The Electronic Library: Volume 40 Issue 6

Sustaining multilinguality: case studies of two multilingual digital libraries

Anping Wu, Jiangping Chen

This study aims to understand the technical and operational challenges encountered by multilingual digital libraries and their strategies to solve problems in sustaining…

Assessment of digital library design guidelines to support blind and visually impaired users: a study of key stakeholders’ perspectives

Iris Xie, Rakesh Babu, Shengang Wang, Hyun Seung Lee, Tae Hee Lee

This study aims to investigate the perceptional differences of key stakeholders in assessing the Digital Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG), in which design…

A quantitative study on utilizing electronic resources to engage children’s reading and learning: parents’ perspectives through the 5E instructional model

Lily Sin Nga Cheung, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

This pilot study aims to investigate how parents use electronic resources to encourage children’s reading and learning interests through the 5E instructional model. Moreover, this…

A model for the identification of the functional structures of unstructured abstracts in the social sciences

Si Shen, Chuan Jiang, Haotian Hu, Youshu Ji, Dongbo Wang

Reorganising unstructured academic abstracts according to a certain logical structure can help scholars not only extract valid information quickly but also facilitate the faceted…

Information literacy instruction in university libraries of Islamabad, Pakistan: a study of librarians’ perceptions, practices, barriers, and strategies

Ghulam Moin Ud Din, Muhammad Ijaz Mairaj, Arslan Sheikh

This paper aims to measure the perceptions of librarians about information literacy (IL) instruction, their current IL practices and the problems they face while offering IL…

Mobile self-efficacy as predictor of mobile-based personal digital archiving practices: a study of Pakistani undergraduates

Irfan Ali, Nosheen Fatima Warraich

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of mobile self-efficacy on personal digital archiving (PDA) practices of undergraduate students.

Neural graph collaborative filtering for privacy preservation based on federated transfer learning

Yaqi Liu, Shuzhen Fang, Lingyu Wang, Chong Huan, Ruixue Wang

In recent years, personalized recommendations have facilitated easy access to users' personal information and historical interactions, thereby improving recommendation…