• The impact of the Marrakesh Treaty on South African publishers 

  Cassells, Laetitia (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 ...
• How experiences reported on intermediary information seeking from inter-disciplinary contexts can inform a study on competitive intelligence professionals 

  Maungwa, Tumelo; Fourie, Ina (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), ...
• Digital deception in cybersecurity : an information behaviour lens 

  Dlamini, Moses Thandokuhle; Venter, H.S. (Hein); Eloff, Jan H.P.; Eloff, Mariki (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 ...
• Contextual information behaviour analysis of grief and bereavement : temporal and spatial factors, multiplicity of contexts and person-in-progressive situation 

  Fourie, Ina (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 ...
• Facts, truth, and post-truth : access to cognitively and socially just information 

  Fischer, Rachel; Klazar, Erin (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 ...
• Leserskring : the story of South Africa’s most successful commercial book club 

  Klingenberg, Jana (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 ...
• ICT proficiency : perspectives of Tangaza University College librarians in Kenya 

  Agava, Stanislaus L.; Underwood, Peter G. (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 ...
• Maintaining student engagement : the digital shift during the coronavirus pandemic a case of the library at the University of Pretoria 

  Matizirofa, Lazarus; Soyizwapi, Lindiwe; Siwela, Anna; Khosie, Modisa (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 ...
• Achieving sustainable development goals two and three : role of academic libraries 

  Mbagwu, Francisca Chinyeaka; Lyaka, Martha; Kiwelu, Jackline E.; Nyantakyi-Baah, Lydia; Holmner, Marlene Amanda (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 ...
• e-Dictionaries in a network of information tools in the e-environment 

  Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Gouws, Rufus H. (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. ...
• The capability of search tools to retrieve words with specific properties from large text collections 

  Ball, L.H. (Liezl Hilde); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel) (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 ...
• Pathways to research participant recruitment in a challenging information behaviour context: South African cold case investigators as exemplar 

  Parbhoo-Ebrahim, Naailah; Fourie, Ina (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 ...
• Personal account of remote teaching for tertiary education in a South African context 

  Bosman, Isak de Villiers (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 ...
• Information behaviour and information practices of academic librarians : a scoping review to guide studies on their learning in practice 

  Nel, Marguerite (University of Borås, 2020-12)

  INTRODUCTION : This paper reports on a scoping review of the literature on the information behaviour and information practices of academic librarians to determine how their information activities are linked to knowledge ...
• Enhancing digital text collections with detailed metadata to improve retrieval 

  Ball, Liezl Hilde (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  Digital text collections are increasingly important, as they enable researchers to explore new ways of interacting with texts through the use of technology. Various tools have been developed to facilitate exploring and ...
• The application of restructuring of knowledge in civil engineering 

  Verbeek, Thomas; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel) (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2019-03)

  In this paper, it is shown how knowledge theories and knowledge acquisition techniques are integrated by contextualisation to lead to the drawing of concept maps that can be used in civil engineering design, and to analyse ...
• Utilisation of mobile phones in accessing agricultural information by smallholder farmers in Dzindi irrigation scheme in South Africa 

  Mavhunduse, Frederick; Holmner, Marlene Amanda (Archlib Information Service, 2019-04)

  ICTs have revolutionised agricultural information services at every level in the agricultural sector, thus impacting rural development and catalysing poverty alleviation strategies. This has largely been the case with ...
• Utilisation of social media tools to enhance knowledge sharing among knowledge workers at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) 

  Mosha, Neema Florence; Holmner, Marlene Amanda (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, 2019)

  This study investigated the utilisation of social media tools to enhance Knowledge Sharing (KS) practices among knowledge workers at The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) of Tanzania. ...
• The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing 

  Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Routledge, 2021)

  The publishing industry in Africa is usually described in terms of ‘booklessness’, ‘hunger’ or ‘famine’. But does this language of scarcity reflect the realities of book production and consumption? In this paper, the concept ...
• Lefa la tsebo : a proposed model for framing Tshwane University of Technology’s libraries policies 

  Molepo, Mahlaga Johannes; Dick, Archie L. (UNISA Press, 2019-11)

  This article presents a proposed model for framing the policies of Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) libraries. The authors draw on a focused literature review across various disciplines as well as empirical evidence ...

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