Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 47 Issue 4

Evaluation of librarianship and ICT skills of library and information professionals working in the engineering college libraries in Karnataka, India: a survey

Shivaputrappa Fakkirappa Kattimani, Ramesh R. Naik

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the competences in librarianship and information communication and technology (ICT) skills between different designations of library…

The impact of IT infrastructures on Iranian nurses' and students' health information-seeking strategies

Mehdi Kahouei, Hassan Babamohamadi, Soheila Sadat Ghazavi shariat panahi, Jamileh Mahdi Zadeh

Health departments of Iran have attempted to encourage nursing staff to incorporate research findings into practice since 2005. Consequently, significant changes have occurred in…

The development of an institutional repository at the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Philippines

Stephen Biaco Alayon, Elvi Santillan Nemiz, Daryl Lustracion Superio, Jesserylle Garvilles de la Peña, Luisa Gadot Pacino

– This paper aims to present the experiences of SEAFDEC/AQD library staff in digitizing institutional publications and developing an institutional repository (IR).

Open source, open minds?: An investigation into attitudes towards open source library management systems in UK higher education libraries

John Dalling, Pauline Rafferty

This paper aims to report a small-scale study that investigated attitudes to open source library management systems (LMS)s in UK higher education libraries. The study sought to…

Educational use of smart phone technology: A survey of mobile phone application use by undergraduate university students

Catharine Reese Bomhold

– This paper aims to present the results of a survey of undergraduate student use of smart phone applications.

Search engines and their search strategies: the effective use by Indian academics

B.T. Sampath Kumar, G.T. Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of various search engines and meta search engines by Indian academics for retrieving information on the web. It also aims to know…

Collection Development in the Digital Age

Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam

Building and Managing E-book Collections: A How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians

Mike Sharrocks