2010 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2010), "2010 Awards for Excellence", The Electronic Library, Vol. 28 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/el.2010.26328faa.001

2010 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2010 Awards for Excellence From: The Electronic Library, Volume 28, Issue 6

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for The Electronic Library

``Multipurpose community telecentres in Bangladesh: problems and prospects''

Md. Shariful IslamMd. Nazmul HasanDepartment of Information Science & Library Management, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss multipurpose community information and knowledge centres (MCTs) and then describes and assesses the telecommunication facilities (and hence information access and provision) of such telecentres in Bangladesh including radio, television, telephone and internet facilities. The paper then highlights problems and prospects, in rural areas of Bangladesh, of information access through the telecentres.Design/methodology/approach - The paper is based on a review of literature collected through the internet, personal visits and other secondary sources such as research reports and articles.Findings - The paper highlights the existing MCT initiatives in rural Bangladesh and discusses their problems and prospects.Originality/value - The paper is one of the very few studies which focuses on the prospects of MCTs for rural Bangladesh, particularly as regards information and knowledge access and provision, and proposes future directions for the development of MCTs in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Bangladesh, Information centres, Internet, Radio, Telephone, Television

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470910966952

This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 3, 2009, pp. 537-53, The Electronic Library

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

``System architecture of Library 2.0''

Xinya YangQunyi WeiXiaodong Peng

This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 2, 2009, The Electronic Library

``Ubiquitous library usability test for the improvement of information access for the blind''

Seung-Jin KwakKyung-Jae Bae

This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 4, 2009, The Electronic Library

``Semantic navigating an OPAC by subject headings meta-information''

Ioannis PapadakisMichalis StefanidakisAikaterini Tzali

This article originally appeared in Volume 27 Number 5, 2009, The Electronic Library

Outstanding reviewers

Nancy HertherUniversity of Minnesota, USAIna FourieUniversity of Pretoria, South Africa