Table of contents - Special Issue: Best young professionals
Guest Editors: Elke Greifender
Jumping in at the deep end: young professionals and peer‐reviewed journals
Elke GreifenederThe purpose of this paper is to discuss research articles from authors who have just left school.
Talking, looking, flying, searching: information seeking behaviour in Second Life
Margaret OstranderThis research seeks to answer, “How do everyday Second Life users go about finding needed information?” as the primary research question.
A new world for virtual reference
Krista GodfreyThis paper aims to examine the emerging field of reference in virtual worlds and attempts to determine its place among existing reference services. The virtual world of Second…
Facebook as a social search engine and the implications for libraries in the twenty‐first century
Mark‐Shane ScaleThe primary objectives of this research paper are to explore the concept of social search, evaluate the performance of Facebook as a social search engine, and to understand the…
Collaboration as a wave of future: exploring experiences from Croatian archives
Sanjica Faletar Tanackoviæ, Boris BadurinaThe purpose of this paper is to report on research that examined the relationship between, and collaboration of, Croatian archives, libraries and museums.
Reappraising archival practice in light of the new social history
Melinda Van Wingen, Abigail BassThis paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography and archival practices. It takes the new social history approach to history as a case study for examining how…
Exploring access in the developing world: people, libraries and information technology in Morocco
Heather Lea MoulaisonThis paper aims to explore the information technology environment in a developing country, Morocco, through a discussion of the people, their information environment, and…
Digital rights description as part of digital rights management: a challenge for libraries
Dörte BöhnerThe purpose of this paper is to answer the question of whether digital rights management (DRM) can be useful to libraries.
Anthropological motivated usability evaluation: An exploration of IREON – international relations and area studies gateway
Najko JahnThe objective of this paper is to evaluate the usability of the recently developed IREON – International Relations and Area Studies Gateway – with the aid of an anthropological…
Recruiting for diversity: strategies for twenty‐first century research librarianship
Barbara Dewey, Jillian KeallyThe paper aims to focus on organizational and institutional strategies, including a case study from the University of Tennessee, concerned with recruiting librarians from diverse…
A survey of the application of Web 2.0 in Australasian university libraries
Nguyen Cuong LinhThis paper aims to provide an overall picture of the application of Web 2.0 technologies in Australasian university libraries. The focus of the research was what types of Web 2.0…
Information management and service integration at German universities
Andreas Degkwitz, Peter SchirmbacherCustomers do not like to deal with maintenance problems and responsibilities for academic support facilities. They prefer service portfolios that integrate services for an easy…
Designing and testing a web‐based board game for teaching information literacy skills and concepts
Karen Markey, Fritz Swanson, Andrea Jenkins, Brian J. Jennings, Beth St. Jean, Victor Rosenberg, Xingxing Yao, Robert L. FrostThis paper seeks to focus on the design and testing of a web‐based online board game for teaching undergraduate students information literacy skills and concepts.
Copyright in the networked world: plagiarism and its ambiguities
Michael SeadleLibraries and scholars face more frequent problems with and decisions about plagiarism than in the past. This article aims to look at complex cases where plagiarism may have…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho