Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 38 Issue 3

Editorial

Anna Maria Tammaro, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

Measuring personal and academic differences in students’ perceived social media credibility

Iqra Bashir, Amara Malik, Khalid Mahmood

Social media is a popular source for information sharing in the contemporary world. Social media allow individuals to create, publish and diffuse contents directly. This openness…

Effect of gender, social influence, and emotional factors in usage of e-Books by Generation Z in Indonesia

Dyah Puspitasari Srirahayu, Muhammad Rifky Nurpratama, Tanti Handriana, Sri Hartini

The purpose of this study is to find out: gender, social and emotional factors as obstacles that influence Generation Z in using e-Books.

Developing an open source mobile app in library services: the case of a national university in Malaysia

Zainab Ajab Mohideen, Arslan Sheikh, Kiran Kaur

A surge of library activities and technological advances have increased the demand for data accuracy and agility among library clientele. Therefore, novel approaches are needed to…

Digital dissemination skills in public libraries

Bo Skøtt

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what con`sequences the digitisation of public libraries’ knowledge dissemination and the transition to online services has, for library…

Digital librarianship practice and open access technology use for sustainable development in Nigeria

Omorodion Okuonghae, Edwin Iroroeavwo Achugbue

The continuous advancement in technology has disrupted practices in many sectors, including education. Thus, this study aims to examine digital librarianship practice and open…

Digital library services to support online learning amid COVID-19: a study of a private university library in Bangladesh

Dilara Begum, Md. Hasinul Elahi

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the East West University Library’s (EWUL’s) response to COVID-19 situation through their transformation to digital services. The paper…

Designing metadata schema for a human library: a prototype

Anupta Jana, Rosalien Rout

In the absence of a working model for describing, managing and archiving the human library resources, this study aims to attempt a practical approach that will provide all the…

Faculty perceptions of information literacy skills: an investigation at the Florence University Campus of Social Sciences

Rosaria Giangrande, Alessandra Cassigoli, Eleonora Giusti

The Florence University Social Science Library has for some time been engaged in courses for information literacy (IL), but so far, there has been a lack of collaboration with…

Toward a definition of digital object reuse

Ayla Stein Kenfield, Liz Woolcott, Santi Thompson, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Ali Shiri, Caroline Muglia, Kinza Masood, Joyce Chapman, Derrick Jefferson, Myrna E. Morales

The purpose of this paper is to present conceptual definitions for digital object use and reuse. Typically, assessment of digital repository content struggles to go beyond…