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Targeted awareness: promoting niche resources using confirmation emails
Brian Rennick, Leticia Camacho, Andy SpackmanThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of a targeted email advertising method that informs university students about library resources relevant to their major.
The approaches used to make change decisions and the influencing determinants
Zhixian YiThis study aimed for the examination of the change decision-making approaches utilised by academic library directors and the identification and explanation of the…
Estimation of GDP from public library usage: Turkey sample
Semanur Öztemiz, Mustafa Agah TekindalPublic libraries are institutions that provide information services to all citizens in a country and support the development of lifelong learning, awareness and…
Data librarianship in South African academic and research libraries: a survey
Elisha R.T. ChiwareThe purpose of this study was to establish the current skills base of librarians working in research data management services in academic and research libraries in South…
Readiness of academic libraries in South Africa to research, teaching and learning support in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Dennis N. Ocholla, Lyudmila OchollaIn this paper, we refer to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2016, where the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) was coined by Klaus Schwab…
An assessment of academic library services: international and domestic students perspectives
Sanaz Soltani, Shahrokh NikouInformation literacy is defined as discrete abilities that a person requires to have in order to find, assess, use and share information. As information literacy skills…
Environmental education in libraries – theoretical foundations and practical implementation
Małgorzata Fedorowicz-KruszewskaThe purpose of this paper is to explain the concepts related to environmental education in the context of sustainable development, to indicate the links between them as…
Public libraries in crisis time: empirigraphy of Iranian public libraries in the 2019 Iran massive flood
Fatemeh Pazooki, Fahimeh SabooriOne of the largest floods in Iran happened in Nowruz in 2019, during which torrents of rain, flooding of rivers, landslides and the destruction of dams caused floods and…
Open research data in African academic and research libraries: a literature analysis
Elisha R.T. ChiwareThe paper presents a literature review on research data management services in African academic and research libraries on the backdrop of the advancing open science and…
Advancing the frontiers of justice to the under represented in Nigeria through public law library legal clinics: issues for consideration
Oludayo John BamgboseThe research sought to explore the role of public law libraries in advancing the net of persons who could access justice, using the law clinic in Nigeria as a gateway. It…
Library leadership: opinions and attributes about Nigerian women academic librarians breaking the glass ceiling
Clement Ola AdekoyaThe purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions and attributes about Nigerian women librarians breaking the glass ceiling that prevents them from reaching…
US academic libraries' staffing and expenditure trends (1996–2016)
Starr Hoffman, Samantha GodbeyThis paper explores trends over time in library staffing and staffing expenditures among two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
ICT proficiency: perspectives of Tangaza University College librarians in Kenya
Stanislaus L. Agava, Peter G. UnderwoodThis study aims to assess the information and communications technology (ICT) proficiency of library and information science (LIS) professionals working in Tangaza…
A conceptual virtual research environment model for the management of research data, a South African perspective
Johann Van Wyk, Theo Bothma, Marlene HolmnerThe purpose of this article is to give an overview of the development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) conceptual model for the management of research data at a…
Reducing system toil in a university library
Emily E. Boss, Nathan GerthThe purpose of this paper is to expand the information technology concept of toil by applying it to system analysis for academic libraries. System mapping and toil…
Improving and extending activities of university and research libraries in Iran: the role of Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (Irandoc)
Reza Rajabali Beglou, Somaye Sadat AkhshikThe purpose of this paper is to define the need to a center for improving and extending university and research libraries in Iran, and identifying capabilities and…
Exploiting the Marrakesh treaty to obviate copyright-related challenges on access to information by visually impaired people in academic libraries
Samuel Macharia, Japheth Otike, Emily K. BosireThe purpose of this paper is to explore the copyright law in relation to access to information by persons with visual impairments. It assesses the barriers placed by the…
Studying musical creativity for managing music library services
Charilaos Lavranos, Panagiotis Manolitzas, Petros Kostagiolas, Evangelos GrigoroudisThe purpose of this paper is to study and quantify musicians' creativity in order to tune music library services and pinpoint potential musical creative activities.
Nurturing customer service culture in an experience economy: employees' assessment of the UWI, Mona Library service model
Sasekea Harris, Cheryl Folkes, Karen Tyrell, David BrownIn an experience economy, the alternative options for higher education are varied; resulting in competition and a deliberate focus on student experience to create…
Trends in the Dutch and Finnish library landscape
Sander van Kempen, Anne van den Dool, Pirkko Lindberg, Leena ParviainenThis paper aims to provide an overview of the current situation as it relates to library acts and prominent usage trends in public libraries in The Netherlands and Finland.
Culture of assessment in academic libraries in Kuwait: investigating the current situation and future prospects
Bibi M. Alajmi, Madiha KaisarUsing the Association of Research Libraries' SPEC KIT 303 library assessment framework, this study examines and evaluates academic libraries' efforts toward establishing a…
Innovative use of technologies to enhance knowledge management
Everlyn M'mbone Anduvare, Marlene HolmnerThe study aims to identify and recommend to the Marist International University College (MIUC) technologies that enhance knowledge management, with a particular focus on…
Research data management at a public university in Malawi: the role of “three hands”
Winner Dominic Chawinga, Sandy ZinnConsidering that research data is increasingly hailed as an important raw material for current and future science discoveries, many research stakeholders have joined…
The status of electronic teaching within South African LIS Education
Mabel K. MajanjaTo determine the perceived self-efficacy of South African LIS academics in e-teaching as a co-requisite to imparting relevant ICT knowledge and skills to LIS students.
Knowledge sharing practices among cataloguers in Nigeria's academic libraries
Wole Olatokun, Tobechukwu Mary-Ann NjideakaThe imperative role of cataloguing in libraries as the bedrock of information/knowledge organization, the need to manage and retain knowledge for strategic planning and…
Users' perceived level of service at the African Union Court on Human and Peoples' Rights library in Arusha, Tanzania
Fidelis Mutisya, Omwoyo Bosire OnyanchaThe study examined users' perceived level of service at the African Union Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (AUCHPR) library in Arusha, Tanzania.
Increasing or decreasing reading trend: an overview of the current status of the public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Muhammad Rafi, Khurshid Ahmad, Zheng Jian MingAs the human race moved from the Paleolithic to the current phases of the Neolithic period, the learning process developed from inscriptions on stones to clay tablets…
Influence of copyright exceptions and limitations on access to information in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda libraries
Magdaline Wanjiru Mungai, Selikem Sebuava Dorvlo, Asaph Nuwagirya, Marlene HolmnerCopyright exceptions promote access to information by users without breaching copyright. This research paper reviews copyright exceptions in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda and…
Exploring the common factors affecting the strategic plans in Iranian academic libraries
Sirous Panahi, Hossein Ghalavand, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolahad Nabiolahi, Sedigheh KhaniOne of the important processes for success or failure of strategic plans in academic libraries is identifying different dimensions and factors affecting library activities…
An authentic flip subscription model for Africa: library as publisher service
Reggie Raju, Jill Claassen, Jeremiah Pietersen, Danielle AbrahamseThis paper investigates the fit for purpose of the flip model proposed by Max Planck Society and Plan S for the African environment. This flipped model is examined against…
The emerging roles of academic librarians in Kenya: apomediaries or infomediaries?
Joel Nakitare, Emily Sawe, Joyce Nyambala, Tom KwanyaThe main purpose of this study was to investigate the emerging roles of academic librarians in Kenya, with a view to determining whether they perform better as…
Selecting information products and services to embed in a virtual learning environment to support engineering undergraduates in a blended learning context
Lesego Makhafola, Martie J. Van DeventerThe purpose of this study was to understand what role undergraduate third- and fourth-year students expect librarians to play in an online learning environment and to…
Critical success factors for total quality management implementation and implications for sustainable academic libraries
Edward Asante, Patrick NgulubeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the critical success factors for total quality management implementation and implications for sustainable academic libraries in…
Evaluating the quality of health information services in public libraries: an experience from Iran
Sara Valadi-khorram, Mohammad Reza Amiri, Mohammad Karim SaberiConsidering the important role of public libraries in providing health information service as well as user feedback in improving the quality of health information…
Competitive intelligence as a coping strategy for academic libraries in South Africa
Smangele P. Moyane, Luyanda Dube, Ntando Nkomo, Patrick NgulubeThis study examined the extent to which public academic libraries in South Africa coped with the changing information environment by using competitive intelligence (CI) to…
Impact of bookshelf locations using eye-tracking methodology
Sho Sato, Yukari Eto, Kotomi Iwaki, Tadashi Oyanagi, Yu YasumaThis study aimed to understand better the user gaze behavior on bookshelves using eye-tracking technology.
Research data management literacy amongst lecturers at Strathmore University, Kenya
Fredrick Odhiambo Adika, Tom KwanyaThe purpose of this study was to analyse the skills required by lecturers to be able to support research data management effectively; assess the research data management…
Strategies for the use of open access institutional repositories at universities in Ghana
Kwame Kodua-Ntim, Madeleine C FombadThis article suggests strategies for the usage of open access institutional repositories (OAIR) at university libraries in Ghana.
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