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Tanackovic, Faletar Sanjica; Balog, Kornelija Petr; Erdelez, Sanda – Education for Information, 2021
Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is an incurable neurological disease with an unknown cause. Since AD is not only social and health challenge but also an economic and fiscal burden and its prevalence is expected to grow exponentially as world population gets older, in 2012 the World Health Organization (WHO) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Librarians, Dementia
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Rumeng Yan; Xin Zhao; Suvodeep Mazumdar – Education for Information, 2023
Chatbots have experienced significant growth over the past decade, with a proliferation of new applications across various domains. Previous studies also demonstrate the trend of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, being adopted in libraries. The purpose of this study is to determine the current research priorities and findings…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing
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Sant-Geronikolou, Stavroula; Martínez-Ávila, Daniel; Koulouris, Alexandros – Education for Information, 2019
As governments around the world are beginning to recognize the role of creativity in the promotion of innovation and competitive advantage in a Global Knowledge Economy (GKE), Creative Knowledge-based Industries are becoming the focus of attention. Nevertheless, and in spite of the rise of Big Data, the prevailing absence of systematic library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Creativity, Library Role, Expertise
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Siddike, Md. Abul Kalam; Kiran, K. – Education for Information, 2015
The main objective of this study is to investigate the perceptions of academic librarians towards the marketing of library services through social networking sites (SNSs) and their understanding of using electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) as a marketing tool in academic libraries. This study follows a qualitative data-gathering approach of structured…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians, Social Networks
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Ullah, Midrar; Ameen, Kanwal; Bakhtar, Salman – Education for Information, 2011
The study aims to explore the professional activities, needed competencies and education/training needs of medical librarians in Pakistan. The following questions guided the study: what are the current professional activities of medical librarians in Pakistan? What is their perception of the competencies needed of medical librarians? And what are…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Library Schools, Medical Libraries, Foreign Countries
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Jacobs, Neil; Morris, Anne – Education for Information, 1999
The eLib-funded FIDDO (Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options) project provides library managers/others with information to support policy decisions. Senior libraries were interviewed about the future of document delivery and interviews were analyzed with the support of NUD*IST (Nonnumerical Unstructured Data by Indexing, Searching and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries