Library Hi Tech: Volume 36 Issue 4

The establishment of strategic international and local partnerships through a Masters’ level degree in information technology: A faculty perspective

Marlene Amanda Holmner, Theo J.D. Bothma

The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria (UP), with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has, for the past six years, offered a fully…

Personal digital archiving for journalists: a “private” solution to a public problem

Rachel King

The purpose of this paper is to encourage librarians to teach digital archiving practices to journalists as a way of giving journalists the skills they need to save their work for…

Purchase intention in social commerce: An empirical examination of perceived value and social awareness

Chia-Chen Chen, Kuo-Lun Hsiao, Shan-Jung Wu

With the advent of the digital era, the internet has gradually become an essential factor in people’s lives. Its increasing popularity has also caused e-commerce to thrive, and…

An empirical study on the factors influencing mobile library usage in IoT era

Xiwei Wang, Jiaxing Li, Mengqing Yang, Yong Chen, Xiaobo Xu

The purpose of this paper is to construct an information ecology factor-TAM model to explore how information, people, and information environment impact mobile library users’…

A study of crowd-collaborative learning: an empirical study

Wen-Shan Lin, Yi-Ju Wang, Hong-Ren Chen

Information technology is widely applied for completing group tasks and enhancing learning in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. Group members not only…

Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence and social network analysis: Evidence from Library Hi Tech between 2006 and 2017

Fei-Fei Cheng, Yu-Wen Huang, Hsin-Chun Yu, Chin-Shan Wu

The purpose of this paper is to present the knowledge structure based on the articles published in Library Hi Tech. The research hotspots are expected to be revealed through the…

Antecedents and consequences of social networking site knowledge sharing by seniors: A social capital perspective

I-Chiu Chang, Chia-Hui Chang, Jiunn-Woei Lian, Ming-Wei Wang

Understanding elders’ experience and knowledge-sharing behaviors online have become significant issues in this aging society. In this study, the purpose of this paper is to…

The comparison of thesaurus and ontology: Case of ASIS&T web-based thesaurus and designed ontology

Maryam Nowroozi, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi, Hajar Sotudeh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate indexers’ evaluation on the usability of ontology vs thesaurus in representation of concepts and semantic relations. To do so…

Human behavior analysis under financial information science: Evidence from corporate social responsibility

Feng Jui Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among corporate social responsibility (CSR), analyst forecast accuracy and firms’ earnings management behavior using…

Comparing the determinants of non-MOOC and MOOC continuance intention in Taiwan: Effects of interactivity and openness

Chia-Chen Chen, Chun-Hsiung Lee, Kuo-Lun Hsiao

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) differ from non-MOOC e-learning platforms mainly in terms of degree of openness, with MOOCs designed to maximize learner access and…

Online search behaviour of University of Zambia Library and Information Studies students

Francina N.S. Makondo, Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, Fabian Kakana

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that affect web searching behaviour of the students of the University of Zambia (UNZA).