In academic libraries, the digital library world has had a profound impact on staffing. Academic libraries are facing huge pressure on their staffing levels at a time when digital libraries are being introduced. Digital libraries cannot be divorced from ordinary libraries. What skills do traditional librarians need? There is little in the literature on training for staffing for digital librarie...

digital libraries have become an inevitable part of higher education and research institutions. though the exorbitant costs are spent on access and utilization of them, research findings indicates potential users may still be ignoring them. this study assesses influencing factors on acceptance and intention of academic staff of agricultural higher education and research institutions in using of...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 180–204. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This essay examines the work of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), an academic library community that has established resource sharing in a network environment. More specifically, it examines CALIS’s work...

This paper reported an international survey of library, information science (LIS), computer science faculty and websites, regarding digital libraries courses and curriculum at our institutions. We concluded that few universities currently offer courses on digital libraries while many universities have not developed Digital Library (DL) courses, even they are aware of the need to develop curricu...

In the past several years, researchers in library and information science, computer science and management information systems have claimed that knowledge workers will transform important characteristics of work due to increased access to digital libraries over the Internet. To explore the in ̄uence of digital libraries on knowledge work, this study investigated the use of paper and electronic m...

This paper briefly introduces the main ideas of Machine Translation (MT) techniques,then discusses the application of MT in the ChinaAmerica Digital Academic Library (CADAL)

For many years, Academic Library’s Application at Indonesian Higher Education Institutions operates in a “stand-alone” mode. This causes a great loss of opportunity to share libraries resources that tend to be limited in each library. University of Indonesia’s libraries are the miniature of such a kind. University of Indonesia has more than one library that distributed in several faculties and ...

Holly Mercer is Head of Digital Services & Scholarly Communication in the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Holly Mercer Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librar...