Supporting Information Visualization Research in an Academic Library Lessons Learned from an Analysis of the Literature

• Published in: Information technology and libraries Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
• Main Authors: Groenendyk, Michael, Neugebauer, Tomasz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago American Library Association 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Bibliometrics; Citation indexes; Computational linguistics; Computer Graphics; Computer science; Conferences (Gatherings); Engineering; Indexing; Information Retrieval; Information Science; Information visualization; Intellectual Disciplines; Keywords; Language processing; Librarians; Library and information science; Library collections; Library Materials; Library Personnel; Library Research; Literature Reviews; Metadata; Natural language interfaces; Natural language processing; Periodicals; Programming Languages; Python; Researchers; Scientific visualization; Social sciences; Software; Support services; Trends; University and college libraries; Visualization; Visualization (Computer); Visualization (Computers)
• ISSN: 0730-9295; 2163-5226
• DOI: 10.5860/ital.v43i1.16867

This paper summarizes librarian research on information visualization as well as general trends in the broader field, highlighting the most recent trends, important journals, and which subject disciplines are most involved with information visualization. By comparing librarian research to the broader field, the paper identifies opportunities for libraries to improve their information visualization support services.