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Making sense of the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university: revelations from dialogue journaling on WhatsApp messenger
(Informaing Science Institute, 2017)
AIM/PURPOSE
The research work investigated the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university in Nigeria, in the course of a group assignment.
BACKGROUND
Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process ...
Use of web 2.0 technologies by library and information science students
(UNISA Press, 2016)
The research reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by library and information science (LIS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Blumer and Katz’s Uses and ...
Use of Web 2.0 by students in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University, Malawi
(AOSIS, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Over the years, advancements in Internet technologies have led to the emergence
of new technologies such as Web 2.0, which have taken various sectors including higher
education by storm. Web 2.0 technologies ...
City of Cape Town libraries' segregated history: 1952-1972
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)
This article investigates the history and development of the Cape Town City Libraries (CTCL) from 1952-1972 and examines the effect of apartheid legislation on establishing a public library system. Legislation introduced ...
The information literacy self-efficacy of disadvantaged teachers in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
The aim of this study was to gauge teachers’ information literacy
self-efficacy thereby eliciting clues to possible gaps in teachers’ knowledge and
skills which could be addressed during an information literacy education ...
Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi
(UNISA Press, 2015)
The study reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies
by lecturers in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at
Mzuzu University (MZUNI), Mzuzu, Malawi. By distributing a ...
Information literacy education in the South African Classroom: Reflections from teachers' Journals in the Western Cape province
(De Gruyter, 2016)
This qualitative study reports on teachers in the
Western Cape as they attempt to embed information literacy
in their classrooms. It explores how teachers come
to understand information literacy and the extent to
which ...
Assessing the appropriation of social media by academic librarians in South Africa and Zimbabwe
(LIASA, 2016)
Research into the appropriation of social media by academic libraries in countries with growing economies is scarce. There remains an empirical and theoretical gap in the literature about how librarians, particularly those ...
The drive for school libraries in South Africa: intersections and connections
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
This paper traces the important developments in school librarianship in South Africa since 2007, during which time the drive to address
huge backlogs in school library provision has gained momentum - largely, it argues, ...
E-book usage amongst academic librarians in South Africa
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2011)
The purpose of this study completed in 2010 was to investigate the use of e-books amongst academic librarians; in
particular which e-books are available to academic librarians, why they choose this format, what impact ...