Borgesian Libraries and Librarians in Television Popular Culture

Determining How Libraries and Librarians Help

This article examines the question, “What differences do libraries and librarians make?” primarily from the perspective of geographical communities. The article first states the reasons why this is an essential research question and describes the contributions of current public library planning tools to the determination of impact. It then takes a broad look at the framework that is essential f...

Mobile Libraries: Librarians' and Students' Perspectives

Noa Aharony is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University; e-mail: noa.aharony@ biu.ac.il. © 2014 Noa Aharony, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study which is based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM), seeks to explore whether librarians and LIS students are familiar with the newest technologic...

Christianity and Popular Culture

The Role of Libraries and Librarians in Organising Digital Information

This article analyses the role of libraries and information professionals in a digital library environment. The major focus for discussion is the availability of improved intellectual access to knowledge sources in a digitised world. The author argues that purposeful knowledge organisation, information filtering, and management skills are mandatory a priori elements that support accessibility a...

Bioethics and professionalism in popular television medical dramas.

Television medical dramas sometimes depict medical professionalism and bioethical issues, but their nature and extent are unclear. The authors systematically analysed the bioethical and professionalism content of one season each of Grey's Anatomy and House M.D., two of the most popular current television medical dramas. The results indicate that these programmes are rife with powerful portrayal...