Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 118 Issue 7/8

Professional development through social media applications: a study of female librarians in Pakistan

Arif Khan, Jia Tina Du

This paper aims to explore the extent of use of social media by Pakistani female librarians for professional development and their perception of its usefulness. The paper also…

Library staff recruitment and retention for managerial positions in Vietnam

Trang Thi Huynh

This paper aims to conduct an exploratory research of recruitment source and professional staff retention for succession planning, as well as suggests some experiences of keeping…

F1000: an overview and evaluation

Ann E. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of F1000, a publishing outlet and peer review system for research in the biomedical and life sciences.

Digital inequalities and social media: experiences of young people in Chile

Sarah McNicol, Karine Aillerie

This paper aims to report the findings from a survey of secondary school students in Chile by exploring their use of social networking services for information-seeking purposes.

Retrieving vanished Web references in health science journals in East Africa

Alfred Said Sife, Edda Tandi Lwoga

This study aims to examine the availability and persistence of universal resource locators (URLs) cited in scholarly articles published in selected health journals based in East…

ICT services to students in the greater Accra region of Ghana: An initiative of the Ghana Library Board (GhLA) towards the development agenda

Patience Emefa Dzandza

This paper aims to describe an information and communication technology (ICT) training programme in the central library in Ghana, to discuss the benefits of the programme and the…

Open Data in Israel, Georgia and Uzbekistan: nature and scope

Stuti Saxena

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and scope of Open Data in Israel, Georgia and Uzbekistan.

“Usage by stakeholders” as the objective of “transparency-by-design” in open government data: Case study of Sri Lanka’s open data initiative

Stuti Saxena

While “transparency-by-design” serves as the antecedent of any Open Government Data (OGD) initiative (Janssen et al., 2017), its logical objective would be the extent to which…

Building resilience and resourcefulness: The evolution of an academic and information literacy strategy for first year social work students

Tricia Jane Bingham, Josie Wirjapranata, Allen Bartley

The purpose of this paper is to outline the evolution of academic and information literacy (AIL) teaching initiatives in a first-year core social work course at the University of…

The business of the library is service

Bruce E. Massis

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that today’s libraries function using business practices in its management of the library to ensure that its service-based mission is…