The Effects of Political and Social Turmoil on LIS Research in the Arab World
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CLICK, Amanda B., DREWRY, Josiah M. and KHALIFA, Mahmoud (2014) The Effects of Political and Social Turmoil on LIS Research in the Arab World. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge in Session 200 - Library Theory and Research. In: IFLA WLIC 2014, 16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France.
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Abstract
The Effects of Political and Social Turmoil on LIS Research in the Arab World
Much of the Arab world has experienced significant political upheaval over the past few years, and government, academic and public libraries across the region have responded to these changes in different ways. Our goal was to investigate how the current circumstances have affected the LIS field, and how LIS practitioners are involved in responding to and documenting these changes. These questions are only part of a larger investigation that we conducted, in which we examined the main topics and author affiliations of 15,000 articles from 39 top and international LIS journals in English and 769 articles in 7 Arabic-language journals between 2004 and 2013. We looked at the publication patterns of LIS researchers in the Arab world, as well as scholars outside of the Arab world studying the region. We wanted to learn not just about what is being studied, but by whom. In this paper we address the following research questions: What do LIS professors and other practitioners across the Arab world study? Do they collaborate with each other, and with scholars elsewhere in the world? How were research topics affected by the Arab Spring?Les effets des troubles politiques et sociaux sur la recherche en Sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (SIB) dans le monde arabe
Une grande partie du monde arabe a connu un bouleversement politique important ces dernières années et les bibliothèques nationales, universitaires et publiques ont réagi à ces changements de diverses façons. Nous avons cherché à étudier la façon dont les circonstances actuelles ont affecté le domaine de la recherche en sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (SIB), et quels ont été les réponses et apports des chercheurs en SIB face à ces changements. Ces questions ne sont qu’une partie d’une étude plus large que nous avons menée sur les principaux sujets et sur les institutions de rattachements des auteurs de 15 000 articles issus de 39 revues de SIB parmi les mieux classées et de niveau international en anglais et 769 articles issus de 7 revues en langue arabe entre 2004 et 2013. Nous avons observé les formes de publication des chercheurs en SIB du monde arabe, ainsi que d’universitaires extérieurs au monde arabe qui s’intéressent à la région, en cherchant à connaître non seulement quels sujets sont étudiés mais aussi qui les étudie. Dans cet article, nous traitons des questions suivantes : qu’étudient les professeurs d’universités et les autres chercheurs en SIB du monde arabe ? Est-ce qu’ils collaborent entre eux, et avec des universitaires d’autres régions du monde ? Quel impact le “Printemps arabe” a-t-il eu sur les sujets de recherche ?| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | ||||||||||||
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| Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for KnowledgeSession 200 - Libraries in the political process: benefits and risks of political visibility - Library Theory and Research |
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| Divisions: | Division 4 Support of the Profession > Library Theory and Research Section | ||||||||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arab world, library & information science research, scholarly communications, Arab Spring, systematic review | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2014 17:46 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2017 08:53 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/833 |
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