| The Challenges of Nonstandardized Vendor Usage Data in a Statewide Metasearch Environment: The Library of Texas Experience |
2004 |
3570 |
This article describes a research and development project the objective of which was to develop a means to produce standardized statewide usage data made available from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Using a range of data collection... |
| Collaboration through Communities of Practice in the Digital Age |
2010 |
2671 |
This paper aims to describe and explain the role of Communities of Practice (CoPs) as an informal communication mechanism in initiating, improving, and fostering collaboration in the digital age. CoPs play a critical role in the management of shared ... |
| Developing an Institutional Repository at a Medium-Sized University: Getting Started and Going Forward |
2011 |
1322 |
Valdosta State University (VSU) has worked for two years to implement an institutional repository (IR), Vtext, to centralize, present, and preserve the intellectual output of our scholars and students in ways not currently supported by traditional li... |
| Faculty Members’ Perceptions towards Institutional Repository at a Medium-sized University: Application of a Binary Logistic Regression Model |
2014 |
2722 |
Purpose – The study aimed to investigate the perceptions of faculty members at a medium-sized university towards self-archiving and participation in institutional repositories (IRs).
Design/methodology/approach – The research participants were fro... |
| Four I’s of Internships for the New Information Society: Intentional, Interconnected, Interdisciplinary and International |
2011 |
2781 |
Internships in library and information studies (LIS) for the New Information Society are re-examined taking into consideration four concepts: (i) international and (ii) interdisciplinary that allow them to expand beyond the local and disciplinary, an... |
| Internship in LIS education: An international perspective on experiential learning |
2015 |
1259 |
The value of internship as a form of experiential learning in library and information science education has been debated for many years in North America. To gain a global perspective, the current research examines whether such an experience is requir... |
| Internship in LIS education: An international perspective on experiential learning [Japanese Translation] |
2017 |
1696 |
Note: Abstract in English, but article translated into Japanese.
The value of internship as a form of experiential learning in library and information science (LIS) education has been debated for many years in North America. To gain a global p... |
| Internship in LIS education: An international perspective on experiential learning [Revised Article] |
2017 |
1046 |
The value of internship as a form of experiential learning in library and information science (LIS) education has been debated for many years in North America. To gain a global perspective, the current research examines whether such an experience is ... |
| Library Blogs and User Participation: A Survey about Comment Spam in Library Blogs |
2011 |
2862 |
The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the impact of comment spam in library blogs. Three research questions guided the study: current level of commenting in library blogs; librarians' perception of comment spam; and techniques used... |
| Organizational Influences in Technology Adoption Decisions: A Case Study of Digital Libraries |
2016 |
3347 |
The purpose of this study was to understand the organizational level decision factors in technology adoption in the context of digital libraries. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the adoption of a specific technology, XML-bas... |
| Preferences for course delivery in library and information science programs: a study of master's students in Canada and the United States |
2016 |
626 |
Objectives: This paper reports on Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) students' preferences for course delivery (online, blended or face-to-face) and how their preferences differ based on demographic variables. This research is part of a... |
| Public Access to Government Information as a Basic Human Right: Turkish National Police Digital Repository |
2006 |
1306 |
This paper presents an overview of a need for an exploratory research project to identify, describe, and investigate the applicability of the digital repository approach to disseminate intellectual output of the Turkish National Police. Governments a... |
| Social Capital Deficit in Online Learning: An Ego-Centric Approach to Occupational Attainment |
2015 |
1973 |
This study examined how social networks of LIS graduates contribute to their job attainment.Graduates from three ALA-accredited programs in the Southeastern U.S. who took some or all oftheir coursework online to earn the MLIS degree participated in t... |
| Studying Online: Student Motivations and Experiences in ALA-Accredited LIS Programs |
2015 |
3275 |
This paper presents a large scale study of online MLIS students (n=910), who completed at least one online course and were enrolled in 36 of the 58 ALA-accredited MLIS programs in Canada and the United States. The results indicate that the typical st... |
| Texas Library Directory Web Services Application: The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data |
2006 |
1759 |
This paper presents an overview of an exploratory research project to identify, describe, and investigate the applicability of the Web services (WS) approach to access legacy data. In the Z Texas Implementation Component of the Library of Texas (ZLOT... |
| URL Decay at Year 20: A Research Note |
2016 |
4288 |
All text is ephemeral. Some texts are more ephemeral than others. The web has proved to be among the most ephemeral and changing of information vehicles. The research note revisits Koehler's original data set after about 20 years since it was first c... |
| Who Do You Know? A Study of Connectedness in Online Education and Employment |
2013 |
2295 |
This study explored the relationship of online course intensity to development of social networks and the impact of social networks on obtaining employment or employment information to develop a better understanding of the factors that lead to improv... |