Library Management: Volume 41 Issue 6/7

Guest editorial

The status of electronic teaching within South African LIS Education

To determine the perceived self-efficacy of South African LIS academics in e-teaching as a co-requisite to imparting relevant ICT knowledge and skills to LIS students.

The emerging roles of academic librarians in Kenya: apomediaries or infomediaries?

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the emerging roles of academic librarians in Kenya, with a view to determining whether they perform better as apomediaries or…

Readiness of academic libraries in South Africa to research, teaching and learning support in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

In this paper, we refer to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2016, where the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) was coined by Klaus Schwab, with…

An authentic flip subscription model for Africa: library as publisher service

This paper investigates the fit for purpose of the flip model proposed by Max Planck Society and Plan S for the African environment. This flipped model is examined against the…

Open research data in African academic and research libraries: a literature analysis

The paper presents a literature review on research data management services in African academic and research libraries on the backdrop of the advancing open science and open…

Data librarianship in South African academic and research libraries: a survey

The purpose of this study was to establish the current skills base of librarians working in research data management services in academic and research libraries in South Africa…

A conceptual virtual research environment model for the management of research data, a South African perspective

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) conceptual model for the management of research data at a South…

Research data management literacy amongst lecturers at Strathmore University, Kenya

The purpose of this study was to analyse the skills required by lecturers to be able to support research data management effectively; assess the research data management literacy…

Research data management at a public university in Malawi: the role of “three hands”

Considering that research data is increasingly hailed as an important raw material for current and future science discoveries, many research stakeholders have joined forces to…

ICT proficiency: perspectives of Tangaza University College librarians in Kenya

This study aims to assess the information and communications technology (ICT) proficiency of library and information science (LIS) professionals working in Tangaza University…

Innovative use of technologies to enhance knowledge management

The study aims to identify and recommend to the Marist International University College (MIUC) technologies that enhance knowledge management, with a particular focus on…

Strategies for the use of open access institutional repositories at universities in Ghana

This article suggests strategies for the usage of open access institutional repositories (OAIR) at university libraries in Ghana.

Users' perceived level of service at the African Union Court on Human and Peoples' Rights library in Arusha, Tanzania

The study examined users' perceived level of service at the African Union Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (AUCHPR) library in Arusha, Tanzania.

Critical success factors for total quality management implementation and implications for sustainable academic libraries

The purpose of this study is to investigate the critical success factors for total quality management implementation and implications for sustainable academic libraries in Ghana…

Influence of copyright exceptions and limitations on access to information in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda libraries

Copyright exceptions promote access to information by users without breaching copyright. This research paper reviews copyright exceptions in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda and how they…

Selecting information products and services to embed in a virtual learning environment to support engineering undergraduates in a blended learning context

The purpose of this study was to understand what role undergraduate third- and fourth-year students expect librarians to play in an online learning environment and to determine…

Competitive intelligence as a coping strategy for academic libraries in South Africa

This study examined the extent to which public academic libraries in South Africa coped with the changing information environment by using competitive intelligence (CI) to attain…

Advancing the frontiers of justice to the under represented in Nigeria through public law library legal clinics: issues for consideration

The research sought to explore the role of public law libraries in advancing the net of persons who could access justice, using the law clinic in Nigeria as a gateway. It also…