The Electronic Library: Volume 27 Issue 6

The use and sharing of information from Wikipedia by high‐tech professionals for work purposes

The aim of this paper is to focus on discovering whether high‐tech professionals as a user community search for information from Wikipedia to fulfill their job duties and, if they…

The impact of Social Networking 2.0 on organisations

The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding of what electronic social networking encompasses. It also aims to educate IT, business decision makers, knowledge…

Think culture: Europeana.eu from concept to construction

The purpose of this paper is to describe the construction of the prototype of Europeana.eu, the cross‐domain cultural heritage portal funded by the European Commission, to look at…

Library self‐service: Predicting user intentions related to self‐issue and return systems

This paper aims to compare the effectiveness of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the integrated TPB/TAM model to understand…

Conversion of bibliographic records to MARC 21 format

The aim of this research is the conversion of the bibliographic records between the following different formats for bibliographic material processing – the YUMARC (which is a…

The widely shared definition of e‐Government: An exploratory study

This paper aims to provide details of a study on the widely shared definition of e‐government and to help scholars – especially young scholars – to understand the scope and…

Application of information technologies in academic libraries

The main purpose of this investigation is to define the status of the application of information technology in academic libraries located in Kerman, the center and largest city of…

Evolution of e‐records management practices in e‐government: A Turkish perspective

This study aims to evaluate the new aspects of records management practices introduced by the start of the provision of public services in the electronic environment.

The WIPO development agenda and the contribution of the international library community

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the international strengthening of copyright law in developing countries and the active involvement of the international library community…

The relationship between the research activity of Iranian medical universities and their web impact factor

The aim of this paper is to look at the relationship between research in Iranian medical universities, together with their Web Impact Factor (WIF).

Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources

What's in a Word‐List? Integrating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction

Googlization of Libraries

Creating Your Library's Business Plan: A How‐to‐Do‐it Manual with Samples on CD‐ROM

Searching 2.0

The Innovative School Librarian: Thinking outside the Box

2009 Awards for Excellence

Reviewers for The Electronic Library, Vol. 27, 2009