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Empowering diverse voices

Haipeng Li is University Librarian at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Prior to his position at HKBU, he was Associate Director of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, and as reference librarian at the…

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Information literacy in vocational education: a course model

Vocational education has undergone major changes in recent years. The need for incorporating information literacy into the vocational school curriculum exists, given the nature of the mission of this particular type of educational institutions. Over…

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All Starting from Baseline Data: What Can We Do with Library Resources and Services?

What happens if an academic library is not aware of any baseline data about distance learners’ use of library resources and services? What will the baseline data mean to the library’s existing and potential resources and services? Through a web-based…

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AI-Powered Chat Service for Teaching and Learning

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This poster will present our interdisciplinary initiative to develop a new 24/7 chat service using a chatbot model in an academic library. The primary goal of this chatbot service is to help students and faculty find open textbooks across various…

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Location and Shelf Mapping from OPAC Search Results: With Reference To Wichita State University

Purpose Ð The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic mapping of holding locations to the animated maps in a library catalog which aims to resolve complex shelving situations, augment the user experience in locating library materials and enrich…

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Dynamic Map Display in Web OPAC: An Experiment at Wichita State University Libraries

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Adding more features to the web OPAC or making the Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) more compatible to external web services has been a tendency in recent years. Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries' Dynamic Map Project enriched the…

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Future of Academic Libraries in the Digital Age: Trends, Discovery and People in the Digital Age

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of…

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Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

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This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists,…

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Enhancing Academic Library Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

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Leveraging Academic Library Information Commons for the 21st Century

With the rapid development of modern sciences and technologies, all kinds of data and information from heterogeneous resources can be dynamically accessed, converted and disseminated in the digital world. To meet the challenges of today's information…

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