Editorial

摘要

New Library World aims to be a truly international journal, and this double issue provides much evidence to suggest that we are meeting that objective with articles from around the globe, albeit in this instance with an emphasis on Africa and India. Keren Dali opens with "an honest look" at reading scholarship, "one of the most exciting academic fields, regrettably neglected by LIS [Library and Information Science]". "Paradigmatic conflicts, the influence of the corporate university, and low awareness of the potential of reading research" have all contributed to the "gradual extinction" of reading research in Library and Information Science (LIS) departments. Because in recent years LIS has been "dominated" by the "information science paradigm", reading research has been largely overlooked. Dali argues that "library science", when treated as "an autonomous discipline rather than an appendix of information science", provides a much better context in which the study of reading can be carried out.