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Postgraduate students’ internet use and prevalence of internet addiction: what roles can librarians play post covid-19?
(Emerald Publishing, 2023)Purpose – This study empirically analyse the lived and individual experiences of internet use time among postgraduate students in a period where the line between the virtual and real is blurred. The infusion of the internet ... -
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). ... -
Proposed standard guideline for managing information systems (ISs) in libraries in Africa
(Emerald publishing limited, 2023)Libraries in Africa are adopting technology at a fast pace. However, literature has provided enough evidence of the many challenges libraries on the continent are facing in the use of the adopted information technology of ... -
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 ... -
Shaping scholarly communication guidance channels to meet the research needs and skills of doctoral students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(Elsevier, 2020)This article as part of a more comprehensive study, investigated the level of research and scholarly communication skills of doctoral students and the channels to be adopted by the academic library for the provision ... -
A knowledge sharing framework for human capital development in Pentecostal religious organizations
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)n this paper, a theoretical framework for human capital devel-opment in Pentecostal Religious Organizations through knowl-edge sharing is provided. The framework conceptualizes that religious ... -
“Don’t They Know How Important It Is?”
(International Association of School Librarianship Conference Proceedings, 2021)The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ... -
All together now?
(International Association of School Librarianship Conference, 2019)The paper explores the meaning of the recently drafted National Policy for Library and Information Services (NPLIS) for school librarianship in South Africa. It argues that, after years of failed advocacy, a convergence ... -
Information Systems evaluation in Ghanaian academic Libraries using DandM IS success model
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021)The use of Information Systems (ISs) has been widely accepted and proven to increase the service quality in many organizations. Academic libraries have embraced the use of ISs and have implemented them to perform different ... -
Information systems evaluation in Ghanaian academic libraries using DandM IS success model
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021)The use of Information Systems (ISs) has been widely accepted and proven to increase the service quality in many organizations. Academic libraries have embraced the use of ISs and have implemented them to perform different ... -
E-government actor’s perspective: a case of local municipalities in South Africa
(IEEE, 2021)The public sector in developing countries experience various challenges that have stagnated the implementation of e-government-for-citizens especially in local municipalities. The specific focal point is to highlight ... -
New imperatives for librarianship in Africa
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)Africa, in colonial times regarded as the “Dark Continent,” faces many challenges, whether infrastructural, cultural, or political. Despite these challenges, countries on the continent cannot afford to be complacent. The ... -
Extending boundaries: Team teaching to embed information literacy in a university module
(UNISA, 2020)In today’s knowledge-based economy, the role of universities in preparing students to be information literate and independent thinkers and researchers is crucial. Information literacy (IL) skills enable students to become ... -
Dual use school community libraries: expedient compromise or imaginative solution?
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2021-02)The paper reports on a research project in a group of six dual use school community libraries in a rural region of South Africa1. The six dual use libraries were established with donor funding in 2001 as part of a larger ... -
Public Libraries Stepping into the Gap?: A Study of School Learners' Use of Libraries in a Disadvantaged Community in Cape Town
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2021)According to public library staff none of the Vista schools has a functioning library or a librarian on its staff. In itslack of school libraries Vista is no different from other parts of South Africa. Less than a third ... -
A records management model for an intelligent university
(South African Society of Archivists, 2019)This article is based on an MLIS case study undertaken at the University of the Western Cape. The article is meant to add knowledge and insight into university records management and presents a records management model for ... -
Information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the World of Web 2.0
(Innovation, 2018)The purpose of the study was to investigate the information behaviour ofNigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0 at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria. The study is drawn from a doctoral thesis ... -
Digital media usage and prevalence of internet addiction among undergraduate students in South Africa
(The Technical University of Kenya, 2019)The use of Internet and digital media in the academic sector has significantly improved knowledge creation. The Internet has particularly proven itself to be a valuable resource in the enhancement of knowledge production ... -
The power and perils of participant observation in library and information science research: reflections on three South African studies
(UNISA Press, 2017)This article reports on three participant observation studies conducted in schools and libraries in South Africa, between 1999 and 2015. The study findings have been reported on elsewhere, thus the focus is on the methodologies ... -
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 ...
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