Browse Items (89 total)

  • Collection: International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)

Trends, Challenges and Opportunities at University of Manitoba Libraries during the COVID Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic brought rapid and radical changes to higher education, and academic libraries adapted and devised solutions. This article will review the initiatives that the University of Manitoba Libraries (UML) implemented prior to the…

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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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Modularity in FOLIO: Principles, Techniques and Tools

From its earliest inception, FOLIO was conceived not as an ILS (Integrated Library System), but as a true Services Platform, composed of many independent but interdependent modules, and forming a foundation on which an ILS or other library software…

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The Development of Academic Data Services in Canada and China: Profiles of Data Services at Fudan University and the University of Windsor.

A comparative perspective on the development of academic data services at Fudan University in China and at the University of Windsor in Canada.

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Library Services to Multicultural Populations through the Lens of History: A Literature Review

In today's increasingly globalized and interconnected world, libraries play a critical role in the integration of their culturally and ethnically diverse service populations into the mainstream of American society. This literature review traces the…

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Shifting Instruction for Sustainability: Lessons from COVID

The COVID-19 pandemic irrevocably changed the ways that libraries function. Libraries had to shift and our skills as librarians and educators were put to the test in new ways. As the Instruction Coordinator at New Mexico State University Library…

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2017 Shenzhen International Conference on Libraries and Digital Humanities

The University Town Library of Shenzhen hosted the three-day International Conference on Libraries and Digital Humanities from December 6th to 8th, 2017.

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Overview of Development and Recent Trends in Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation

This paper is an overview of bibliometrics, a subfield of library and information science. It briefly explains what bibliometrics is and why it is important in research evaluation and impact analysis. It summarizes the latest development and trends…

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Book Review of Library Improvement through Data Analytics

Book Review of Library Improvement through Data Analytics

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