Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overall picture of the research status of lecturers at the faculty of Library and Information Science and suggest some solutions for enhancing the quality of lecturers’ research status.. Design/methodology/approach –A question are questionnaire was distributed to all lecturers at the faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hochiminh city. Content analysis was also used in term of quantitative approach. Scanning, skimming the research outputs’ titles and subjects from 2011 to 2013 was to gather data and Microsoft Excel was used to analyze data.
Findings – The paper analyzes the research status of lecturers at different aspects such as research motivation, types of research outputs, research scopes/ topics, some advantages as well as obstacles in research of lecturers at the faculty of Library and Information Science.
Originality/value –This paper provides an overall evaluation of lecturers’ research status and suggests that scientific research plays an extreme important role for making a perfect capacity of lecturers at the faculty of Library and Information Science. This would be a great contribution to improve the lecturers’ quality in academic activities.
