... 18 06 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information literacy Behaviour Nigeria Attitudes Academic libraries Information society Education in Nigeria has a deeply ingrained cultural value, which emphasises...

... this transition marginalises academic libraries, displacing them from the epistemic functions of synthesis, evaluation and curation they have historically performed. Against the assumption that marginalisation is a technological inevitability, the paper argues that it is conditional and articulates...

... 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Shadow archives Copyright evasion Generative AI Retrieval-augmented generation Knowledge resilience Academic libraries the China Youth and Children Research Association “Climb Plan” G2025-0901-005 Funding...

... 2026 06 01 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Academic libraries Artificial intelligence Automation Knowledge organizations Librarianship history Library Metadata Social infrastructure Sociotechnical systems Third...

...Jacek Tomaszczyk; Agnieszka Gołda Purpose This study aims to examine Digital Darwinism within academic libraries, focusing on institutional adaptation to technological evolution and changing user expectations. It seeks to identify disruptive forces, analyze strategic responses and develop...

.... Almost all the individual digital competencies items assessed had strong statistical correlations between them. Originality/value The research offers key recommendations for academic libraries for the ongoing, evolving exploration of students’ digital competencies and for the need to follow tailored...

...Namjoo Choi Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine research on academic libraries and the social web published from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2023. Design/methodology/approach The article search and filtering procedures mirrored those of Choi and Harper (2020) and Carlsson (2015...

...Cody Hackett; Jeonghyun Kim Purpose One of the most critical changes to academic library services in the last decade has been the development and implementation of research data services (RDS). This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of conceptual models for the RDS space...

...Paul Gooding; Melissa Terras; Linda Berube Digital libraries User studies Behaviour Academic libraries National libraries The digital turn has simultaneously transformed access to library collections and heralded a shift in the production and dissemination of published textual media...

... possibilities for developing academic library support. They are also fraught with drawbacks/concerns, especially related to confusion, for-profit models and reputational risk. Research limitations/implications This exploratory study involves analysis of a small number of interviews (30) with self-selected...

... from the information behaviour/practice literature and enriching them through practice theory contributions in organizational studies and sociology. Academic libraries e-journals Big deal packages Evaluation Decision-making Practice theory Asen O. Ivanov can be contacted at: ivanova...

... to assess the potential of aspects of the theory such as levels of analysis and multiplicity of channels to reframe issues in LIS. Selection Information management Theory Modelling Academic libraries Gatekeeping theory This paper finds that current elaborations of gatekeeping theory...

... the nature of academic libraries are changing. Information services Academic libraries Scholarly communication Research data management Data curation Research data services One of the most significant changes to academic library services in the last decade has been the development...

... of information seeking motivations at the domain level. Intrinsic motivation Self-determination theory Academic libraries Extrinsic motivation Information Seeking Behaviour Scale Measurement testing and instruments Human motivation is a widely debated construct in psychology. Social sciences...

... throughout the course of their academic work, not just when they are engaged in more traditional information seeking activities. Information retrieval Research Information management Generation and dissemination of information Faculty Academic libraries Academic practice Information behaviours...

... Higher education Academic libraries Critical LIS Radical librarianship At a time when the transformatory implications of the 2010 Browne review on higher education (Browne, 2010) are being realised across HE in England, considerations of the political position of the university are pertinent...

... is to use the sociology of time to understand how time is perceived by academic librarians who provide reference and information service (RIS). This study is a qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) of two phenomenological studies about the experience of RIS in academic libraries. The authors used QSA...

.... History Academic libraries Serendipity Browsing Historians Historical research process Information seeking Kim Martin can be contacted at: kimberleymartin@gmail.com 27 11 2015 22 04 2016 17 05 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group...

.... Design/methodology/approach – By stressing the importance of data literacy in fulfilling the mission of the contemporary academic library, the paper centres on information literacy, while the characteristics of other relevant literacies are also examined. The content of data literacy education...

... – The review shows the surprising resilience of research libraries and their ability to change within a short period of time. This ability signifies that research and academic libraries as organizations perfectly adapt to the incessant transformations of current times, contrary to the widely spread...