Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication: Volume 70 Issue 6/7

A qualitative study of soft skills development opportunities: perceptions of university information professionals

Sajjad Ahmad, Shehzad Ahmad, Kanwal Ameen

The purpose of this paper is to study the self-perceptions of university information professionals about continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities regarding their…

Ensuring better output in library services through work life balance: a study of librarians’ opinion

Sasmita Rani Samanta, Bijayalaxmi Rautaray, Dillip K. Swain

This paper aims to attempt to explore and examine work–life balance situation of employees working in reputed academic libraries in Odisha, India and to study how they make a…

Impact of students personality traits on social networking sites usage, benefits and risks

Shamshad Ahmed, Muhammad Ramzan, Arslan Sheikh, Asif Ali

This study aims to explore the personality traits (agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism) of the students. The differences among…

Using data mining techniques to predict user’s behavior and create recommender systems in the libraries and information centers

Nasim Ansari, Hossein Vakilimofrad, Muharram Mansoorizadeh, Mohamad Reza Amiri

This study aims to analyze and predict a user’s behavior and create recommender systems in libraries and information centers, using data mining techniques.

The impact of social media on disaster relief effort – recovery coordination for Hurricane Harvey

Bidyut Hazarika, Alan Rea, Reza Mousavi, Kuanchin Chen

This study aims to investigate patterns of social media posting occurring during the initial post-disaster recovery period. In addition, the study investigates the antecedents of…

Regional and international research collaboration and citation impact in selected sub-Saharan African countries in the period 2000 to 2019

Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha

This paper aims to examine and compares the extent and types of research collaboration and their citation impact in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa using co-authorship…

Research progress of SMR data in China and Japan

Wenbin Cai

This paper aims to make a comprehensive evaluation of the progress and achievements made by China and Japan in literature collection, publication and academic research of South…

Determinants of knowledge-sharing behaviour among students at higher educational institutions in Oman: a planned behaviour theoretical perspective of knowledge sharing

Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah, Abdul Hakim H.M Mohamed, Mohamed Izzeldin A. Bashir, Abrar Mohammed Mubarak Al Alawi

This paper aims to investigate how students’ attitude (SA), students’ subjective norms (SN), students’ knowledge sharing intentions (KSI) can contribute to the enhancement of…

Job crafting, workplace civility and work outcomes: the mediating role of work engagement

Anuj Gupta, Pankaj Singh

The antecedents and consequences of work engagement have been extensively discussed and analyzed in the previous literature; however, identifying cost-effective measures that can…

Understanding quotation extraction and attribution: towards automatic extraction of public figure’s statements for journalism in Indonesia

Yohanes Sigit Purnomo W.P., Yogan Jaya Kumar, Nur Zareen Zulkarnain

Extracting information from unstructured data becomes a challenging task for computational linguistics. Public figure’s statement attributed by journalists in a story is one type…