...Cláudia Pinho; Mário Franco; Luis Mendes Purpose Based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study aims to determine the influence of personality traits on the acceptance and usage of Web portals in Portuguese universities. Design/methodology/approach To this end, a quantitative study...

...Miriam Kakai; Maria G.N. Musoke; Constant Okello-Obura Purpose Given that repositories were proposed as one of the routes to open access (OA), this study sought to establish the achievements universities in East Africa had attained in initiating institutional repositories (IRs), the challenges...

...Alejandro Uribe-Tirado; María Pinto Purpose The purpose of this study has the aim of expanding lessons learned that were originally detected for information literacy (INFOLIT) programs in Ibero-American universities (from Latin America, Spain and Portugal), this paper presents lessons learned...

...Jonathan Hunter; Andrew Cox Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an exploratory investigation of students' use of informal learning spaces for their studies at the University of Sheffield. Previous research has mainly focused on formal learning spaces such as libraries and lecture...

...Sara Valla Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the initial phases of the formation of the Co‐Lab as a community at the University of Parma, which aims to foster informal ways of collaboration among students, professors, researchers, with a view to increasing results in learning...

... Learning methods Universities Academic libraries United States of America The rapid emergence of peer production, social networking, and internet technologies is reshaping the means by which information and culture are created and shared between individuals, groups, and societies. Reflective...

...Bill Johnston; Sheila Webber This paper aims to identify potential roles for Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty in an information literate University (ILU). The authors note the pressures on universities for change, and the debates and issues arising from these pressures. They define...

...Richard Turner The four universities of the case studies are Sheffield Hallam University, Leeds Metropolitan University, Aberdeen University and Lincoln University. The extent to which each of these institutions has adopted a learning centre approach varies according to the nature of the parent...

... – these will all influence a student’s response to information, and therefore to IT. Although these are common failures of education, particularly when standards are set centrally, IT provision in UK universities tends to compound the problem by failing even to take account of the variety of degree programmes...

...Damien McManus; Brendan Loughridge Based on the results of a small‐scale pilot interview‐based survey of senior information professionals working in the academic community in the UK, this paper reviews some of the reasons why knowledge management is apparently so unpopular in universities. Those...

...Leo Waaijers As a consequence of digitization, universities have to investigate their scholarly communication process. In fact, this is a quest for values that goes beyond the issues of the day. Once found, these values operate as criteria for assessing competencies, roles and instruments...

...Eric Sandelands Argues that electronic publishing is opening up opportunities for editors and authors in reaching the lifelong learners being supported by the emerging virtual universities. Discusses the benefits of the virtual university model, before describing the model being used by University...

...Stuart James Discusses how the University of Paisley is building a new library, information and learning resources facility for occupation in 1998. Outlines the institutional and educational background requirements to the development. Discusses the general design philosophy resulting from...

...Stuart James In an era of constant change, discusses the social, national and local factors affecting higher education in the UK, and the University of Paisley in particular, in relation to the development of the university’s library, learning resources and information services towards the end...

...Malcolm Stevenson Attempts to predict the changes which will occur at Bradford University Library by the year 2000. Suggests that changes will be more of an evolution than a revolution. Discusses the services provided,finances, staff skills, stock and space in terms of the present and possible...

...Kathleen Helenese‐Paul Discusses papers presented at the IFLA′s 1994 Conference which dealt with new library technologies and library co‐operation, and the university libraries′ subsection which was found to be relevant to the Caribbean. Internationally, universities face common problems. The most...

...A.T. Agboola Describes the new library building of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, completed in 1992. Gives a brief history of the existing library as background. Highlights the planning processes involved, including critical choices made, location of the building,preparation...

...Ion Stoica The history of the university libraries of Romania correlates with the history of university structures to which they belong. During almost 50 years of totalitarianism, the Romanian libraries suffered a long period of international isolation and a continuous diminution...

...Manal Al‐Qaisi; S. Nazim Ali Describes how access to English‐language information by non‐English‐speaking students and faculty at a Middle Eastern university is being facilitated by making available a variety of machine‐readable sources, particularly CD‐ROM, and how not only searching...

...Shem Isindu Davidson Khamadi Discusses the aims and objectives of Moi University, a science and technology‐oriented institution of higher education. Outlines the mission of the university library, the aim of which is to support the entire university curricula. Observes that there is an urgent need...