1

Information behaviour 8 1 9

Information literacy 2 1 8 11

Information organisation 3 3

Information resources 1 1

Information retrieval 0


Information theory 1 1 2

Informetrics 8 8


Promotion 1 1

Regulation 0

Role 3 1 2 6

Social media 4 1 5

Training 2 1 3

Totals 34 3 2 2 0 2 7 22 72


5.2.3 PRACTITIONER FUNDING

The survey responses relating to practitioner-based projects and the way they are communicated are shown in Appendix L: Projects reported in survey. That Appendix is divided into a Part A and a Part B in order to present comparison with Appendix K along with overviews of descriptions of projects.

A summary of the content in terms of sector and subject is shown in Table 18. In the work reported by practitioners there is a marked difference in emphasis by sector in relation to the state and national sector (whereas most emphasis in the academic work reported was across multiple sectors).

As reported by practitioners, the subject emphasis was widely distributed, but without the emphasis on information behaviour, information literacy and management shown in the academic area.

Reported projects were principally in the state and national sector (43%). Predominant subject areas addressed were information resources and information services.

TABLE 18: PRACTITIONER RESEARCH REPORTED IN SURVEY

Subject /Sector MU PL RA SL SN SP UC US Totals

Curation 1 1 2

Education 1 1

History 0

Information behaviour 1 1 2

Information literacy 2 2

Information organisation 1 1


Information retrieval 1 1


Information theory 0

Informetrics 1 1

Management 2 1 3

Promotion 1 1

Regulation 1 1

Role 1 1

Social media 0

Training 1 1 1 3

Totals 3 1 0 0 13 3 9 1 30


Research approaches adopted were qualitative (17%), quantitative (20%) and mixed (57%). The only technique mentioned in greater than 10% of investigations was survey (67%) sometimes combined with other techniques.

Respondents were given the opportunity to suggest areas where research was needed. Considering the limited number of responses received, it is not possible to ascertain how representative of the profession they may be. Example were:

n User metrics afforded by new LMS functionality;

n Feasibility of introducing a ‘Reading Level’ facet to information databases;

n Information behaviour on smart phones and tablets, with aim to improve the usability of discovery layers on these devices;

n User feedback with search interface usage reports/analytics;

n Repository staff training;

n Collection analysis methods being used by research;

n Meta-analysis of user studies or impact of digitisation of collections;

n Health information behaviours.


The scan provides a wealth of data, but the variability in the description of the data makes it difficult to reduce to digestible summarisation.

Section 2 endeavoured to show how we demarcated the scope of LIS. However as has been pointed out earlier, there remain problematic areas for inclusion. In the case of research projects we have provided an example of exclusion to illustrate this difficulty. There were many research projects reported by LIS academics that we elected to exclude from the analysis based upon the chosen subject criteria.

With respect to theses, there were also examples reported by or undertaken by LIS academics that we excluded based upon the chosen subject criteria.

In the case of publications, exclusions were made on the basis of the same subject criteria as for grants and theses, but also based upon the extent and nature of the publication. The basis for making these judgments is shown within Appendix D.

The responses to both the online survey and from specific requests to academic institutions were inadequate in terms of providing a reasonably comprehensive overview of research projects. However the material gathered does provide a flavour that may be compared with the more comprehensive theses and publication data.

The Project brief sought illumination of a number of areas. The following remarks show to what extent we feel that we have been able to address these:

n What does the research landscape look like for library and information studies researchers in Australia?

This is illustrated in the summary Tables in Sections 4 and 5 and in detail in the Appendices from which they have been drawn.

As ‘a landscape’ it cannot effectively be summarised, and the graphical material needs to be directly considered. However the topography of LIS sectors shows that all sectors are represented in published documents, although thesis material is predominantly in unspecified sectors.

Subject matter emphasis is different in completed theses (where information behaviour predominates) from periodical and other literature where the contributions of practitioners show stronger emphasis on management and role.

Significant research and publication relevant to LIS is generated from outside the Australian LIS departments.

n What areas, fields or categories are most heavily researched in Australia?

This varies depending upon whether grants, dissertations or publication is taken as the best indicator. However from publication data the management and role subjects are the areas of most concern in published work.

6. CONCLUDING REMARKS


n What are the emerging areas/themes for future research in Australia?

There are two ways in which emerging themes may be identified — grants and publications over time. Successful grant applications provide an indicator by showing areas for which there is support for investigation. ARC grants have been most successful in the information resources area. Being ARC grants, they provide an indicator of national priorities.

Other academic research funding showed support for information literacy, management, information behaviour and informetrics, all at about the same level. However it is pointless to read much into this, given firstly that much of the non-ARC support was not reported to us; and secondly, much of what is supported is by internal grants that support the disciplines, and in some cases are administered by the academics in their respective universities. They do not necessarily reflect wider priorities from outside the institutions.

We did some investigation by timeline of some of the subject areas in the Endnote files and detected no significant variation on a year-by-year basis. However, such an analysis could be made much more detailed given the format of the Endnote files that have been constructed — assuming more resources can be justified to carry it out.

n What research methods (including qualitative and quantitative approaches) are being used by researchers in Australian library and information studies?

Methodologies employed in higher degree work are outlined in Section 4.2. Mixed methods approaches are favoured, and no methodological framework predominates.

Similarly for practitioners (Section 5.3.3 and associated Appendix K), mixed method predominates, little mention is made of methodological framework and survey was the preferred technique.

n What outputs are being produced?

Publications and theses may be regarded as outputs, and their extent is as indicated in Sections 4.2–3.

Applications and implementations associated with these would require detailed reading of the documents. Grant awards similarly would require analysis of reports arising from grants, though there are known successful implementations such as Austlit in the information resources area.

Part B of Appendix K provides project summaries of practitioner grants reported from the survey. These are principally in information resources and information services.

n What are the gaps and issues?

To some extent the success in obtaining grants is an indicator of areas that need to be researched. It would no doubt be argued by unsuccessful grant applicants that their areas of interest also indicate gaps. However, data on unsuccessful grant applications was not obtained as part of the scan.


In the survey we asked for information on areas in which respondents would like to see research done. Section 5.3.3 itemises some of the responses received.

At one point we examined ALIA Course returns to try to determine information about grants. We did not find them very informative — after all, they are focused on courses. However they might in future be restructured to elicit more detail on grants obtained and on grants sought, to get an indication of research priorities.

n What are the significant areas of research needed?

Based on the corpus of data obtained, it is not possible to be prescriptive about this. ‘Significant areas of research needed’ is a political question arising from LIS professional strategy, together with the capabilities of the academy, practitioners and associated resources that would be required.

We trust that the overview of what is presently being produced will help to inform an approach.

n What evidence exists of the impact of research on the practice of the profession?

This evidence should arise from implementations arising from grants, and from research applications stated in papers. Our analysis has not taken us that far.

We feel that the scan is a precursor to such an analysis which would require examination of the actual grant outcomes and inspection of content of publications to provide an overview.

n How can research results and potential application be better articulated and demonstrated to a wider audience?

The information of most relevance here comes from the examples given in Section 3.2 and Appendix B of research strategy and dissemination by professional associations.

n Who is conducting research into library and information studies in Australia (eg disciplinary spread, types of researchers — academics, practitioners, students independent researchers, consultants)?

The various Tables and data differentiate research product by affiliation so that academic/practitioner outputs may be compared.

In the case of academics they are further differentiated into those in or outside of LIS departments. We could not differentiate students from academics in departments because at the research level they are often in both roles.

As noted in Section 4.3 we could not reliably differentiate practitioners by affiliation, as available metadata often did not make the organisational role explicit.


We also provided data on overseas authors (irrespective of affiliation) contributing to Australian publication, and international papers with overseas primary authorship where there was Australian contribution.

n What type of research training is available in Australia?

Each of the universities that graduates PhDs by virtue of its PhD program provides research training. This means that the 9 universities currently enrolling LIS PhDs provide such training. However as evidenced by the PhDs with LIS subject material coming from non-LIS departments (Section 4.2), there are alternative avenues.

n What additional training should be available?

Practitioners who undertake research projects, may have recourse to continuing professional development (CPD) for particular techniques such as survey method or statistical analysis. It could be that these are added to the armoury of ALIA CPD in liaison with the universities. However we did not identify calls for such material during our analysis.

We did note that there were significant collaborative publications between academics and practitioners, which could well include a mentoring component. The extent of this collaboration may be investigated further from data contained in the Endnote files.

n How is Australian research in library and information studies currently funded or supported?

Section 5.2.1 with Appendix J, Section 5.2.2 with Appendix K and Section 5.2.3 with Appendix L provide an overview of grant information.

University staff may seek research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Relatively few research grants have been awarded in the LIS area. Of those that have, many are shared across academic areas. In addition, the majority of LIS related research grants awarded have been led by academics outside LIS departments.

Other academic funding came from a wide range of sources. Among those reported were specific funds set up within a university to support research in that institution; teaching and learning grants; overseas agencies with which an academic had an association; Library organisations; commercial entities; and private benefactors.

Practitioner support to the extent that it was made explicit came from library organisations. However some practitioners would have had recourse to research support through academic avenues while completing higher degrees.

However, we feel that both academic and practitioner funding has been under-reported.

Additional support for research comes from workshops at conferences (some of the publications reported arise from such workshops), and from specialist conferences such as Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS), which has been supported by a succession of different universities.


Some literature arising from specialist conferences has been included in the publications analysis, either as reports on conferences or as papers accepted for such conferences. However much of this material eludes the database aggregators unless it is also published in periodicals. It is information that may be publically available, but may be notified no further than attendees.

Although some papers from generalist conferences are reported in the scan, there is an impression that more collaborative work could be undertaken within the profession with respect to such conferences. This may be from mentoring with respect to research-oriented submissions; co-authorship; a generalist conference approach more sympathetic to research input through refereed papers; or collaborative workshops.

n What funding is currently available?

The sources itemised in Section 5 and related appendices give an indication of where LIS personnel have been successful in obtaining funding.

Further, the Australian competitive grants register provides links to opportunities for funding in higher education.

n What are opportunities and sources for future funding (eg fellowships, grants, philanthropy)?

In addition to that mentioned above, there are other government support programs such as through Australian Business Financing Centre government information and services.

There are numerous other options for financing of projects such as in the local government, health, and philanthropic areas. We are not aware of a public register of such options. However we are aware that universities maintain such registers for their own internal purposes. They include such approaches as compiled databases of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other types of funding, across many disciplines. The universities also provide access to funding avenues databases that include philanthropic avenues such as the American Foundation Center.


The following files contain the data used for analysis, and area available for further analysis.

7.1 THESIS DATA

Australian PhDs in LIS_2005-2013.xlsx (Excel spreadsheet; multiple worksheets).

7.2 PUBLICATIONS DATA

Merge_core_OZ.enl (Endnote merged file of Australian LIS publications)

Merge_extras_OZ.enl (Endnote merged file of additional Australian publications)

Merge_extras_OS.enl (Endnote merged file of Australian overseas publications)

7.3 GRANTS DATA

LIS ARC Data Compiled.xlsx (Excel spreadsheet; multiple worksheets).

Academic Research Funding_Other.xlsx.

Practitioner Survey June 2014.xls.

7. RESEARCH DATA FILES


Lamp, J. (2010 –). ERA journal rankings access: ERA 2012, Deakin University.

Macauley, P., T. Evans and M. Pearson (2010). “Australian PhDs by LIS educators, researchers and practitioners: Depicting diversity and demise.” Library & Information Science Research 32(4): 258–264.

Rochester, M. (1995). “Library and information science research in Australia 1985–1994: A content analysis of research articles in The Australian Library Journal and Australian Academic & Research Libraries.” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 26(3): 163–170.

Rochester, M. K. and P. Vakkari (2004). International library and information science research: A comparison of national trends, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Section on Library Theory and Research.

Smith, K. (2011). “The dawn of a new era? Australian library and information studies (LIS) researchers further ranking of LIS journals.” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 42(4): 320–341.

Willard, P., M. A. Kennan, C. S. Wilson and H. D. White (2008). “Publication by Australian LIS academics and practitioners: a preliminary investigation.” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 39(2): 65–78.

Wilson, C. S., S. K. Boell, M. A. Kennan and P. Willard (2011). “Publications of Australian LIS academics in databases.” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 42(3): 211–230.

8. REFERENCES

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT A1

APPENDIX A: BROAD SUBJECT CATEGORISATION

Short form

of subject

Examination of: Alternatives Exclusions Rochester

& Vakkari equivalent

Collection

development

[DON’T USE]

Curation

OR

Information

resources

Research on L&I

service activities

n Collections

Communication

[DON’T USE]

n Information

services for

communication

between librarians

and public

n Information

behaviour for

communication

between

professionals,

learning

organisations

where repositories

or services or

organisation are

concerned.

Research on scientific

and professional

communication

n Other aspects of

communication

Curation Selection and

maintenance

(including

preservation) of

information resources

and preparation for

their use.

Literary criticism

unless specific

reference made

to inclusion in

repositories.

Research on L&I

service activities

n Collections

Design and

planning

[DON’T USE]

Management Research on L&I

service activities

n Buildings or facilities

Education Preparation of

students for LIS

profession or for

higher degrees in the

profession.

n Preparation of

non-LIS students for

information literacy

USE Information literacy.

n Library instruction

USE Information services

Education in LIS

APPENDICES

A2 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

Short form

of subject



Ethics

[DON’T USE]


History Historical

development of any

types of information

repositories or

materials in them.

History of the

information

professions.

n History of LIS

education USE

Education

n Oral history USE


Library history


The ways people

seek, share and use

information; scholarly

communication;

organisational

knowledge sharing

Knowledge

management unless

specific approaches

to sharing

organisational

information are

addressed.

Research on

information seeking

n Study on

Information

dissemination

n The use/users

of information

channels/sources

n The use of L&I

services (no

other channels

considered)

n Information seeking

behaviour (focus

on persons)

n Information use

(whether and how

used).


People’s ability to

identify information

need and identify,

locate, evaluate,

and use appropriate

information resources.

n Computer-assisted

instruction and

learning.

n Computer literacy

or technology

literacy where

emphasis is on

working the

technology

rather than the

information

content.


Short form

of subject



Information

management

[DON’T USE]

n USE Management for overviews,

or for processes

for harnessing

intellectual capital.

n USE Information literacy for

personal

information

management.

n USE Information organisation, Information retrieval etc for

specific elements

of IM.

Research on

information seeking

n Information

management.

Information organisation

Approaches to

preparing information

for retrieval using

mechanisms such

as cataloguing,

classification,

application of

metadata or website

design or architecture.

Research in IS&R

n Study on

Cataloguing.

n Classification and

indexing (process

or languages).

Information

policy

[DON’T USE]

Role


Short form

of subject




Identification and

scope of artefacts or

materials in existing

collections or services

that are relevant for

specified communities

or that may be made

available for use;

n Evaluation or

critique of literature

unless in the context

of collection

development,

n Evaluation of

websites unless

they are oriented

to LIS management

n Organisation of

collections or

research data

USE Information organisation.

n If emphasis is on

preservation,

maintenance and

preparation for use

then use curation.

Research on L&I

service activities

n Collections


Ways of extracting

information from

collections, databases

or websites.

Software

development for

IR to be included,

only if focus is on the

information rather

than the software.

Research in IS&R

n Information

retrieval

n Bibliographic

databases or

bibliographies

n Nonbibliographic

data bases

(textual, numeric...)


Procedures for

provision and

utilisation of

information resources

including reference

services.

Library instruction and

reference services.

Current awareness

and environmental

scanning processes.

L&I service activities

n Inf. or ref. service

n User education


Short form

of subject



Information

theory

General theoretical

or philosophical

approaches to study

of data, information

and knowledge and

their models.

Disciplinary theories

for investigating

information and its

management.

n Specific

applications

USE Information behaviour or

Information services etc

n Principles of

information sharing

as in knowledge

management

USE Information behaviour.

Other LIS Topic

Information use

[DON’T USE]


Informetrics Quantitative

measurement of

information and

knowledge including

bibliometrics

(documentary output)

and webometrics

(Web documentation)

Research on scientific

and professional

communication

n Study on Scientific

or professional

publishing

n Citation patterns

and structures

n Other aspects of

communication

Management Design, planning,

operation or

administration of

information collections

or repositories (physical

or digital), including

research data and

records systems.

Management of

funding or processes

or of content for

interfaces (eg

websites).

Management of

information workers.

Staffing.

n Knowledge

management

unless it includes

processes for

organising

knowledge that

have been made

explicit.

n Include general

HR professional

development here,

but USE training for

specific programs.

n Website design

USE Information organisation.

L&I service activities

n Buildings or facilities

n Administration of

planning

n Automation

(except when

concerned with

some particular

activity)

n Other L&I service

activities

n Several

interconnected L&I

activities


Short form

of subject



Metadata

[DON’T USE]

Information organisation

Promotion Advocacy, marketing

and procedures for

sponsoring or making

known and supporting

information services.

Other LIS Topic?

Publishing

[DON’T USE]

Role if associated

with repositories

Regulation Legislative framework

and legal aspects

relating to information

professions;

intellectual property;

contractual aspects,

copyright; privacy

when related to

repositories or services.

Other LIS Topic?

Role The ways in which

information

professionals, para-

professionals or

institutions undertake

or assume responsibility

for activities.

General work

about scope of the

profession.

Professions

Analysis of LIS

(Social media) Subsume within

other categories,

usually Information behaviour but

identify separately

from indexing for

tables.

Training In-service training

or professional

education of

information

professionals

USE Information services for training

of end-users in use of

information facilities.

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT B1

National

Associations

Research policy/strategy/agenda Research activity

Archives refers to e-repositories of the

Association’s publications.

Awards/grants are listed only when they

are specified for research or awarded for

research or scholarship in publication.

Publications itemised are those that publish

research or scholarship; extent of referring

in these varies. Conferences are listed when

the papers included are published as a

series or made available from websites or

repositories.

Resources refers to material produced by

the Association and links to other material

for the information of Members.

Australian and New

Zealand Society of

Indexers (ANZSI)

Not specified Publications

n Annual conference (occasional research

component)

Australian

Law Librarians

Association (ALLA)

Not specified Archive

n Conference archive includes papers and

presentations and social material about

annual ALLA conference.

Awards/Grants

n Ted Glasson Award: best feature length

article published in the Australian Law

Librarian.

Publications:

n Australian Law Librarian

Australian Library

and Information

Association (ALIA)

Role in research outlined (2006)

ALIA believes that:

1. Professional participation in rigorous and

reliable research practice builds on the

profession’s body of knowledge and leads

to the continuation and betterment of the

profession;

2. Education for the profession which

incorporates research activity encourages

the development of a research culture

within the profession;

Archive

n AARL back to 1988 via Taylor & Francis

online.

n ALJ back to 1957 (incomplete) via Taylor &

Francis online.

ALIA’s own repository includes some

(much less than all) of the content of

these two journals, and there appears

to be no synchronisation with T&F site.

The repository also contains some other

separately published Report material and

issues of INCITE.

APPENDIX B: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT

B2 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

National

Associations


3. Dissemination and publication of library

and information studies research should

be enabled and encouraged through the

Association’s conferences, publications,

e-documents and other related avenues;

4. Research excellence should be

recognised by awards and prizes;

5. Library and information studies research

is enhanced through participation in

partnership arrangements amongst

practitioners, academics and wider

communities and these should be

encouraged.

The ALIA goals for fostering research are to

provide for:

1. Member services and other mechanisms

to encourage and foster research for

innovative practice leading to excellence

in professional practice;

2. The formation of partnerships between

the Association, educators, researchers

and the workplace so that there is a sharing

of knowledge for mutual benefit in the

conduct of research for innovative practice;

3. Support to new practitioners thereby

building a research culture and increasing

the capacity of the field for research

which informs professional practice;

4. Research activities in LIS that are scholarly,

scientific and rigorous in their nature and

of value to Australia.

Awards/grants:

n Ann Clyde Memorial Prize: an annual

prize for an essay or presentation with a

research component.

n Anne Harrison Award: available in

alternate years for research or education

in health librarianship.

n Library Technician Research Award:

provides the recipient with an opportunity

to investigate a particular project relating

to the practice of library technicians.

n Research Grant Award: available to

members wishing to undertake a research

project; offered to provide an opportunity

for professional members to undertake

projects that they would otherwise be

unable to do because of the time and

costs involved.

n Twila Ann Janssen Herr Research Award

for Disability Services: biennial; aims to

encourage an early career LIS practitioner

to investigate and research the potential

for further development of Australian

services for people with a disability ...

Publications

n Australian Library Journal

n Australian Academic & Research Libraries

n Biennial conference

n Information Online conference

n Specialist conferences may lead to

epublication

Resources

n Links to information provided by EBL LIS

ebook repository and Proquest journal

repository.


National

Associations


Australian School

Library Association

(ASLA)

ASLA policy statements do not include

one on research; however the ASLA

website contains a Research area that

itemises reports on projects that have

been sponsored by ASLA.

Archive

n Some ASLA material is available in

Resources area.

Publications

n Access (optional process for refereed

contributions)

n Some biennial conferences.

Resources

n There is a Resources component on site

but not relating to Research.

Australian Society

of Archivists (ASA)

Not specified. Awards/grants (research-oriented)

n Mander Jones award for publication.

Publications

n Annual conference (not refereed)

n Archives & manuscripts

Council of

Australian University

Librarians (CAUL)

CAUL’s Strategic Plan 2013–2015 includes

a Section on ‘Contribution to Research’.

However this pertains to members’ role

in supporting and maximising research

outcomes in their institutions, rather than

giving emphasis to research undertaken

by their own staff.

CAUL maintains a Publishing Advisory

Committee whose terms of reference include

provision of a focus for CAUL members

interested in publishing; supporting a

community of practice; and developing

knowledge and skills.

CAUL’s Research Advisory Committee is

more focused on monitoring the research

environment with reference to the Institutions

the members are in, rather than research

by CAUL itself. However the Committee

assumes a role of promoting partnership

between University libraries and researchers

in the research process, such as in the

role in research data management and

repositories.

Awards/Grants

n Travelling Fellowship of up to $5,000

is provided to support overseas

investigations of current issues of

importance to university libraries in

Australia.

Publications

n CAUL statistics

Resources

n Case studies and useful links includes links

to guides to best practice benchmarking,

collection management, etc.


National

Associations


National and State

Libraries Australasia

(NSLA)

Research agenda nota expressed, however

there are many projects and working groups

on a range of LIS matters.

Archive

n Publications are held in searchable and

browsable repository

Publications

n Various reports from project groups

n Public library statistics

Public Libraries

Australia (PLA)

Not specified

Strategic plan (to 2010) included item

5.2: Develop a small grants scheme and

research funding / scholarship for members.

No

Records and

Information

Management

Professionals

Australasia (RIMPA)

Not specified Awards/grants (research-oriented)

n Annual Research and education grant

Publications

n iRMA Annual provides case studies

n IQ – The RIM Professionals Australasia

Quarterly includes reviewed items and

case studies

n inForum annual conference (not refereed).

American Library

Association (ALA)

Among its objectives (Policy Manual A.1.6)

ALA includes:

‘Increase research and evaluation

documenting the value and impact of all

libraries’

Its position on research (Policy Manual B.10)

is stated thus:

‘The American Library Association

recognizes the need to continuously

build and strengthen the knowledge

base upon which library services and

the library profession depend. Basic and

applied research in the field of library and

information studies, as well as research

results in related disciplines will, in large

measure, shape library and information

services and the nature of the library

profession in the future. Statistics are a

necessary foundation for many kinds of

research, as well as for policy and planning.

Awards/grants (research-oriented)

n AASL research grant: school library media.

n AASL Innovative reading grant: planning

and implementation of a unique and

innovative program for children which

motivates reading.

n Carroll Preston Baber research grant:

improvement in services to specified

groups.

n Diversity research grant: gaps in

knowledge of diversity issues.

n Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship: fosters

research in academic librarianship by

encouraging and assisting doctoral

students.

n Emerald Research Grant: individuals

seeking support to conduct research in

business librarianship.


National

Associations


Through its Office for Research and

Statistics (ORS), as well as through related

groups in its membership units, ALA strives

to reach ALA’s goals in the areas of

research and statistics.

In order to reach these goals:

n ALA defines and identifies priority

research areas;

n stimulates and promotes the funding

required to conduct research;

n cooperates with library education

research programs;

n coordinates with other institutions

and associations implementing the

profession’s research agenda;

n stimulates discussion of research

methodologies;

n proposes programs designed to improve

the quality, quantity, and impact of

research;

n promotes the role, importance, and

necessity of research.

In addition, the Association performs and

supports research and participates in

cooperative research activities related to

those research areas and topics identified

as Association priorities.’

ALA maintains an Office for Research and

Statistics. Its mission:

‘... is to provide leadership and expert

advice to ALA staff, members and

public on all matters related to research

and statistics about libraries, librarians

and other library staff; represent the

Association to Federal agencies on these

issues; and initiate projects needed to

expand the knowledge base of the field

through research and the collection of

useful statistics.’

n Gale Cengage History Research and

Innovation Award: research relating to

history and history librarianship.

n Ingenta Research Award: to support

research projects about acquisition, use,

and preservation of digital information.

n Kilgour award for research in library and

information technology.

n Shera Award for the Support of Dissertation

Research for exemplary research design.

Publications

n Publishing Department produces print and

digital materials including:

n ALA editions (professional library tools)

n ALA graphics (for promotional tools)

n Booklist (reviews)

n Numerous periodicals are published both

for ALA and its Divisions. These are listed

in detail at ALA Periodicals. Some specific

examples with a research and scholarship

orientation are:

n ALA TechSource

n American Libraries

n College & Research Libraries (C&RL)

n Information Technology and Libraries

(ITAL - formerly JOLA)

n Library Resources & Technical Services

(LRTS)

n Library Technology Reports (LTR)

n Public Libraries

n Reference & User Services

Quarterly(RUSQ)

n School Library Research (SLR)


National

Associations


It takes advice from an Committee whose

mission is:

n To facilitate research and related activities

in all units of the Association, especially

activities related to library statistics.

n To advise the ALA Council and Executive

Boards on programs, policy, and priorities

regarding research and related activities.

n To recommend procedures to achieve

expeditious consideration of all ALA

unit proposals for research and related

activities by the ALA Executive Board.

n To encourage the establishment of

divisional committees for the purpose

of stimulating research and statistics;

to maintain liaisons with all units of the

Association regarding research and

related activities in the units.

n To identify questions regarding library

service which need to be answered

through research and promote the

conduct of research to answer those

questions.

n To review and make recommendations

concerning national data collection

efforts pertaining to libraries,

recommending inclusions, definitions,

procedures, and policies as appropriate.

n To serve as a base committee for liaisons

from other associations and groups with

shared concerns about library statistics.

It also depends upon guidance from:

Library History Round Table (LHRT), which

since 1947 has ... supported research in

library history ...

Library Research Round Table (LRRT)

since 1968 has promoted research, its

techniques, evaluation and theoretical

underpinning.


National

Associations


ARMA: Association

of Information

Management

Professionals

Research initiatives

‘... help information management leaders

focus on critical factors that affect their

organizations’ ability to thrive in today’s

rapidly changing business environment.

This research is most valuable when

combined with ARMA International’s other

programs, products, and services.’

These research initiatives fall into two

major categories:

n Industry & Market research includes

trend studies conducted by some of the

top industry analysts in the field

n Strategic research includes targeted

studies of critical, strategic issues in

records and information management,

as well as vendor-sponsored product

development-related research

ARMA International Education Foundation

‘Research in the field of information

management is a primary component of

the mission of this foundation. Funds for

research come from the income generated

by the Foundation’s Endowment Fund

and from partner organizations within the

profession.’

Awards/Grants (research-oriented)

n ARMA International Education Foundation

funded research

Publications

n Information Management magazine (not

research-oriented).

n ARMA International Conference & Expo

(trends rather than research)

n ARMA International Education Foundation

research reports

Aslib: The

Association for

Information

Management

Mission includes ‘translating research

and policy for application’, but does not

explicitly promote research.

Awards/Grants

n Aslib-Emerald Award recognizes the most

outstanding contribution to information

management good practice published in

any of the six Aslib-Emerald journals.

Publications

n Aslib Journal of Information Management

n Journal of Documentation

n Library High Tech News

n Performance Measurement and metrics

n Program

n Reference Reviews

n Records Management Journal

n Conference: AKISS — Aslib Knowledge

and Information Strategy Summit.


National

Associations


Association for

Information

and Image

Management

(AIIM)


n Case study reports (numerous, but brief

abstracts only) on document and content

management

n Publicly available ‘white papers’ and

‘industry watch’ reports on topics such as:

n Content management

n Integrity of records

n Data migration.

Association for

Information Science

& Technology

(ASIS&T) (formerly

American

Association for

Information Science

& Technology)

Vision (within mission statement)

‘Establish a new information professionalism

in a world where information is of central

importance to personal, social, political,

and economic progress by: Advancing

knowledge about information, its creation,

properties, and use; Providing analysis of

ideas, practices, and technologies; Valuing

theory, research, applications, and service;

Nurturing new perspectives, interests, and

ideas; Increasing public awareness of the

information sciences and technologies and

their benefits to society.’

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

SIGS ‘are chartered by the Board of

Directors to give members with similar

professional specialties the opportunity

to exchange ideas and keep themselves

informed about current and discrete

developments in their fields’.

Most SIGS have an interest in research,

but some are quite focused on research

aspects, for example:

n SIG/BIO (Bioinformatics)

n SIG/CR (Classification research)

n SIG/HFIS (History and foundations of

information science)

n SIG/MET (Metrics)

n SIG/USE (Information needs, seeking

and use)

Archive

n Digital library of publications


n Best information science book

n Best student research paper (Pratt Severn)

n Best JASIST paper award (Wiley)

n Doctoral dissertation (Proquest)

n Doctoral dissertation proposal scholarship

(Thomson Reuters)

n History fund research award

n History fund best paper award

n Research in information science

Publications

n Journal of the Association Information

Science & Technology (JASIST)

n Bulletin of the Association Information

Science & Technology (includes research

news)

n Annual Review of Information Science

& Technology (ARIST) (until 2011; now

included in ‘Advances in information

science’ within JASIST)

n Annual meeting (published research

included)

n Information architecture summit

(presentation abstracts; posters)

n Preservation and Archiving Special

Interest Group meeting (working papers;

presentations)

n Research Data Access and Preservation

Summit


National

Associations


Association for

Information Systems

(AIS)

Information systems research

There is no ‘agenda’ as such but there are

special support sites for IS dealing with such

matters as:

Research method support through sites such

as theories and survey instruments

Research publication influence through such

listings as journal rankings

Code of conduct for research.

Publications

n Each of the following Journals may be

searched directly or within the eLibrary repository:

n AIS Transactions on Human-Computer

Interactions (AIS THCI)

n Australasian Journal of Information

Systems (AJIS)

n Journal of the Association for

Information Systems (JAIS)

n Management Information Systems

Quarterly (MISQ)

n Communications of the Association for

Information Systems (CAIS)

n Pacific Asia Journal of the Association

for Information Systems (PAJAIS)

n Journal of Information Technology

Theory and Application (JITTA)

n Revista Latinoamericana Y Del Caribe

De La Associacion De Sistemas De

Informacion (RELCASI)

n Scandinavian Journal of Information

Systems (SJIS)

n MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe)

n Each of the following Conferences has Proceedings that may be searched

directly or within the eLibrary repository:

n Americas Conference on Information

Systems (AMCIS)

n International Conference on

Information Systems (ICIS)

n European Conference on Information

Systems (ECIS)

n International Conference on

Information Resources Management

(CONF-IRM)

n International Conference on Mobile

Business


National

Associations


n Mediterranean Conference on

Information Systems (MCIS)

n Pacific Asia Conference on Information

Systems (PACIS)

n Wuhan International Conference on

e-Business

n Other conference proceedings

Resources

n AIS eLibrary (Member access, subscription

or pay per view)

Association

for Library and

Information

Science Education

(ALISE)

Vision

Includes ‘showcase innovative research,

including the scholarship of teaching and

learning’

Mission

‘ ... promotes innovation and excellence

in research, teaching, and service for

educators and scholars in Library and

Information Science and cognate

disciplines internationally through

leadership, collaboration, advocacy, and

dissemination of research.’

Strategic Direction 3: focusing on the scholarship of teaching and learning and the promotion of outstanding research

‘3.1 Expand ALISE programs and

communication media to promote the

scholarship of teaching and learning

3.1a Provide opportunities for building

leadership skills among ALISE members

3.1b Plan ALISE conference sessions that

focus on pedagogical innovation

3.1c Support programs for differing modes

of delivery of scholarship relating to

teaching and learning

3.2 Provide a greater range of opportunities

to encourage and recognize outstanding

research and scholarship in LIS

Awards/Grants

n ALISE Research Grant Competition

n ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper

Competition

n ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Paper

Competition

n ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral

Dissertation Competition

n ALISE/LMC Paper Award

n OCLC/ALISE Library and Information

Science Research Grant Program

Publications

n Journal of Education for Library and

Information Science (JELIS)

n Annual conference


National

Associations


3.2a Showcase members who have

received external awards and/or funding

through competitive grant applications for

outstanding research and scholarship

3.2b Review ALISE’s current research

awards, consider awards in new areas

that advance ALISE’s strategic interests

3.2c Identify and pursue opportunities for

joint programs with international affiliates

to showcase outstanding research and

scholarship

3.2d Plan regular ALISE conference

sessions that focus on cross- and multi-

disciplinary research

3.2e Honor ALISE conference juried or

SIG programs, panels, or workshops that

exemplify both innovation and excellence

in research and scholarship’

Association of

Independent

Information

Professionals (AIIP)

Not specified. Awards/Grants (research-oriented)

n AIIP Connections Writer’s Award:

best original article published in AIIP

Connections.

Publications

n Annual conference which is focussed on

training, practice and networking

n AIIP Connections is practice-focussed.

Canadian Library

Association

= Association

canadienne des

bibliothèques

Not specified. Awards/Grants

n Research & development (one or more

annually, Can$1000 each)

n CLA National Conference Best Poster

Presentation Award

n Robert H. Blackburn Distinguished Paper

Award (notable reearch paper)

n Student Article Award

n Angela Thacker Memorial Award

(teacher-librarian publication or

production)


National

Associations


Publications

n Feliciter

n Books available through CLA bookstore

n CLA/ACB conference (presentations).

CILIP: Chartered

Institute of Library

and Information

Professionals

Not listed publicly [CILIP approached

through ALIA for material, however response

not available at time of Report completion].


n Innovation Award — Academic and

Research Libraries Group.

Publications

n Books through Facet Publishing.

Data Management

Association: DAMA

International

The Board of Directors includes a position

‘Vice President Research and Education’,

however the ‘Education and Research’

information at DAMA’s website is entirely

concerned with education.


n Academic Achievement Award (includes

research).

Publications

n Books (Dictionary of Data Management;

Guide to the Data Management Body of

Knowledge).

Information

Management

Forum

Not specified.

Provides metrics for members that enable

IT benchmarking: brochure.


National

Associations


Information

Resources

Management

Association (IRMA)

Although it styles itself an association,

‘advancing the concepts and practices

of information resources management

in modern organizations’, IRMA is more a

publishing house that solicits academic

material for conferences, journals and books.

It does not promote a research strategy of

its own except as implied by the subject

coverage encouraged in its publications.

Publications

n Numerous journals including:

n International Journal of Privacy and

Health Information Management

(IJPHIM)

n International Journal of Information

Retrieval Research (IJIRR)

n International Journal of Digital Library

Systems (IJDLS)

n International Journal of Knowledge

Management (IJKM)

n Information Resources Management

Journal (IRMJ).

n Sponsor of numerous books; LIS titles include:

n Information Technology and Collection

Management for Library User

Environments

n Progressive Trends in Electronic

Resource Management in Libraries

n Conference proceedings available via

Open access (refereed papers).

Repository

n In addition to Open Access for

Conference papers, the search engine

Research IRM provides access to a wider

range of published material (LIS 16000+

items) which may be purchased.


National

Associations


Informing Science

Institute (ISI)

ISI styles itself:

‘... an association of colleagues helping

colleagues. ... draw(ing) together people

who teach, research, and use information

technologies to inform clients (regardless

of academic discipline) to share their

knowledge with others.’

Other than this statement it does not

elaborate upon a research agenda except

as implied in the conference and journal

material.

Publications

n Various journals including:

n Informing Science

n Interdisciplinary Journal of Information,

Knowledge and Management.

n Annual conference InSITE: Informing

Science + IT Education subsumes several

specialised conferences (next to be held

in Wollongong, 2014).

Repository

n All publications are freely available online

as individually browsable proceedings;

there is also a search engine for searching

the consolidated collection.

International

Association for

Information and

Data Quality

No strategy for research, but conduct of

research is mentioned in the Code of Ethics

and Professional Conduct.

Publications

n Annual conference proceedings (online

access for fee).

International

Association for

Social Science

Information Service

and Technology

(IASSIST)

No expressed strategy but special interest

groups in a number of cases express

significance of research in their area, eg:

n SIGDC (Data citation)

n SIGDMC (Data Management & Curation

Interest Group).

Publications

n IASSIST Quarterly

n Annual conference (presentations freely

available from archive of site).

International

Association of Law

Libraries (IALL)

Not specified. Publications

n International Journal of Legal Information

(includes annual conference publication)

n List of monographs by IALL.


National

Associations


International

Association of

School Librarianship

(IASL)

IASL has Research Special Interest Group

with:

Objectives:

1. To promote an understanding of the

importance and value of research

on school librarianship, its theory and

practice;

2. To promote and encourage research

related to school librarianship, including

action research, school-based research,

and small-scale local projects;

3. To encourage the sharing of research

findings;

4. To disseminate information about recently

completed research and research in

progress;

5. To provide practical guidance to people

wishing to undertake research in the field

of school librarianship by providing access

to expertise, information about possible

sources of funding, and information about

methodology.

Potential activities:

1. Identify links to other educational listservs

focusing on school-based research;

2. Provide abstracts of recently completed

research;

3. Develop a list of national and international

funding agencies

4. Identify key problems / dilemmas of

practice that may be explored through

research

5. Develop a list of web sites which specialise

in specific research approaches e.g.

action research;

6. Develop a list of active researchers in

school librarianship.

Awards/grants

n IASL/Takeshi Murofushi research award.

Publications

n School Libraries Worldwide

n Conference Proceedings.

Resources

n Links to Internet resources (a site that

points to research support beyond IASL

for school librarianship).


National

Associations


International

Association of

Scientific and

Technological

University Libraries

No explicit objectives on research, however

two special interest group: Information

Literacy, and Library Organisation and

Quality Management, promote best

practice and collaboration.

Publications

n Conference presentations at website.

International

Federation for

Information

Processing (IFIP)

IFIP comprises 14 Technical Committees

each of which has multiple Working Groups

in specialist areas. For example TC 13:

Human-Computer Interaction includes

Working Groups on ‘Methodology for User-

Centered System Design’ and ‘Human-Work

Interaction Design’.

Aims of each Working Group are research-

oriented and include:

n To establish and maintain liaison with

national and international organisations

with allied interests and to foster

cooperative action, collaborative

research and information exchange.

n To identify subjects and priorities for

research, to stimulate theoretical work

on fundamental issues and to foster

fundamental research which will underpin

future development.

n To provide a forum for professionals with

a view to promoting the study, collection,

exchange and dissemination of ideas,

information and research findings and

thereby to promote the state of the art.

n To seek and use the most effective ways of

disseminating information about our work

including the organisation of conferences,

workshops and symposia and the timely

production of relevant publications.

n To encourage communication and to

promote interaction between users,

practitioners and researchers.

Awards (research-oriented)

n Best INTERACT refereed conference paper

(Brian Schakel award)

n Security (Beckman award)

n Software (Manfred Paul Award)

n Student award on learning theory.

Publications

n IFIP Journal: Education and Information

Technologies (Springer)

n IFIP Journal: Computers & Security (Elsevier

n IFIP Journal: International Journal of

Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier)

n IFIP Journal: Entertainment Computing

(Elsevier)

n Multiple books listed in IFIP Library.

Repository

n IFIP Digital Library.


National

Associations


International

Federation of

Library Associations

& Institutions (IFLA)

IFLA’s Strategic Plan 2010-2015 includes a

strategic direction ‘Transforming the profile

and the standing of the profession’ which

includes the goals:

n Advancing professional knowledge

through research and the activities of

IFLA’s community of practice;

n Asserting credibility through endorsed

policies, standards and wider evidence-

based research that demonstrates

libraries’ benefit to society.

These in turn have lead to ‘priority activities’

that include evidence-based research.

IFLA contains many Sections and Special

Interest Groups. One of the Sections (within

Division IV: Support of the Profession) is:

Library Theory and Research

The Section on Library Theory and Research

concerns itself with the continuing

development of library and information

science through theoretical and applied

research in all aspects of the discipline.

The Section promotes the importance of

investigation and research activities within

IFLA’s programme, upholds scientific integrity

in research and development activities,

supports the design and investigation of

research projects and the reporting and

publication of research results within the

library and information science community

worldwide.

Publications

n IFLA Journal

n IFLA series:

n Publications

n Bibliographic control

n Professional reports.

n Annual Conference (papers/presentations

available for each).


National

Associations


International

Information

Management

Association (IIMA)

IIMA was founded in 1989 ‘with the mission

to provide a unique blend of high-quality

academic research combined with social

interaction’. It has no strategic agenda on

‘research’ beyond this statement.

Awards/Grants

n Rohm Jr Research and Scholarship fund

(principal focus is its research program,

through which it makes grants for

graduate or post-doc students to conduct

research or a study at accredited colleges

or universities ...

Publications

n Journal of International Technology &

Information Management (JITIM)

n Communications of IIMA (refereed annual

conference papers).

Resources

n Knowledge base: Links to downloadable

documents of interest to members.

Japan Library

Association


n Gendai no Toshokan=Libraries Today

n Toshokan Zasshi=Library Journal

n Numerous monographs each year

n Library statistics and libraries directory.

Knowledge

Management

Professional Society


n KmPro (occasional research articles)

n Resources

n Knowledge base for Members.


National

Associations


Library and

Information

Association of New

Zealand Aotearoa

(LIANZA)

LIANZA Strategic Plan 2013–2016 contains

strategies that relate to articulation of a

research strategy/policy/agenda:

Extract from ‘Strand Two: Supporting the

Profession’

‘Goal: LIANZA membership has access to

robust supporting research and standards

(where possible from a New Zealand

evidence base), which supports decision

making and advocacy.

Who: Office Council in collaboration with

other Library Associations and Tertiary

Education providers where possible.

How: Through the use of:

n Sponsored research (investigating the

possibility of a LIANZA scholar)

n Conducting an environmental scan to

develop list of needed research and

standards

n Development of a work plan to

prioritise and develop key research

and standards (such as defining

the economic impact of NZ libraries

and supporting Library Standards

development)’.

Awards/grants

n Carnell Travelling Scholarship (travel

outside NZ for inter alia research)

n Harris award (notable published work)

n Reynolds scholarship (for overseas

research posting in libraries, archives or

museums)

n Szentirmay Special Librarianship

Scholarship (contribution to special library

and information research in NZ)

n YBP Award For Collection Services

(contributions to development, study or

research).

Publications

n New Zealand Library And Information

Management Journal

n Annual conference proceedings.

Resources

n Resources site provides links to LIANZA

documents and to other relevant

materials (includes e-book portal for

members).

Library and

Information

Association of

South Africa (LIASA)

LIASA’s Constitution includes aims of which

Aim 9 is:

‘facilitate and promote research and

development in LIS.’

It appears not to have a research agenda,

but among its Special Interest Groups is:

Research, Education and Training Interest

Group (RETIG) (no objectives listed).

Publication

n South African Journal of Libraries and

Information Science (pdfs online)

n Annual Conference (presentations online).

Repository

n Member access [not known if confined to

LIASA documents).


National

Associations


Library Society of

China

Its objectives include:

Introduction, evaluation and promotion of

library science research, and promoting

the transformation of academic

achievement.

To support this there is an Academic

Research Committee.

Society for

Information

Management

Not specified. Publications

n MIS Quarterly.

Resources

n SIM Connect

SIM Portfolio document also mentions that

SIM’s website provides members with an

online repository of more than 150 white

papers and research papers.

Society for

Technical

Communication

Statement on Strategic goals includes an

objective on strategic partnerships with the

strategic goal:

‘Seek shared recognition of and research

on best practices and programs.’

Special Interest Group: Academic

‘The Academic Community supports

the professional responsibilities of STC

members worldwide who work as

educators and researchers in colleges

and universities. Those responsibilities

involve areas of curriculum design, current

practices in technical communication,

research and research funding, and

academic workplace, recruitment,

and professional issues. The Academic

Community actively seeks support

opportunities in existing initiatives —

mentoring, research, conference

attendance, publication- in education

and research in the field of technical

communication, especially those in other

professional organizations, that involve

the productive interaction of practitioners

and academics.’

Publications

n Technical Communication


National

Associations


Society of

Competitive

Intelligence

Professionals (SCIP)

SCIP’s Strategic and operational plan

summary for 2013 ‘Building Communities

of Practice for Excellence in Intelligence’

includes schematic representation of

‘Research’ as a program category.

Publication

n Competitive Intelligence

n SCIP Research Reports and studies

available to subscribers.

Special Libraries

Association (SLA)

(U.S.)

SLA maintains a research fund. There is a

Statement of Purpose associated with it:

‘To support the projects which address

the goals identified in the Association’s

Research Program.’

[The Research Program itself is not

articulated].

Awards/grants

These are bestowed by the SLA Research &

Development Committee (which appears

to be moribund) and funded by the SLA

Research Grant Fund, which combines the

SLA Endowment Fund, the SLA Research

Fund, and the Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial

Fund.

There appear to have been no grants since

2009 (financial constraints?)…

C1 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

String NEXT TO

librar*

information architect*

behav*

design*

educat*

litera*

manage*

model*

organi*

profession*

retriev*

science*

search*

seek*

service*

source*

use*

book collection*

knowledge manage*

organi*

shar*

transfer*

archiv*

bibliographic*

bibliometric*

citation*

digital preserv*

impact factor*

interface design

metadata

metainformation

APPENDIX C: LIS SEARCH ‘HEDGE’

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT C2

String NEXT TO

record* keep*

manage*

recordkeep*

reference serv*

reposi*

D1 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

DATABASE SEARCHING

Individual databases search criteria with elimination of material based upon search constraints.

Database Title Coverage Search constraint Comment

A+core Access

ALJ

AARL

Connections

ELISA

FYI

Orana

Scan

Synergy

2005– Remove:

n Apologies

n Authorless

n Book reviews

n Conference reports

unless they are substantial

overviews

n Editorials

n Events

n Letters

n News

n Obituaries

A+extras HEDGE broadened based

upon selections from

subject term index file

2005– Remove:

n CORE

n Apologies

n Authorless

n Book — entire if individual

chapters covered

elsewhere

n Book reviews



overviews

n Editorials

n Events

n False drops

n Letters

n News

n Obituaries

n Theses (to other file)

APPENDIX D: ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES IN DATABASES

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT D2


n Specific JOURNALS †:

n Choice

n Information Today

n Journal of the American

Medical Informatics

Association

n Managing Information

APAFT Informaa

IQ RIM

2005– Remove


n Editorial

n False drops

n News

n Single page items

Hein ALL 2005– Remove

n Awards

n Conference reports unless

substantial

n Editorial

n News

n Single page items

2012–4 no indexing

or other metadata,

so hard copy

search at UWA

Inspec_core AARL

APLIS

2005– 113

Inspec_extras HEDGE

Broadened based upon

selections from controlled

term index file

2005 - Remove:

n CORE

n Conferences where

orientation is IS or IT

n ACM Transactions on

Information Systems

n Australasian Journal of

Educational Technology

n Business Process

Management Journal

n Cybernetics And Systems

392



n IEEE Transactions On

Knowledge And Data

Engineering

n International Journal Of

Learning And Intellectual

Capital

n Journal of Intellectual

Capital

n Journal of Medical

Informatics

n Knowledge-Based and

Intelligent Information

And Engineering Systems

Proceedings

n SIGIR Proceedings

LISA_core Access

ALJ

AARL

APLIS

Archives & MSS

Connections

ELISA

FYI

LIBRES

Orana

Scan

Synergy

Remove (only after merge):

n Apologies

n Authorless

n Book reviews



overviews

n Editorials

n Events

n Letters

n News

n Obituaries

LISA_extras 2005– CP=Australia* or

AF=Australia*

PUB = (Australia* or

Australas*)

Remove:

n CORE

n Apologies

n Authorless

n Book reviews

1113

Broad search

followed by

deletions

IF you look up ALJ

and CP=Australia

you retrieve 0!



n News

n Specific JOURNALS†:

n Artificial Intelligence*

n Behaviour and

Information Technology

n Computer

Communications

n Computer Networks

n Globe

n Information and

Software Technology

n International Journal of

Digital Crime & Forensics


E-entrepreneurship*


E-health and medical

communications


E-services and mobile

applications

n International Journal

of Information and

Communication

Technology Application


Intelligent Information

Technologies


Law and Information

Technology


of Mobile and Blended

Learning


of Virtual and Personal

Learning


Web Services Research



n Journal of Electronic

Commerce in

Organizations

n Journal of Enterprise

Information

Management

n Journal of Information

Technology

n Journal of Interactive

Learning Research

n Journal of Medical

Internet Research

n Journal of

Organizational and End

User Computing

n Journal of Strategic

Information Systems

n Journal of Systems and



Capital

n New Technology, Work

and

n Knowledge-based

Systems Employment

n Open Learning

n Reference Reviews

n Technology, Pedagogy

and Education

n Telecommunications

Policy

LISTA_core Access

ALJ

AARL

Archives & MSS

LIBRES

Orana

2005– Remove:

n Apologies

n Authorless

n Book reviews



overviews

n News

1109



LISTA_extras Hedge 2005– Remove:

n Apologies

n Authorless


chapters covered

elsewhere

n Book reviews



overviews

n False drops

n News

n Theses (to other file)

n Website reviews except

LIS-specific


n Australian and New

Zealand Journal of

Psychiatry

n British Medical Journal

n BRW

n College and Research

Libraries News

n Crescendo

n Data and Knowledge

Engineering

n European Journal of

Information Systems

n IEEE Transactions on

Knowledge and Data

Engineering

n Information Design

Journal

n Information retrieval

n Information sciences

n Information Systems

Management




n Journal of

E-Government


Systems Education


Technology


Capital

n Library and Information

Update

n Times Higher Education

Supplement

LLIS_core AARL

ALJ

APLIS

LIBRES

2005– Remove:

n Authorless

n Book and periodical

reviews



overviews

n Corrections

n Editorials

n Events

n Interviews

n Letters

n News

n Obituaries

862 > 704

Not all relevant

items display in

Endnote as being

from these journals;

eg ‘bibliographical

essays’, ‘special

issues’ and

‘conference

proceedings’

and ‘generic’

entries must be

reformatted to be

articles from the

journals



LLIS_extras Australia*

(HEDGE not used as

database is focused)

2005– Remove:

n Authorless


chapters covered

elsewhere

n Book reviews



overviews

n Corrections

n Editorials

n Events

n False drops

n Interviews

n Letters

n News

n Obituaries


n Bookbird

n Choice

n CILIP update

n Information today

n Managing Information

n Publishers Weekly

573

HEDGE is not used

as database is

focused, BUT a

limitation on using

just australia* is

that affiliation is

not a searchable

field

WoS_core AARL

ALJ

2005 - Remove

n Biographical

n Book reviews

n Editorials

2009 – Nov 2113

(101)

2009 – v44/3 (115)



WoS_extras 2005 - CU=Australia and WC=

Information Science &

Library Science

Remove

n Biographical

n Book reviews

n Editorials


n Data Base for Advances

in Information Systems

n European Journal of

Information Systems


Journal


Research

n Information Technology

People


of Geographical

Information Science

n Journal of

Computer-Mediated

Communication

n Journal of Global

Information

Management

n Journal of Global


Management

n Journal of Health

Communication


Technology

n Journal of Management

Information Systems

n Journal of Strategic

Information Systems



n Journal of the American

Medical Informatics

Association

n Journal of the

Association for

Information Systems

n Lecture Notes in

Computer Science

n MIS Quarterly

n MIS Quarterly Executive

n Research Evaluation

n Social Science

Computer Review

n Social Science

Information

n Telecommunications

Policy

n Telematics and

Informatics

† These journals covered by the database are excluded from coverage. Although they may reasonably be expected sometimes to include

material covered by the broad subject categorisation, perusal of multiple retrieved references showed material to be outside scope of the

categories. Any of these journals might reasonably include relevant material in future.

MERGING

All searches were downloaded into Endnote databases. These were merged with elimination of duplicates

Duplicate matching was problematic. Because of the wide diverge in representation of authors in the different databases, it was necessary to base duplicate matching on title/year only. This may have led to some inadvertent elimination of same titles with different authors, though scanning of duplicated material did not reveal any. Title matching itself was awkward, viz.:

Tees, T. (2010). “Ereaders in academic libraries - a literature review.” Australian Library Journal 59(4): 180-186.

Tees, T. (2010). “Ereaders in academic libraries -- a literature review.” Australian Library Journal 59(4): 180-186.

Tees, T. (2010). “Ereaders in academic libraries : a literature review.” Australian Library Journal 59(4): 180-186.

Tees, T. (2010). “Ereaders in academic libraries—a literature review.” Australian Library Journal 59(4): 180-186.

E1 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

Abbreviation Explanation

MU Multiple sectors including material on libraries in general or libraries and archives where types

aren’t specified.

Also include:

n Library networks that work across sectors

n History or education with respect to libraries in general

n Joint use libraries where no specific sector is emphasised.

PL Public libraries

RA Recordkeeping and archives including where application is in libraries.

SL School libraries — primary or secondary

SN State and National repositories (print or digital) including archives.

SP Special libraries including parliamentary libraries and special libraries in universities where

the special library is the primary emphasis, and business sector whether or not libraries are

mentioned, e.g. information or knowledge management application.

Information centres; personal libraries.

UC University and College libraries including TAFE sector

US Non-specified: where there this no specific sector emphasis; this may include:

n Knowledge production and acquisition (e.g. indigenous, ethnic) where a specific sector is

not addressed.

n Information organisation

n Information retrieval systems

n Information theory.

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2008

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Info

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2005

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2005

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2011

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2009

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2010

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2005

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2010

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2010

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2012

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2007

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2008

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US

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QU

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CL

2013

APh

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R20

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2008

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2011

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2008

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2013

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2012

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2005

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2010

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ll, A

2008

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, RJ

2008

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US

Info

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A20

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2011

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2009

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2012

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2010

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G1 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

APPENDIX G:

ERA 0807 JOURNAL LISTING SHOWING TOTALS FOR PRIMARY AFFILIATION

ERA 0807 journals A O P X Total

Access 13 6 115 13 147

Access: critical perspectives on communication, cultural and policy studies 1 1

Access: critical perspectives on communication, cultural and policy studies 0

ACM Transactions on Information Systems 0

ACM Transactions on the Web 0

American archivist 1 1

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2 1 3

Archifacts 2 2 14 18

Archival Issues 0

Archival Science 14 3 7 1 25

Archivaria 1 3 4

Archives & Manuscripts 17 13 67 47 144

Archives: Journal of the British Records Association 0

Arkiv, samhalle och forskning 0

Art Documentation: bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America 0

Art Libraries Journal 4 4

Aslib Proceedings: new information perspectives 1 3 3 7

Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 3 3 146 42 194

Australian Academic and Research Libraries 56 22 92 20 190

Australian Library Journal 55 16 119 16 206

Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian 0

BMC Health Services Research 0

Bookbird: a journal of international children’s literature 0

Bottom Line: managing library finances 0

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 0

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 8 2 1 11

Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science (Zhongguo Wenxian

Qingbao)

0

Chinese Librarianship 0

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing 0

Collection Building 1 1

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT G2


Collection Management 1 1 1 3

College and Research Libraries 1 1 2

Communications in Information Literacy 1 1

Current Studies in Librarianship 0

Currents in Electronic Literacy 0

Database: the journal of biological databases and curation 0

DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology 1 1

D-Lib Magazine 3 14 17

East Asian Library Journal 0

Education for Information 8 1 1 10

Education Libraries Journal 0

Educause Quarterly 0

EHealth International: the journal of applied health technology 0

El Profesional de la Informacion 0

Electronic British Library Journal 0

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics 0

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3 1 18 1 23

First Monday 3 9 1 13

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 0

Government Information Quarterly 2 2 4

Health Care and Informatics Review Online 0

Health Informatics Journal 1 1

Health Information and Libraries Journal 8 9 17

Health Information Management Journal 0

Health Technology Assessment 0

Healthcare and Informatics Review 0

Informaa ... IQ 20 7 86 54 167

Informatics for Health and Social Care 1 1

Informatics in Education 0

Informatics In Primary Care 0

Information and Organization 0



Information and Records Management Annual 0

Information Development 0

Information Economics and Policy 0

Information Processing and Management 5 7 4 16

Information Research: an international electronic journal 24 13 6 43

Information Resources Management Journal 0

Information Retrieval 0

Information Services and Use 0

Information Systems Management 0

Information Technologist 0

Information Technology and Disabilities 0

Information Technology and Libraries 0

Information Technology and People 0

Information, Communication and Society 5 3 8

Informing Science: international journal of an emerging transdiscipline 1 1

InterActions: UCLA journal of education and information studies 0

Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management 0

Interlending and Document Supply 9 9

International Information and Library Review 1 1 1 3

International Journal for Infonomics 0

International Journal of Computers in Healthcare 0

International Journal of Digital Curation 1 1

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare 0

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics 0

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 0

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology

Education

0

International Journal of Information Management 1 4 4 9

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning 0

International Journal of Knowledge Management 6 6

International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management 0

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 0

International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 1 1

International Journal on Digital Libraries 2 2 4



Internet Reference Services Quarterly 0

Internet Research 1 3 4

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 0

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 2 2

Journal of Academic Libraries (aka Daxue Tushuguan Xuebao) 0

Journal of archival organisation 1 1 2

Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship 0

Journal of Community Informatics 0

Journal of Digital Information 0

Journal of Digital Information Management 0

Journal of Documentation 16 2 1 1 20

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 7 2 1 10

Journal of Education, Informatics and Cybernetics 0

Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences (Jiaoyu Ziliao yu

Tushuguanxue)

0

Journal of Enterprise Information Management 0

Journal of Global Information Management 0

Journal of Health Communication: international perspectives 0

Journal of Informatics Education and Research 0

Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society 0

Journal of Information Ethics 2 2

Journal of Information Literacy 1 2 3

Journal of Information Science 4 3 1 8

Journal of Information Technology Management 0

Journal of Information, Law and Technology 1 1

Journal of Informetrics 0

Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve 1 1

Journal of Knowledge Management Practice 0

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 5 2 2 9

Journal of Library Administration 0

Journal of Library and Information Science 0

Journal of Library and Information Science Research (Tushu-zixunxue-yanjiu) 1 1

Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning 0

Journal of Library and Information Studies (Tushu Zixun Xuekan) 0



Journal of Library Innovation 0

Journal of Library Metadata 1 1

Journal of Library Science in China (Zhongguo Tushuguan Xuebao) 0

Journal of Map and Geography Libraries: 0

Journal of Religious and Theological Information 1 1

Journal of Scholarly Publishing 0

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 6 15 2 16 39

Journal of the Medical Library Association 1 2 4 7

Journal of the Society of Archivists 1 1 2

Journal of Universal Knowledge Management 0

Journal of Web Librarianship 1 1 2

Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare 0

Knowledge Management and E-Learning 0

Knowledge Organization 0

Law Library Journal [also ERA1801] 1 1

Learned Publishing 1 1 3 5

LIBER Quarterly: the journal of European research libraries 1 1

Libraries and the Cultural Record 1 1

Library and Archival Security 0

Library and Information History 1 1 2

Library and Information Research 4 2 6

Library and Information Science 0

Library and Information Science Research 11 3 2 4 20

Library and Information Service (Tushuguan Qingbao Gongzuo) 0

Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services 1 4 5

Library Hi Tech 2 1 4 1 8

Library Journal (Tushuguan Zazhi) 0

Library Management 16 1 45 1 63

Library Philosophy and Practice 0

Library Resources and Technical Services 1 1

Library Review 2 1 1 1 5

Library Technology Reports: expert guides to library systems and services 0

Library Trends 10 4 2 2 18

LIBRES 5 3 0 55 63



Libri: international journal of libraries and information services 6 1 2 1 10

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 0

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 0

Medical Reference Services Quarterly 0

Mousaion: South African Journal for Information Studies 0

New Library World: charting new developments 3 3 1 7

New Review of Academic Librarianship 2 2 4

New Review of Children’s Literature & Librarianship 1 1 2 4

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 1 2 3

New Review of Information Networking 1 1 2

New Technology of Library and Information Service (aka Xiandai Tushu

Qingbao Jishu)

0

New Zealand Library and Information Management Journal 0

OCLC Systems and Services: international digital library perspectives 2 2 8 12

OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society 0

Online Information Review 3 2 3 1 9

Online: exploring technology and resources for information professionals 0

Open Medical Informatics Journal 0

Orana (ceased 2005) 1 0 2 0 3

Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science 0

Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal 0

Partnership: the Canadian journal of library and information practice and

research

0

Performance Measurement and Metrics 2 2

Portal: libraries and the academy 1 1 2

Program: electronic library and information systems 1 1

Progressive Librarian 0

Public Library Quarterly 5 1 6

Publishing Research Quarterly 0

Records Management Journal 5 1 5 11

Reference and User Services Quarterly 2 1 3

Reference Services Review 2 2 4

Research Evaluation 2 2

Research Strategies 0



Restaurator 0

Scan 5 0 73 10 88

School Libraries Worldwide 3 1 4

School Library Media Research 1 1

Science and Technology Libraries 0

Scientometrics 2 35 1 7 45

Serials Review 1 1 2

Slavic and East European Information Resources 0

Social Science Computer Review 1 1

Social Science Information: information sur les sciences sociales 0

South African Journal of Information Management 0

South African Journal of Library and Information Science 1 1

SRELS Journal of Information Management 0

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 0

Synergy 5 2 12 19 38

Teacher Librarian 3 5 1 9

Technical Services Quarterly 7 7

Telemedicine and e-Health 0

The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 1 1

The Electronic Library 1 1 20 22

The Indexer 1 17 1 19

The Information Society 1 1

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 2 2 3 7

The Library Quarterly 5 1 1 2 9

The Library: the transactions of the Bibliographical Society 0

The Reference Librarian 1 1

The Serials Librarian 1 1

The Turnbull Library Record 0

TUGboat 0

Tushu Qingbao Zhishi 0

Tushuguan (Changsha) 0

Webology 4 4

Zeitschrift fuer Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 1 1

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT H1

APPENDIX H: ADDITIONAL ERA LIS JOURNALS SHOWING TOTALS FOR

PRIMARY AFFILIATION

Journal title [ERA code] A O P X Total

Australian Law Librarian [ERA1801] 6 17 124 23 170

Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester [ERA6932] 0

Canadian Law Library Review [ERA1801] 0

College and Undergraduate Libraries [ERA08] 0

Community and Junior College Libraries: the journal for learning resources

centers [ERA08]

0

Harvard Library Bulletin [ERA2005; 2103] 0

Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and

literature [ERA 2103]

0

Journal of Access Services: innovations for electronic and digital library

and information resources [ERA08]

0

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries [ERA08] 0

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship [ERA08] 0

Journal of Hospital Librarianship [ERA08] 2 2

Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians

[ERA2005]

0

Notes: quarterly journal of the music library association [ERA1904] 0

The New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship [ERA2005] 1 1 2 4

I1 ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT

APPENDIX I: SURVEY FORM

ALIA LIS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN REPORT I2

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ls a

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in N

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en

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test

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ds

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ac

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rag

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mp

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ca

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y lo

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at

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at

we

ha

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nc

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rag

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taff

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co

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te t

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kn

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nd

ly k

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as

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rmit’

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ac

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ce

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cin

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ff ra

n s

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nc

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ta o

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en

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ud

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n m

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r Sc

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imp

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aim

s to

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te t

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imp

ac

t o

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he

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n t

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me

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nu

mb

er o

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taff

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ce

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ple

me

nta

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ap

ac

ity 2

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exp

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rary

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ff in

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de

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kin

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cre

atio

n o

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e R

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s h

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l lib

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to t

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ski

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sta

ff in

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stra

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w Z

ea

lan

d

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po

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