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It offers current thinking and practical advice on library and information management to help daily information services activities or personal professional development.

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Editor's choice

Bemused by bibliometrics: using citation analysis to evaluate research quality
Nicholas Joint
Library Management, Vol. 57 No. 5, pp. 346-357

In this paper, the importance of information management issues to the mainstream issues of government and public administration is underlined. The most valuable conclusion of this paper is that, because LIS issues are now at the heart of democratic decision making, LIS practitioners and professionals should be given some sort of role in advising on such matters.