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Factors Influencing Students’ Willingness to Use Academic Library after COVID-19 Lockdown

International Information & Library Review, 2022
This paper is an attempt to determine the factors which influence the willingness of the students to use academic libraries after lifting the COVID-19 lockdown.
Behzad Anwar, M. Shoaib, Raza- e-Mustafa
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Factors fostering the success of IoT services in academic libraries: a study built to enhance the library performance

Library hi tech, 2021
PurposeIn the modern era, libraries confront significant service challenges. Some challenges are linked to information resource management which includes direct availability of information for immediate decision making.
A. U. Khan   +3 more
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A smart objects library for BIM-based construction site and emergency management to support mobile VR safety training experiences

Construction Innovation, 2021
Purpose Health and safety training via immersive virtual reality (VR) in the construction sector is still limited to few early adopters despite the benefits it could provide in terms of training effectiveness.
Vito Getuli   +3 more
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Measuring the unmeasurable: reader development and its impact on performance measurement in the public library sector

, 2001
Until recently, performance measurement in public libraries had largely failed to address the issue of evaluating the quality of service provision. Investigates the potential to measure the impact on staff and users of reader development, currently a key
B. Train, J. Elkin
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Digitized content in the UK research library and archives sector [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2006
A study of the current provision of digitized collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector was carried out through desk research, a Web-based questionnaire of research libraries and interviews. The study identified a great deal of digitized material in the sector and there has been considerable expenditure of UK public funds in the ...
Barbara Bultmann   +3 more
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Virtual and augmented reality in libraries and the education sector

Library Hi Tech News, 2017
Purpose Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are technologies gaining more ground, and their uses in libraries and for educational purposes are expanding. Design/methodology/approach Ethical and legal issues in the use of VR and AR are bound to arise in future if the technology is used for less-than-laudable functions.
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IssueLab

Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2013
In this paper, we describe IssueLab, a digital library and distribution network for social sector publications and resources.
Lisa Brooks, Gabriela Fitz
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X-Inefficiency in the Public Sector: the Case of Libraries

Public Finance Review, 1997
A short-run total cost function is fitted to 1992 data for 235 public libraries in New York state. The stochastic frontier model is employed, which decomposes the error term into a random variable for statistical noise and a residual component measur ing economic inefficiency. Mean X-inefficiency (cost inefficiency) is estimated to be 24%.
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‘Cultural Competence is for Everyone’: Cultural Competence in the United States Library and Information Sector. Is It Relevant to Australian Libraries?

, 2015
Cultural competence is a capacity that enables professionals and organisations to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. It has been adopted in fields such as health, social work, psychology, education and information.
F. Blackburn
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Employment criteria in the library and information sector: a British survey

Education for Information, 1986
Resultats d'une etude sur les criteres appliques par les employeurs britanniques pour le recrutement dans les bibliotheques et centres de documentation. On determine l'importance respectivement accordee a la qualification, la personnalite et l'experience ...
C. J. Armstrong, J.A. Large
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