...Tashfeen Ahmad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share a lecturer’s viewpoint on using mobile phone messaging tools to increase levels of cooperation and collaboration with students and the wider university community. Design/methodology/approach In all, 145 undergraduate students from...

...Katie Elson Anderson Purpose This paper aims to present the use of social media to engage internally with employees and stakeholders, which is becoming a popular option of communication for many business, organizations and libraries. Design/methodology/approach The popularity and importance...

... 2.0 technology discussed and then shows how these characteristics might be beneficially applied to resolve or alleviate one of the challenges explored. Findings By providing examples of best practice the paper shows that there are Web 2.0 technologies being used by the LIS community...

... Limited 2013 Portable digital assistants Academic libraries Innovation Tablets Adoption Implementation Diffusion Blogs Communication Librarians Academic librarians Blogging Twitter The features of tablets seem compatible with the overallmodern developments occurring in academic...

.... Design/methodology/approach A summary of the main points of the meeting. Findings This Congress included the major themes that brought together the research communities, the libraries and librarians, the scholarly publishing enterprises and highlighted the technologies in place to make OA a viable...

... of great interest. The wide spectrum of information sources and functionality of blogs proves to be ever‐changing. Originality/value Provides library community new ideas in how to implement blogs that will serve users in creative, positive and meaningful ways. Using Bloglines, an individual...

...Fannie M. Cox; Mary Barbosa‐Jerez A report on the 7th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) and some of the sessions presented at the 2004 conference, which had the theme of “Distributing Knowledge Worldwide Through Better Scholarly Communication.” Digital...