Department of Library and Information Science: Recent submissions
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The use of information and communication technologies for accessing HIV and AIDS information by healthcare professionals in Zimbabwe
(University of Western Cape, 2021)This study sought to investigate the information needs of selected HIV and AIDS health organisations in Zimbabwe with a view to proposing a framework for developing an information access platform. ICTs can play a pivotal ... -
Investigating the relevance of quality measurement indicators for South African higher education libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)This study investigates the relevance of quality measurement indicators at higher education libraries for faculty academics, librarians, and students. The study followed a mixed-method design with a mixture of quantitative ... -
The Provision of Library and Information Services to Gays and Lesbians in Cape Town’s Public Libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The research project is based on the belief that Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) people have specific information needs and interests that public libraries should cater for. The philosophical literature of ... -
A model to foster the use of records for evidence-based decision-making by senior managers in western cape governmental bodies, South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)South Africa has placed emphasis on evidence-based decision-making for justifying service delivery improvement decisions. Evidence-based decision-making entails decisions made by referring to verifiable facts and figures ... -
South African gender-based violence researchers’ awareness and usage of bibliometrics and altmetrics in the context of open access scholarly publishing
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The traditional model of scholarly communication uses journals, databases, and conferences. With the onset of the digital age, there has been a change in the system of scholarly communication, creating new publishing ... -
Information and communication technologies and academic library services and operations
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to have a major influence in the promotion and dissemination of information, which has and continues to shape new realities of virtual campuses and virtual libraries, ... -
Public libraries going green: environmental sustainability and green information literacy
(University of Western Cape, 2020)There is a great demand for human beings all over the world to live in a more green way, due to the earth’s natural resource scarcity and other environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, emission of greenhouse ... -
The role of school libraries in supporting an inquiry based approach for teaching and learning science subjects in senior secondary schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of school libraries in supporting an inquiry based approach for teaching and learning science subjects in senior secondary schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The ... -
Librarians’ book selection practices and budget fluctuations in the City of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2019)One of the main purposes of a library is to disseminate information to the community it serves. Collection development, which is the process of building and maintaining a library’s collection is, thus an essential part ... -
Factors influencing the rendering of services in academic libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In the field of user studies, very little research has been done on rendering of services in academic libraries. These services need to be examined in depth in order to be able to provide academic library users with more ... -
Plagiarism among undergraduate students in the faculty of applied science at a South African Higher Education Institution
(University of Western Cape, 2010)The purpose of this study was to investigate plagiarism among undergraduate students at a higher education institution in South Africa. There is evidence from previous studies that plagiarism is increasing world wide among ... -
Users' attitudes towards the library of the University of the Western Cape
(University of Western Cape, 2000)For any academic work at a university, students and staff are entirely dependent on the adequacy of the library. That is why the reason for the existence of university libraries is to provide essential study and reference ... -
The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial ... -
Research data management in public universities in Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The emergence and subsequent uptake of Information and Communication Technologies has transformed the research processes in universities and research institutions across the globe. One indelible impact of Information and ... -
Community and health science Libguides: A case study on the use of Libguides to enhance library electronic resources and services at the University of the Western Cape Library
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Academic libraries worldwide are using the digital content management and information sharing LibGuides as a platform to provide and promote subject or course orientated information resources, to share knowledge, to ... -
Use and management of information systems in academic libraries in Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The use of Information Systems (ISs) has been widely accepted and proven to increase the service quality in many organizations. Academic libraries have embraced the use of ISs and have implemented them to perform different ... -
An evaluation of the information literacy education of MBA students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals ... -
The role of the public library towards a knowledge economy of Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Access to knowledge and information is found to be the cornerstone in the road to knowledge economy transformation whereby the utilization of knowledge is the key engine of economic growth, where knowledge is acquired, ... -
Scholarly communication guidance as a core service of an academic library to doctoral students: A case study of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study investigated scholarly communication guidance as a core service by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, academic library to doctoral students, research and scholarly ... -
The responsiveness of the library collection to the information needs of researchers at the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Collection development plays a significant role in the successful achievement of the library’s purpose. The reason for the existence of the library is to meet the information needs of the community it serves. To determine ...