Library Hi Tech: Volume 42 Issue 3

“Tinkering is underrated”: librarians' use of single-board computers and microcontrollers outside of makerspaces

Monica Grace Maceli

This research seeks to better understand the potential uses of maker technologies, such as single-board computers and microcontrollers, more broadly within libraries and not…

The influence of organizational learning on library service innovation

Zifan Zhou, Yufeng Duan, Junping Qiu, Li Yang

This article intends to explore how organizational learning affects innovation in public library services, and the role of public librarians in innovation in library services.

Analysis of interdisciplinary characteristics and knowledge structure from multidimensional perspective: a case study of national fitness topic in China

Xin Feng, Yuehao Liu, Xu Wang

The sudden COVID-19 epidemic in 2019 has frustrated China's overall economy, and the implementation and development of the National Fitness Program has encountered huge obstacles…

Leaders, practitioners and scientists' awareness of artificial intelligence in libraries: a pilot study

Dessy Harisanty, Nove E. Variant Anna, Tesa Eranti Putri, Aji Akbar Firdaus, Nurul Aida Noor Azizi

This study investigates the level of artificial intelligence (AI) awareness among library leaders, practitioners and scientists of Indonesian academic libraries to elucidate the…

Analyzing the impact of technology incentives on community digital inclusion using structural equation modeling

A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam, Muhammad Rafi, Khurshid Ahmad

This study aims to assess whether technological incentives inspire communities in the process of digital inclusion. The factors analyzed by the authors assess five dimensions…

Librarian’s perception on data librarianship core concepts: a survey of motivational factors, challenges, skills and appropriate trainings platforms

Murtaza Ashiq, Nosheen Fatima Warraich

Data librarianship, or data-driven librarianship, is the combination of information science, data science and e-science fields and is gaining gradual importance in the library…

Does visual attention help? Towards better understanding and predicting users’ good abandonment behavior in mobile search

Dan Wu, Shutian Zhang

Good abandonment behavior refers to users obtaining direct answers via search engine results pages (SERPs) without clicking any search result, which occurs commonly in mobile…

Exploring the implementation of artificial intelligence applications among academic libraries in Taiwan

Yuan-Ho Huang

This study explored the different artificial intelligence (AI) applications used in academic libraries and the key factors and impediments related to their implementation.

A theoretical model and empirical analysis of university library readers' spatial cognition

Yiping Jiang, Yanhua Chen, Xiaobo Chi

The practice of renovation and construction of university libraries is flourishing, but how to attract readers to use the library is an issue that urgently needs to be explored…

Japanese industrial technological structure based on the number of patent applications by technical field

Hirokazu Yamada

This research outlines the technological structure of the entire Japanese manufacturing and service industry using the patent information from research and development (R&D…

Social networking sites adoption among entrepreneurial librarians for globalizing startup business operations

Varun Gupta, Luis Rubalcaba, Chetna Gupta, Leandro Pereira

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors leading to adoption of social networking sites (SNS) by librarians of entrepreneurial libraries to provide support to business…

Comparative research on structure function recognition based on deep learning

Zhongbao Liu, Wenjuan Zhao

The research on structure function recognition mainly concentrates on identifying a specific part of academic literature and its applicability in the multidiscipline perspective…

Hong Kong academic librarians' attitudes toward robotic process automation

Chia-Hua Lin, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Ki Tat Lam

This research investigates Hong Kong academic librarians' attitudes toward robotic process automation (RPA) and their willingness to learn this technology.

Personal factors and the role of memory in faculty refinding of stored information

Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu, Antonia Bernadette Donkor

The study examined the personal information management (PIM) challenges encountered by faculty in six universities in Ghana, their information refinding experiences and the…

Exploring gender differences in foreign domestic helpers' mobile information usage

Noyenim Mercy Ezeamuzie, Anthony Hae Ryong Rhim, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Mavis Man-Wai Lung

With the increasing computation and communication speed of mobile devices, their use and roles have been repositioned to act more than a communication tool. Around 0.4 million…