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The Electronic Library: Volume 32 Issue 3

Digital information organization and use

Category:

Library and Information Studies

Table Of Contents

What do users prefer, card catalogue or OPAC?: A study of Punjab University Library

Alia Arshad, Farzana Shafique

The purpose of the study is to determine the most preferred catalogue format – card catalogue or online public access catalogue (OPAC) for searching library material in…

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Impact of automation on library services in selected management institutes at Aligarh: A survey

Mohammad Anas, Jafar Iqbal, Parvez Ahmad

– The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of automation on library management services of four selected management institutes at Aligarh.

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Cost efficiency and service effectiveness for university e-libraries in Taiwan

Ling-Feng Hsieh, Jiung-Bin Chin, Mu-Chen Wu

The aim of this paper is to construct a model of cost efficiency and service effectiveness for a university e-library to allocate e-resources cost and to attain quality of…

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Efficiency of e-learning in an information literacy course for medical students at the Masaryk University

Jiří Kratochvil

The purpose of this paper is to argue that e-learning can be a viable alternative teaching method for information literacy according to a comparison of librarian’s time…

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Library resources semantization based on resource ontology

Fan Yu, Junping Qiu, Wen Lou

This paper aims to solve the disadvantages of content-based domain ontology (CBDO) and metadata-based domain ontology (MDO) and improve organization and discovery…

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Status of digital heritage preservation management in Eastern Africa

Stephen Mudogo Mutula

The primary purpose of this paper was to assess the status of digital heritage preservation management in Eastern Africa. The following research objectives were addressed…

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Graduate students appreciate Google Scholar, but still find use for libraries

Ming-der Wu, Shih-chuan Chen

The purpose of this study is to examine how graduate students perceive and use Google Scholar. Google Scholar has provided a convenient alternative for finding scholarly…

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Public library staff’s perceived value and satisfaction of an open source library system

Barbara Albee, Hsin-liang Chen

The purpose of this study is to examine public library staff attitudes towards an open-source library automation system in the state of Indiana. The researchers were…

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Exploring the fit of e-books to the needs of medical academics in Australia

Concepción Shimizu Wilson, John D’Ambra, Robyn Drummond

The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which e-books fit the needs of medical academics of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the performance of…

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Catalogue 2.0: The Future of the Library Catalogue

Philip Hider

The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (4th ed.)

Alastair G. Smith

Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services: A Handbook

Philip Calvert

Cloud-Based Services for your Library

Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam

Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives

Peter Lund

Management Basics for Information Professionals (3rd ed.)

Philip Calvert

ISSN:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Dr Jiangping Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle

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