COMPETITIVE providers; widely PRESSURES FROM DIFFERENT INFORMATION available information resources; rising costs of books, serials, and electronic resources; and emerging new technologies and services providing information to potential library users raise questions about the role of academic libraries in present times. There has been some deliberation about the necessity to better understand an...

Purpose – Digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources for supporting e-learning. This paper addresses and discusses such aspects as what is meant by “e-learning”, and how can it be supported by the library environment, the functionality of the digital library; and how e-learning resources are included and organized in the digital library. Design/methodology/approach – ...

The Sapienza Digital Library collects digital resources from the different University’s Organizations, representing the multidisciplinary Sapienza University’s community. The underlay of the metadata infrastructure was built on digital library standard metadata semantics and was used for exchanging package, between the archival systems that manages different services for the established digital...

Library managers must respond to institutional demands for the justification of maintaining or supplementing resources and services. The difficulty of assigning costs and values to library and information services and resources is magnified by the advent of a broad variety of computerized and electronic modes of library service. This article provides a general discussion of the issues relating ...

This study investigated users' satisfaction with library information resources and services at the College of Health Sciences (CHS) library Niger Delta University, Nigeria. The objective was to determine the level of users satisfaction with library information resources and services. 2 (two) research questions were formulated to guide the study. The survey research design was adopted, using a p...

the aim of this research is to do an internal evaluation of the academic library based on the views of experts to identify the current situation. it also aims to present a method for library evaluation and to help the planners and managers of such centers to understand and improve the condition of university libraries and information centers. the methodology of this case study is based on inter...

Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or...

purpose: this paper has two main goals: first, to evaluate the position of geological survey of iran library through the assessment of internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external (opportunities and threats) environment; and then, provide solutions and strategies to help library managers and administrators to achieve their goals, missions and visions. methodology: among the existing models,...