This study analyses the circumstances leading to the development and current decline of public libraries in Egypt and advances a new interpretation of this phenomenon, based on a "problem context" approach. In addition to the internal dynamics that have provided the rationale fo…
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The purpose of this study was to explore the situation of library use instruction services in the main central libraries of Saudi Arabian universities. It was the main goal of this study to examine the major factors that impact the availability and the intensity of library use i…
This exploratory study identified the continuing library education practices and preferences of university librarians and librarians at the major research centers of Saudi Arabia. It also had a comparative aspect in that it examined the available continuing education opportuniti…
This study was driven by the growing importance of electronic information resources in university libraries. The focus was graduate students' information needs. Conceptual framework was Dervin's sense-making theory, modified by Kari, to clarify research questions and the survey,…
The availability of scientific and technical information (STI) resulting from adequate information acquisition on as broad a scale as possible is indispensable to maintaining the vitality and international competitiveness of industry. This study therefore investigates the curren…
The purpose of this study was to establish baseline data on the use of CD-ROM technology in libraries and information centers in Saudi Arabia. This study examined the knowledge, experience, and attitudes of library directors in the country as well as selected demographic and fin…
The purpose of this study has been to investigate the desirability and possibility of establishing an automated bibliographic network among Riyadh's libraries, to examine the technical problems involved which prevent Riyadh libraries' computer systems being linked on-line for th…
The purpose of the first stage of this study was to formulate global standards for undergraduate library and information science programs in the developing countries. This was accomplished by surveying an international panel of 64 individuals in 39 countries who were expert in e…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the divergence and congruence in the role perceptions of the school library media specialists (SLMS) held by principals, teachers, and SLMS at elementary, intermediate, and secondary school levels in the State of Kuwait. Another attem…
This study examined factors accounting for the diffusion of DOBIS/LIBIS using the framework provided by diffusion of innovation theory. Primarily, this study attempted to examine how three categories of independent variables—organizational, technological, and cultural—predict th…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individual factors, reinforcement factor, departmental factors, and institutional factors, to the research and publication productivity levels of LIS faculty members in Saudi Arabian universities. Personal intervi…
Recent research in the library and information fields highlights the concept of "strategic planning" as a possible framework for planning a library's future. This concept now is slowly emerging in many developing countries, as it emerged in industrialized countries several years…
This study attempted to contribute creative insights to information policy initiatives adopted recently in Saudi Arabia. The goal of the study was to provide a systematic analysis of information industry policy issues and options through cooperative interaction among library and…
This study seeks a deeper understanding of the library collection of the library of Caesarea in Palestine in about the year 300. The library was founded under the efforts of Pamphilus (d. 310) and Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260–339) in the last quarter of the third century. Pamph…
The purpose of this dissertation study is to document, describe, and analyze the literacy practices of teachers and librarians in nine primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For the last 50 years and continuing to the present, international agencies, non-governmental organiza…
The purpose of this study was to survey university publishing in Lebanon. Five universities of different backgrounds are established in the country, the American University of Beirut, the University of Saint Joseph, the University of the Holy Spirit at Kaslik, the Lebanese Unive…
The Turkish National Police (TNP) peacekeeping officers experience poor knowledge-sharing practices before, during, and after their tours of duty at the United Nations (UN) field missions, thus causing knowledge loss. The study aims to reveal the current knowledge-sharing practi…
As members of the United States Military return stateside from the combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, an increasing number of veterans exposed to combat are reporting symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as other significant detrimental impacts on their ab…