For a one year period, visitors to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg were observed regarding how they negotiated through the first floor and interacted with the library resources and educational displays. Pedestrian choice research was applied to the library to better understand visitor movement and facilitate greater interaction and engagement. To ...

Despite Library and Information Science’s engagement with other matters of social justice, nearly no scholarly attention has been paid to fat issues within the library. Through critical lens author’s own experiences as a Science scholar, discourse analysis online library furniture catalogues reveals exclusionary ways in which they perpetuate fatphobic body size standards. Given that spaces are ...

Purpose – This paper presents LibX, a software module that enhances library access for users by integrating access to the online public access catalog (OPAC) and to the OpenURL linking server into the Firefox browser. Design/methodology/approach – We developed LibX as a Firefox extension. It is implemented using XML user-interface language (XUL) and JavaScript. LibX offers library access throug...

the main objective of this article is to identify and evaluate the accelerating factor in the iranian oil nationalization movement. the main question is: what was the accelerating factor that put the iranian oil nationalization movement into practice? the article relies on the reform movement theory of neil smelser. for this purpose, fraud in the 16thnational election of the parliament, and est...

the present research which falls in the field of comparative literature and is based on the french school aims to study and compare the social poetry of ahmad shamlou, a renowned contemporary iranian poet, and bertolt brescht, a german poet, writer and theorist's famous theater. the two poets looked at social issues through a human perspective and simple language which is reflected in thei...

In "A Genetic resource for Rapid and Comprehensive Phenotype Screening of Nonessential Staphylococcus aureus Genes" (mBio 4(2):e00537-12, doi: 10.1128/mBio.00537-12, 2013), Fey et al. describe the creation and application of a defined transposon mutant library of methicillin-resistant S. aureus. This library is well organized and made accessible to the research community through an easily navig...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of students’ library-research difficulties, especially difficulties rooted in technology, to describe how the BiblioBouts information literacy game helps students overcome these difficulties, and to discuss how BiblioBouts has evolved in order to reduce students’ difficulties with the technology of the library-research process. Design...