The Electronic Library: Volume 33 Issue 4

Digital information organization and use

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Young children’s storybook searching with a visualized search interface

Po-Yao Chao, Chia-Ching Lin

The purpose of this paper is to explore how young children interact with a visualized search interface to search for storybooks by assembling the provided visual searching items…

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Authorship pattern and collaborative research in the field of spacecraft technology

Iqbalahmad U Rajgoli, Ashalatha Laxminarsaiah

The purpose of this paper is to study and analyse the authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, prepare list of prolific authors and test Lotka’s law of scientific productivity…

Information needs of local domestic workers in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Essam A. H. Mansour

The purpose of this study is to provide first-hand information regarding domestic labour/labourers in Egypt. The researcher tries to investigate the information rights and needs…

Wikipedia at university: what faculty think and do about it

Eduard Aibar, Josep Lladós-Masllorens, Antoni Meseguer-Artola, Julià Minguillón, Maura Lerga

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate university faculty perceptions and practices of using Wikipedia as a teaching resource.

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Dialogic communication on universities in Ghana libraries’ websites

Franklin Gyamfi Agyemang, Henry Boateng, Michael Dzigbordi Dzandu

– This study aims to ascertain the contents of universities in Ghana libraries’ websites and find the dialogic potential of the websites.

A bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Membrane Science (1976-2010)

Hui-Zhen Fu, Yuh-Shan Ho

This study aims to examine publication characteristics and development of a science journal Journal of Membrane Science (JMS) with 35 years ' history by bibliometric…

Evaluating Polish digital libraries from the perspective of non-academic users

Miroslaw Górny, John Catlow, Jolanta Mazurek

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the role played by digital libraries in Polish society, particularly in relation to users who are not in education or…

Resource-sharing through an inter-institutional repository: Motivations and resistance of library and information science scholars

A Abrizah, Mohd Hilmi, Norliya Ahmad Kassim

The purpose of this paper is to be concerned with the motivations and resistance among an institutional repository (IR) stakeholder – the Library and Information Science (LIS…

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Mobile devices for academic practices by students of college of sciences in selected Nigerian private universities

Joseph Kehinde Fasae, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari

– This study aims to look at the use of mobile devices by science students with emphasis only on privately owned universities in Nigeria.

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Information literacy at work: A study on information management behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers

Abdus Sattar Chaudhry, Sarah Al-Mahmud

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the information behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers with a focus on information sources and finding information from these sources…

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Towards an understanding of job satisfaction as it correlates with organizational change among personnel in computer-based special libraries in Southwest Nigeria

Ifeanyi Adigwe, Josephus Oriola

– This paper aims to understand job satisfaction as correlate with organizational change among personnel in computerized-based special libraries in Southwest, Nigeria.

The impact of Twitter on libraries: a critical review of the literature

Evgenia Vassilakaki, Emmanouel Garoufallou

The paper aims to present a critical review on the adoption and use of Twitter in libraries. Twitter, a microblogging service, is becoming more and more popular among libraries as…

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Modelling influential factors on customer loyalty in public libraries: a study of West Iran

Maryam Keshvari, Firoozeh Zare Farashbandi, Ehsan Geraei

– The purpose of this study is to present a model for influential factors on customer loyalty in public libraries and its evaluation in public libraries of western Iran.

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Evaluation of digital libraries of Iranian research institutions based on the DigiQUAL protocol

Mehdi Alipour-Hafezi, Hamid Amanollahi Nick

– The purpose of this study is to identify the situation of evaluating Iranian digital libraries using DigiQUAL protocol.

The effects of gender differences on the use of annotatable multimedia e-readers

Yi-Fan Liu, Wu-Yuin Hwang, Sherry Chen

This paper aims to examine how gender differences influence students’ reactions to the use of the annotatable multimedia e-reader (AME). To reach this aim, we develop an AME where…

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ISSN:

0264-0473

e-ISSN:

1758-616X

ISSN-L:

0264-0473

Online date, start – end:

1983

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
  • Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
  • Ms Marie Bloechle