Keywords: JELIS, JELIS website, satisfaction survey, online questionnaire
Introduction
This  is  a  year  two  report  of  a  3-­year  longitudinal  design  that  tracks  the  Journal   of   Education   for   Library   and   Information   Science   (JELIS)   subscribers/readers’   satisfaction  with  the  scholarly,  double-­blind,   peer-­reviewed  publication  of  the  Association   for   Library   and   Information   Science   Education   (ALISE).   According   to   Park   and   Capps,   last   year’s   2009   JELIS   survey   indicated   “that …

ALISE 2010 Best Conference Paper Awards
Finding That Special Someone: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in an Academic Context by Sidath Gunawardena, Rosina Weber and Denise E. Agosto, p. 210
LIS Program Expectations of Incoming Students’ Technology Knowledge and Skills by Bill Kules and Jennifer McDaniel, p. 222
Inviting the World Into the Online Classroom: Teaching a Gaming in Libraries Course via YouTube by Scott Nicholson, p. 233
Building a Virtual Archives and Preservation Curriculum Laboratory at Simmons College: A Case Study in Collaborative Construction by Jeannette Bastian, Ross Harvey, Martha Mahard and Terry Plum, p. 241
Research Articles
The Effect …

Two challenges facing 21st century librarians are the rapid growth in information and technology and the growing population of diverse students who lack access to information and technology. While most LIS students are aware of disparities in society through classroom-based coursework, “real-life” experiences are needed for a deeper understanding of issues such as the digital divide and equity of access for diverse populations. This study examined LIS students’ understanding of equity of access issues through a service-learning course designed to connect course content with service-learning experiences in schools and public …

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 …

Special Section: Integrating Social Theories into LIS Research
Metatheory in Library and Information Science: A Nascent Social Justice Approach by Kevin Rioux, p. 9
Theories-in-Use and Reflection-in-Action: Core Principles for LIS Education by Phillip M. Edwards, p. 18
Research Articles
Educating Future Academic Librarians: An Analysis of Courses in Academic Librarianship by Edgar C. Bailey, Jr., p. 30
WISE Economics: ROI of Quality and Consortiums by Bruce Kingma and Kathleen Schisa, p. 43
Editors’ Notes
Integrating Social Theories into LIS Research by Laurie J. Bonnici and Manimegalai M Subramaniam, p. 1
Also Included in This Issue by Kathleen Burnett and …

Theories-in-Use and Reflection-in-Action: Core Principles for LIS Education by Phillip M. Edwards