Annals of Japan Society of Library Science
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Volume 41, Issue 1
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  • Critical Study of “Professionality of a Librarian (Final Report)“, (1974) by the Research Committee on the Problems of Librarians of the Japan Library Association
    Hideki MINAI
    Article type: Article
    1995 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 1-16
    Published: 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: November 10, 2021
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20651/ajsls.41.1_1
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    The Research Committee on the Problems of Librarians of the Japan Library Association released in 1974 a brief report entitled “Professionality of a Librarian (Final Report).” This report is the integration of study results by the committee in several years. It is the one and only document pertaining to the subject matter of the association, and is often referred to as such in relative literature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the points at issue in this report based on such literature.
    As a result of the examination, the following points were found concerning this report:
    (1) It has examined only a portion of the requirements and not the whole requirements for the professional librarian.
    (2) It merely points out some abstract stipulations on the professionality of the librarian.
    (3) It has entrusted an examination on the professional education for librarianship and the basis of qualifications for the professional librarian with other committee and division of the association. It has made no examination on these points.
    (4) It has not comprehended the priority order of the requirements for the professional librarian and has given priority to setting a code for ethics.
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  • Library and Information Science and Communication Science
    -A Study of Historical Relationship-
    Yuko YOSHIDA
    Article type: Article
    1995 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 17-30
    Published: 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: November 10, 2021
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20651/ajsls.41.1_17
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    The purpose of this paper is to study historical relationship between library and information science and communication science, paying attention to both academical lineage. As the results of this study, it was proved that communication science developed in 1930th backing prosperity of mass media, and communication research had a great influence on library science of the same period. It was also proved that communication theory built in 1930th provided foundation reconsidering relationship between library and information science and communication science besides communication theory by Shannon.
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  • A Method of Collection Evaluation for Cooperative Collection Development
    Hirotoyo ISHII, Sachi KAWAMURA, Kunie MURATA
    Article type: Article
    1995 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 31-41
    Published: 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: November 10, 2021
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20651/ajsls.41.1_31
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    Collection evaluation is an essential task for planning of cooperative collection development project. This paper identified two distinct methods of collection evaluation through an analysis of recent experiences in U.S. and Japan. One is a conspectus method in which each collection is evaluated separately, while in the other method collections are evaluated as a whole. The later method was tested, applying to research and academic library collections. The method was shown as valid in getting essential information necessary for planning cooperative collection development project.
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