... may not necessarily request training in digital libraries, though they do address some barriers to using these resources, such as overcoming slow internet access, on their own (Mairaj and Naseer, 2013). However, Van Essen et al. (2014) recommend that more work should be done to make...

...Dan Albertson Purpose – The purpose of this study is to synthesize prior user-centered research to develop and present a generalized framework for evaluating visual, i.e. both image and video digital libraries. The primary objectives include comprehensively examining the current state of visual...

... Limited 2013 Electronic publishing Digital libraries Learning E-books Information dense texts Reading In part 1 of this report “Reading long information rich text” on the results of the research project Amsterdam E-Boekenstad (Book City) 1 the context of emerging e-reading...

... time of a page, the speed of leafing through a text, etc. Electronic publishing Reading Print media Learning processes e‐books Digital libraries Information dense texts Reading as such has related ergonomical aspects, such as zooming, layout, sharpness, font design, etc...

... science Digital curation education Information and library school Digital libraries Information management Data is at the heart of the curation life‐cycle. Data includes simple or complex digital objects and databases. The Digital Curation Centre (2010) defines digital curation as “maintaining...

... --> Internet Mobile technology Digital libraries Mobile libraries This collection of essays is based on the proceedings of the Third International M‐Libraries Conference held in Brisbane in 2011. It includes contributions from librarians and researchers from around the world, demonstrating how mobile...

..., libraries look to adjust to e‐reader world ”, Douglas County Sentinel , GA , available at: http://douglascountysentinel.com/bookmark/16912326 . Post‐literacy Libraries Reading Technology Futurist Text Electronic Digital libraries Blogger Doug Johnson has defined “the post‐literate...

..., utilisation and interoperability approaches, focusing on how a social constructivist philosophical perspective can be employed to underpin metadata decisions in digital libraries. Articles are retrieved from databases such as EBSCO host and Emerald and online magazines such as D‐Lib and Ariadne. Books, news...

...Sirje Virkus; Alice A. Bamigbola Purpose This paper aims to present the results of a study that investigated the Erasmus Mundus Digital Library Learning (DILL) Master programme students' conceptions and experiences of the use of Web 2.0 tools. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted...

... digitisation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Archives management Digital libraries Higher education User studies United Kingdom Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about...

..., you will have no shortage of research materials with which to work. As Breeding (2006 , p. 32) states: We are in the midst of a massive transformation to the Digital Library, says Patricia Mickelson, Director of the University of Pittsburgh's Medical Library. Scientists and doctors find...

... bear witness to and provide relevant feedback to all the issues outlined above. Digital libraries Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean The establishment of institutional repositories (IRs) is becoming more prevalent on academic campuses around the world and these scholarly communities...

... . London : Facet Publishing   2009 . 238 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐647‐3   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Digital libraries Libraries Public libraries Academic libraries A welcome and timely Festschrift from the reputable professional press of Facet...

... and information professionals raised with earlier technologies. In a networked environment, librarians are no longer intermediaries between patrons and services, and they must keep pace with mobile technologies to remain relevant. In “An effective mobile‐friendly digital library to support mobile learners...

...: 978‐1856046510 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Digital libraries Internet Consumer behaviour In Digital Consumers: Reshaping the Information Professions, editors David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands, both from the School of Library, Archive, and Information...

...Sirje Virkus; Getaneh Agegn Alemu; Tsigereda Asfaw Demissie; Besim Jakup Kokollari; Liliana M. Melgar Estrada; Deepak Yadav Purpose This paper aims to explore the literature on integration of digital libraries and virtual learning environments (VLEs). Design/methodology/approach Searches were...

... a methodology for studying reusability of learning material. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Learning Digital libraries Information science Resource management Teaching aids Asia Repositories of teaching materials and learning objects are considered important to facilitate...

... developments, it is appropriate that a chapter is devoted to digital libraries and how these have developed historically. The final chapter of Part 1 asks, “What makes a good library?”, that is, what standards and quality management systems are there for evaluating library performance? The second part...

... implementation matters (e.g. application profiles, metadata schema registries, harvesting, etc.). The second part (“Metadata projects and their applications in the digital library”) is arguably what distinguishes her text from others; covering the work of various metadata projects and the application of metadata...

... outside the group of librarians. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Digital libraries Reading Librarians Denmark Discussions of librarians’ image and its reception by a wider public are numerous and always followed by the statement: we have to market ourselves as information...