Library Hi Tech: Volume 37 Issue 3

User-opinion mining for mobile library apps in China: exploring user improvement needs

Haichen Zhou, Dejun Zheng, Yongming Li, Junwei Shen

To further provide some insight into mobile library (m-library) applications (apps) user needs and help libraries or app providers improve the service quality, the purpose of this…

Extracting and applying evaluation criteria for ontology quality assessment

Seonghun Kim, Sam G. Oh

The purpose of this paper is to formulate apposite criteria for ontology evaluation and test them through assessments of existing ontologies.

User experience of e-government: the Nigeria Immigration Service

Olaseni Muritala Okunola, Jennifer Rowley

The purpose of this paper is to identify key considerations influencing the adoption and use of e-government services by providing insights into users’ views of their experience…

Taking archives to the people: The use of social media as a tool to promote public archives in South Africa

Jonathan Mukwevho, Mpho Ngoepe

Despite the availability of the mandate of public archives repositories to “take archives to the people in South Africa”, archives in South Africa remain largely the domain of the…

Three-dimensional scanning and printing techniques to analyze and archive human skeletal remains

Kristy Henson, Paul Constantino, F. Robin O’Keefe, Greg Popovich

The topic of human skeletal analysis is a sensitive subject in North America. Laws and regulations surrounding research of human skeletal material make it difficult to use these…

Investigating user continuance intention toward library self-service technology: The case of self-issue and return systems in the public context

Chorng-Guang Wu, Pei-Yin Wu

The purpose of this paper is to apply expectation-confirmation theory (ECT) and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to identify potential determinants…

The intelligent library: Thought leaders’ views on the likely impact of artificial intelligence on academic libraries

Andrew M. Cox, Stephen Pinfield, Sophie Rutter

The last few years have seen a surge of interest in artificial intelligence (AI). The purpose of this paper is to capture a snapshot of perceptions of the potential impact of AI…

Development and evaluation of an automatic text annotation system for supporting digital humanities research

Chih-Ming Chen, Yung-Ting Chen, Chen-Yu Liu

An automatic text annotation system (ATAS) that can collect resources from different databases through Linked Data (LD) for automatically annotating ancient texts was developed in…

Blind academic library users’ experiences with obtaining full text and accessible full text of books and articles in the USA: A qualitative study

Adina Mulliken, Kerry Falloon

The purpose of this paper is to explore a topic where blind participants expressed significant concern: obtaining full text and accessible full text.

Social media, diffusion of innovations, morale and digital inequality: A case study at the University of Limpopo Libraries, South Africa

Marion Lucille Williams, Alexander Dhoest, Ian Saunderson

The purpose of this paper is to explore social media usage in an academic library in South Africa and the factors influencing its use. The primary goal of the study was to examine…

Pain points of cultural institutions in search visibility: the case of Serbia

Nataša Krstić, Dejan Masliković

The purpose of this paper is to identify the common issues affecting the cultural institutions’ websites in terms of organic search visibility and to detect if there are some…

What comes next: understanding BIBFRAME

Thomas D. Steele

Bibliographic framework initiative (BIBFRAME) is a data model created by the Library of Congress to with the long-term goal of replacing Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC). The…

Investigation of challenges in academic institutional repositories: A survey of academic librarians

Soohyung Joo, Darra Hofman, Youngseek Kim

The purpose of this paper is to explore the breadth of the challenges and issues facing institutional repositories in academic libraries, based on a survey of academic librarians…

Benefits and challenges of BIBFRAME: Cataloging special format materials, implementation, and continuing educational resources

Jung-Ran Park, Lorraine L. Richards, Andrew Brenza

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential strengths and weaknesses of the BIBFRAME bibliographic model and outline its purpose and key features. In addition, it…

Evaluating the usability of the information architecture of academic library websites

Isabel Mariann Silvis, Theo J.D. Bothma, Koos J.W. de Beer

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated list of heuristics and an information architecture (IA) framework for the heuristic evaluation of the IA of academic library…

Information visualization skills for academic librarians: A content analysis of publications and online LibGuides in the digital humanities

Hsuanwei Michelle Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how scholars in the digital humanities employ information visualization techniques in their research, and how academic librarians…

IoT-based real time intelligent routing for emergent crowd evacuation

Yanlan Mei, Ping Gui, Xianfeng Luo, Benbu Liang, Liuliu Fu, Xianrong Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to take advantage of Internet of Things (IoT) for intelligent route programming of crowd emergency evacuation in metro station. It is a novel approach…

Bridging identity challenges: why and how one library plugged ORCiD into their enterprise

James Powell, Carol Hoover, Andrew Gordon, Michelle Mittrach

The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation and impact of a locally customized Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) profile wizard. It also provides a…