New Library World: Volume 114 Issue 3/4

Online access to higher education on YouTubeEDU

The purpose of this one‐year longitudinal study is to examine the usage and production of educational videos on YouTubeEDU, an open, video‐sharing, educational area of YouTube…

Prevalence of widget applications on library websites: an analytical study

The paper seeks to highlight how academic libraries are harnessing widgets to make library resources easily and conveniently accessible to users. Examining the characteristic…

The impact of cloud computing on the future of academic library practices and services

The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues involved in navigating the modern information environment where the relevance of cloud computing is unavoidable. This is a way of…

Going mobile: creating a mobile presence for your library

The purpose of this paper is to determine how students at the University of Regina would like to interact with the library on their mobile devices and how to best construct a…

Motivation for grant writing among academic librarians

The purpose of this study is to examine motivation for grant writing among academic librarians.

Open access journal content found in commercial full‐text aggregation databases and journal citation reports

The aim of this paper is to conduct a study regarding the indexing of open access journals in three large, commercially available full‐text aggregation databases and using Journal…

Textbook affordability: the library's role

The purpose of this column is to examine the matter of college textbook affordability and the library's role in the discussion.

78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly (IFLA‐2012)

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief overview of the proceedings of IFLA's 78th General Conference and Assembly, held in Helsinki, Finland from August 11‐17, 2012. It…

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Street Literature

The Tech Set 12: Building Mobile Library Applications

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