Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Library and Information Studies) by Title
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The 21st century academic library: the case of three state universities in Zimbabwe
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)The advent of the 21st century and its dynamic information environment have changed higher education considerably including the library spaces. Library patrons, namely undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics are ... -
Establishing a library portal for integrated e-resources at Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The study examined the availability of e-resources in the Ibrahim Babangida Library at Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola (MAUTECH) focusing to integrate e-resources in a dedicated portal for easy access. The ... -
Information behaviour of African immigrants living in Cape Town, South Africa
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of African immigrants who live in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. The key objectives of the study were to identify information needs and information seeking ... -
Information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0: The case of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Delta State, Nigeria, a specialized university
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The study investigated the information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates with a focus on online media, especially Web 2.0. Nigeria has a laudable vision tagged Nigeria Vision 20:2020 (NV 20:2020), which is to be one ... -
Information literacy of incoming undergraduate Arts students at the University of the Western Cape: assessment of competencies and proficiencies
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The majority of incoming undergraduate Arts students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) come from South African historically disadvantaged black schools. Because of enormous varying secondary school experiences ... -
Information retrieval interaction and the undergraduate student at historically disadvantaged higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa: a cognitive approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Summary: Although South Africa has been a democracy since 1994, one of the key issues still facing the country is the development of skills in its people. There are still underlying problems that are quite prevalent in ... -
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 management of academic libraries: a comparative study of the University of the Western Cape Library and Dhaka University Library
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This research project is a comparative study of management of two university libraries (University of the Western Cape and Dhaka University) from two different countries (South Africa and Bangladesh). This research was to ... -
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 ... -
Re-constituting Ghanaian public university libraries to conform to universal design principles to accommodate students with disabilities
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Ten Ghanaian public university libraries were investigated to determine if they conform to universal design principles to accommodate students with disabilities. The study employed a multiple case study design and was ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Successful information literacy through librarian-lecturer collaboration
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This study supports the need for information literacy training for first year or new incoming Community and Health Science (CHS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and describes the use of a collaborative ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
