Knowledge Librarianship: A Data Driven Approach

Thiseditedvolumeprovidesvariousperspectivesonmetricanalysesinlibraryand Information Science. This volume focuses on the viewpoints of researchers, librarians, information professionals, publishers, and library users in India. This volume provides an excellent overview of metrics which includes the aspects of bibilometrics, scientometric, informatics, cybermetrics and webometricanalysesandalsohelpsreaders find, retrieve, read and use the research they need. The Data-driven approach describes a strategic process of leveraging insights from data to identify new opportunities, better serve users, improve the usage, improve the services and more. It allows libraries to use evidence-based data to make decisions and plan carefully to fulfil the objectives. The “data-driven” approach means it based on data analysis and interpretation of the bibliographies, citations and variouses indexes.  A data-driven approach enables library professionals to examine and organize their data with the aim of better serving their users. Keeping this in mind, 30 papers from library and information science professionals from all over the country were carefully selected and titled Knowledge Librarianship: A Data-Driven Approach. Contents have been edited suitably to make the theme easy to grasp for the reader. This edited volume has three themes, i) Bibliometrics Analysis of Research Publications, ii) Scientometric Analysis of Research Literature, and iii) Webometric Analysis of Content and Websites.