Library Hi Tech: Volume 36 Issue 1

Accessible search and the role of metadata

Wondwossen Mulualem Beyene, Thomas Godwin

Some of the usability and accessibility problems of search interfaces emanate from poorly organized search results, where different types of metadata are employed. Metadata is…

Holograms in libraries – the potential for education, promotion and services

Magdalena Wójcik

The subject of this paper is the application of holograms in cultural institutions. The purpose of this paper is to define the potential areas of hologram use in libraries…

Student responses to an animated character in information literacy instruction

Jennifer Poggiali

This paper reports on a grant-funded project to create a hand-drawn, custom-made animated character named Jasmyn. Drawing on animation theory, the purpose of this paper is to use…

The application of near-automated georeferencing technique to a strip of historic aerial photographs in GIS

Jae Sung Kim

The purpose of this paper is to describe the procedure for near-automation of the most commonly used manual georeferencing technique in a desktop GIS environment for historic…

Improving the visibility of library resources via mapping library subject headings to Wikipedia articles

Arash Joorabchi, Abdulhussain E. Mahdi

Linking libraries and Wikipedia can significantly improve the quality of services provided by these two major silos of knowledge. Such linkage would enrich the quality of…

The design of early childhood makerspaces to support positive technological development: Two case studies

Marina Umaschi Bers, Amanda Strawhacker, Miki Vizner

With the advent of the maker movement, there has been a new push to explore how spaces of learning ought to be designed. The purpose of this paper is to integrate three approaches…

Ranking authors in academic social networks: a survey

Tehmina Amjad, Ali Daud, Naif Radi Aljohani

This study reviews the methods found in the literature for the ranking of authors, identifies the pros and cons of these methods, discusses and compares these methods. The purpose…

Factors influencing people’s health knowledge adoption in social media: The mediating effect of trust and the moderating effect of health threat

Chaoguang Huo, Min Zhang, Feicheng Ma

The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors influencing people’s health knowledge adoption in social media, with an eye toward promoting health information literacy and…

Establishing evaluation criteria for e-dictionaries

Liezl H. Ball, Theo J.D. Bothma

The purpose of this paper is to identify criteria according to which e-dictionaries can be evaluated. Information technology can be used to enhance e-dictionaries, but if not done…

Motivating issues affecting students’ use of social media sites in Ghanaian tertiary institutions

Nasir Koranteng Asiedu, Edwin Ellis Badu

Social media usage has become popular among the youth. The popularity and acceptance of this tool by the youth in large numbers make it necessary to find out more about the…

Overcoming disintermediation: a call for librarians to learn to use web service APIs

Richard Manly Adams Jr

The purpose of this paper is to argue that academic librarians must learn to use web service APIs and to introduce APIs to a non-technical audience.