The Electronic Library: Volume 26 Issue 2

The use of ICTs in Namibia's SME sector to access business information services

The purpose of the paper is to present current state of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Namibia's small and medium‐sized enterprises (SME) sector…

The ETS iSkillsTM Assessment: a digital age tool

The purpose of this paper is to show how information and communications technology (ICT) literacy skills reflect twenty‐first century requirements for researching and…

Development of a learning system for a museum collection of print‐related artifacts

The purpose of this paper is to present the concepts of the digital collection of Taiwanese technological artifacts and reliable industrial technology, to proceed with the…

Cataloguers in a global information network environment

This paper aims to explore the traditional and emerging roles of cataloguing professionals in a global network information environment. That exploration becomes even more critical…

Contextualization of web searching: a grounded theory approach

This paper aims to report selective findings of a wider study on interaction of users with web‐based search tools to underline the importance of context in information seeking on…

Event‐based knowledge extraction from free‐text descriptions for art images by using semantic role labeling approaches

The purpose of this paper is to show how previous studies have demonstrated that non‐professional users prefer using event‐based conceptual descriptions, such as “a woman wearing…

Bridging the digital divide: The role of librarians and information professionals in the third millennium

The purpose of this paper is to show how the digital divide has become a common metaphor originating from now nearly obsolete phrases such as “information have and have nots” and…

The use of cybercafes in Ilorin, Nigeria

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of cybercafés in Ilorin, Nigeria. The main objectives of the survey were to determine the characteristics of the users, how…

An evaluation of the second survey on electronic databases usage at Ankara University Digital Library

The purpose of this paper is to encompass the assessment of the effectiveness of the digital library and the value of multidisciplinary databases in terms of user preferences and…

A novel self‐organising clustering model for time‐event documents

The purpose of this paper is to examine neural document clustering techniques, e.g. self‐organising map (SOM) or growing neural gas (GNG), usually assume that textual information…

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) Volume 42

Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online

Managing Facilities for Results: Optimizing Space for Services

New Directions in Reference

Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E‐mail Environments

Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services (2nd ed.)