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Sheikh, Arslan; Jan, Saeed Ullah – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This article aims to present a comprehensive review of MPhil and PhD research theses produced by library and information science (LIS) schools in Pakistan from their beginning to 2015. It also explores the research trends in LIS, identifies gaps, and presents an agenda for future research by LIS scholars. The origin, development, and current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, Library Education, Doctoral Dissertations
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Nero, Neil; Langley, Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
The work of subject liaison librarians in academic libraries has morphed to include a variety of roles that reach beyond the traditional. This study captures responses of 1,808 participants from land-grant, Oberlin Group, and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions to a questionnaire about subject liaison librarians. The questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Intellectual Disciplines, Land Grant Universities
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Ukwoma, Scholastica C.; Dike, V. W. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This study was carried out to ascertain the attitudes of academics concerning the utilization of institutional repositories (IRs) in Nigerian universities. The study took the form of a descriptive survey, gathering data from the five Nigerian universities with IRs. The result showed that the universities developed IRs to create a forum for their…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Archives, Academic Libraries
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Wei, Youhua; Thompson, Bruce; Cook, C. Colleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
LibQUAL+[TM] data to date have not been subjected to the modern measurement theory called polytomous item response theory (IRT). The data interpreted here were collected from 42,090 participants who completed the "American English" version of the 22 core LibQUAL+[TM] items, and 12,552 participants from Australia and Europe who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Library Services, Item Response Theory
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Chen, Yu-Hui; Germain, Carol Anne; Rorissa, Abebe – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Library/information science professionals need a clearly articulated definition of usability/Web usability to implement intuitive websites. In this study, the authors analyzed usability definitions provided by the ARL library professionals and those found in the library/information science and computer science-information systems literature.…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Information Needs, User Needs (Information), Definitions