The present study was conducted among the academic librarians under Mumbai University to ascertain the major challenges faced by them while selecting and acquiring e-resources. The survey revealed that the college libraries‘ e-collection is dominated by e-journals. It is found that the librarians use multiple tools to select the e-resources. Apparently, the selection of e-resources depend upon ...

Linked Data has become an important issue, not only for the process of building the web of data, but also for the mutual knowledge transfer between libraries and the web of data. Based on a study concerning Linked Open Data applications in libraries and the qualifications of future librarians involved in the development of such applications, we built a one day training program for academic libr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Web vulnerability challenges at European library Web sites and how these issues can affect the data protection of their patrons. Design/methodology/approach – A Web vulnerability testing tool was used to analyze 80 European library sites in four countries to determine how many security vulnerabilities each had and what were the most comm...

Background: With the recent spread of virtual learning programs in universities, especially in the field of medical sciences, libraries play a crucial role to support these programs. This study aimed at investigating the skills required by librarians to support virtual learning programs in Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.   Methods: This was an applied surv...

Mary Kandiuk is Visual Arts, Design and Theatre Librarian/Senior Librarian, Research and Collections in Scott Library at York University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Mary Kandiuk, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examines racial and ethnic diversity among Canadian academic librarians and discusses the findings of a nationwide su...

introduction: over the last decade, the role of clinical librarians in assisting general practitioners to provide better health care has been proved. rapid progress in telecommunication technology has emerged this question. could clinical librarians be able to assist general practitioners working in rural and remote areas through information and communication technologies? this project sought t...

objective: to investigate the self-efficacy status of librarians in ferdowsi university of mashhad and mashhad university of medical sciences and its relationship with their information literacy skills.methodology: eighty people was chosen by nonproportional stratified random sampling as the final sample from the population. assessment tool was self- made questionnaire. the data has been analyz...