Library Review: Volume 65 Issue 6/7

Redeploying public librarians to the front-lines: prioritizing digital inclusion

Siobhan A. Stevenson, Caleb Domsy

This paper aims to draw attention to the quiet, if inadvertent, disappearance of the front-line public librarian, as libraries make difficult organizational choices in the…

Leveraging new knowledge with relational capabilities: An investigation of rural school libraries in southern Portugal

Jorge Tiago Martins, Rosa Canhoto

This paper aims to identify and conceptualize a set of relational capabilities that school libraries in the Alentejo region of Portugal develop for acquiring new knowledge that…

Surpassing the business model: a public sphere approach to public library management

Masanori Koizumi, Michael M. Widdersheim

The purpose of this paper is to compare the characteristics of the public sphere with those of a shared value approach and better understand the value that public libraries can…

Embracing the future while storing the past: the Joint Library Facility story

Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Joanne Romano

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Joint Library Facility services and how Medical Science Libraries have embraced the Resource in Common model to save service copies…

Relationship between electronic journal downloads and citations in library consortia

Mangkhollen Singson, S. Thiyagarajan, M. Leeladharan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between electronic journal downloads and citations and whether online electronic resource usage can be adopted as an…

Use of electronic journal resources by postgraduate students at the University of Dar es Salaam

Anajoyce Samuel Katabalwa

This paper aims to assess the use of electronic journal resource at the University of Dar es Salaam. The study involved the postgraduate students in the School of Education at the…

The integration of ICT in library and information science curriculum analytical study of students’ perception in Jordanian Universities

Younis Al-Shwabkah, Faten Hamad, Nashrawan Taha, Maha Al-Fadel

This study aims to explore undergraduate students’ perceptions of teaching information and communication technology (ICT) courses in the library and information science (LIS…

Library promotion methods and tools modeling and simulation on Twitter

Damianos P. Sakas, Apostolos S. Sarlis

Twitter is the most popular instant messaging platform today. Thanks to the consistency factor typical of it, it offers every company or business the best opportunity to promote…