Table of contents - Special Issue: Theme issue: User research and technology
Users and technology: are we doing research now?
Elke GreifenederThis paper aims to examine changes in the quality of user research in library and information science.
Providing online access to historic films at the Washington State University libraries
Mark O'English, Trevor James BondThis paper aims to discuss the procedures and methods developed at Washington State University to digitize and make accessible historic moving images.
How can educational technology facilitate student engagement with online primary sources?: A user needs assessment
Thea Lindquist, Holley LongThe authors received a grant to develop a digital educational tool to facilitate student engagement with online primary sources. Students and faculty were interviewed prior to…
A study on metadata elements for web‐based reference resources system developed through usability testing
Younghee NohTo propose correct metadata elements, it was deemed necessary to close the gap between the perception of metadata creators and data creators through a user behavior analysis. This…
Next generation or current generation?: A study of the OPACs of 260 academic libraries in the USA and Canada
Sharon Q. Yang, Melissa A. HofmannThe study described in this paper aims to identify the progress made in the efforts to model current online public access catalogs (OPACs) after the next generation catalog (NGC…
Usability testing of VuFind at an academic library
William Denton, Sarah J. CoyshThe purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an academic library's implementation of a discovery layer (VuFind 1.0 RC1) as a next‐generation catalogue, based on…
Evaluating EBSCOhost Mobile
Ronan Hegarty, Judith WustemanThe purpose of the evaluation described in this paper is to determine the usability of the services provided by the EBSCOhost Mobile application.
Scaling of input forms by a simple pair comparison approach
Theo Held, Patrick Fischer, Martin SchreppThis paper aims to introduce and demonstrate a method that supports design decisions in an easy and practicable way.
Podcasting initiatives in American research libraries
James Bierman, Maura L. ValentinoThis paper aims to discover how many American research libraries produce podcasts, on what subjects they are produced, and how those podcasts are promoted.
Designing a viable scientific communication model: VSM approach
Mahmood KhosrowjerdiThis paper aims to design a viable model for a scholarly communication system.
Digital library deployment in a university: Challenges and prospects
Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, Majesty Ignatius EzeaniThe purpose of this paper is to present one of the ways in which digital library technology is employed in providing twenty‐first century library and information services to a…
Personal information and reference management: Librarians' increasing creativity
Ina FourieThis column seeks to explore the potential of personal information management (PIM) and reference management to offer more than easy citation of information sources and the…
Archiving in the networked world: open access journals
Michael SeadleThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e‐Depot provide long‐term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho