Library Hi Tech: Volume 39 Issue 2

Lost in migration: document quality for batch conversion to PDF/A

Roland Erwin Suri, Mohamed El-Saad

Changes in file format specifications challenge long-term preservation of digital documents. Digital archives thus often focus on specific file formats that are well suited for…

Understanding public libraries’ challenges, motivators, and perceptions toward the use of social media for marketing

Namjoo Choi, Soohyung Joo

The purpose of this paper is to identify challenges and motivators to social media adoption for marketing purposes in public libraries and to investigate how these libraries…

Library inventory using a RFID wand: contribution of tag and book specific factors on the read rate

Kasper Abcouwer, Emiel van Loon

Low read rates are a general problem in library inventories. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that contribute to the success of library inventory by means of a…

Development and evaluation of a cloud bookcase system for mobile library

Chin-Feng Lai, Hua-Xu Zhong, Po-Sheng Chiu, Ying-Hung Pu

This study aims to adopt cloud technology and develop a “cloud bookcase system” to make it possible to provide consistent mobile reading experiences to allow readers to use all…

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of land use and carbon emissions (LUCE) research from 1987 to 2018

Chunhui Liu, Kongqing Li

One of the most critical and active research areas in the field of climate change in recent years has been the interaction between land use and carbon emissions (LUCE). As there…

Intelligent libraries: a review on expert systems, artificial intelligence, and robot

Asefeh Asemi, Andrea Ko, Mohsen Nowkarizi

This paper reviews literature on the application of intelligent systems in the libraries with a special issue on the ES/AI and Robot. Also, it introduces the potential of…

Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries

Magdalena Wójcik

The subject of the article is the concept of augmented intelligence, which constitutes a further stage in the development of research on artificial intelligence. This is a new…

A cross-sectional survey interconnecting health information seeking behavior with clinical data of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

Petros Kostagiolas, Panagiotis Tsiligros, Panagiotis Theodorou, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Dimitrios Niakas

The purpose of this paper is the investigation of type 2 diabetes patients' information seeking behavior in terms of their information needs, sources and barriers faced by…

Research thematic and emerging trends of contextual cues: a bibliometrics and visualization approach

Yang Zhao, Lin Wang, Yaming Zhang

The paper aims to clarify the importance of the psychological processing of contextual cues in the mining of individual attention resources. In recent years, the research of more…

Research development of Bitcoin: a network and concept linking analysis

Chien-wen Shen, Li-chin Chang, Tzu-chuan Su

This study aims to provide researchers a holistic approach for comprehensive understanding of the Bitcoin-related research by discovering its trends, subjects, relations, keywords…

Improving the effectiveness of subject facets in library catalogs and beyond: a MARC-based semiautomated approach

Andrea Cuna, Gabriele Angeli

This paper puts forward a MARC-based semiautomated approach to extracting semantically rich subject facets from general and/or specialized controlled vocabularies for display in…

The provision of patron services in Chinese academic libraries responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

Yajun Guo, Zinan Yang, Zhishun Yang, Yan Quan Liu, Arlene Bielefield, Gregory Tharp

The purpose of this paper is to identify the measures employed in the provision of patron services in Chinese academic libraries responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the…

Mapping scientific profile and knowledge diffusion of Library Hi Tech

Meen Chul Kim, Yuanyuan Feng, Yongjun Zhu

Library Hi Tech is one of the most influential journals that publish leading research in library and information science (LIS). The present study aims to understand the scholarly…

Technological innovation in libraries

Pei-Chun Lee

The purpose of this study was to identify technological innovation in libraries and further examine the knowledge source and their effects during the technology life cycle (TLC).

Public libraries on Facebook: content analysis of Turkish public libraries' posts

Tolga Çakmak, Şahika Eroğlu

The study aims to analyze the posts shared by public libraries in Turkey on their official Facebook pages. The targets of the study are to detect content categories shared by the…

Value chain analysis of information services for visually impaired people: a case study of contemporary technological solutions

Tak Yee Cheung, Zengyu Ye, Dickson K.W. Chiu

People with visual impairment comprise the second high disability population in Hong Kong, but only two existing information centers provide information services for visually…

The investigation on infoecology in the field of smart manufacturing

Asefeh Asemi, Andrea Ko

The present study is aimed to determine the infoecology of scientific articles in the field of smart manufacturing (SM). The researchers designed a general framework for the…

Predictors of information literacy self-efficacy among medical students: PLS-SEM analysis

Saira Hanif Soroya, Malik Muhammad Yasir Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid Soroya, Khalid Mahmood

The study was designed to examine the predictors of information literacy self-efficacy skills (IL skills) of medical students.