IJOL ISSUE 1  - WORD


  
 

          ISSN: 2474-3542 Journal homepage: http://journal.calaijol.org 

 

Editorial: Message From Editor-in-Chief 

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL). IJoL provides 

a forum for librarians and other researchers from Canada, China, the UK, the US and other countries 

to share their research, best practices and perspectives in international librarianship, international 

collaboration and academic exchange, library spaces and services, library technology and 

innovation, and other aspects of information science and studies.  

In this issue, Wang, Wang, Wilson and Ahmed present a systematic review of makerspaces in 

libraries. A number of case studies on makerspaces are provided for both public libraries and 

academic libraries in Canada and the US. This paper can be a good reference resource as well for 

libraries planning to create a new makerspace. 

Ma, Deng and Xue at an American academic library examine the common issues in the discovery 

and access of Chinese digital resources. The authors propose and discuss leveraging National 

Information Standards Organization (NISO) standards to address these issues.  

Liu reports the results of a web survey on the library services offered by Project 985 universities in 

China from the perspective of a Canadian academic librarian. This paper reveals that some services 

reported as challenges in the Library and Information Services (LIS) literature are popular in 

Chinese academic libraries nowadays while a few other services still need to improve or be 

considered for implementation.  

Ashworth shares her library’s approaches to adapting to the evolving higher education 

environment, including supporting open access policies to meet the demands of national research 

exercises and developing spaces and services to meet the changing needs of patrons in an academic 

library in the UK.  

In the column entitled “Report from the Field”, Zhou introduces an eBook service, the Shanghai 

Library’s Urban Digital Reading Service Platform, including its innovations and usage statistics. 

Shanghai Library is the first library in China that combines a public library with science, technology 

and industry information services.  

Another feature which makes IJoL unique is that each issue will host a column introducing what is 

happening in a topic related to LIS around the world. In this issue, Ren outlines the processes and 

components of LIS education standards of the American Library Association (applied to the US, 

Canada and Puerto Rico), the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (applied 

to the UK), and the Australian Library and Information Association (applied to Australia). This is 

part one of a series reviewing LIS accreditation on an international scale.  

Using the initial publication of the journal as an occasion, I would like to thank all members of the 

Editorial Team, the Advisory Board, the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) 

Executive Board, and many other people who have contributed to its creation and launch.   

 
 

Guoying Liu 

       University of Windsor