Information Discovery and Delivery: Volume 51 Issue 1

Why do users continually seek knowledge in online Q&A communities? An empirical investigation

Jiahua Jin, Tingting Zhang, Xiangbin Yan

Online Q&A communities have been widely highlighted as an important knowledge exchange market. Although motivations for users’ initial knowledge-seeking behavior have been widely…

Digital pedagogies for librarians in higher education: a systematic review of the literature

Mousin Omar Saib, Mogiveny Rajkoomar, Nalindren Naicker, Cecilia Temilola Olugbara

The purpose of this paper is to identify and present a global perspective of digital pedagogies in relation to technology and academic librarians.

Do social networking sites enhance the research traits of college students?

Manzoor Hussain, Syed Uzma Kubravi, Fayaz Ahmad Loan

Social networking sites (SNS) have become popular destinations for college students all over the world. The minds of the college students have been steadily taking over by the…

Quality assessment of E-learning website using asymmetric impact–performance analysis and Kano’s customer satisfaction model: a case study based on WebQual 4.0

Mohammadreza Esmaeili Givi, Hamid Keshavarz, Zahra Kargar Azad

Using asymmetric impact–performance analysis for examining an asymmetric relationship between user satisfaction and website features, the present research aims to identify…

Open source software adoption for development of institutional repositories in university libraries of Islamabad

Muhammad Kabir Khan, Arslan Sheikh

This study aims to explore the present status of open-source institutional repository (IR) software’s usage in the university libraries of Islamabad. This study also investigates…

Conceptualization in ontology based on Peirce’s triadic model of the sign: a qualitative content analysis

Khadije Moradi

This study aims to identify the effective components in object interpretation based on Pierce’s triadic sign model to determine how meaning is created and identify the components…

Evaluating social media’s communication effectiveness on travel product promotion: Facebook for college students in Hong Kong

Venessa Suet Yee Cheung, Joey Chung Yi Lo, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

This study aims to evaluate social media’s communication effectiveness on travel product promotion among college students in Hong Kong. As traveling has become a popular activity…

Multi-word terms selection for information retrieval

Chedi Bechikh Ali, Hatem Haddad, Yahya Slimani

A number of approaches and algorithms have been proposed over the years as a basis for automatic indexing. Many of these approaches suffer from precision inefficiency at low…

Cloud computing applications in library services of Bangladesh: a study on librarians’ perceptions

Md. Nazmul Islam, Md. Shariful Islam, Antora Anwar, Mohammed Khalid Alam

This study aims to find out the current state of cloud-based library services in selected academic and special libraries of Bangladesh. The study also explored some pertinent…

Proceedings of the annual meetings of the association for information science and technology: analysis of two decades of published research

Md. Anwarul Islam, Naresh Kumar Agarwal

The purpose of this study is to investigate the research and publication trends in the articles published in the conference proceedings of the Association for Information Science…