The purpose of this study is to report on a survey that was carried out to access the perception of the academic users, and their awareness about the use of e-books at existing level. The survey also ... Read More
Libraries around the world are using the technology in best possible ways to satisfy their users through efficient and effective library services. The paper aims to discuss the process of KOHA impleme ... Read More
The role of digital library resources (DLRs) in accelerating academic and research productivity has been acknowledged worldwide. To examine its impact on engineering research in Pakistan, this study e ... Read More
The present study aims to highlight the issue with a specific reference of the information professionals about "English language as a barrier" in their research productivity. It further explores how i ... Read More
Natural disasters can strike without warning anytime anywhere anyone. There are different types of disasters. The economic losses caused by these disasters are mainly more expensive for developing cou ... Read More
This study aims to identify the factors which hinder the implementation of IL instructions programmes or prevent their systematic development in Pakistani medical institutions. This study adopted a tw ... Read More
Given the lack of a standardized and normalized assessment tool for measuring Iranian primary school students' levels of IL, this study adapted and modified the Tool for Real-time Assessment of Inform ... Read More
The origin of this research is illuminated by CIBER's exploratory research on Trust in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013. This study's interest lies with Malaysian academic researchers b ... Read More
Newly introduced scientometric indices have gained much popularity and have been widely discussed. The application of such indices and their validity for Research Performance Evaluation (RPE) focuses ... Read More
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship of thriving with self-development, career development initiatives and individual performance in the setting of information industry ... Read More
In the backdrop of a case of a major archive digitization initiative completed by a Library in Pakistan to preserve a decaying last copy of an Urdu News Magazine from 18th century, the author highligh ... Read More
The present study, a part of researcher's Ph.D. project, aimed at exploring the reading trends of young Pakistani students (i.e., Generation Y: born during the 1980s and early 1990s, also known as int ... Read More
To compare the barriers (e.g., relating to health information content, efficiency, availability, etc.) that obstruct the health information behavior of primary care physicians (PCPs) in a rural versus ... Read More
This study measured information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students of the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Survey method using questionnaire was employed to conduct this investigation. The q ... Read More
This paper calls for a review of curriculum in the discipline of information studies to respond to the recent changes brought by digital information environment, social media, and multidisciplinary in ... Read More
Library, information and knowledge (LIK) competencies have elements of distinct commonness and innate semblance. These have been treated together in the iSchools, a development during the last two dec ... Read More
The use of ‘Library Science', as the name of the discipline is almost 100 years old. The original term was used in Germany in 1934 and a translation of it in an American government publication i ... Read More
This paper addresses the relationship between Digital Libraries (DL) and Digital Humanities (DH) with a special focus on global access to knowledge. An overview DL & DH and their interconnections ... Read More
The first university-level library schools were opened during the last quarter of the 19th century. The number of such schools has gradually increased during the first half of the 20th century, especi ... Read More
Once upon the time when information was difficult to find and hard to access, libraries and other information agencies were the key curators of information resources and the gatekeepers of information ... Read More
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