Library Hi Tech: Volume 34 Issue 3

Role of libraries in developing an informed and educated nation

Ina Fourie, Anika Meyer

Libraries of all types have often been called on to take on challenges ranging from information literacy and developing a reading culture to promoting social justice. In recent…

Alternate reality games (ARG) as innovative digital information sources

Koos de Beer, Theo Bothma

The purpose of this paper is to present the gathering, integration and analysis of digital information sources for the creation of a conceptual framework for alternate reality…

Provision of the European Union information in an acceding country: A survey of the role of public libraries in Croatia

Sanjica Faletar Tanacković, Ivana Faletar Horvatić, Milijana Mičunović

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory study whose aim was to investigate the role of public libraries in the provision of European Union (EU) information in an EU…

Academic technology confidence levels vs ability in first-year traditional and non-traditional undergraduates

Michelle Eichelberger, Bonnie Imler

The purpose of this paper is to examine the technology confidence, skills, and post-skills-test emotions in traditional (younger than 24 years old) and non-traditional (24 and…

The influence of smartphones on academic performance: The development of the technology-to-performance chain model

Yong Jeong Yi, Soeun You, Beom Jun Bae

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence college students’ smartphone use for academic purposes by identifying the task-technology fit (TTF) of…

Web robot detection in scholarly Open Access institutional repositories

Joseph W. Greene

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact and techniques for mitigating the effects of web robots on usage statistics collected by Open Access (OA) institutional…

Underutilisation of self-service libraries in Chinese cities: The absence of a patron-centric perspective

Lihong Zhou, Yaqian Song, Tong Zhou

Self-service libraries (SSLs) have been regarded as an effective approach to provide convenient book services to the enormously large populations of China’s cities. These SSLs are…

Investigation and analysis of Informetrics curriculum education in China

Rongying Zhao, Fengjiao Guo, Zhuheng Fu

The purpose of this paper is to generalize the teaching characteristics of some typical colleges in China which offer Informetrics courses, and to propose useful suggestions for…

How curiosity and uncertainty shape children’s information seeking behaviors

Ko-Chiu Wu, Hung-Chun Chen

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether children adopt a survey or a route approach when seeking information in a virtual world (VW), and whether their approach differs…