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Research Articles (Information Science): Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 319
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(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2018)Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a vital tool for maintaining the skills and expertise of staff, especially with regard to the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). There is little information ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2018-06)In this article, it is emphasised that in the age of informationalism, knowledge has been reduced to a manageable entity for sale in the marketplace. In this process, the knowing activity of the sciences of the spirit ...
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Reading authors of the Enlightenment at the Cape of Good Hope from the late 1780s to the mid 1830s (Routledge, 2018)With few exceptions, the study of intellectual traditions in South Africa generally ignores their material traces. The embodiment of ideas and languages in books, pamphlets, newspapers and other media does, however, matter. ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : Competitive intelligence failures have devastating effects in marketplaces. They are attributed to various factors but seldom explicitly to information behaviour. This paper addresses causes of competitive ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of third-year architecture students’ information behaviour. It focusses on information activities, personal experience, resource usage, preferences ...
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(Springer, 2018-10)The world of book publishing has changed drastically with the adoption of XML technologies, by imposing regular structures on authors and allowing production departments to design, alter, and redistribute books in a fraction ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018-06)Maternal and infant mortality rates in African countries can be reduced through provision of reliable health information to pregnant women. This article reports on an exploratory study that investigated the information ...
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(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018-06)Idea generation and inspiration are important in creative tasks. This article reports on descriptive quantitative results from an exploratory study conducted in 2016 on the creative tasks and the personal information ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The paper explores library cooperation in Zimbabwe and gathers views from librarians on the need for a library consortium model to underpin national development. This study aims to investigate the development of ...
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(University of Borås, 2017)INTRODUCTION : Although much has been reported on cancer information needs, the literature is scant on cancer pain information-related needs. This might be prohibiting understanding of complex experiences of pain and ...
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(University of Borås, 2017)INTRODUCTION : Palliative care embraces the plight of patients and caregivers. Cognitive and emotional empathy, empathetic care and the information environment at a time of dying influence caregivers’ experiences of ...
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(University of Nebraska--Lincoln Libraries, 2017-11)This study investigates how institutional repositories are making hidden or lost cultural digital heritage accessible in academic libraries in selected countries within Africa. The design of the study is a descriptive ...
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(Unisa Press, 2016-12)Intelligence is not a new concept and dates back to over 5 000 years. The concept of competitive intelligence is however still an evolving field and its modern-day business interpretation has been changed and refined. ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2017)This article introduces a prototype of a writing (and learning) assistant for verbal relative clauses of the African language Sepedi, accessible from within a dictionary or from a word processor. It is an example of how a ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2017)The Afrikaanse idiome-woordeboek is a prototype e-dictionary of Afrikaans fixed expres-sions developed with the intention to test the functionalities of the e-dictionary. This dictionary is based on the function theory of ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : To serve their clients in a time of post-truth discourse and fake news, librarians need to understand the post-truth phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to examine it, what is being done in response to it, ...
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(Routledge, 2018)This study aimed to determine what the best practice guidelines were for making academic reading material available to visually impaired students at the University of Pretoria (UP) easily and efficiently. A basic literature ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to discuss the heuristic evaluations of five e-dictionaries according to the criteria developed by Ball and Bothma (2018). E-dictionaries are increasingly making use of modern information ...
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(Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to identify criteria according to which e-dictionaries can be evaluated. Information technology can be used to enhance e-dictionaries, but if not done carefully, information tools ...
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Miriam Tlali and Ravan Press : politics and power in literary publishing during the apartheid period (Routledge, 2018)In a committed anti-apartheid publisher like Ravan Press in the 1970s and 1980s, the selection of authors was usually based on political or ideological grounds as well as the quality of their writing. As a result, Ravan ...
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