... and debates, silent reading room, open-access shelving, departmental library at the department where they study (offering limited opening hours), a single (joint) library near the faculty (with longer opening hours). Academic libraries Students User studies Librarians Humanities Social sciences...

.... Brown and O'Hara (2003) noted that commuters would sit against walls and spread their belongings out to create a boundary between themselves and others when travelling on trains. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 User studies Universities Academic libraries Students Informal...

..., this literature review includes resources on the formation and development of both usability focused teams and web teams in general. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Libraries Web teams Usability User experience Committees Academic libraries Teams User studies Web development...

... technologies Academic libraries Information services User studies Canada Smartphones Mobile library services University students Students Mobile access is in greater demand than ever by library patrons. Smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming the preferred way to access almost any...

... is being challenged in three ways: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Learning Commons User engagement Library image Academic libraries Librarians User studies Hong Kong The higher education in Hong Kong was to launch the four‐year New Academic Structure with diversified...

... retrievals from other floors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Extended hours Late night hours Academic libraries Hours Working hours Students User studies Until March 2007, Memorial Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato was open until 11.45 p.m. Sunday through...

... show the strongest differences (Figure 3). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Media Acceptance E‐books E‐journals Web 2.0 University Tablet Student User studies Library users Germany The rapid and ubiquitous diffusion of digital media into higher education has led...

...@soi.city.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 University libraries Academic libraries Postgraduate students Graduate students Information behaviour Surveys User studies Library users Academic libraries worldwide are going through a period of great change, adapting to new...

... in the next section. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Public libraries Staffless libraries Denmark User studies Libraries The literature on public libraries contains only few titles found on keywords such as “self‐service” and “public libraries”. Furthermore, most...

... in Appendix. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Social media and networking Technology use Academic libraries Environmental scan Students Faculty Social networks User studies Not too long ago computer‐use studies focused on internet searching, e‐mail and game playing...

..., syndicating data outward not controlling what happens to it when it gets to the other end of the connection; Web 2.0 Social networks Library and information science Greece Library education Students User studies Web 2.0 is more about the human aspects of interactivity. It's about...

... users User studies Two well‐known and experienced practitioners write authoritatively on “the users” of library services – who they are and how to analyse and use the data gained. As the authors state “without users there is no real reason for a library or information service to exist”, therefore...

... 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...

... 35 per cent to 75 per cent. The library acquisition budget on electronic resources rose by at least 10 per cent each year since 1999 (Zhang and Haslam, 2005). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Electronic media User studies University libraries Higher education Australia...

... the book's location through RFID and return it to its proper place. User studies Library automation Self‐service Public libraries Taiwan The radio frequency identification (RFID) technique has been utilized by the Taipei Public Library since July, 2005, in the construction of the automated...

... Information media User studies Information science Information services United States of America In the Science and Engineering Library at the Ohio State University, statistics show an interesting dichotomy: a rising gate count yet falling rates of in‐house material use, photocopying, and check...

... of impact were studied. Direct impact is defined as any usage that can be directly attributed to SFX. Indirect impact is defined as usage changes that coincide with implementation of SFX. Academic libraries Electronic media User studies Assessment United States of America In the fall...

... for their failure? Online catalogues User studies Reference services Academic libraries Statistics Greece Every library's scope – as a service organization – is to provide quality services to its users and to strive continuously for their amelioration. Libraries, having stated their intention...

... percent in the third and fourth semesters and 45.6 percent in the fifth‐eighth semesters (Table I). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Literacy Training Academic libraries User studies Greece Libraries as social institutions respond directly to the needs of their primary...

... and that the number of databases offering access to full‐text articles was extremely limited. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 User studies Electronic journals Case studies Academic libraries Italy Promotion has been recognised as one of the major factors affecting the success of e...