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2012: the DBS Library website odyssey : an evaluation based on users' feedback
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Academic libraries play a decisive part in advocating universities to fulfill their targets in teaching and researching. Therefore they have been the pulsating heart for the last couple of centuries of many institutions ... -
An analysis of digital literacy initiatives in Dublin public libraries
(Dublin Business School, 2017)Digital literacy has emerged as a key concept in recent years. The importance of it has been highlighted in recent years in many different publications, including those developed by the government. As a concept it has ... -
The author is dead? Should Irish libraries censor items based on an author's wrongdoings
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The emergence of social movements such as #MeToo has cast a spotlight on the criminal behaviour of authors and other artists. If one looks through the shelves of a public library in Ireland at the books one cannot but ... -
Awareness and perceptions of information literacy of faculty members in universities in the Dublin area
(Dublin Business School, 2012)In recent years librarians in Ireland have begun to embrace the concept of Information Literacy (IL) and its importance with many case studies, reports and conferences dedicated to the subject. Despite this, few studies ... -
Awareness and perceptions of the role of information management professionals and graduates in the context of organisational implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation
(Dublin Business School, 2017)As with all things new, there is limited research available in an academic context around the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and more specifically around the role information management graduates can play ... -
Awareness of the benefits of location based service technologies to libraries among Irish academic librarians
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The Internet of Things is considered the next technological revolution, Location Based Services is a rapidly expanding part of the Internet of Things and both are regarded as pervasive technologies. Location has an impact ... -
Bridging the digital gap: Supporting the development of lecturer’s digital literacy capabilities. An exploratory case study
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The importance of the digital literacy capabilities of educators has emerged as a key concept in Higher Education in recent years. Lecturers are at forefront of harnessing the potential of new technologies in education, ... -
Capturing art: exploring the role of the academic art librarian in the modern world
(Dublin Business School, 2020)Art Libraries and Art special Collections are a place of academic wonder, a space for communication, connection and creation. The recent re-emergence of the ‘visual’ has in terms of art education and academic art study, ... -
Capturing classical and contemporary classical music: assessing current practices and exploring the future
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This research presents a review of the current practices employed when cataloguing classical and contemporary classical music and also explores the potential of Linked Data to share and to disseminate music metadata ... -
Case study of the use of social media facilities provided by the Dublin Business School Library by students of the Dublin Business School
(Dublin Business School, 2013)There has been a lot of research done on Web 2.0 technologies and social media facilities in academic libraries. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, blogs and instant messaging (IM) offer a lot of scope for librarians to ... -
A Case Study of Two County Libraries' Motivations in Archiving/Collecting Local Irish History and Folklore
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the motivation behind why local Irish history and folklore is being archived/collected in two example county libraries. This study employed an inductive, qualitative research ... -
The commercialisation of genealogy – is it ethical for commercial businesses to charge money for access to genealogical records?
(Dublin Business School, 2017)The discipline of genealogy entails the study of family history. Ancestry was, until fairly recently, chronicled exclusively through paper records housed in physical repositories. The advent of the internet allowed records ... -
Developments in research data services in Ireland – current activities of Irish libraries and librarians’ perceptions of drivers and constraints
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Librarians and library staff active in research data services were surveyed and interviewed to assess perceptions of the development of research data services in Irish universities and Institutes of Technology. These results ... -
Digital resources in dlr Libraries: their awareness and usage amongst library users
(Dublin Business School, 2017)There is little research in the field on the digital resources of public libraries in Ireland. This dissertation seeks to examine these resources in the context of one public library authority, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ... -
Do working public librarians in Ireland perceive and run their libraries as community centres?
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This study explores the role of the public library in the community from the perspective of Irish librarians. There is a global conversation taking place on the role of the public library in the community, and whether ... -
Ethical Cataloguing: exploring a potential role for the academic librarian in the promotion of social justice
(Dublin Business School, 2021)The aim of this study is to evaluate the manner in which information is organised by academic libraries in Dublin. The researcher undertook this qualitative research by conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews ... -
Evaluating the usability of library services accessed via EBSCO Host Mobile
(Dublin Business School, 2010)Statement of the Problem: In recent years, academic libraries have started to examine the possibility of providing more of their content and services via the new platform of Web-enabled mobile devices such as iPods and ... -
Everything’s fine: how design and public library communities interact in South Dublin
(Dublin Business School, 2020)The research seeks to understand how physical design strategies are implemented, what priorities are involved and if those strategies are aligned with the goals of engaging communities. Four qualitative semi-structured ... -
An examination of the employment scope of recent library and information science masters course graduates in the Republic of Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2017)The range of skills used by librarians on a day-to-day basis is continuously expanding due to constant developments in technology. As a result, recent LIS graduates need to be educated in a variety of skills in order to ... -
An examination of the impact of the current economic recession on academic library budgets in the Republic of Ireland and the measure introduced to implement budgetary cuts
(Dublin Business School, 2012)In recent years the deterioration of the economic climate has adversely affected the Higher Level Education sector in Ireland. This has led to the inevitable erosion of the financial resources of academic libraries. This ...