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Research Articles (Information Science): Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 319
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(Wiley, 2022-10)An exploratory study investigated the factors affecting digital literacy training offered by local community organizations, such as public libraries. Theory based on the educational assessment and information literacy ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-04)Community colleges offer a unique context in higher education and yet specific guidance on implementing the ACRL Framework in community colleges is lacking. Semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2022-01)This study explores how public libraries and other local community organizations can best deliver and evaluate the digital literacy initiatives they provide to the communities they serve; this article focuses on program ...
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(University of Borås, 2021-06)INTRODUCTION. Pregnant women rely on information during pregnancy for better health outcomes. This paper investigates pregnant women's interests in services that can offer health literacy and health information through ...
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(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2021-07-12)Virtual reality has the potential to enhance a variety of real-world training and entertainment applications by creating the illusion that a user of virtual reality is physically present inside the digitally created ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2021-10)In the first of two articles, interviews with administrators of digital literacy programs in Canadian public libraries and other community organizations revealed a sector working to address the digital divide, focusing on ...
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(De Gruyter, 2021-02)The COVID-19 pandemic is an international public health crisis without precedent in the last century. The novelty and rapid spread of the virus have added a new urgency to the availability and distribution of reliable ...
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(Springer, 2021-03)The significant technological advances in reading and content provision technologies since the 1978 Copyright Act in South Africa have not been considered in the expanding exemptions to Copyright nationally. The 2017 version ...
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(University of Borås, 2020)INTRODUCTION: Intermediary and proxy searching, where one person searches on behalf of another, are noted in information science, health sciences and library science (e.g., reference work and early day online searching), ...
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(University of Borås, 2020-12)INTRODUCTION: Digital deception is a double-edged sword used by both blackhats and whitehats in cybersecurity. A status quo review of the reintroduction of digital deception can reveal challenges and initiatives and show ...
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(University of Borås, 2020-12)INTRODUCTION: Grief and bereavement include cognitive, affective and physical dimensions. Pre- and post-grief manifest at different times of coping with loss and bereavement. Contextualisation of information behaviour ...
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(University of Toronto Library, 2020)This article addresses facts, truth, post-truth, and the impact on access to cognitively and socially just information. It is predominantly situated within the post-truth context where information is manipulated to such ...
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(Springer, 2020-12)Nasionale Pers established a mail-order book club based on the Bertelsmann model called Leserskring in 1980. The club became incredibly successful and by 1985 it had a membership of 250,000. However, technology and a ...
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(Emerald, 2020-08)PURPOSE : This study aims to assess the information and communications technology (ICT) proficiency of library and information science (LIS) professionals working in Tangaza University College (TUC) Library, Kenya. DESI ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The South African Higher Education Institution (HEI) sector had to move to ‘emergency’ online learning during the covid-19 pandemic, and they embraced a humanistic approach underpinned by the need to complete the academic ...
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(University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, 2020-08)PURPOSE : This study investigated the role academic libraries play in the achievement of sustainable development goals 2 and 3 DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An exploratory approach through an extensive review of related ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2020)Traditional dictionaries offer curated data to users. Users should therefore be able to find the correct data to solve their information need. However, users don't necessarily know the exact scope of lexicographic information. ...
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(University of Borås, 2020-12)INTRODUCTION: With the increase in the availability of digital text collections for humanities researchers, tools to enable enhanced retrieval are required. If words with very specific properties could be retrieved from ...
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(University of Borås, 2020-12)INTRODUCTION: Research participant recruitment is challenging – especially in vulnerable, stigmatised, high security, poorly demarcated contexts and contexts with diverse and interchangeable job labelling and poorly ...
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(IOS Press, 2020-09)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education at all levels worldwide. This personal account documents some of the details of the shift to remote teaching in a South African context and discusses some opportunities and ...
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