...Ali Kavak; Vedat Gültekin; Nevzat Özel Purpose The rapid integration of artificial intelligence ( AI ) technologies into information services has made librarians’ competencies and acceptance levels toward these technologies an increasingly critical research concern. This study aims to examine...

...Abbas Doulani; Golab Alizadeh Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between librarians’ big data management capabilities and innovative performance in public library settings, with value perception as a mediating factor. Design/methodology/approach A survey...

...) evaluate data visualization services (DVS) in Chinese academic libraries and ii) analyse the evolving roles and responsibilities of librarians within this context. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study is based on an environmental scan of websites from academic libraries in China’s top...

... Technological adaptation Librarians Proficiency in LD technologies Semantic web Surveys Methodology The section presents an overview of strategies, adaptation, implementation, practices and experiments with LD technologies in library activities at a global level. Databases consulted for the literature...

...Ghulam Moin Ud Din; Muhammad Ijaz Mairaj; Arslan Sheikh Purpose This paper aims to measure the perceptions of librarians about information literacy (IL) instruction, their current IL practices and the problems they face while offering IL instructional programs in public and private sector...

...Philip Calvert Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics Edited by Andy   Tattersall   Facet   London   2016   214 pp. ££49.95   soft cover ISBN 978-1-78330-010-5 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights...

...Sanam Ebrahimzadeh Pirshahid; Nader Naghshineh; Fatima Fahimnia Purpose The present study aims to investigate levels of awareness and use of Web 2.0 tools by librarians in the university libraries of East Azerbaijan (EA) in Iran and to determine how librarians use these tools in everyday life...

...Gloria O. Oyovwe Tinuoye; Saturday U. Omeluzor; Lucky Oji Akpojotor Purpose This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence job satisfaction of academic librarians in university libraries in Edo and Delta states in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a descriptive...

... Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Blogs Kuwait Libraries Teachers Social media Librarians Digital literacy EFL One Web-based medium that is becoming popular among educators as a pedagogical tool is blogs. Blogs are described as “online...

...Omobolanle Serifat Fasola Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on research that examined librarians’ perception and acceptance of use of Facebook and Twitter in promoting library services in Oyo state, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The survey design and interview were...

... of libraries; and the attempts to provide guidelines for librarians. Research limitations/implications – This literature review has implications for research in that libraries could explore the way public view their presence on social networking sites such as Twitter to better gain from it. In addition...

... Publishing Limited 2015 --> Information economics Information industry Information professionals Librarians Commerce Customers Vendors We are living in an age of information in which any person can deal with different information goods in different contexts...

...Emmanuel E Baro; Nelson Edewor; Godwin Sunday Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the level of awareness and use of Web 2.0 tools by librarians in university libraries in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was used to collect data from 140 librarians from 16 leading...

...Madely du Preez Although the contributors did not assume readers to know much about librarianship, they do not talk down to a readership of experienced digital librarians. Rather, they aim at assisting prospective digital librarians in planning their careers as digital librarianship and getting...

...Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam Librarians Research professionals Business reference Business information No one is safe from business reference (p. 9), and business information is everywhere and nowhere, it would seem (p. 10). Ross sees this book as a business reference friend, a business...

...Frank Parry Edited by Laura Solomon The Librarian’s Nitty-Gritty Guide to Social Media Chicago ALA Editions 2013 224 pp. 978-0-8389-1160-0 US$52.00 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Social media Librarians Libraries...

...Philip Calvert Edited by Anthony Aycock The Accidental Law Librarian Medford, NJ Information Today 2013 272 pp. 978-1-57387-477-9 US$38.50 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Librarians Law librarians Libraries Some...

... and the professionals who run and manage them and suggests that while the work of libraries and librarians have been altered tremendously by information and communications technologies (ICTs), the development of digital libraries, in fact, offers the potential for a radical renovation of the information profession...

...Jiří Kratochvil Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that e-learning can be a viable alternative teaching method for information literacy according to a comparison of librarian’s time spent on face-to-face teaching with tutoring the e-learning course, average time spent in a week...

...Philip Calvert Tomas A. Lipinski The Librarian's Legal Companion for Licensing Information Resources and Services Chicago, IL Neal-Schuman 2013 760 pp. 978-1-5557-0610-4 US$130.00 soft cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Librarians...