Journal of Balkan Libraries Union
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Increasing the level of awareness of the public administration staff in the protection of archival documentation
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2020)Public administration institutions as well as other public-private and private institutions during their activity create a large amount of archival documents. Those documents are an important source of information for the ... -
Educational means of students at school, especially means of obstruction
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2020)For the non-appearance of violence in schools by students, as well as by other adult persons,is not interested only the family and the school but also the scientists and the whole society. Early prevention of violence in ... -
Evaluation of arabic children’s books in the public libraries of Vienna within the frame of library services provided for child members who are native arabic speakers
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2020)Public libraries are one of the educational and cultural institutions supporting the native language development of the children from multilingual societies. In this study, the Arabic children’s books in the public libraries ... -
Oriental department in the national library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" – Sofia
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2020)The Oriental Department consist of manuscripts, old-printed books and archive documents in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic. 4000 handwritten codes are stored in the collection, as well as 2000 volumes of old-printed ... -
The importance of green libraries in terms of sustainability
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2020)Since the mid-1970’s, the world's civil society organizations and state institutions have started to be occupied with the concept of sustainable development. A report entitled Our Common Future was prepared by the World ... -
The role and importance of librarians in the service quality of enriched libraries
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2019)Libraries are among the prominent elements of educational content in schools. School libraries in Turkey contributed per se to this notion until 2014. The Ministry of National Education has been carrying out the project ... -
New approaches in selection and evaluation of electronic resources
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2019)In the early years of 2000, academic libraries used to transfer nearly 16% of their purchase budget to electronic resources which have been begun to be used commonly from the middle of the 1990’s whereas today it is clear ... -
Perceived effects of ICT on knowledge sharing among librarian in SouthWest Nigeria: A UTAUT theoretical approach
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2019)This study aimed to examine effects of technology on knowledge sharing among librarians in South-west Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and mixed methods research approach. All the 108 librarians ... -
Knowledge sharing behaviour by librarians in federal universities in Nigeria
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2019)The ongoing debate in the international community’s is on the evaluation of knowledge sharing and its impact on organisational effectiveness. Librarians play a pivotal role in helping the university to realise the objective ... -
Attitude of undergraduate students to information literacy: Bowen University experience
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2019)The study investigated the rationale behind undergraduates’ apathy for information literacy (IL) programme at Bowen University, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and a multi-stage sampling ... -
Reading clubs, workshops, reading in the park
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2013)Reading clubs are networks made up of book lovers who read the same book at the same time and then share their ideas and feelings inspired by that reading. This short paper discusses the benefits of reading clubs and reading ... -
Lady cafe – motivating activities for women aged 45 +
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2013)This short paper discusses the details of a research project entitled “Lady Cafe – motivating activities for women aged 45+”. The project is based on motivational activities on different fields including e-learning, ... -
University libraries and social media policies
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)Nowadays changing technology and changing user profile have impelled libraries to resort to different methods in order to communicate with the people they serve. The libraries which are the meeting place of people who ... -
The place and importance of Turkish incunable printings in the history
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)The most important step for the literature world between "the invention of writing" and "transition to computer technology" is the starting of use of printing house led by Gutenberg and its proliferation. This innovation ... -
Issues and trends in the provision of public library services in Nigeria: A literature survey
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)The philosophy, orientation and nature of public library are routed in the responsibility of disseminating diverse and current information services to the members of its community. Waller and Mcshare (2008) posit two major ... -
Libraries and inter-generational communication good practices and their educational results
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)The process of changes today, on the border between traditional and digital culture, is a clear sign for a change of the communication characteristics and habits of man. As a result of the expansion of new information ... -
Reconstruction of private archives in Turkey
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)Archives have been divided into two groups in both theory and the practice in the Archival Science. The first is “public archives” and the other is “private archives”. There are ownership, usage right and belonging of these ... -
Next generation networks for distributed electronic resources: Opportunities and challenges
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2014)The changes in the lifestyle of the people, new applications, technological developments and the telecommunication market drive the adoption Next Generation Network (NGN) as the new network architecture. NGN has a ... -
The subject portal EconBiz and the EconBiz Partner Network
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2015)This short paper introduces the search portal EconBiz and its major features as well as the international partner network built around EconBiz. -
Information on strategies for achieving compliance with the guidelines for quality assurance in Nigerian universities
(Balkan Libraries Union, 2015)This paper examines the strategies adopted for achieving compliance with the guidelines for quality assurance in Nigerian university system using descriptive research method. It focused on the concepts of quality and quality ...