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Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research information management systems
This article examined how researchers participated in research information management systems (RIMSs), their motivations for participation, and their priorities for those motivations. Profile maintenance, question-answering, and endorsement activities were used to define three cumulatively increasing levels of participation: Readers, Record … Continue reading
What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, 72% reported using … Continue reading
Library self-disruption: The key to surviving and thriving
Disruption and change, especially in the area of technology, continue to have a major impact on society. The higher education community is certainly not immune to these trends. In this article, the authors, the library dean and a professor of … Continue reading
The smart campus: a future for our universities?
What is the ‘smart campus’? What might it be like to study, teach, research or work in one? How might learning spaces research, educational data, estate management practices, smart devices and artificial intelligence converge to shape the direction of our … Continue reading
Collaboration and Academic Libraries: An Overview and Literature Review
The chapter provides an overview and an extensive literature review of collaboration and academic libraries. There is consideration of different aspects of internal collaboration including: collaboration within the library service; collaboration of academic libraries with faculties, other support departments, and … Continue reading
Bibliotaxonomy: Definition, Scope and Implication for LIS Scholarship
The paper introduces bibliotaxonomy as a generic name for those aspects of Library and Information Science (LIS) scholarship that deal with the processing and organization of books, documents and other information materials. It traces the origin of, and inspiration for … Continue reading
Before information literacy [Or, Who Am I, as a subject-of-(information)-need?]
The subject-of-(information)-need, or the “user,” is the bedrock notion of the subject in information retrieval, but it is constructed by the information environment it finds itself within. If the user cannot judge this environment before using it, then information literacy … Continue reading
ISU professor helping lead effort to expand digital literacy in Iowa
AMES, Iowa – Access to digital technology has far outpaced the availability of educational resources to promote responsible use. Douglas Gentile, a professor of psychology at Iowa State University, fears what the consequences might be if that trend is not … Continue reading
Supporting the employability agenda in University Libraries: a case study from the University of Sheffield
The paper starts with a brief review of literature on employability and student skills in the UK HE sector, the place of information literacy as an employability attribute and information literacy in the workplace. It goes on to outline work … Continue reading
Rearticulating Internet Literacy
Due to the increasing importance of data economics, privacy, and cybersecurity, a critical review of Internet literacy has become a necessity. Based on the emerging of such new critical features of internet environment, this paper proposes a new articulation of … Continue reading