The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted…

A Review of:
Wong, G. K. W. (2010). Information commons help desk transactions study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36(3), 235-241.

Objective - To develop an understanding of the types of technology questions asked at an information commons help desk…

Contemporary Next Generation Networks (NGN) are mainly built on the Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet. Major challenge for emerging types of wired and wireless IP-based networks is to provide an adequate Quality of Service (QoS) for different services. The quality…

A Review of:
Reeves, R., & Hahn, T. (2010). Job advertisements for recent graduates: Advising, curriculum, and job-seeking implications. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 51(2), 103-119.

Objective – To analyze the current state of the job…

In this study, innovation and technology transfer strategies of foreign firms in Turkey and the impact of vertical and horizontal linkages, labour turnover and technology spillover on these activities are analyzed by adopting a grounded theory approach, which allows a…

When the environment has an increasing competition and uncertainty for innovation, the application of intelligence and strategy is fundamental. Globalization is characterized by innovation, therefore strategic thinking is crucial. A vision of the future is required to analyze the business…

En este artículo se propone agrupar en tres vertientes las distintas formas en las que se está abordando actualmente el tema de la complejidad: 1) desde las ciencias “duras”, 2) como universalidad y 3) desde las ciencias sociales; en esta…

A Review of:
Sukovic, S. (2009). References to e-texts in academic publications. Journal of Documentation, 65(6), 997-1015.

Objective – To explore the role of electronic texts (e-texts) in the research and citation practices of scholars in the humanities.

A Review of:
Knapp, P. B. (1966). The Monteith College library experiment. New York, NY: Scarecrow Press.

Objective — To create a college-level, four-year plan of library instruction in which assignments directly relate to students' course work. To develop…

Collaborative systems are becoming a widely used tool particularly among professional communities and research groups. They provide a suitable context for distributed people working on the same subject to concentrate their work in a shared place to which everyone has…