Library Management: Volume 44 Issue 3/4

Research publications and return on library investment: a study of the NIRF ranking university libraries in India

Pramod Kumar, Shri Ram Pandey, Shweta Gupta

The study aims to investigate returns on investment (ROI) from the academic library of India's top ten leading university libraries in terms of research publication. Librarians…

Operation, development, opportunities and challenges of a human library in Taiwan

Fung Mei Wong, Chiao-Min Lin

Human libraries are special libraries that give access to real persons known as “human books.” Readers “check out” human books by attending reading sessions organized by the human…

Author preferences for open access in Portugal: survey findings

Milena Carvalho, Michael Boock, Tania Yordanova Todorova, Susana Martins, Ines Braga, Cláudia Pinto

Surveying authors at doctoral-granting institutions of higher education in Portugal, the authors in this paper aim to seek to determine the extent to which Portuguese researchers…

Impact of restructuring resources and services and their utilization in IIT Roorkee library, India

Rajender Kumar, Dinesh K. Gupta

This paper examines the impact of restructuring on the usage of resources and services in the Indian Institute of Technology library, Roorkee. Library users were approached to…

Safety in a public library: the perspective of visitors and staff

Vania Ceccato, Emrah Ercin, Julia Hazanov, Sara Elfström, Adriana Sampaio

In this study, the authors report visitors' and personnel's safety experiences and concerns in order to understand the safety conditions of a library.

The relationship between digital literacy and heutagogy learning: a pilot study among college students in Indonesia

Endang Fitriyah Mannan, Muhammad Rifky Nurpratama, Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan, Mohamad Noorman Masrek

This study aims to describe digital literacy (DL) and heutagogy and examine the relationship between the two.

Reorganization of a very small academic library: a case study of Maine maritime academy's Nutting Memorial Library

Ann MacMillan Dyer, Lauren Starbird

This case study evaluates the success of a change management process in a very small academic library at a public, rural college. It considers the existing literature on the…

Mapping the association of HRM practices with the performance of library staff through PLS-SEM: a case study of academic libraries

Javaid Ahmad Wani, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

The current study aims to gauge the association between HRM practices and performance in academic libraries in India.

Research collaboration amongst Egyptian library and information science faculty members

Essam Mansour

The purpose of this study is to determine the potential for research collaboration amongst Egyptian library and information science (LIS) faculty members.