Visualizing the value of library content

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this article is to share ideas about, and examples of, visual representations of library collections.

Design/methodology/approach

The article takes the form of a literature review and opinion.

Findings

Although information visualization appears in the literature as a field of study at least as early as 1981, library catalogs and indexes remain overwhelmingly text‐based.

Originality/value

Since 2010, only about 10 percent of the full‐text, scholarly articles in EBSCO databases with thesaurus term “information visualization” are published in library science journals.

Citation

Steele, K. (2013), "Visualizing the value of library content", The Bottom Line, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880451311321537