The purpose of this paper is to document the integration of Web 2.0 services into the working framework of some of the most advanced academic libraries in the world. It reports a follow-up study that builds on a previous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper presents an online survey taken in may 2011 at Tallinn University (TLU), Estonia, aiming to measure the usage of Reference Management Software (RMS) in an academic environment. The sample embraces the whole ...

Although issues on disaster prevention have extensively been studied in the literature and have been embedded in everyday library practices all over the world, the vast majority of Greek libraries have not developed any ...

This paper presents a policy decision tree for digital information management in academic libraries. The decision tree is a policy guide, which offers alternative access and reproduction policy solutions according to the ...

Academic libraries are considered as key factors in the educational system of a country and strong pylons for the economic and societal development. During the current economic recession, libraries have been struck by ...

Geographic information is essential to economical and political implications. Τhe technological development of recent years and the simplicity of many applications have made it part of everyday life of citizens. It is ...

This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. A total of 3,513 posts were examined and analyzed in various ways, including how many of ...