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=== Social issues ===
Decreased funding for established libraries
Digital divide
Digitization
Education for librarianship
Information access
Information and communication technologies (ICT's)
Sustainability and ICT's
Information explosion
Information policy
Information literacy
Information Society
Literacy
Remote access

== Education and training ==
Education for librarianship –

List of I-Schools
Academic courses in library science

Collection management
Cataloging and classification
Database management
Information architecture
Information systems and technology
Knowledge management
List of Library Science schools
Management
Preservation
Reference
Research methods
Statistics

== Professional organizations ==

American Association of School Librarians
American Library Association
Australian Library and Information Association
Canadian Library Association
Association for Library Service to Children
Association of Research Libraries
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
Public Library Association
Special Libraries Association

== Non-profit organizations ==
Librarians Without Borders
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières
African Library Project
Friends of Libraries

== Notable people in library science ==
List of librarians
Librarians in popular culture
Sanford Berman
Daniel J. Boorstin
William Warner Bishop
Lee Pierce Butler
John Cotton Dana
Melvil Dewey
John Fiske (philosopher)
Michael Gorman
Seymour Lubetzky
Eric Moon
Paul Evan Peters
S. R. Ranganathan
Jesse Shera
Howard D. White

== List of Topic in Library School ==
Collection Development
Information Literacy
Digital Libraries
Library Management
Cataloging and Classification
Information Retrieval
Library Automation
Reference Services
Database Management
Knowledge Management
Digital Scholarship
Library Marketing
Community Outreach
Information Architecture
Taxonomy and Ontology
User Experience (UX)
Library Assessment
Information Policy
Copyright and Licensing
Open Access
Digital Preservation
Data Curation
Library Instruction
Information Systems
Collection Maintenance
Interlibrary Loan
Library Consortia
Information Literacy Instruction
Digital Asset Management
Library Space Planning
Information Ethics
Library Outreach
Community Engagement
Information Literacy Standards
Digital Library Software
Library Website Design
Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)
Library Discovery Layers
Information Literacy Assessment
Library Impact Studies
Information Literacy Curriculum
Digital Scholarship Centers
Library Makerspaces
Information Literacy Frameworks
Library Support for Research
Digital Humanities
Library Data Analytics
Information Literacy and Critical Thinking
Library Support for Student Success
Library Instruction for Diverse Populations
Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship
Library Services for People with Disabilities
Information Literacy and Media Literacy
Library Support for Entrepreneurship
Information Literacy and Critical Library Instruction
Library Services for Underserved Communities
Information Literacy and Transliteracy

== See also ==
Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries
Category:Library science journals
Category:Library science magazines
Wikiproject BID (library, information, documentation) at the German Wikipedia
Portail SID (information literacy and libraries) at the French Wikipedia.
How to find a book on Wikibooks
Document management system
Grey literature
History of public library advocacy
Informatics
Library of Congress
Library anxiety
OCLC
Preservation (library and archive)
Public library advocacy
Serials, periodicals and journals
The works of Michael Gorman

== External links ==

Visualizing Library and Information Science from the practitioner's perspective
LISNews.org Librarian and Information Science News
LISWire.com Librarian and Information Science Wire

=== History ===
Jefferson's Library - Exhibition including a sample page from "Catalog of Library of Thomas Jefferson"
Chronology of information science and technology Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine - From the 17th to the 20th century
Chronology of chemical information science
Information science pioneers Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine - Biographies of pioneers and famous information scientists