Summary: The technological innovation and advancements have entirely transformed our daily life activities. Smart phones and wireless communication devices have reshaped society. New learning techniques, such as Pervasive learning, Mobile learning and Electronic learning have been developed through ICT innovation. P-learning uses a variety of

Summary: Consensus problem in multi-agent systems (MAS) has attracted growing interest in recent time. Traditional approaches to controlling consensus problem are often based on linear models, which take their origin from the well known DeGroot model. Various researchers in recent time have proposed nonlinear models simply due to the fact that

Summary: Academic libraries just like other contemporary organisations are increasingly depending on the Value Co-creation Business Strategy as the main locus of service creation and service delivery since it offers an effective Model for re-organization to reduce costs, optimizing resource usage and for enhancing customer service performance.

Summary: The effectiveness of an organization in achieving its objectives is depending on a proper management of knowledge towards its managerial aspects. However, current studies have shown that an insufficient managerial skill among librarians has contributed to the reduction of job performance. Consequently, the reduction of job performance

Summary: In the last few decades, the issue of institutional repositories (IRs) has attracted the attention of academic libraries around the world, particularly among Islamic university libraries in Indonesia. They believe that IRs can be a strategic tool that contribute to improve the performance of professional tasks of lecturers as well as

Summary: Determining the different cultural factors affecting the information-seeking behaviour on various levels – national, organizational, group and individual is essential to get a holistic idea of how such behaviour is formed. Females in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arab

Summary: Malaysian publishers perceived electronic publishing as complex and hard to maintain and seem to be contented with print publishing. This leads to the slow adoption of electronic publishing. E-book publishing is not fully researched. The previous researchers and works on publishing in Malaysia focused more on e-journal publishing. Thi

Summary: A mosque plays an important role as a centre for spreading Islam. This has been proven since the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Mosque libraries are vital in opening up readership opportunities to the society. However, only limited empirical studies looked into the establishment of Mosque libraries, particularly on the perceptions o

Summary: Marketing of library services provides more opportunities for a better relationship and engagement between the libraries and user community. Studies had established that the implementation of marketing strategies is to ensure and enhance the awareness and utilisation of library resources and services by the users. However, a few of th

Summary: A thematic interpretations of al-Qur’ān (TIaQ) - tafseer al-maudu’iy (التفسير الموضوعي)- has a sensitivity in information retrieval (IR) platform due to the interrelation of Qur’ānic verses with each other. Many online Qur’ānic search engines (OQSEs) scattered on the Internet and the themes or topics of al-Qu