Table of contents - Special Issue: Best young professionals 2
Artificially intelligent conversational agents in libraries
Victoria L. Rubin, Yimin Chen, Lynne Marie ThorimbertConversational agents are natural language interaction interfaces designed to simulate conversation with a real person. This paper seeks to investigate current development and…
Alleviating physical space constraints using virtual space?: A study from an urban academic library
Anthony CoccioloThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether virtual space can be used to alleviate physical space constraints for group collaboration in an urban academic library…
Utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) in library research
Bradley Wade Bishop, Lauren H. MandelThe purpose of this research paper is to explore library research that uses geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to measure and analyze library services and establish…
Information literacy barriers: language use and social structure
Peyina LinThis paper aims to examine barriers to information literacy (IL), including: language use, social structures, and the neutrality‐advocacy dilemma.
Making web content accessible for the deaf via sign language
Lisa MöbusThis paper seeks to show the special needs of deaf people to have a barrier‐free access to the internet and its services and benefit from it. It aims to give explanations why deaf…
Overcoming the information gap: Measuring the accessibility of library databases to adaptive technology users
Jennifer Tatomir, Joan C. DurranceThe purpose of this study is to address problems associated with the accessibility of academic library databases.
Preserving authenticity in the digital age
Sharon AdamIn this increasingly digital world, archivists have had to reconsider early definitions and measures of authenticity in order to ensure their applicability to the process of…
Baby Boomers and the United States public library system
Emy Nelson DeckerThe members of the Baby Boom generation, who comprise a very large, diverse, and outspoken sector of the population, are about to grow older and enter the public library. Are…
Making the case for the leadership role of school librarians in technology integration
Daniella SmithThe purpose of this study is to determine the self‐perceived impact of technology training on the transformational leadership practices of pre‐service school librarians who…
A Six Sigma‐based method to renovate information services: Focusing on information acquisition process
Yong Kim, Eun Jeong Kim, Min Gyo ChungThe purpose of this paper is to describe a Six Sigma‐based method to renovate library and information services with great emphasis on the information acquisition process.
OCLC's WorldCat Local versus III's WebPAC: Which interface is better at supporting common user tasks?
Bob Thomas, Stefanie BuckThis paper aims to describe the results of a usability test performed at Western Washington University to determine whether users were as successful performing common…
An Agile approach to library IT innovations
May ChangThis paper seeks to describe the application of the Agile software development approach to rapidly develop and deploy a variety of innovative IT applications.
Evaluating and comparing discovery tools: how close are we towards next generation catalog?
Sharon Q. Yang, Kurt WagnerThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare open source and proprietary discovery tools and find out how much discovery tools have achieved towards becoming the next…
Archiving in the networked world: LOCKSS and national hosting
Michael SeadleThe purpose of this paper is to answer questions about LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that have arisen in the context of the German National Hosting study.
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho