Library Review: Volume 66 Issue 6/7

Libraries and democratization: Promoting political literacy and engagement among Omani citizens

Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Salim Said AlKindi, Naifa Eid Saleem

This theoretical paper aims to draw on existing literature to examine the case for libraries to play a key role in the democratization of Oman. This paper is intended to provide…

The effects of sociocultural factors on the information ethics of undergraduate students: A literature review

Mariam Al-Nuaimi, Ali Al-Aufi, Abdelmajid Bouazza

This paper aims to evaluate the literature dealing with the sociocultural influences on undergraduate students’ information ethics (IE) cognition and behaviour. Much of the…

The assessment of quality maturity levels in Nigerian university libraries

Halima Egberongbe, Barbara Sen, Peter Willett

Organizations constantly evaluate their activities to ensure that they are attaining their management goals. Maturity assessment enables organizations to examine their…

Accessibility of women to health information in Tanzania: A case study of Morogoro Region

Ronald Benard, Monica Samwel Chipungahelo

The aim of this study is to examine accessibility of health information to women in Tanzania with reference to the Morogoro region. The specific objectives of the study were…

The long tail of search and topical queries in public libraries

Tami Oliphant, Ali Shiri

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the long tail of topical search queries, including the influence of current events, posed to a large, urban public library discovery…

A systematic review of evidence on psychometric properties of information literacy tests

Khalid Mahmood

This paper aims to present the results of a systematic review of the evidence on psychometric properties of information literacy (IL) tests.

A university library’s use of social media during a time of crisis

Sabelo Chizwina, Benford Rabatseta, Siviwe Bangani, Mathew Moyo

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how North Western University (NWU) Library used Facebook and Twitter to inform, educate and communicate with library users during the…

Undergraduate student information self-efficacy and library intervention

Yingqi Tang, Hungwei Tseng

The purpose of this study is to investigate undergraduate student information self-efficacy to find out how much the students learned from library instruction classes and to…

Delivery of library and information science curriculum: A joint endeavour among LIS educators and library practitioners at the University of Botswana

Priti Jain

Advancement in Information and communication technologies (ICTs) has revolutionised Library and Information Science (LIS) education and libraries. Both theory and practice have…

Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature

Simona Ibba, Filippo Eros Pani, John Gregory Stockton, Giulio Barabino, Michele Marchesi, Danilo Tigano

One of the main tasks of a researcher is to properly communicate the results he obtained. The choice of the journal in which to publish the work is therefore very important…

Bibliographic control of theses and dissertations in Kenya

Miriam Wanjiku Ndungu

This study aims to identify and analyse the challenges faced in the bibliographic control of theses and dissertations in Kenya.

Institutional repositories in Africa: obstacles and challenges

Ncamsile Nombulelo Dlamini, Maritha Snyman

Access to appropriate scholarly information can play a positive role in the development of African countries. Institutional repositories (IRs) have the potential to enhance access…

Subject-based retrieval of scientific documents, case study: Retrieval of Information Technology scientific articles

Azadeh Mohebi, Mehri Sedighi, Zahra Zargaran

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an approach for retrieving a set of scientific articles in the field of Information Technology (IT) from a scientific database such as…

The pedagogical challenges of creating information literate librarians

Maryam Derakhshan, Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Susan E. Higgins, Sara Abbaspour Asadollah

This study aims to investigate the challenges of developing information literacy (IL) competencies and approaches to overcome the challenges among library and information science…