Library Hi Tech: Volume 38 Issue 3

Pakistani students’ perceptions about their learning experience through video games: A qualitative case study

Tooba Khalid, Syeda Hina Batool, Ayesha Khalid, Henna Saeed, Syed Waqas Hussain Zaidi

The emergence of digital technological advances pushes educators for understanding and utilizing these technologies for classroom use. The current generation of teenagers has…

How to provide public digital cultural services in China?

Dengdeng Wanyan, Jiahao Hu

The purpose of this paper is to understand the consumption and demand of Chinese citizens for public digital culture, and make suggestions for government-supported public digital…

Enhancing student participation in information literacy course based on Rain Classroom: a case study

Lifeng Han, Zhenbo Lu

Student participation has been an important issue for information literacy (IL) teachings. The purpose of this paper is to promote active student participation in IL courses with…

Borrowing books from a convenience store? An innovative library service

Chun-Hua Hsiao, Jung Jung Chang, Pi-Chu Wu, Kai-Yu Tang

The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative service model regarding the public library’s pilot project in Taiwan – Borrowing Books from Convenience Stores (BBCS). The…

Lightweight alternative tech: a study of Chromebooks in the academic library classroom

Beth Seyala, Erin Burns, Shannon Richie, Amy L. Deuink, Valerie Lynn

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Chromebooks as an alternative to the traditional computer laboratory for library instruction in an academic environment. The results of…

How do altmetric sources evaluate scientific collaboration? An empirical investigation for Chinese collaboration publications

Xiaoguang Wang, Tao Lv, Donald Hamerly

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the improvement of academic impact and social attention of Chinese collaboration articles from the perspective of altmetrics.

Toward a metadata model for research information management systems

Dong Joon Lee, Besiki Stvilia, Shuheng Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between researcher characteristics and their use of metadata in their ResearchGate profiles.

The research of human individual’s conformity behavior in emergency situations

Min Chen

The purpose of this paper (including three studies) is to investigate the idea that individuals in an emergency situation experience significantly a higher level of emotional…

Research of data mining and web technology in university discipline construction decision support system based on MVC model

Zhaokun Huang, Yufang Liang

Taking the discipline construction in colleges and universities as the application background, based on the research on data mining technology and decision support system…

Support while control: the influence of embeddedness on virtual community participation

Xiao Deng, Bo Gao, Lei Chen

Exploring the antecedents of members community participation is extremely important for virtual communities (VCs) research and practice. As an important social characteristic of…

An in-app purchase framework for location-based AR games: the case of Pokémon Go

Kuo-Lun Hsiao, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Chia-Chen Chen

Although location-based augmented reality (AR) games are popular in recent years, the motivation of in-app purchases still needs further investigation. The purpose of this paper…

A study on users’ perception of the role of library in the sharing economic era in Korea

Younghee Noh, Ji-Yoon Ro, Dae-Keun Jeong

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of prioritizing tasks, actual sharing of libraries, collaboration policies and the directions via quantifying the…

Spatial usage analysis based on user activity big data logs in library

Tae-Young Kim, Ju-Yeon Gang, Hyo-Jung Oh

This study explored spatial usage of a public library based on activity logs produced by real users. The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary data for decision-making…