Browsing Research Articles (Library and Information Science) by Title
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Toward the development of a framework for literacy support and promotion by public libraries in financially and infrastructurally low-resourced territories
(Emerald Publishing, 2023)Purpose: This paper delves into the pivotal role of public libraries in supporting and promoting literacy, with a particular focus on their relevance in financially and infrastructurally low-resourced territories (FILTs). ... -
The “tricky business” of dual use school community libraries: A case study in rural South Africa
(Walter de Gruyter, 2011)The article describes an interpretive case study of a group of six dual use school community libraries in one remote region of South Africa. Its focus is rather more on the libraries as school libraries than public libraries. ... -
The use of multipurpose community telecentres and their services in Malawi: the case of Lupaso Community Telecentre
(LIASA, 2016)Telecentres aim to bridge digital divides between rural and urban communities. In many developing countries, like Malawi, the assumption is that once telecentres are established, people will adopt them. The purpose of the ... -
Use of social media as a marketing and information provision tool by the City of Cape Town Libraries
(AOSIS, 2022)Social media use by libraries has facilitated communication and marketing of services to user communities. The City of Cape Town Libraries adopted social media usage in the 2015–2016 financial year. This study is set out ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The value of information in South Africa’s new democracy
(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to trace and analyse the relationship between information and democracy in the old and in the new South Africa. The authors interrogate the applicability to the situation of the ...
