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28 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,718 Library Science and Information papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • This essay attempts to reduce some of the intellectual distance that exists between these various perspectives in three ways: by review of recent trends in research and writing, by indications of topics of current interest to some of the most active researchers, and by identification of issues that need to be explored in future research.

    Enhancing the Cultural Record: Recent Trends and Issues in the History of Information Science and Technology · 2009 · DOI

  • The project is not limited to a mere translation of DDC 22, but aims at the implementation of Dewey in the library networks of the German-language countries.

    DDC German–The Project, the Aims, the Methods: New Ideas for a Well-Established Traditional Classification System · 2006 · DOI

  • The author concludes that there is a viable mechanism for the development of bibliographic standards, but that there is lacking not only a basic understanding of this mechanism and the importance of standards by the information community, but also the necessary commitment and involvement critical to successful standardization.

    BIBLIOGRAPHIC STANDARDS AND LIBRARIES · 1980 · DOI

  • Personal book collections (or their parts) in the funds of military scientific libraries either have not been studied before, or have been partially considered.

    Personal Libraries of Statesmen of the 19th – early 20th Century in the Book Collection of the Military Historical Library of the General Staff · 2026 · DOI

  • A persistent gap in understanding and education between library information science and computer science persisted, particularly evident in regions like Italy where academic structures traditionally maintained rigid disciplinary boundaries.

    Editorial: “The journey and challenges of transdisciplinarity in the development of community-centered digital libraries” · 2025 · DOI

  • Given the limited information from archival documents or any other sources, analysing marks and signatures in books allows us to reconstruct some stages of how the collection was formed and appeared in the museum.

    Owner’s Script Bookplates on Jewish Printed Books from the Collection of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Historical Museum-Reserve · 2025 · DOI

  • There are attempts at such marketing in our country, mainly by online bookstores that can afford it purely financially, but it is still lacking among the publishing houses themselves.

    TODAY’S BULGARIAN BOOK PUBLISHING – SURPLUS AND SHORTAGE · 2025 · DOI

  • The epistological basis allowed us to reconstruct the roles of the most “valuable and prolific contributors” of their publishing house – the family members of the Yurukovi, who have not been previously investigated.

    Documents and Heritage of Publishing Family Yurukovi and Their Book Series “Tapestry of Famous Contemporary Novels” · 2023 · DOI

  • Our approach is unique, as the official activity reports published by the National Library are lacking the qualitative studies which would have helped establishing the directions of development of the services dedicated to different types of users.

    The National Library of Romania in the Service of Communities: a Qualitative Analysis to Identify the Needs of the Users in the Free Reading Spaces · 2019 · DOI

  • «Secular», and especially ancient literature, which was considered fundamental for a Westernoriented humanistic educational system, was lacking in the mentioned monasteries, and so were the books in Latin.

    Lectio Orthodoxorum: Libraries of the Orthodox Monasteries of the Lviv Eparchy in the Late 16th–17th Centuries · 2017 · DOI

  • Although considerable research has been carried out in relation to peer-reviewed scholarly publishing, relatively few studies have investigated the adoption of informal scholarly communication platforms in the scholarly publishing process.

    Scholarly communication trends in the digital age · 2015 · DOI

  • Accordingly, a direct quotation from Clive Wilkin-Jones, whose forty-four-page historical account prefaces this volume, is warranted: "Norwich City Library was the first library to be established by a city administration in England outside London in a building that was corporately owned" (1).

    Norwich City Library, 1608-1737 (review) · 2009 · DOI

  • Finally the author proposes the establishment of formal co-operation of the Croatian library community with the local scholarly associations with the aim to discuss jointly the open problems of the Croatian research librarianship.

    Uspjesnost djelovanja znanstvene knjiŽnice u vremenu globalizacije i brzih promjena u okruŽenju · 2000

  • We have all read too many articles in the library literature, and heard too many talks, that conclude by saying, copyright needs to be studied further, or copyright problems still need to be worked out.

    Reference Service, Human Nature, Copyright, and Offsite Service--in a "Digital Age"? · 1998

  • Finally, genealogists often come to their task without prior research experience, unfamiliar with how libraries work and lacking knowledge of the most basic techniques for acquiring information from source materials.

    Library and genealogical society cooperation in developing local genealogical services and collections · 1997

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