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This book has won the 2008 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Juvenile Books).

This is a book review of Practical ontologies for information professionals written by D. Stuart

This article highlights the discussion on returning to work during the COVID-19 pandemic, held at the Core Metadata Interest Group Meeting at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC in June 2022. The discussion involved…

Over twenty years ago, the American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy defined information literacy. Since then, numerous scholarly papers have been published which explored the best approaches for improving…

Occasional Paper Series (OPS) is one of the official publication platforms provided by the Chinese American Librarians Association overseas, the largest association of Chinese librarians, and an ALA affiliation. OPS is an open access and…

This paper presents an overview on research and development of digital libraries in China, introduces three digital library prototypes being built, and analyses problems and countermeasures of Chinese digital libraries construction.

Traditional knowledge organization systems (KOS) including thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject heading systems, name authorities, and other lists of terms and codes have been playing important roles in indexing, information…

This article highlighted three presentations given at the ALCTS Role of Professional Librarians in Technical Services Interest Group Meeting at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta in January 2017. These presentations…

This article highlights a presentation of a metadata collaboration given at the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia in January 2020. The presenter reported her work on ArtFrame,…

As Catalog/Metadata Librarians and adjunct faculty at the LIS program of a public co-educational research university, we rethink what skills and knowledge LIS students seek to gain from the class Metadata Creation for Information Organization, and…