...Elizabeth McDonald; Marina Rosenfield; Tim Furlow; Tara Kron; Irene Lopatovska Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand patterns in information behavior of academic librarians, individuals who influence information technology adoption in academic libraries and parent institutions...

...Bülent Yılmaz; Özgür Külcü; Yurdagül Ünal; Tolga Çakmak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a distance education program in the field of digitization which was carried out in Turkey in 2011. In total, 805 people, comprising librarians, archivists and museum specialists, applied...

...Noa Aharony Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether librarians are familiar with technological innovations and are ready to accept them. The objectives are: to what extent does the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) explain librarians' perceptions of mobile services (m‐services...

...Anthony Olden; Dennis Ocholla; Lyudmila Ocholla; Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha Purpose This study seeks to establish and compare the research and publication patterns and output of academic librarians in Eastern Africa from 2000 to 2009 using informetric techniques. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jane Cherry; Philip Calvert Purpose Librarians have traditionally followed a model of service based on a professional ethic. Attempts to introduce a retail model of service have generally met with staff resistance. The study aims to ask librarians about their attitudes to the retail...

...Hamid R. Jamali; Vahideh Zarea Gavgani Purpose The main aim of the study is to determine whether information therapy (Ix) services are rendered in hospital/medical libraries in Iran and India and to identify the role of librarians in providing health information to patients in the context...

...Noa Aharony Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to compare and examine two points in time of the LIS blogsphere: first period of publication of the blog (first two months for each blog) and a second period (July/August 2008). The research will describe and analyse librarians' blogsphere...

.../approach The areas covered in this study include: perceptions of the nature of work performed by librarians, their personality traits, social status, education level, employment opportunities, income level, and contributions made to society. A pre‐tested questionnaire was used for data collection...

...Mary Anne Kennan; Fletcher Cole; Patricia Willard; Concepción Wilson; Linda Marion Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse job ads as relatively accessible indicators of the knowledge, skills and competencies required of librarians by employers. It then uses a framework provided...

...Hazel van Rooi; Retha Snyman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the progress of research regarding the opportunities for librarians within the context of knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach A content analysis of 28 full‐length journal articles indexed by Library...

...Ina Fourie In a dynamic, information and technology‐driven society, librarians can create new roles by assessing changes in their environment, the potential effect and ways to reposition themselves. Scenario building, literature reviews, situation analysis, speculation and forecasting may be used...

...Andrew Cox; Keith Patrick; Rahman Abdullah The paper reports on the early lessons learned in the process of forming an online community for librarians from different organisations and sectors to discuss knowledge management. Time, critical mass, diversity of membership, focus, information...

... of standardisation of terminology. This is especially the case when we deal with such an international and interdisciplinary science as Library and Information Science undoubtedly is. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Librarians Terminology Influence Slovenia United Kingdom The topic of this article...

... with Bloom’s classic six‐level hierarchy of cognitive levels: © MCB UP Limited 2002 Distance learning Librarians Professionals Development 1. (1) learning as memorising; 2. (2) learning as understanding; 3. (3) learning for application; 4. (4) learning for personal...

...Paul Sturges Ever since Information technology was introduced into the work of some special libraries in the 1960s, there have been predictions that the end‐user searching of online databases would make librarians unnecessary. The enormous developments in automated information retrieval since...

...Jackie Drennan An evaluation of the current state of intranet usage in the UK newspaper industry. Librarians and information managers from all the UK national newspapers were contacted to establish which newspapers had, or were intending to introduce, an intranet. Those who had an intranet were...

... arisen as the project moves from the research phase to service implementation are described, along with the prospects for the planned service. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Librarians Computer networks Software development Have you heard the library news? Personalised Net alerts for librarians...

...Julie Rowbotham This article explores the reasons why librarians should be at the heart of Internet site development. There are two distinct ways in which librarians can most effectively contribute to this medium. The first is by getting involved in information architecture. This new discipline...