...), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Privacy literacy Data literacy Critical literacy Datafication Surveillance capitalism Libraries Pervasive data tracking...

...Heather Toomey Zimmerman; Katharine Ellen Grills; Zachary McKinley; Soo Hyeon Kim Purpose The researchers conducted a collective case study to investigate how families engaged in making activities related to aerospace engineering in six pop-up makerspace programs held in libraries and one museum...

... library. Design/methodology/approach This study leverages qualitative approaches to coding transcripts of participants’ talk. This study uses the design thinking framework from the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University as provisional codes to identify and make sense of participants...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this study is to reflect on the author’s decade as a columnist for New Library World and Information and Learning Science. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides literature review and commentary on this topic that has been...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to examine artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential relationship to the library. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic have been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners. Findings...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the library’s expanded role into its engagement with the user experience (UX). Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate examples of the manner by which the academic library breaks down the silos on a college campus. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic have been addressed by professionals, researchers...

...Stephen Town Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the Value Scorecard framework for performance measurement and advocacy in academic and research libraries. Design/methodology/approach The study used a leadership perspective and an autoethnographic approach to develop and test...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the use of a virtual private network (VPN) as an additional protective strategy for patrons using library computers. Design/methodology/approach This study is a literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this study is to report that the library has recognized the benefit to the community of including art gallery space in the library. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed...

.... Universities Libraries Information literacy Lessons learned Ibero-America Collaborative work This study contributes to the research of the “Información, Conocimiento y Sociedad” (Information, Knowledge and Society) Group of the Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología at the Universidad de Antioquia...

...Bruce E. Massis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest that today’s libraries function using business practices in its management of the library to ensure that its service-based mission is respected. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic that has...

... of intellectual property rights. The inefficiency of the Arab Publishers’ Union (in this respect, as well as the small number of libraries and information centres concerned with selling books) and the comparatively low-income levels of Arab individuals are also salient drawbacks (Al-Dharman, 2012). Whilst Arab...

...Chris Batt Purpose Collecting Institutions in the Network Society is a multidisciplinary PhD study examining present practices and policies of collecting institutions (museums, galleries, libraries and archives) in their use and development of digital technologies, within the context of wider...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide examples by which the library, in its role as an essential service positioned at the center of a community, offers its services to not only a segment of the community but to it in its entirety. Design/methodology/approach...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to offer a snapshot of privacy in the library today. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners. Findings It is significant...

...Bruce E. Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to examine the process for the transition of library computer labs into “thinking labs”, where existing library workstation space can be reallocated to provide more flexibility, freedom and creativity for the library patron. Design...

... can offer up their knowledge, skill and training in the development and evaluation of OER. Originality/value The value in exploring this topic is to examine the library’s use of OER and their benefits and challenges in a higher education classroom environment. Bruce Massis can be contacted...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to consider the role of libraries in an effort to preserve and protect a collective digital memory. Design/methodology/approach This paper addresses literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals...

...Bruce Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to consider the strategy of “connected learning” and the library’s inclusion in the process. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners...