New Library World: Volume 115 Issue 3/4

Exhibiting library collections online: Omeka in context

– This case study describes Indiana University Libraries' use of Omeka for online exhibits of digital collections.

Web tutorials workflows: How scholarship, institutional experiences, and peer institutions' practices shaped one academic library's online learning offerings

This article examines a structured redesign of one academic library's offering of its online learning objects. This process considered both improving the online learning objects…

Implementing discipline-specific searches in EBSCO Discovery Service

This paper discusses how University of Maryland University College (UMUC) librarians customized EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to allow for searching across librarian-selected sets…

Faculty adoption and usage behaviour of open access scholarly communication in health science universities

– The study seeks to investigate factors that affect the adoption and use of open access in Tanzanian health sciences universities.

Just why do we need school libraries? Some ideas from students

– The paper aims to explore the purposes of school libraries as they are viewed by teenagers attending a high school in northern England.

Collaboration between rural school and public youth services librarians

The purpose of this article is to determine the types of collaborative activities public youth services and school librarians in rural locations engage in and to ascertain whether…

Special library in teacher training and information literacy: Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE) Library as a case

This paper aims to examine the underemphasized importance of libraries in cultivating information literacy habits in teacher trainees that in turn generate the multiplier effects…

Mobile phones in Africa: opportunities and challenges for academic librarians

Lack of internet access and availability of computers in Africa has hindered learning and teaching there. However, the growing prevalence of mobile phones in Africa and elsewhere…

ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science (4th edition)

Google This! Putting Google and Other Social Media Sites to Work for your Library

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