The Electronic Library: Volume 21 Issue 2

A comparison between needed competencies of academic librarians and LIS curricula in Pakistan

Rapidly growing academic libraries are the major consumers of the product of seven LIS schools in Pakistan. The changing environment of academic life demands new competencies in…

Monitoring scientific publications over the WWW

The World Wide Web has become an important medium for disseminating scientific publications. To make their research works accessible to other researchers, most research…

Informatics: a brief survey

Since the late 1970s, the term “informatics” has increasingly been adopted to describe the application of information technology to various fields, such as legal informatics…

Academic librarians’ perception of Lexis‐Nexis

This research is an examination of the perception by academic librarians of the Web version of Lexis‐Nexis academic datafile. Specifically, the investigation utilizes three…

Enriching user‐oriented class associations for library classification schemes

This paper explores the possibility of adding user‐oriented class associations to hierarchical library classification schemes. Some highly associated classes not grouped in the…

Overcoming psychological obstacles to optimal online search performance

Successful online searching is more than simply a matter of mastering search technique. Emotions, attitudes and environmental factors like stress also play a crucial role in…

Metadata management system: design and implementation

Commonly, an organizational information system may have various data types and directory formats. It usually employs different metadata formats to represent the documents…

Journal publishing is ripe for change

Focuses on the changes taking place in the world of scholarly publishing. Outlines the activities and future plans of a selection of new open distribution publishing sources.

Enterprise Resource Planning: Global Opportunities and Challenges

The Library and Information Professional’s Guide to Plug‐ins and other Web Browser Tools: Selection, Installation, Troubleshooting

Getting and Staying Noticed on the Web: Your Web Promotion Questions Answered

Database Integrity: Challenges and Solutions

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 36

The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, 2nd ed.

Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

Super Searchers Make It on Their Own