Needs of Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Programs: How Libraries Contribute to Social Mobility in the Post-Pandemic Era

Needs of Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Programs: How Libraries Contribute to Social Mobility in the Post-Pandemic Era

This case study presents a unique insight into the relationship between cross-disciplinary graduate programs and social mobility, highlighting how libraries can contribute to the needs of students in these programs during the post-pandemic era. In Taiwan, enrollment in graduate schools of national universities increased by 3.87% compared to pre-pandemic levels, as COVID-19 created uncertainty in the job market for college graduates. Completing a post-graduate program is seen as a way to eliminate this uncertainty, and interdisciplinary talent is viewed as a means to increase job opportunities. To explore this topic further, this study conducted a bibliometric analysis with 958 data sets collected from the system of National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan. The theses and dissertations are published from 2012 to 2022 and are all non-library and information science related programs. The results indicated these researches that focused on libraries as the main subject reached a low point of 60 in 2017. However, after the pandemic, these researches began to gain renewed attention, with 90 studies published in 2022. As for keywords, after the pandemic, the keywords surround “integrated analysis”, “literature review”, and “reading behavior”, whereas from 2012 to 2019, students focused more on “users’ satisfaction”, “service quality”, and “elementary education”. In addition, before 2020, “library” was often the main study subject for the research fields of “information engineering” and “business administration”. Nevertheless, after the outbreak of Covid-19, “nursing” and “pedagogy” became the research fields that used library data the most outside library and information-related fields.

Wang, Chyi-Kuan; Lin, Chiao-Min

Chinese American Librarians Association

2023-06-24

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2023-06-24

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