New Library World: Volume 117 Issue 3/4

Design-based mathematics workshops

Lu Xiao, Immaculate Namukasa, Yibing Zhang

– The purpose of this paper is to present a workshop model for engaging children and parents in mathematics activities in public libraries or other informal education settings.

Omeka.net as a librarian-led digital humanities meeting place

Linda Rath

This case study aims to evaluate Omeka.net, the hosted Web publishing exhibit tool, as a low-cost and technology-friendly platform encouraging dynamic academic and non-academic…

Faculty information behaviour in the electronic environment: Attitudes towards searching, publishing and libraries

Ángel Borrego, Lluís Anglada

This study aims to investigate how the transition from print to electronic scholarly communication has affected faculty’s information behaviour and their perception of academic…

Immaterial labour, public librarians, and third-generation public libraries

Siobhan A Stevenson

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to draw attention to one specific upper-level government policy document in which a discourse of perpetual innovation and customer…

Merging information literacy and evidence-based practice for social work students

Tricia Jane Bingham, Josie Wirjapranata, Shirley-Ann Chinnery

This paper outlines a teaching and learning collaboration between information literacy (IL) professionals and a social work academic at The University of Auckland. The…

Where to from here? Current status of school libraries in Sri Lanka: a survey

Lalith Wickramanayake

The purpose of this study is to determine the present status of the school libraries in Sri Lanka that were not developed under the General Education Project 2 implemented during…

Relationship between citation counts and Mendeley readership metrics: A case of top 100 cited papers in Physics

Rishabh Shrivastava, Preeti Mahajan

Social media has given way for the development of various new altmetric indicators. Mendeley readership count is one such indicator. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First…

Immigrants’ attitude to the Czech libraries

Katerina Nekolová, Petra Cernohlávková, Michaela Chržová, Jaroslava Pachlová, Veronika Váchová

The purpose of this study is to identify whether or not there is a link between using a library in the country of origin and in the Czech Republic, how immigrants perceive Czech…

Comparative analysis of online legal information sources in Indian environment

Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Margam Madhusudhan

– The purpose of this paper is to compare the online legal information sources available in law libraries in India.

Students’ choice and evaluation of information sources at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

Cheryl Kean, Godfrey Walker, Maureen Kerr-Campbell, Faith Mckoy-Johnson

This paper aims to investigate the kinds of resources used by students at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus, to start their research and to find out their perception…

The Internet of Things and its impact on the library

Bruce Massis

– The purpose of this paper is to consider the Internet of Things (IOT) and its potential impact on libraries.