Contents
Part I Information Profession and Information Literacy
Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for
Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning 3 Forest Woody Horton
So What’s the Big Deal With Information Literacy in the United States? 9 Alease J. Wright
A Group Discussion on Information Literacy 21 Jason Phelps, Steve Van Tuyl, Gladys Joy E., Martin Julius V. Perez,
Joseph M. Yap, Lihong Zhou, Yiwei Wang and Han Jiang
Part II Trends of Library and Information Sciences Education
iSchools & the iSchool at Syracuse University ................................................ 31 Elizabeth D. Liddy
Part III Information Seeking and Retrieval
Visual Data Mining in a Q&A Based Social Media Website 41 Jin Zhang and Yiming Zhao
Information Seeking Behaviour and Usage on a Multi-media
Platform: Case Study Europeana 57 David Nicholas and David Clark
Exploratory Search: A Critical Analysis of the Theoretical
Foundations, System Features, and Research Trends 79 Tingting Jiang
Part IV Informatics
Scientific Datasets: Informetric Characteristics and Social
Utility Metrics for Biodiversity Data Sources 107 Peter Ingwersen
Knowledge Discovery of Complex Networks Research Literatures ............. 119 Fei-cheng Ma, Peng-hui Lyu and Xiaoguang Wang
Bibliometrics and University Research Rankings Demystified
for Librarian...... 137 Ruth A. Pagell
Part V Development of World Libraries
The Development of East Asian Libraries in North America ...................... 163 Eugene W. Wu
