Jamie Seeholzer is First Year Experience Librarian, Reference and Instruction, at Kent State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Joseph A. Salem, Jr. is Head, Reference and Government Information Services, Kent State University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Jamie Seeholzer and Joseph A. Salem, Jr. This study explores student use of the mobile Web in general and expectations for an academic lib...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

objectives: the aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences in using printed and electronic resources. methods: the descriptive research method was a survey method. the research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the sta...

objective: in the this research, effective factors on digital libraries’ development in central libraries of public universities in tehran have been identified from these libraries administrator’s view.method: this study is applied, based on descriptive-analytical method. for data collection we used researcher-made questionnaire, based on the digital library federation definition (including hum...

A unique provincial medical library service has been established in British Columbia. Under the direction of professional librarians, the central library in Vancouver is building an extensive, largely clinical collection while 30 smaller branch libraries in hospitals throughout the province are establishing basic, up-to-date collections. Financial support comes from an annual fee of $25.00 per ...

introduction: database evaluation indicators include management, content, technical, and search indicators. a database must have a high level of information retrieval. as search features is one of the most important factors in database evaluation, this research tried to evaluate search input and output in online databases of isfahan university of medical sciences (iums) central library website ...