The Electronic Library: Volume 39 Issue 6

Differences between LIS and non-LIS undergraduates’ conceptions of smart libraries: a drawing analysis approach

Yun-Fang Tu, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Shu-Yen Chen, Chiulin Lai, Chuan-Miao Chen

This study aims to compare similarities and differences in library and information science (LIS) and non-LIS undergraduates’ conceptions and perceptions of smart libraries via…

Development and application of the semantic annotation framework for digital images

Jinju Chen, Shiyan Ou

The purpose of this paper is to semantically annotate the content of digital images with the use of Semantic Web technologies and thus facilitate retrieval, integration and…

Productivity story of Iranian librarians: assessing the impact of knowledge management and emotional intelligence

Zahra Sarhadi, Mojtaba Kaffashan Kakhki, Hassan Behzadi

This study aims to assess the effect of knowledge management (KM) development and emotional intelligence (EI) on the productivity of librarians regarding the mediating role of job…

A bibliometric study of the applied linguistics research output of Saudi institutions in the Web of Science for the decade 2011-2020

Mohammed Ali Mohsen

This paper aims to analyse the research contributions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the field of applied linguistics (AL) indexed in the Web of Science core collection for the…

Evaluating children’s websites from an information visualization perspective: findings of a comparative mixed-methods study

Yaghoub Norouzi, Hamid Keshavarz, Zahra Jafari Athar

This study aims to evaluate the selected children’s websites in terms of information visualization features based on the criteria existing in the related literature and expert…