Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Information Studies) by Title
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Information literacy in the classroom : assessing the competency of Western Cape teachers in information literacy education.
(2012)This study investigated teachers’ competency in mediating information literacy in the classroom. At the heart of the problem was teachers’ own understanding of information literacy and their competency in information ... -
Information literacy integration strategies into the curriculum of senior secondary schools in Botswana.
(2015)The purpose of this study was to investigate information literacy integration strategies into the curriculum of senior secondary schools in Botswana. The main objectives of the study were to: examine the implementation of ... -
Information literacy learning experiences of fourth-year psychology students in Kenyan universities.
(2016)This study explored the information literacy (IL) learning experiences of Kenyan undergraduate students by focusing on fourth-year psychology students in four universities. Although there is a growing advocacy for IL in ... -
Information literacy self-efficacy in the use of electronic information resources by library and information science postgraduate students in South South Nigeria.
(2018)This study was carried out to investigate information literacy self-efficacy (ILSE) in the use of Electronic Information Resources (EIRs) by Library and Information Science Postgraduate Students in South-South, Nigeria. ... -
Information needs and information seeking behaviour of private practicing lawyers in Swaziland : a case study of the Law Society of Swaziland.
(2018)Information needs and information seeking behaviour of lawyers in terms of accessing well-resourced legal information collections is essential in their daily professional lives. The lack of legal information access by ... -
Information seeking behaviour of humanities/arts international postgraduate students in public universities in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
(2014)The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of Humanities/Arts international postgraduate students in public universities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Three public universities participated in the ... -
Information service provision for the people with visual and physical impairments in public university libraries in Kenya.
(2018)The study investigated information service provision to the people with visual and physical impairments in public university libraries in Kenya. The study was underpinned by the International Federation of Libraries ... -
Institutional repositories as platforms for open access in South African universities : the case of University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2019)For a long time, academic libraries struggled to provide access to scholarly literature, including that which was produced by their own academic community due to paywalls. However, with the growth of internet technology ... -
Internet-based information behaviour of high school learners in Ashanti region of Ghana.
(2018)The study examined the Internet-based information behaviour of high school learners in the Ashanti region of Ghana. It looked into the online information needs of learners, how they retrieve and evaluate online information ... -
An investigation of the extent of automation of public libraries in South West Nigeria.
(2017)Automation of library services is an alternative to traditional methods of information handling. Library automation in many public libraries in Nigeria has affected both information space and practice. Inspite of the ... -
Knowledge management capability in nursing care performance in selected teaching hospitals in South-West Nigeria.
(2018)This study investigated knowledge management (KM) capability in nursing care performance in selected teaching hospitals in South-west, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were: to investigate the factors of KM ... -
Knowledge management in learning software SMMEs in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2017)The study investigated the nature and causes of software development failures and knowledge management practices adopted to mitigate the failures in small, micro, and medium software developing enterprises (SMMEs) in the ... -
Knowledge management strategies and practices in Nigerian agricultural research institutes.
This study was carried out to investigate knowledge management strategies and practices in Nigerian agricultural research institutes. Five institutes located in different geo-political zones of the country were studied ... -
Knowledge sharing among academics in selected universities in Tanzania.
(2017)Higher learning Education sector in Tanzania is increasingly becoming competitive following its liberalization in the year 1995. The universities are therefore being compelled to invest and adopt new and powerful strategic ... -
Knowledge sharing in public service : a case study of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Human Resource Development Forum.
(2015)Knowledge sharing has been identified as the core process of knowledge management. The aim of this study was to explore knowledge sharing practices in the South African public service through the lens of communities of ... -
Knowledge sharing strategies in university libraries in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa.
Universities play an important role in knowledge creation, through research, and dissemination of findings. However, knowledge sharing among library staff in university libraries in Africa, generally, and South Africa in ... -
Knowledge sharing strategies in university libraries of Malawi.
(2018)This study was carried out to examine the strategies of knowledge sharing in University libraries of Malawi. Four public universities were studied namely: University of Malawi (UNIMA), Lilongwe University of Agriculture ... -
The KwaZulu-Natal school library policy and its feasibility for implementation in the province.
(2008)The research critically assessed the KwaZulu-Natal School Library Policy and its feasibility for implementation in the province. In order to provide appropriate perspectives and to contextualise the study, accepted standards ... -
Library and information science education and training in Zimbabwe and the paradigm shift in the information industry.
(2014)The purpose of this study was to assess LIS education and training in Zimbabwe in the context of paradigm shift in the information industry and how the indicators of change, mostly at the global level, reflect the interplay ... -
Library services' provision for people with visual impairments and in wheelchairs in academic libraries in Tanzania.
(2014)This study examined library services’ provision for people with visual impairments and in wheelchairs in academic libraries in Tanzania. It looked into access to the information resources available and the layout of library ...