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Research Articles (Information Science): Recent submissions
Now showing items 121-140 of 319
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(Emerald, 2015-07)PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to present a three-part framework of information engagement for situated gynecological cancers. These particular cancers intertwine with medicalization of sexuality and gender ...
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(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-11)Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel ...
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Activating whole brain® innovation : a means of nourishing multiple intelligence in higher education (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-11)The interconnectedness of the constructs ‘whole brain® thinking’ and ‘multiple intelligence’ forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when whole brain® thinking is activated multiple intelligence ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2015)In the information society, it is much easier for someone to find relevant data if s/he has an information need because of the availability of databases and electronic information tools. In information science this topic ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)African librarians need to embrace enormous changes in technology and in social and economic circumstances during the course of their careers, but the methods that the profession should use to renew itself are not clear. ...
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Competitive intelligence in emerging economies : a comparative study between Brazil and South Africa (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-07)Competitive intelligence (CI) has long been recognised as a strategic management tool that could enhance competitiveness. CI is expected to play an essential developmental role in emerging economies. The need to enhance ...
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Understanding innovation and policy transfer : implications for libraries and information services (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)Library development in Africa has involved large-scale processes of innovation and policy transfer, also referred to as policy borrowing or policy learning. A good deal of theory has been developed in various disciplines ...
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(Routledge, 2014)Publishers’ and booksellers’ marketing campaigns are aimed at ‘target audiences’ – groups of potential book buyers who can be demographically and geographically segmented. This segmentation is not always overt, but in ...
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(Routledge, 2014-06)Deon Meyer is a household name in South Africa as a bestselling crime fiction author. This article explores how and why Meyer’s career has evolved in the way that it has, in an attempt to answer the question of what has ...
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(The Royal Society, 2015-09)South Africa's academic publishing history has been profoundly influenced by its colonial heritage. This is reflected in the publication of Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society (later, the Royal Society ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)Information policy formulation is not only a matter of politics and policies. In this article it is argued that national information policies are also about ethics and that the moral complexities and challenges associated ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)Practising ethics has been an important consideration since Aristotle, with particular reference to his Nicomachean Ethics. He based his entire philosophy on understanding the nature of ethical interaction between people. ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)David Cameron’s announcement during the 2011 riots across cities in the United Kingdom to consider shutting down social media shocked the international information community. It raised questions of how firmly entrenched ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)In order to stay relevant in the current technological environment together with the associated changing expectations and demands of students, new approaches in teaching, learning and assessment are needed. Traditional ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2014-12)This article reports on empirical results of the views of South African knowledge workers on how future changes in the knowledge economy will affect them. Respondents were asked to identify and prioritise trends in the ...
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(Sage, 2014-05)A charter cannot transform library and information services without political champions, public pressure, norms and standards, legislation, and a transformed mind-set.
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(Sage, 2014)The birth of the African Library and Information Association and Institutions provides an opportunity to revisit the idea of Africanization. Five things that are wrong with Africanization are identified and discussed.
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(Sage, 2014)Through their brave actions, information heroes have assured access to information in times of social conflict, revolution, and war. They deserve to be recognized, and their achievements remembered.
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)The African debate about information technology in general, and OSNs in particular, is a debate on African identities arising out of processes of mutual respect or disrespect, and also from the social capabilities, natural ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)With the rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) societies and communities are changing and with them the role of libraries and how they interact with their communities are also changing. Social ...
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