Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication: Volume 71 Issue 6/7

Media literacy and the credibility evaluation of social media information: students’ use of Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram

Ali Shabani, Hamid Keshavarz

Due to their unique characteristics in terms of information type, quantity and exchange, social media are regarded as a challenging information resource that makes credibility…

The Yin and Yang of smartphones: an interview study of smartphone use and its effects

Naresh Kumar Agarwal, Wenqing Lu

The purpose of this paper is to study smartphone use and its positive and negative effects and to provide recommendations for balanced use.

Awareness, use and attitudes of students towards e-books: differences based on gender, discipline and degree level

Akira Jbeen, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Khalid Mahmood

The purpose of this study was to explore the level of awareness, use and attitudes of students regarding e-books.

Electronic games classification in the library of congress and Dewey classification schemes: a comparative study

Nahed Salem, Ahmed Maher Khafaga Shehata

The study aims to explore the classification of electronic games in Dewey decimal classification (DDC) and The Library of Congress classification (LCC) schemes.

Roadmap of Iranian digital academic libraries in the context of cloud infrastructure and becoming cloud library

Heydar Esmaeili, Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Mehdi Alipour Hafezi

This paper aims to draw a roadmap for the presence of Iranian academic libraries in the cloud infrastructure.

Unleashing the mechanism between affect-based trust and employee creativity: a knowledge sharing perspective

Talat Islam, Arooba Chaudhary, Saqib Jamil, Hafiz Fawad Ali

Creativity has become essential for organizations to remain competitive. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the intervening role of knowledge sharing between affect-based…

Investigating the acceptance of distance learning amongst Omani students: a case study from Oman

Abdul Hakim Hassan Mustafa Mohamed, Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah, Mohamed Izzeldin AbdelRahman Bashir, Maia Alhajri, Akbar Khanan, Zaheer Abbas

In the COVID-19 pandemic, students were subjected to high pressure when they were forced to move to distance learning in a lockdown environment. Such a drastic move for…

The effect of foreign market knowledge on SME export performance: a study ofnon-traditional SMEs in Ghana

Aidatu Abubakari, Kwame Simpe Ofori, Henry Boateng, Koffi N’Da, Robert Ebo Hinson

It is well documented in the extant literature that knowledge plays a crucial role in small and medium enterprise (SME) internationalization. Exporting SMEs from developing…

Conserving knowledge heritage: opportunities and challenges in conceptualizing cultural heritage information system (CHIS) in the Indian context

Gireesh Kumar T.K., Raman Nair R.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope, issues and challenges in conceptualizing a comprehensive cultural heritage information system (CHIS) in the Indian context…

Online brand communication and building brand trust: social information processing theory perspective

Geeta Marmat

The purpose of this paper is to present the mechanism of online customer brand trust building through the lens of Walther’s Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) – Social…

Stakeholders’ perceptions of book piracy’s benefits to society in Lithuania

Vincas Grigas, Arūnas Gudinavičius

Book piracy represents a threat to the publishing industry, while for the society, book piracy provides some benefits. The purpose of this study is to examine views of readers…

Research scholars and faculty members perception and participation in collection development of university libraries of Northern India – a comparative study

Har Singh, Preeti Mahajan

This study aims to investigate research scholars’ and faculty members’ perception, participation in collection development, satisfaction with the adequacy of the library…