This study proposes an automated topic labeling method based on large language models (LLMs), capable of generating meaningful term and summary labels for each topic within a topic model. Two generation strategies are introduced: Concise Descriptor Labeling (CDL) and Context-Enhanced Labeling (CEL). In addition to qualitative observation and conventional measures of stability and topical relevance, this study further evaluates coverage and discriminativeness through a topic assignment task. The experimental results show that CDL tends to produce concise and general disciplinary terms, characterized by high stability and close semantic alignment with the topic descriptors. In contrast, CEL often generates specialized technical terminology; although lexical variations may occur across multiple generations, semantic consistency remains high. Though CEL demonstrates slightly better performance in terms of coverage and discriminativeness, both strategies are acceptable and complementary, allowing researchers to select the appropriate approach depending on the interpretive and application context of the topic model. Future research may focus on refining these generation strategies and exploring their integration to enhance the applicability and interpretability of topic models.
Libraries bear the responsibility of ensuring equitable access to information. With the advancement of an aging society and the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), how public libraries realize “barrier-free access” and “active inclusion” has become a critical issue. This study employed a questionnaire survey targeting public libraries at all administrative levels in Taiwan to investigate their human resources, collections, reader services, facilities, and challenges in providing services for persons with disabilities. The findings revealed that Taiwan’s public libraries rely heavily on volunteers, with insufficient numbers of full-time staff, and only a few libraries have stable funding sources. Existing resources mainly consist of audiobooks, large-print books, and dual-vision books, and the collection growth remains slow. Reader services and outreach programs are diverse, with municipal libraries being the most proactive in promotional activities. However, discrepancies of facilities were found between those that technically meet accessibility standards but are not truly user-friendly, and only a small proportion of libraries have designated reading areas for people with disabilities. There is still a need to establish systematic policies, staff training, and operational guidelines to help overcome structural constraints and achieve the goal of reading equality of libraries at all levels. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)
In response to the rapid changes in the global labor market and the widening gap between cacademia and industry, higher education must strengthen students’ core competencies for career development. The field of Library and Information Science (LIS) has been greatly influenced by technological advancement and the transformation of knowledge services. Cultivating LIS students with employability, career self-efficacy, and career adaptability has become an essential goal. This study surveyed students from several LIS departments in Taiwan through a questionnaire to examine the overall performance and differences among three constructs. The results indicate that students demonstrated medium-to-high levels in all three aspects. Significant differences were found in gender and grade level, while institutional level and interdisciplinary learning experience showed no significant variation. Learning initiative and self-awareness were identified as key factors influencing career development. The study recommends that LIS departments develop tiered counseling and interdisciplinary curriculum support mechanisms based on students’ characteristics and learning stages, to promote practical readiness and industry alignment. Students are also encouraged to enhance their employability, career self-efficacy, and career adaptability to strengthen professional growth and career competitiveness. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)
The trend toward providing scholarly communication services stems from university libraries in Europe and the United States. However, there has been limited discussion of scholarly communication services within domestic university libraries. This study aimed to explore academic librarians’ understanding of the importance and current status of scholarly communication services, as well as their knowledge and needs for scholarly communication knowledge. This study employed a quantitative survey method, focusing on librarians from research universities in Taiwan, with a total of 122 responses. The findings indicated that several items, such as AI tools in research support and ethical issues in scholarly publishing, showed significant differences in the importance and current status of various scholarly communication services, as well as in librarians’ knowledge and professional needs. Significant differences also emerged between supervisors and non-supervisors, those with different scholarly communication responsibilities, and the size of their libraries. These findings may help research university libraries refine their scholarly communication service strategies. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)
The citations to open access preprint and working paper versions of papers that are also formally published in journals are not regularly counted in global multidisciplinary proprietary citation index databases, nor are they considered in most bibliometric studies. They are, however, integrated into paper citation counts in other citation databases. It can be argued that open access preprint citations reflect a relevant part of scientific impact of a work as proxied by citation counts, particularly in scientific disciplines that make extensive use of preprints/working papers for rapid open communication. Here we present a large-scale study of these usually uncounted open access preprint citations for the Web of Science database to provide an exploratory overview of the magnitude of this phenomenon and its distribution across disciplines. To this end, we introduce a methodology to link cited reference strings referring to preprints/working papers to their matching published journal versions. We find that at least 390,000 WoS-indexed publications have 1.1 million preprint version citations which are not included in ordinary citation counts.
