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Browsing Information Science by Subject "Academic libraries"
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Academic libraries traditionally support universities in their teaching, learning, and research activities. Their support roles can be broadly defined in terms of the organization and storage of knowledge, as well as its ...
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(University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, 2020-08)PURPOSE : This study investigated the role academic libraries play in the achievement of sustainable development goals 2 and 3 DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An exploratory approach through an extensive review of related ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)ABSTRACT Information literacy skills training should be utilised by libraries as a strategy for transforming non-library users into constant users by teaching them appropriate skills that can impact on their knowledge and ...
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(Unisa Press, 2010)This article compares the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures, the levels of access, and the electronic resources usage patterns at two academic libraries in Kenya. The focus is on the use by ...
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(Routledge, 2025)In the era of rapid data generation, researchers at Kenyan universities face challenges in effectively navigating, interpreting, and managing data. This study proposes a collaborative data literacy framework to enhance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Knowledge management (KM) is increasingly becoming important for organisations to enhance their competitive advantage, performance and to become more effective. Academic institutions and academic libraries, in particular, ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)With the rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) societies and communities are changing and with them the role of libraries and how they interact with their communities are also changing. Social ...
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(Emerald, 2015-11)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to suggest a framework for workplace information literacy based on a case study at the Central University of Technology (CUT), Free State (South Africa). DESIGN / METHODOLOGY / ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-22)Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a crucial role in creating access to information sources through the library networks. When academic libraries integrate ICTs in their services they play an important ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The study looked at the viability of using mobile phones by an academic health library to provide health information to rural women. It is understood that Mobile phones have become household items thereby providing an ...
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Lefa la tsebo : a proposed model for framing Tshwane University of Technology’s libraries policies (UNISA Press, 2019-11)This article presents a proposed model for framing the policies of Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) libraries. The authors draw on a focused literature review across various disciplines as well as empirical evidence ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The South African Higher Education Institution (HEI) sector had to move to ‘emergency’ online learning during the covid-19 pandemic, and they embraced a humanistic approach underpinned by the need to complete the academic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-24)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Web 2.0/3.0 technologies enable academic library users to generate, organize, and share content. This is transforming the traditional power dynamics between academic librarians and academic library users. Not much is known ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The study explored the opportunities, the experience, developments and challenges of academic library automation, with a perspective from Anglophone West Africa, Ghana Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia. Literature ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Library users are constantly expecting new services, which puts tremendous pressure on academic libraries to re-organise their work patterns and devise better ways of service delivery in order to remain relevant. Although ...
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(Professor T.D. Wilson, 2017-03)INTRODUCTION. Studies of information behaviour can inform the design of information systems, services and creative workspaces. Creative workspaces are associated with access to tools, expertise, guidance, innovation and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Although electronic books are becoming a common place globally, they are not necessarily as widely used as other e-resources due to non-familiarity by many users. Academic libraries are important research centres, ...
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(Emerald, 2004)The intranet has emerged as one of today's most effective tools for knowledge management. This article reports on the extent to which three South African academic libraries, selected by means of the purposive sampling ...
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(Emerald, 2015)PURPOSE : Much has been published on makerspaces: the history, development and progress and how they are used – stories of successes and opinions on their potential. The purpose of this paper is to comment on such ...
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