The Electronic Library: Volume 26 Issue 4

Investigating online community portals for enhanced alumni networking

Zenia Barnard, Chris Rensleigh

The core purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which web portal technology and online communities could be successfully applied by the alumni offices of higher…

The digital library as an enterprise: the Zachman approach

Abrizah Abdullah, A.N. Zainab

The purpose of this paper is to examine the needs of digital library stakeholders and how a collaborative digital library might be designed to meet these needs. The collaborative…

Digital divide and economic development: case study of sub‐Saharan Africa

Stephen M. Mutula

The purpose of this paper is to examine the nexus between the digital divide and development and discusses attempts being made at continental, regional and country levels to…

Enhancing literary electronic books with logical structure: electronic work

Miguel A. Martínez‐Prieto, Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús M. Vegas, Joaquín Adiego, Carlos E. Cuesta

This paper aims to present the concept of electronic work, such as an e‐book integrator of concerns (logical structure, appearance and functionality), for representing literary…

Business administration students' perception of usability of the Business Source Premier database: A case study

Alexei Oulanov

The current article is a research study examining user perception of the usability of an online information system used by business administration students. The online database…

The influence of traditional reading habits on the construction of digital libraries in developing countries

Zheng Songhui

The purpose of this study is to explore the traditional reading habits of library users which were ignored when digital libraries were constructed in developing countries. It…

Can I help you? Implementing an IM service

Anna Hvass, Sue Myer

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a case study evaluating the introduction of an instant messaging (IM) reference service.

E‐government web site enhancement opportunities: a learning perspective

Jen‐Hung Huang, Stacy Huey‐Pyng Shyu

This study seeks to develop a framework of analysis that categorizes features of e‐government web site design in a matrix of knowledge‐acquiring process versus learners' values…

Digital repository in ceramics: a metadata study

Chandana Patra

This paper seeks to study the metadata requirements for setting up a digital repository in ceramics resources that would provide researchers and ceramic art professionals with…

Design of a model of publication sharing and harvesting

Shien‐Chiang Yu

This study aims to discuss a system constructed to satisfy scholars' personal information management requirements when collecting e‐documents, and to include generation of a…

Evaluation of information providers and popular search engines on the base of postgraduate students' perspectives

Nosrat Riahinia, Fatimah Zandian

This study seeks to examine the postgraduate students of two universities (Tarbiat Moallem and Tarbiat Modares) in Tehran to discover how they use online databases and general…

Technology Made Simple: An Improvement Guide for Small and Medium Libraries

Ina Fourie

The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries

Brenda Chawner

Presentations for Librarians: A Complete Guide to Creating Effective, Learner‐centred Presentations

Philip Calvert

Metadata and Its Applications in the Digital Library: Approaches and Practices

Philip Barker

Subject Access to a Multilingual Museum Database: A Step‐by‐Step Approach to the Digitization Process

Philip Calvert

What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy

Frank Parry