Browse Items (89 total)

  • Collection: International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)

Chinese Academic Library Services: A Web Survey

Chinese students form a significant population on Canadian university campuses. Literature indicates that these students face various challenges when using library services to meet their information needs. Canadian academic libraries need to better…

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Conference Report and Journal Launch, Beijing, China

June 8-9, 2017, the National Science Library of China (NSLC) hosted the first Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery conference and Big Data Analysis for Decision-Making workshop. This meeting took its name from the Journal of Data Analysis and…

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Content and Context: A Case Study of Cross-departmental Metadata Collaboration

This paper demonstrates how taking differences in end user behavior and differing interdepartmental perspectives on metadata into account can strengthen the digital object workflow to serve a greater variety of users. The University of Illinois…

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Content and Context: A Case Study of Cross-departmental Metadata Collaboration

This paper demonstrates how taking differences in end user behavior and differing interdepartmental perspectives on metadata into account can strengthen the digital object workflow to serve a greater variety of users. The University of Illinois…

Position: 1008 (226 views)

Coping with Constant Obsolescence: A Lifelong Task

Knowledge and skill obsolescence is a common obstacle in individual, organization, and society development. Thanks to the modern technologies, the rate of obsolescence accelerates rapidly in the information age. In the library workplace, obsolescence…

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Cornell Library FOLIO Case Study

Cornell University is a private university with a public mission. With a student body of about 25,000, Cornell is the federal land-grant institution of New York State, a private endowed university, a member of the Ivy League/Ancient Eight, and a…

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COVID-19 and Philippine Academic Libraries

Background. Libraries have rapidly adapted their services and policies during the lockdown and have likewise adopted new initiatives. This study investigated on the impact of COVID-19 to academic libraries in the Philippines.

Objectives. The…

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Creating New Correctional Programs and Services in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article explores the changed and changing COVID-19 pandemic programming implemented by Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library's correctional outreach teams. Every program or service offered by the correctional outreach teams was…

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eBook Service in Shanghai Library

In the 21st century, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, people's reading habits have started shifting from the traditional paper-based media, to completely new media such as cell phones, eBook readers, tablet PCs and so on. "Shanghai…

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