The Electronic Library: Volume 26 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
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The use of ICTs in Namibia's SME sector to access business information services
Elisha Rufaro T. Chiware, Archie L. DickThe purpose of the paper is to present current state of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Namibia's small and medium‐sized enterprises (SME) sector…
The ETS iSkillsTM Assessment: a digital age tool
Mary M. Somerville, Gordon W. Smith, Alexius Smith MacklinThe purpose of this paper is to show how information and communications technology (ICT) literacy skills reflect twenty‐first century requirements for researching and…
Development of a learning system for a museum collection of print‐related artifacts
Cheng‐Wei Fan, Jun‐Fu Huang, Rong‐Jyue FangThe purpose of this paper is to present the concepts of the digital collection of Taiwanese technological artifacts and reliable industrial technology, to proceed with the…
Cataloguers in a global information network environment
Charles O. OmekwuThis paper aims to explore the traditional and emerging roles of cataloguing professionals in a global network information environment. That exploration becomes even more critical…
Contextualization of web searching: a grounded theory approach
Yazdan MansourianThis paper aims to report selective findings of a wider study on interaction of users with web‐based search tools to underline the importance of context in information seeking on…
Event‐based knowledge extraction from free‐text descriptions for art images by using semantic role labeling approaches
Chia‐Hung Lin, Chia‐Wei Yen, Jen‐Shin Hong, Samuel Cruz‐LaraThe purpose of this paper is to show how previous studies have demonstrated that non‐professional users prefer using event‐based conceptual descriptions, such as “a woman wearing…
Bridging the digital divide: The role of librarians and information professionals in the third millennium
Seyed Vahid Aqili, Alireza Isfandyari MoghaddamThe purpose of this paper is to show how the digital divide has become a common metaphor originating from now nearly obsolete phrases such as “information have and have nots” and…
The use of cybercafes in Ilorin, Nigeria
Isiaka Atunde Alao, Abubakar Lanre FolorunshoThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of cybercafés in Ilorin, Nigeria. The main objectives of the survey were to determine the characteristics of the users, how…
An evaluation of the second survey on electronic databases usage at Ankara University Digital Library
Cemal Atakan, Doğan Atılgan, Özlem Bayram, Sacit ArslantekinThe purpose of this paper is to encompass the assessment of the effectiveness of the digital library and the value of multidisciplinary databases in terms of user preferences and…
A novel self‐organising clustering model for time‐event documents
Chihli Hung, Stefan WermterThe purpose of this paper is to examine neural document clustering techniques, e.g. self‐organising map (SOM) or growing neural gas (GNG), usually assume that textual information…
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hybridEditors:
- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle