Research Articles
Predicting Sustainability for Programs in Library and Information Science: Factors Influencing Continuance and Discontinuance by Ken Haycock, p. 130
Perspectives of East Tennessee’s Rural Public Librarians about the Extent of Need for Professional Library Education: A Pilot Study by Bharat Mehra, Kimberly Black and Shu-Yueh Lee, p. 142
From Metadata Creation to Metadata Quality Control: Continuing Education Needs Among Cataloging and Metadata Professionals by Jung-Ran Park, Yuji Tosaka, Susan Maszaros and Caimei Lu, p. 158
Barriers and Challenges to Teaching Reference in Today’s Electronic Information Environment by Denise E. Agosto, Lily Rozaklis, Craig MacDonald and …

Interactive visualization is a powerful educational tool, which has been used to enhance the teaching of various subjects from computer science to chemistry to engineering. This paper describes the use of interactive visualization tools in the context of a graduate course in information retrieval, to demonstrate two well-known retrieval models, the Boolean model and the vector space model. The results of five classroom studies with these tools are reported. The impact of the tools on student learning, as well as student attitudes toward the tools, were investigated. The results of …

Overall, the involvement of people of all colors at the doctoral level can be fairly characterized as minimal. The need for immediate response is acute (Turock, 2003, p. 493).
Doctoral fellows serve as the nucleus of energy for continued recruitment of a diverse doctoral student population. Attrition through graduation will extend the diversity to the LIS professoriate. Future generations of librarians are educated by the professoriate (Bonnici & Burnett, 2005, p. 125).
As is demonstrated in the larger field of librarianship, there is a serious dearth of minority scholars in the Library …

Research Articles
Communities of Practice for Blended Learning: Toward an Integrated Model for LIS Education by Joyce Yukawa, p. 54
Innovative Services Improvised During Disasters: Evidence-Based Education Modules to Prepare Students and Practitioners for Shifts in Community Information Needs by Lisl Zach and Michelynn McKnight, p. 76
Social Networking Websites: An Exploratory Study of Student Peer Socializing in an Online LIS Program by Lili Luo, p. 86
Job Advertisements for Recent Graduates: Advising, Curriculum, and Job-seeking Implications by Robert K. Reeves and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, p. 103
Brief Communications & Research in Progress
Digital Library Education …

Despite the proliferation of job advertisement analysis studies in the past 30 years, new studies are needed all the time to reflect the current state of the job market for LIS professionals. Using traditional content analysis methods, a study in spring 2009 at the University of Maryland of over 1000 job ads for new graduates revealed that most jobs are in academic libraries and archives, average salaries rose last year, the highest salaries are in government, personal attributes such communication, service orientation, collaboration and cooperation, and team capabilities are highly …