Library Hi Tech: Volume 24 Issue 3

Evidence‐based librarianship:a personal perspective from the medical/nursing realm

Seeks to spread the concept of evidence‐based practice beyond the health sector.

Research in librarianship: issues to consider

Attempting to incorporate research into decision making raises several questions about the research that currently exists in librarianship, areas that are most in need of…

Evidence‐based librarianship: the EBL process

The paper seeks to describe the EBL process in sufficient detail that the readers can apply it to their own professional practice.

Clear and present questions: formulating questions for evidence based practice

The paper seeks to provide an overview and update of thinking in relation to the theory and practice of formulation of answerable research questions within evidence based…

Approaching librarianship from the data: using bibliomining for evidence‐based librarianship

The purpose of this work is to present an alternative way of considering evidence‐based librarianship (EBL) through an examination of the data that makes up studies used for EBL.

Qualitative research in evidence‐based practice: a valuable partnership

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of the qualitative research paradigm, with a particular emphasis on the marginalization of qualitative approaches within the…

A critical appraisal tool for library and information research

As the interest in evidence‐based librarianship increases, so does the need for a standardized practice methodology. One of the most essential components of EBL, critical…

Educating the Millennial Generation for evidence based information practice

The purpose of this paper is to consider how library education can best incorporate the profession's emerging interest in evidence‐based practice (EBP) whilst ensuring that the…

CDSware (CERN Document Server Software)

The purpose of this article is to describe CDSware (CERN Document Server Software), a software developed at CERN.

Convergence in Germany: the Information, Communication and Media Center (ICMC/IKMZ) of Cottbus University

The aim of this paper is to ask why the libraries and the computer and media centres of German universities are picking up too little to improve the conditions for learning…

Migration from DOBIS/LIBIS to Horizon at KFUPM

The paper's purpose is to share the difficulties in migration from a legacy system to a new system at the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Library in Saudi Arabia.

Streaming audio with synchronized transcripts utilizing SMIL

The purpose of this paper is to describe developmental work with SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) to synchronize transcript captions with streaming audio.

Copyright in the networked world: using facts

The purpose of this column is to look at how US copyright law deals with facts and what can reasonably be considered as a fact.

Web‐Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries, 2nd ed.

2006 Awards for Excellence