Purpose The purpose of the study is to assess the role of political power and politics in selecting, creating and preserving Liberation Movement archives in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach A review of literature focusing on liberations archives was carried out. Findings Politics and...

Purpose This paper aims to summarize the conditions under which participatory art museums and local commercial traditions can have positive and sustained interactions. Design/methodology/approach The methods include studying the quantity and content of exhibitions in the four cities of the Bay...

Purpose Assistive technology (AT) is like the eyes of visually impaired users (VIUs) and plays a vital role in making them independent in accessing a wide range of library resources and services. It is a revolutionary way to improve the academic performance of VIUs and amalgamate them into...

Purpose The purpose of this case study is to document the process of building a collection of works around transgender life-writing, following the identification of a significant gap in the existing collections. Design/methodology/approach This case study describes and evaluates a collection...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the users’ perception on the utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI) for the management of records at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. User perception plays a crucial role in the utilisation of AI for the...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the status of library and information science (LIS) education in Pakistan, as well as LIS progress, level of employment and issues, infrastructure and facilities, challenges faced by LIS institutions and future prospects of the profession....

Purpose This study aims to define a set of assumptions for testing the four factors tested statistically to determine information-seeking anxiety based on quantitative data. Design/methodology/approach The developed questionnaire was distributed among graduate university students in Zhenjiang...

Purpose This paper aims to the identification of journal articles that probably report on interdisciplinary research at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Design/methodology/approach For identification of interdisciplinary research, an analysis is performed on journals from which articles...

Purpose Active learning is an important component of medical education and information literacy instruction. The purpose of this study is to provide a preliminary investigation to determine whether health sciences librarians consider active learning when making decisions about the library...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the research and citation impact of open access (OA) journals versus non-OA journals being published in the spectrum of library and information science (LIS) across the world and to further ascertain whether OA journals have greater citation counts than...