An overview of the principles, evolution and context of media and information literacy in university libraries is offered, as well as the fundamental role that professionals who work in libraries play as trainers. It is, therefore, a proposal for a synthesis of the path traveled by the media and information literacy in Higher Education, an…[Read more]

In dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

Omani students were introduced to Independent Learning Tools, such as MyELT, Moodle, and MS Teams, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They used these tools for their study throughout the pandemic. Hence, this research investigated how satisfied were Omani students with independent learning tools during Covid-19. This study is significant because it…[Read more]

COVID-19 illustrated health disparities experienced by racially minoritised people, with heightened risks faced by Black and South Asian communities lending the issue transparency and urgency. Despite efforts to decolonise medical education, deficits in racial representation in research and resources remain. This study investigates the potential…[Read more]

The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]

The subject of the thesaurus is the practice and teaching of yoga. This vocabulary was created for the completion of an assignment for module INM303 Information Organisation. The thesaurus is not based on existing resources to index and is therefore entirely artificial. In this document, you will find a taxonomy structure with one section…[Read more]

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

This dissertation focuses on the contraception information behaviors of young adults in their 20s in order to evaluate which factors cause this age group to identify an information need, what sources they use to conduct information searches, and how they decide when to end an information search. This dissertation met its research aims by…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

From the review of the most significant bibliography, the role that the library plays in the internationalization of the university is analyzed. In order to move forward in this field, it would be very convenient that Spanish academic libraries focus their resources and services in terms of internationalization, investigate the different library…[Read more]

[Motivation] It’s not difficult to gather that libraries, and especially young adult librarians, value young adults and want to ensure they feel connected to and represented in the collections. However, there is not much literature specifically about how young adults are or could be involved in the actual process of developing those collections n…[Read more]

Responding to the prompt, “How do library services and librarians represent the ‘voices’ and rights of all children and adolescents and should librarians actively support children’s and adolescent’s social justice?”, this essay positively argues that librarians should actively support social justice and explores this and how library services an…[Read more]

Responding to the prompt, “How is digital technology shaping the future of library and/or information services?”, this essay takes a higher-level, yet focused look at how public libraries in the United States have used social media in their youth engagement efforts. Starting with solid foundation of context regarding digital libraries, the eme…[Read more]

Responding to the prompt, “Describe how authorship of scholarly works has changed over the past 20 years. In what ways might authorship further evolve, and how could this impact upon the work of the information professional?”, this essay sets the context for literature on authorship order, explores the key themes that were prominent in rev…[Read more]

Beginning with an understanding of how and why various bibliographic metadata tools develop, emerge, and continue to evolve and then moving to focus on the origins, purposes, and current issues of FRBR, IFLA-IRM, RDA, and BIBFRAME, this essay seeks to set a brief, yet satisfactory understanding of these bibliographic metadata tools. With the…[Read more]

In assessing the statement, “The processes and concepts of collection development and collection management by 2025 will be dramatically different from those in 2000”, this essay seeks to analyze key collection development (CD) and collection management (CM) developments, trends, and practices of Black film archives in the United States with a spe…[Read more]

Commonly used to indicate a new trend or that something has become suddenly fashionable (Collins English Dictionary, n.d.), the use of phrase ‘the new black’ in this essay’s title, ‘Data curation is the new black’ intentionally implies the growing trend that data curation has become over the last 10 years, particularly in research and in academic…[Read more]

This essay (a) responds to an assignment prompt regarding whether LIS needs and has a philosophy and (b) seeks to give a comprehensive, yet focused conceptual analysis of the ‘tacit knowledge’ philosophy and its application to knowledge management practice through the context setting of relevant definitions and perspectives regarding (1) lib…[Read more]

This dissertation presents an experiment conducted with human participants on human-information interaction with visualizations of ontologies. The research question is whether embedding visualizations or graph based visualizations lead to better task performance for human-information interaction. A literature review of word embeddings, information…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]