Many academic libraries struggle to effectively promote their services and products (Gyimah 2011:44; Ramasodi, 2009:45; Waithaka 2013:15). This has negative consequences, such as low user and patronage rates and a decline ...

Electronic resources (e-resources) have brought many benefits and challenges in the way people access, retrieve and store information. At the University of Venda (UNIVEN), e-resources are there to be accessed and used by ...

Public libraries are a vital asset in any society and have become institutions of knowledge in communities. Residents, schools without libraries, small businesses and non-profit organisations make use of public libraries ...

Provision of resources, such as libraries, to communities continues to be a priority for development and public libraries continue with their efforts to serve their users’ diverse information needs. This paper describes ...

In the year 2000, the South African government passed the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to give effect to the constitutional right to access information held by a public body. A year later, in 2001, PAIA ...

The purpose of this research was to identify critical factors necessary for the implementation of a trusted repository for managing research data. A research data survey was conducted with 36 Information professionals at ...

As Mobile ICT usage surges, there is a case for making sense of how it contributes to innovation. This study sought to determine Mobile ICT's contribution to the dynamic capabilities of informal traders in Windhoek. ...

Visual artists operating in indigenous communities of practice in the arts and crafts sector in Zimbabwe have relegated their indigenous modes of expression by adopting contemporary forms that lack a flare of Zimbabwean ...

Conditional grants have changed the public library space by giving the South African society free access to knowledge and information that assist in improving the socio-economic situation of individuals using public libraries ...