The Bottom Line: Volume 34 Issue 1

The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers

Merlin Stone, Eleni Aravopoulou, Ryan Stott, Brett David Parnell, Jon Machtynger, Bryan Foss, Liz Machtynger

The purpose of this paper is to show how the business model of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry has evolved and the general differences that evolution…

Information management in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

Emmanuel Kosack, Merlin Stone, Karen Sanders, Eleni Aravopoulou, Davide Biron, Sergio Brodsky, Esra Saleh Al Dhaen, Mohammed Mahmoud, Anastasia Usacheva

This paper aims to review the information management aspects of the early months of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coronavirus 19 outbreak. It…

Human factors affecting information security in libraries

Masoumeh Amini, Hossein Vakilimofrad, Mohammad Karim Saberi

Information security is a critical issue in all organizations. The success of information security in libraries depends, to a large extent, on the effective behavior of…

Digital divide in the major regions of the world and the possibility of convergence

Henry Egbezien Inegbedion

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of the inequalities in the usage of the internet and inequalities in the growth rate in the usage of the internet, and thus…

Mentorship in librarianship: meeting the needs, addressing the challenges

Clement Ola Adekoya, Joseph Kehinde Fasae

Mentorship is crucial to the success and accomplishment of librarianship in the contemporary era. This paper aims to investigate the need for mentorship and challenges besetting…