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Due to the proliferation of disruptive technologies that drive the fourth industrial
revolution (4IR), academic libraries have undergone an evolution, which has also
changed the role of academic librarians. With disruptive ...
The study of open access usage in higher learning institutions in developing countries has been an
area of concern over the past years due to the many opportunities it offers in academia, such as
making available and ...
The low utilisation of e-resources from accessible databases among students in Ghanaian technical universities (TUs) is an issue of concern for library management. Effective marketing strategies are seen as a promising ...
Audio-visual records produced by public broadcasters play a role in preserving the history, culture, and language of the country. The records are used by broadcasters to repeat programmes and as snippets to support programmes ...
A website is one of the tools that an organisation can use to communicate information to the outside world. Some of the records published on websites are often in paper format in record-keeping systems. Other records, on ...
Purpose – This paper reports on research into the skills and services required to ensure the sustainability of citizen science as a service in university libraries.
Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative research ...
The management of indigenous knowledge (IK) has not been part of the focus of academic libraries collections in Ghana. The need to manage such knowledge base of society has become vital in the era of information society ...
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 ...