The Electronic Library: Volume 21 Issue 5

The impact of IT on indigenous peoples

This Special Issue of The Electronic Library on the “Impact of information technology on indigenous peoples” gathers articles from several different countries and cultures in an…

Digital libraries: barriers or gateways to scholarly information?

Unprecedented desktop access to scholarly information has been made possible by the introduction of digital libraries. The powerful combination of digital publications, specialist…

Perspectives on tribal archives

Tribal archives are an essential resource for documenting cultural history. This article explores the essential archival functions of a tribal repository and addresses special…

Native American technology access: the Gates Foundation in Four Corners

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Native American Access to Technology Program (NAATP) was designed to provide computer and Internet access to Native peoples in the Four…

School‐museum partnerships for culturally responsive teaching

A dissertation study combined four case studies that examined school‐museum partnerships for virtual museum projects in which students did virtual reality imaging of museum…

Indians on the Internet – selected Native American Web sites

Native Americans made an early appearance on the Internet in 1994. The number of Indian‐run Web sites about Native American issues, histories and cultures continues to expand. Web…

American Indian tribal Web sites: a review and comparison

Many Native American tribes have Web sites, but the content of these sites varies depending on a number of factors, including the audience, purpose and context of the site…

Maori access to information technology

The extent of Internet access is a key indicator of the Maori people’s ability to use information technologies for social, e‐commerce and e‐government communication. The key…

Iwi archivists as recordmakers?

This paper is a brief summary of a presentation and the ensuing discussion that was part of a workshop on recent developments in iwi (tribal) archives at the LIANZA Conference…

Te Mata o te Tai – the edge of the tide: rising capacity in information technology of Maori in Aotearoa‐New Zealand

This paper argues that one can extract relevant lessons in the information technology era from one’s colonial past. One such lesson is to understand how information technologies…

Impact of ICT‐based distance learning: the African story

Neither distance learning courses nor utilising information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance these courses are new to sub‐Saharan Africa. “Long‐distance” training…

A survey of cybercafés in Delta State, Nigeria

This article surveys the cybercafés in Delta State, Nigeria. By means of questionnaires and observation techniques, data were collected from the cybercafés. Frequency counts and…

Managing Internet and Intranet Technologies in Organizations: Challenges & Opportunities

Evolution in Reference and Information Services: The Impact of the Internet

How to Plan and Manage an e‐Learning Programme

The Accidental Systems Librarian