Consulting engineers are professionals who are either self-employed or work for a consulting engineering company. They do not all necessarily have formally organised information services, such as libraries, available in ...
Bester, Coetzee; Malan, Beverley(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016-06)
In 2007 a group of academics from different countries established a network
known as the Africa Network on Information Ethics (ANIE). Aimed at
addressing the under-representation of academics from Africa on information
ethics ...
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.
Information history, a promising new area of research, will benefit from a transnational perspective that makes
it sensitive to the idea of place and that complicates issues of national information development ...
Agyemang, Franklin Gyamfi; Wessels, Nicoline; Du Preez, Madely(Emerald, 2023-10)
PURPOSE : This paper aims to examine the ways becoming information literate relates to the material objects in the Kente-weaving landscape.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An ethnographic research design was adopted wherein ...
Sturges, Paul; Gastinger, Almuth(Walter de Gruyter, 2010-09)
A clear line of argument can be set out to link the (passive) intellectual freedom rights
offered by Article Nineteen of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration on Human
Rights, to a consequent responsibility on ...
Fourie, Ina; Krauss, Kirstin Ellard Max(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2010-12)
Information literacy and skills in Internet searching are important for teachers.
There exists a large body of literature on information literacy in schools and
universities and there are many guidelines and standards ...
Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Gouws, Rufus H.(Buro van die WAT, 2022)
This article focuses on various aspects regarding contextualization when e-texts are linked to integrated dictionaries. The article responds to a twofold problem statement: (1) Dictionaries linked to e-texts do not ...
Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Bergenholtz, Henning(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2013)
For the past twenty years phrases such as “stable information needs”, “unstable information needs” or “information needs changing over time” are found in many contributions to information science. At first view these ...
Akanbi, Olubukola Mercy; Fourie, Ina(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 ...
Fourie, Ina; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)(Emerald, 2007)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this article is to alert researchers to software for web tracking of information seeking behaviour, and to offer a list of criteria that will make it easier to select software. A selection of ...
Akanbi, Olubukola Mercy; Fourie, Ina(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 ...
This article is part of a doctoral study undertaken in the Department of Information
Science at the University of Pretoria. It describes a now-completed investigation of
the information-seeking behaviour of secondary ...
Bitso, Constance Majomane Likonelo; Fourie, Ina(Professor T.D. Wilson, 2014-09)
INTRODUCTION : This paper reports a study on information-seeking behaviour (including information needs and information source preferences) of prospective geography teachers at the National University of Lesotho based on ...
De Beer, C.S. (Fanie)(Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2010)
Diepgaande refleksie is nodig om te bepaal waar ons vandag met ons voorgestelde beeld van die mens staan. Die beeld wat ons handhaaf, is van die uiterste belang. Dit bepaal tussenmenslike verhoudings en ook menslike ...
This article reports on an investigation into the information needs of Afrikaans L1 language teachers in South Africa. The main data collection methods were focus group discussions, a questionnaire and unstructured interviews. ...
PURPOSE : This paper introduces a special issue on innovative methods in health information behaviour research. It puts the papers in context and comments on the potential of the papers and methods covered to both encourage ...
Fasae, Joseph Kehinde; Larnyoh, Wilhemina; ESew, Michael; Alanyo, Betty; Holmner, Marlene Amanda(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 ...
Lottering, Francois Barnardus; Dick, Archie L.(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-09-12)
BACKGROUND: A striking feature of the knowledge management (KM) literature is that the
standard list of KM processes either subsumes or overlooks the process of knowledge seeking.
Knowledge seeking is manifestly ...
This exploration of the connection between the
library and the broader socio-political sphere in which it
functions is based on a keynote presentation originally
given at the BOBCATSSS Conference in Lyons, January
2016. ...