Browsing by Subject "Academic libraries"
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Exploring the information seeking behavior of Greek graduate students: A case study set in the University of Macedonia
(2011)This paper describes a survey designed to determine the information seeking behavior of graduate students at the University of Macedonia (UoM). The survey is a continuation of a previous one undertaken in the Faculties of ... -
Facebook & Ελληνικές Ακαδημαϊκές Βιβλιοθήκες: μια χρηστοκεντρική προσέγγιση
(Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιά, 2012)Η παρούσα έρευνα στοχεύει στη διερεύνηση της αλληλεπίδρασης των χρηστών με τις προσωπικές ιστοσελίδες (profiles) των ελληνικών ακαδημαϊκών βιβλιοθηκών σε κοινωνικά δίκτυα. Ειδικότερα, διερευνά τη χρήση του κοινωνικού δικτύου ... -
Factors affecting knowledge creation in academic libraries
(2019)Knowledge has been widely recognised as the most valuable asset of an organisation and the creation of new knowledge as a prerequisite for improving service quality and achieving innovation. The current study, adopting a ... -
Factors that influence the use of library resources by faculty members
(2006)To examine the use of library resources, focusing on e-sources, by the members of the faculty of a higher educational institute in Thessaloniki, Greece; to reveal the factors which influence the effective use of sources ... -
Geographic collections development policies and GIS services: a research in US academic libraries’ websites
(2011)Management and analysis of geospatial data evolved into a rapid developmental field nowadays. Scientific researches debate that 80% of economic and political decisions internationally, include indirect or direct geographic ... -
Geographical Collections in Greek Academic Libraries: current situation and perspectives
(2011)The paper aims at exploring the existence of geospatial collections and the GIS services in Greek academic libraries through a research in their websites. The initial hypothesis is that Greek academic libraries are not ... -
Geoskills Among Academic Librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain
(2016)Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data and libraries. In Europe, though, ... -
Geospatial collection development policies in academic libraries: a worldwide research
(2011)The widespread applications of GIS have challenged librarians worldwide to provide geospatial collections and services to their users. Despite the fact that collection development policies in digital environment have derived ... -
Geospatial data collection development policies’ characteristics
(2012)In days of global economic distress, libraries implementing a GIS service, must ensure that users will be able to make the greatest possible use of its capabilities and functions. Based on the above framework, the goal of ... -
Geospatial Data Collection Policies, Technology and Open Source in Websites of Academic Libraries Worldwide
(2016)The proliferation of geospatial data demands the engagement of information organizations, such as academic libraries, for their management and diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to reveal issues related to the development ... -
Geospatial Data in Library Collections
(2012)While several surveys and studies focus on developing GIS services in libraries, however, there is no recent research concerning the data that academic libraries organize and offer to their users. This study tries to cover ... -
Getting on the map: Greek libraries and users’ modern geographical information needs
(2022-04-05)Human life and activities (politics, environment, transports, economy etc) are related to a geographical location thus making geographic information inseparable from daily life of every citizen around the globe. Libraries, ... -
Greek Academic Librarians Perceptions of the Impact of Google on Their Role as Information Providers
(2008)The increased popularity of Google search engine in the daily routine in one's workplace and in the academic information seeking process is undeniable. "Googling" challenges the traditional skills of librarians as information ... -
Greek and Spanish University community perspective of challenges affecting library integration in learning analytics initiatives
(2018-05)Seen Learning Analytics as a way to break barriers to intra-institutional collaboration, Higher Education administrators and LIS researchers argue on the purpose of connecting in-library user activity data to student ... -
How academic librarians combat student plagiarism
(2023)Plagiarism is one of Academia's most widely discussed topics, as it is considered severe academic misconduct. Academic librarians can become pioneers on the path to academic integrity and play a tremendously important role ... -
How do we compare?: the experience of benchmarking a smaller University College Library in the UK Higher Education sector
(Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, 2008)Τον Απρίλιο του 2004 το Βασιλικό Γεωργικό Κολλέγιο (RAC) στο Cirencester, Αγγλίας ανάθεσε στη Μονάδα Στατιστικών Βιβλιοθήκης και Πληροφοριών (LISU) του Loughborough να διευθύνει μια άσκηση αξιολόγησης και μια αξιολογική ... -
Identifying the uses of mobile technology among Library and Information Science undergraduate students
(2016)Mobile technology has redefined the way people communicate and interact. In education, the number of academic institutions developing and offering mobile information services is growing steadily. The purpose of this paper ... -
Identifying the uses of mobile technology among Library and Information Science undergraduate students.
(2016)Mobile technology has redefined the way people communicate and interact. In education, the number of academic institutions developing and offering mobile information services is growing steadily. The purpose of this paper ... -
Information literacy paradigm in academic libraries in Greece and Cyprus
(2008)Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of Greek librarians regarding information literacy programs and their preparedness for such programs. Design/methodology/approach - The ... -
The institutional repository of NTUA: challenges, concerns, pilot implementation and perspectives
(2007)This paper describes the challenge, development and pilot implementation of the Institutional Repository (IR) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). It portrays the vision of the Central Library of NTUA, ...
