Library Hi Tech: Volume 31 Issue 3

Cost and benefit of quality control visual checks in large-scale digitization of archival manuscripts

Joyce Chapman, Samantha Leonard

The purpose of this paper is to provide much needed data to staff working with archival digitization on cost and benefit of visual checks during quality control workflows, and to…

Doing qualitative research in Chinese contexts: Lessons learned from conducting interviews in a Chinese healthcare environment

Lihong Zhou, Miguel Baptista Nunes

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the process of doing qualitative inductive research in China, drawing its conclusions from a grounded theory study. To be more…

A comparison between select open source and proprietary integrated library systems

Joseph Pruett, Namjoo Choi

As libraries face budget cuts, open source integrated library systems are an attractive alternative to proprietary choices. Even though open source software is free to acquire…

Marketing via social media: a case study

Lili Luo, Yuan Wang, Lifeng Han

The purpose of this paper is to present a study about a successful, award-winning online video marketing project at an academic library in China, hoping to shed light on how to…

Global village: mobile access to library resources

Jingru Hoivik

This paper describes an ongoing mobile library project for the National Library of Norway. The purpose is to develop a visual web service prototype providing mobile access to the…

Library mobile applications in university libraries

Chiao-Chen Chang

This research aims to integrate the unified theory of acceptance and usage of technology (UTAUT) with task technology fit to explain users' behavioral intention of using library…

An investigation into the viability of LibraryThing for promotional and user engagement purposes in libraries

Anna Richards, Barbara Sen

LibraryThing is a Web 2.0 tool allowing users to catalogue books using data drawn from sources such as Amazon and the Library of Congress and has facilities such as tagging and…

Publishing legacy data as linked data: a state of the art survey

Ujjal Marjit, Kumar Sharma, Arup Sarkar, Madaiah Krishnamurthy

– This article aims to discuss how the emergence of advanced semantic web technology has transformed the conventional web into machine processable and understandable form.

AUTHORIS: a tool for authority control in the semantic web

Amed Leiva-Mederos, José A. Senso, Sandor Domínguez-Velasco, Pedro Hípola

The purpose of this paper is to propose a tool that generates authority files to be integrated with linked data by means of learning rules. AUTHORIS is software developed to…

All about information – balancing ICT, IRS, users and making a difference

Ina Fourie

The purpose of this contribution is to set the scenario for pursuing options to find a balance between information communication technology (ICT), information retrieval systems…