The Special Libraries Association-Arabian Gulf Chapter 22nd Annual Conference

Ranking of Egyptian Faculties of Veterinary Medicine based on PubMed-Indexed Publications: A Bibliometric Analysis Bibliometric analysis of PubMed publications is a quantitative indicator for research productivity of scientific institutions. The current study aimed to quantitatively analyze and compare the research publications productivity of the Egyptian faculties of Veterinary Medicine published between 2000 and 2014 in Pu Read More

اختصاصيو المكتبات الأكاديمية كعمال معرفة : دراسة حالة مكتبة الجامعة الأردنية تهدف هذه الدراسة الى استكشاف العوامل التي تؤثر في موظفي المكتبات الجامعية وتؤدي إلى نجاح الموظف كعامل معرفة ، واندماجه في الأدوار الحديثة التي تتبناها المكتبات ، بالإضافة إلى دورها الرئيس كمزود للكتب والمراجع في الوقت الذي تعتبر فيه المكتبة الأكاديمية أحد أبرز أنواع المكتبات التي تتبنى التقنيات المعرفية الحديثة وتخدم الشريحة الواسعة في مجتمع المعرفة، وبسبب الدور المهم لأخصائيي المكتبات الأكاديمية في هذا المجال، تحاو Read More

Employment for Librarians in the UAE: Opportunities and Challenges The success of an educational program can be measured by the employment opportunities occupied by the graduates in the market. The higher the successes of an educational program the higher employment opportunities for graduates. For more than centuries, library and information science schools have prepared and trained thousands of students in info Read More

Twitter Acceptance as an Information Source This study aims to investigate the factors that affect students’ acceptance of the social network Twitter as an information source, relying on a modified technology acceptance model (TAM). The study identifies factors of student Twitter usage as an information source, which has not been widely studied. Data were gathered using a survey, whose questions were adapted and custo Read More