Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate readers’ annotations in library books and attitudes towards marginalia among library users. In particular, the study discusses how marginalia function as reader-to-reader communication. Design/methodology/approach – The study used data collected from both public library and university library collections, as well as a user survey conducted a...

one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...

Japanese books are usually classified into ten genres by Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) based on their subject. However, this classification is sometimes insufficient for corpus studies which describe characteristics of the texts in the book. Here, we propose a method of classifying text samples taken from Japanese books into some registers and text types. Firstly, we discuss useful criter...

“hedayat al-motealemin fi teb”, written by abobakr ebn ahmad akhaveini in the fourth century, (ah) is his only book left to the present time. from historical prospective, it is, by far, the first medicine book written in farsi. today, there are only three copies of the book kept in badlyan libraries of oxford, fateh library of istanbul and malek library of tehran. the reviews done on the three ...

aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...