Library Hi Tech: Volume 41 Issue 1

Guest editorial: COVID-19 pandemic and health informatics part 3

Po-Sen Huang, Yvette C. Paulino, Stuart So, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

Thematic evolution of coronavirus disease: a longitudinal co-word analysis

Mahdiyeh Khazaneha, Oranus Tajedini, Omid Esmaeili, Mehdi Abdi, Ali Akbar Khasseh, Ali Sadatmoosavi

Using science mapping analysis approach and co-word analysis, the present study explores and visualizes research fields and thematic evolution of the coronavirus. Based on this…

An approach based on process mining to assess the quarantine strategies' effect in reducing the COVID-19 spread

Mansoureh Yari Eili, Jalal Rezaeenour

The feasibility of process mining combined with simulation techniques in estimating the effectiveness of COVID-19 prevention strategies on infection and mortality trends to…

Libraries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: drawing a science map of published articles

Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Zahra Batooli

The lockdown of libraries has led to changes in the delivery of services. Reviewing many studies in this regard appears to be of great importance. Thus, this study aims to analyze…

Facilitated virtual learning for advanced geriatric education among nursing students during the COVID pandemic in Taiwan

Pei-Lun Hsieh, Shang-Yu Yang, Wen-Yen Lin, Tien-Chi Huang

This study explored the students' perception of their adoption and acceptance of virtual learning (VL), the factors affecting the adoption of educational technologies and the…

Implementation and evaluation of the school's COVID-19 prevention website

Jui-Hung Chang, Chi-Jane Wang, Hua-Xu Zhong, Pei-Wen Chen, Ai-Jou Pan, Po-Sheng Chiu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Perceptions of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) questionnaire and the Information System Success Questionnaire on…

Understanding citizens’ satisfaction with the government response during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: comprehensive analysis of the government hotline

Zicheng Zhang, Anguo Li, Yang Xu, Yixiao Liang, Xinchen Jin, Shanshan Wu

The objective of this study was to analyse the influencing factors of citizens' dissatisfaction with government services during the COVID-19 pandemic to help government…

Operation management of academic libraries in Hong Kong under COVID-19

Pui Yik Yu, Ernest Tak Hei Lam, Dickson K.W. Chiu

This research studies the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the operation management of Hong Kong academic libraries for understanding the difficulties and challenges for…

The impact of COVID-19 on museums in the digital era: Practices and challenges in Hong Kong

Yao Meng, Man Yin Chu, Dickson K.W. Chiu

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, museums, as public gathering places for citizens, have encountered unprecedented difficulties due to limitations to…

College students' Twitter usage and psychological well-being from the perspective of generalised trust: comparing changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shaoyu Ye, Kevin K.W. Ho

This study investigated the relationship between generalised trust and psychological well-being in college students, considering the social support obtained from their social…

“To our health!” Perceived benefits offset privacy concerns in using national contact-tracing apps

Tin Trung Nguyen, Minh Tu Tran Hoang, Minh Tuan Phung

Community health is placed under the limelight during the COVID-19 crisis, providing a unique context for investigating citizens' health-privacy tradeoff in accepting social…

Impact of academic stress by parent-proxy on parents' learning-support-services: a moderated-mediation model of health anxiety by parents' educational level

Chenhui Wang, Suqi Li, Yu-Sheng Su

This study focused on parents' health anxiety by proxy about their children when they started learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic, to explore the impact of academic…

Social media links with social capital to trust in healthcare facilities: empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Md. Noor Un Nabi, Fatema Tuj Zohora, S.M. Misbauddin

The paper aims to investigate the most influential social media information sources to trust in healthcare facilities. The article shows a valuable point of reference for…

Why did people avoid information during the COVID-19 pandemic? Understanding information sources' dynamics among Pakistani Z generation

Saira Hanif Soroya, Anthony Faiola

Grounded in the stressor-strain-outcome model, this study aims to examine the impact of different information sources on information behavior among the Pakistani Z generation…

Public information needs during the COVID-19 outbreak: a qualitative study in mainland China

Yuan Yi, Dickson K.W. Chiu

The impact of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the public’s reliance on the Internet for pandemic information, and the policy of home isolation has exacerbated this. This study…