Description
An increasing number of academic libraries worldwide are adopting innovative technologies in creating, organizing, storing, managing, disseminating, preserving, and enhancing access to their vital knowledge in order to adapt to the changing library environment and to stay relevant in the digital world. This transition necessitates a need for best practices and reimagined strategies of implementing innovative technologies to ensure sustainable knowledge access and increase knowledge sharing.
Innovative Technologies for Enhancing Knowledge Access in Academic Libraries aims to provide best practices, innovative strategies, theoretical frameworks, conceptual frameworks, and empirical research findings regarding the application of emerging and innovative technologies in managing, preserving, and enhancing knowledge access in academic libraries worldwide. Covering a range of topics such as artificial intelligence, knowledge organization, records management, and library services, this reference work is ideal for librarians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Tlou Masenya (Ed.)
Tlou Maggie Masenya
holds a PhD in Information Science from University of South Africa and completed Masters in Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. She has seven years of work experience in academia, in the field of Information Science and Technology. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at Durban University of Technology. She also worked as a Senior Lecturer at University of South Africa and University of Zululand. She supervises Masters and PhD students and also serves as an external examiner for postgraduate studies. She published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed accredited journals. She is currently reviewing articles for South African Journal of Information management, South African Journal of Library and Information Science, Mousaion, Research Metrics and Analytics Journal, Journal of South African Society of Archivists and IGI-Global book chapters. Her areas of expertise encompass ICT4D, Digital Preservation, Technopreneurship, Digital entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, Indigenous Knowledge System, Disruptive Technologies . She is planning to be an editor for books that cover some of these arrears.