Digital Transformation in Public Libraries: Framing the Topic through Bibliometric Research
Keywords:
digital transformation, public libraries, publication productivityAbstract
The central research question of the paper focuses on whether and to what extent the library, and in particular the public library, as an institution and infrastructure is considered as an object of study in scholarly publications on digital transformation. In order to identify the most productive authors and affiliations as well as the core journals according to Bradford's law of scattering and to identify and clarify the semantic relationships of the term "digital transformation" with reference to controlled vocabularies and thesauri, the authors conducted a bibliometric study in SCOPUS and Web of Science. The key findings highlight the trend that research on digital transformation in business and the public sector has gained prominence in the scholarly literature over the past decade, but by comparison, the study of digital transformation in public libraries is still an underdeveloped field.
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