The Electronic Library: Volume 33 Issue 4

Young children’s storybook searching with a visualized search interface

The purpose of this paper is to explore how young children interact with a visualized search interface to search for storybooks by assembling the provided visual searching items…

Authorship pattern and collaborative research in the field of spacecraft technology

The purpose of this paper is to study and analyse the authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, prepare list of prolific authors and test Lotka’s law of scientific productivity…

Information needs of local domestic workers in the Arab Republic of Egypt

The purpose of this study is to provide first-hand information regarding domestic labour/labourers in Egypt. The researcher tries to investigate the information rights and needs…

Wikipedia at university: what faculty think and do about it

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate university faculty perceptions and practices of using Wikipedia as a teaching resource.

Dialogic communication on universities in Ghana libraries’ websites

– This study aims to ascertain the contents of universities in Ghana libraries’ websites and find the dialogic potential of the websites.

A bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Membrane Science (1976-2010)

This study aims to examine publication characteristics and development of a science journal Journal of Membrane Science (JMS) with 35 years ' history by bibliometric…

Evaluating Polish digital libraries from the perspective of non-academic users

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the role played by digital libraries in Polish society, particularly in relation to users who are not in education or…

Resource-sharing through an inter-institutional repository: Motivations and resistance of library and information science scholars

The purpose of this paper is to be concerned with the motivations and resistance among an institutional repository (IR) stakeholder – the Library and Information Science (LIS…

Mobile devices for academic practices by students of college of sciences in selected Nigerian private universities

– This study aims to look at the use of mobile devices by science students with emphasis only on privately owned universities in Nigeria.

Information literacy at work: A study on information management behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the information behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers with a focus on information sources and finding information from these sources…

Towards an understanding of job satisfaction as it correlates with organizational change among personnel in computer-based special libraries in Southwest Nigeria

– This paper aims to understand job satisfaction as correlate with organizational change among personnel in computerized-based special libraries in Southwest, Nigeria.

The impact of Twitter on libraries: a critical review of the literature

The paper aims to present a critical review on the adoption and use of Twitter in libraries. Twitter, a microblogging service, is becoming more and more popular among libraries as…

Modelling influential factors on customer loyalty in public libraries: a study of West Iran

– The purpose of this study is to present a model for influential factors on customer loyalty in public libraries and its evaluation in public libraries of western Iran.

Evaluation of digital libraries of Iranian research institutions based on the DigiQUAL protocol

– The purpose of this study is to identify the situation of evaluating Iranian digital libraries using DigiQUAL protocol.

The effects of gender differences on the use of annotatable multimedia e-readers

This paper aims to examine how gender differences influence students’ reactions to the use of the annotatable multimedia e-reader (AME). To reach this aim, we develop an AME where…

Buying and Selling Information: A Guide for Information Professionals and Salespeople to Build Mutual Success

Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

After the Book: Information Services for the 21st Century

Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

Using Massive Digital Libraries

The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks