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Choice of Library and Information Science in a rapidly changing information landscape
(2015)
Library and Information Science (LIS) has for a long time tried to gain legitimacy. In an ever changing environment due to technological and economic developments, the motivations behind choice of LIS are still of great ...
Greek public libraries in economic crisis: The past, the present and the future
(2015)
The aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges that the current economic crisis has posed for Greek public and municipal libraries. Design/methodology/approach – This is a viewpoint paper discussing the past, present ...
Library Facebook practices for creating and promoting a professional profile
(2015)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth insight on librarians’ use of the social networking site Facebook as a way to connect and promote interaction with library users. A series of common practices ...
The use of grounded theory in identifying the user experience during search
(2015)
Grounded theory offers a useful method for gaining an understanding of the context of the user experience when searching on an experimental multilingual image retrieval system. Observational, cognitive and affective data ...
A systematic literature review informing library and information professionals' emerging roles
(2015)
This paper aims to provide a systematic review of the specific roles information professionals have adopted in the past 14 years. It aims to identify the roles reported in the literature concerning developments in the ...
The impact of Twitter on libraries: a critical review of the literature
(2015)
Purpose – The paper aims to present a critical review on the adoption and use of Twitter in libraries. Twitter, a microblogging service, is becoming more and more popular amonglibraries as a means of reaching users and as ...
Οι βιβλιοθήκες των σωφρονιστικών ιδρυμάτων στην Ελλάδα
(Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών (ΣΑΕΒ), 2015)
Το παρόν άρθρο σκοπεύει στη διερεύνηση της κατάστασης των βιβλιοθηκών των σωφρονιστικών ιδρυμάτων στην Ελλάδα, με
έμφαση στις ανάγκες που καλύπτουν και στον ρόλο που διαδραματίζουν ως φορείς εκπαίδευσης και σωφρονισμού. Η ...