Education for Information
Information Science (General) | Library Studies | Vocational and Professional Studies (General)
Information is widely recognized as a vital resource in economic development. The skills of information handling traditionally associated with libraries, are now in great demand in all sectors, including government, business and commerce. The education and training of information professionals is, therefore, an issue of growing significance.
Education for Information has been since 1983 a forum for debate and discussion on education and training issues in the sphere of information handling. It includes refereed full-length articles and short communications on matters of current concern to educators and practitioners alike. Its news section reports on significant activities and events in the international arena. In-depth book reviews complete each issue of this quarterly publication, essential reading for those involved and interested in education and training for information handling.
Education for Information: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Studies is a peer-reviewed, international journal publishing fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of the information studies. It invites submissions of research papers, of professional practices, conservations and debates from scholars and practitioners from the information fields (iFields). Topics of interest include but are not limited to education, pedagogy and learning in the iFields; information seeking and use; information policy and ethics; information retrieval; digital humanities; documentation theory and practice; data science; gender studies in the iFields, etc. The journal welcomes broad methodological approaches to these topics, including empirical quantitative or qualitative studies as well as reflexive, hermeneutical and other conceptual approaches. The journal also welcomes historical and foundational research in the iFields, including works that bridge the iFields with other fields, such as science and technology studies or the philosophy of technology, Philosophy, Media Studies.
Founded in 1983, Education for Information provides a link between scholarly research, teaching and professional practices in the Information Fields (iFields). Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Studies publishes full-length articles, comprehensive literature reviews, commentaries, conversations and scholarly debates, funded innovative research protocols, short communications and book reviews. Its News section reports on significant activities and events in the international arena.
| Fidelia Ibekwe | Aix-Marseille University, France |
| Isola Ajiferuke | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic | University of Zadar, Croatia |
| Renate Chancellor | Syracuse University, USA |
| Alice Corble | University of Sussex, UK |
| Keren Dali | Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada |
| Anthony W. Dunbar | Lewis University, USA |
| Koraljka Golub | Linnaeus University, Sweden |
| Tim Gorichanaz | Drexel University , USA |
| Vera Granikov | McGill University, Canada |
| Tamara Heck | DIPF Frankfurt, Germany |
| Isto Huvila | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Shari Lee | St. John's University, USA |
| Dirk Lewandowski | Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
| Chang Liu | Peking University, China |
| Ying-Hsang Liu | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Thomas Mandl | University of Hildesheim, Germany |
| Daniel Martinez-Avila | University of León, Spain |
| Claire McGuinness | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Bhuva Narayan | University of Technology, Australia |
| Tami Oliphant | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Yaz Osho | University of Westminster, UK |
| Antonio Perianes-Rodríguez | Digital Information Visualisation and Analytics Lab, Spain |
| Fernanda Ribeiro | University of Porto, Portugal |
| Will Senn | Tarleton State University, USA |
| Diane Sonnenwald | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Miriam Sweeney | University of Alabama, USA |
| Cristóbal Urbano | Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
| Julian Warner | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |