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The importance of knowledge in this fast-changing world cannot be overstated. Knowledge is urrently considered a crucial organisational resource that transcends other resources, such as land and capital. It plays a vital ...
Public libraries play a critical role as service providers that benefit various user communities. Such institutions have helped sustain societies’ information, educational, recreational, and leisure needs. Public libraries ...
The influx of emerging technologies has challenged the way in which the information
literacy (IL) concept is defined in the 21st century, e.g. the construct of IL has evolved and
expanded to include digital literacy and ...
Gamification is broadly defined as the use of game elements (for example, points, rewards and
competition) in non-game settings like education, business and government. In information
systems (IS) teaching and learning, ...
The passage of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation demonstrates a commitment to
combating corruption and promoting democracy through public participation, openness, and
transparency. Adoption of the legislation, ...
Archives have become acceptable evidence in the context of land restitution to prove events that occurred in the past during land dispossessions. Although researchers agree that archives are not always available and ...
A disaster may affect any library at any time. Libraries need to be prepared to mitigate and to recover from disasters. Plans need to be in place before, during and after a disaster to ensure that a library is able to ...
The study aimed to investigate the state of early literacy development programmes and services for preschoolers at the Kenya National Library Services. Using a mixed method design, a sample of 244 library staff, including, ...
Religious organisations that have realised the importance of ICTs are increasingly adopting and using
various technologies to spread evangelism while seeking to grow membership. Currently, a few
studies evaluating the ...
Even after two decades of a constitutional democracy that is prized as one of the most progressive achievements, public libraries and information services remain scarce in rural South Africa. This is despite the fact that ...
Using business models in university libraries has proved to yield positive results. Employing an exploratory sequential mixed-method approach, this study investigated strategies for building user loyalty in selected ...
The socio-cultural perspective to information literacy has gained attention in Information Science, with numerous information literacy studies having been conducted in various workplace landscapes; however, not in the craft ...
Research Data Management (RDM) is an innovative trend that is growing
exponentially, and globally influences the research arena, as well as academic
institutions. However, the recipient of this ground-breaking research ...
Records management best practice is essential in government bodies to facilitate accountability and to promote transparency. Records are indispensable for these organisations to conduct their official business effectively, ...
The world we live in is constantly changing, resulting in new challenges. Over the past decades, there have been numerous developments in the children’s books industry. In an in-depth literature review it was learnt that ...
E-books have become a common feature in academic libraries since their adoption in the early 1990s. Unisa library is no exception. The aim of this study was to assess the utilisation of e-books by postgraduate library and ...
In the last half century, oral history has emerged as a historical approach that is being
considered by archivists involved with the collection and accessibility of archival collections for researchers and interested ...
In many organisations, information governance (IG) is implemented in fragmented silos
and does not add value. After realising this, South African Council for Social Service
Professions (SACSSP), embarked on digital ...
Many archival scholars in South Africa and elsewhere lament of archives repositories that continue to reflect the activities of colonial masters, while excluding the memories of the previously marginalised. This is also ...
The National Archives are an important part of South African society because
they serve as memory institutions. Fulfilling this mandate requires archivists
to encourage societal engagement with the archives. This article ...