Information Technology and Libraries  

Kenneth J. Varnum

This September 2018 issue of ITAL continues our celebration of the journal’s 50thanniversary with a column by former Editorial Board member Mark Dehmlow, who highlights the technological changes beginning to stir the library world in the 1980s. The seeds ... see more

Bohyun Kim

This is the President's meessage column from LITA President Bohyun Kim regarding the current discussion of forming a new division from LITA, ALCTS, and LLAMA that embraces the breakdown of silos and positive risk-taking to better collaborate and move our ... see more

Ida Arlene Joiner

Have you ever wanted to implement new technologies in your library or resource center such as (drones, robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality/mixed reality, 3D printing, wearable technology, and others) and presented your suggestions... see more

Mark Dehmlow

A retrospective review of the 1980s issues of the Journal of Library Automation and Information Technology and Libraries.  Includes some commentary about the past and how it relates to the present in the area of library technology.

Samuel Kent Willis, Faye O'Reilly

With higher education increasingly being online or having online components, it is important to ensure that online materials are accessible for persons with print and other disabilities. Library-related research has focused on the need for academic librar... see more

Kumar Sharma, Ujjal Marjit, Utpal Biswas

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a commonly used data model in the Semantic Web environment. Libraries and various other communities have been using the RDF data model to store valuable data after it is extracted from traditional storage systems. H... see more

Colby Lil Lewis

The last literature review of research on the existence of an Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) was published in 2011 by Philip M. Davis and William H. Walters. This paper reexamines the conclusions reached by Davis and Walters by providing a critical... see more

Wen Lou, Hui Wang, Jiangen He

We attempt to improve user satisfaction with the effects of retrieval results and visual appearance by employing users’ own information. User feedback on digital platforms has been proven to be one type of user cognition. Through conducting a digital lite... see more

Scott Ziegler, Richard Shrake

Book-recommendation systems are increasingly common, from Amazon to public library interfaces. However, for archives and special collections, such automated assistance has been rare. This is partly due to the complexity of descriptions (finding aids descr... see more

Yaqi Shen

In this paper, a library-space information model (LSIM) based on a geographical information system (GIS) was built to visually show the bookshelf location of each book through the display interface of various terminals. Taking Shanghai Jiao Tong Universit... see more