Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 36 Issue 2

Editorial

Anna Maria Tammaro, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

User-driven efforts in creating knowledge graph information system

Stanislava Gardasevic

This paper presents the results of a qualitative study that involved students of an interdisciplinary PhD program. The study objective was to gather requirements to create a…

Emotional state representation and detection method of users in library space based on body posture recognition

Jingyi Wang, Yuan Run, Hongwei Shi

In the information commons (IC) space of library, it is very important to recognize the emotional state of users for better playing the role of IC. In view of this point, this…

Performance assessment of electronic theses and dissertations initiatives in Nigeria

Sadiat Adetoro Salau, Georgina U. Oyedum, F.P. Abifarin, S.J. Udoudoh, Jibril A. Alhassan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) initiatives in the repositories of federal government-owned universities…

Actionable knowledge with the help of method repositories

Hero Khezri, Peyman Rezaei-Hachesu, Reza Ferdousi

Nowadays, there is a rapid growth in different sciences that has led to thousands of publications in the form of scientific research papers. The readers of these papers are…

The decay and persistence of web references

Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Ufaira Yaseen Shah

The purpose of this study is to identify the persistence and decay of uniform resource locator (URLs) associated with Web references. The decaying of Web references is analyzed in…

Digital information literacy skills of Pakistani librarians: exploring supply-demand mismatches, adoption strategies and acquisition barriers

Asad Khan

This study aimed to examine the current and needed levels of the digital information literacy (DIL) skills of Pakistani librarians and further explored the strategies of and…

Relationship between personality traits and digital literacy skills: a study of university librarians

Shamshad Ahmed, Tariq Rasheed

This study aims to examine the relationship between personality traits and digital literacy skills among university librarians of Punjab, Pakistan.

Open science, open access and Latin America: a short conversation with Jon Tennant

Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Jonathan Tennant