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Assessing the Effectiveness and Quality of Libraries

Calvert, Philip James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

A variety of library evaluation methods have been developed, yet few have attempted to evaluate the evaluation methods. This thesis is a meta-evaluation: an evaluation of other evaluations. The merits of different evaluation ...
Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF Research Assessment Exercise

Smith, Alastair G. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Google Scholar was used to generate citation counts to the web-based research output of New Zealand Universities. Total citations and hits from Google Scholar correlated with the research output as measured by the official ...
Blended Action Learning: Supporting Leadership Learning in the New Zealand ECE Sector

Thornton, Kathryn Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The purpose of this research study was to explore the use of information communication technology (ICT) to support leadership development in the New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) sector. There is currently a ...
Business Value of ICT for Small Tourism Enterprises: The Case of Sri Lanka

Abeysekara, U.G.D Lakshila Dilhani Perera (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Researchers and practitioners believe that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) create business value in organisations. However in practice, organisations often struggle to demonstrate the benefits of ICTs. ...
Citizens’ Concerns About the Privacy of Personal Information Held by Government: a Comparative Study, Japan and New Zealand

Cullen, Rowena (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The paper reports an investigation of the concepts of information privacy and trust in government in Japan, and compares the findings with an earlier study in New Zealand which used a similar instrument. Cultural and other ...
Colour Printing in the Uttermost Part of the Sea: a Study of the Colour Print Products, Printers, Technology and Markets in New Zealand, 1830-1914

Johnston, Rosslyn Joan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

This thesis is an historical study of the development and the relationships between some aspects of colour printing in New Zealand from 1830 to 1914, including the practitioners, the technology and the products, in the ...
Contextual factors affecting the development of digital library education in Vietnam

Do, Van Hung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In Vietnam the need for digital library education (DLE) has increased significantly in the last two decades. Educating staff to establish and manage digital libraries has become a critical issue. However, there are no DLE ...
Contextualising information behaviour: The example of Laos

Gaston, Nicole Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The ways in which people need, seek, and use information vary considerably from one context to another. This thesis reports on a qualitative study investigating the contextual factors affecting information behaviour in a ...
A Contextual Model for Planning Continuing Education Programmes for University Library Practitioners in Vietnam

Nguyen, Hong Sinh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Continuing education (CE) for library and information management (LIM) practitioners is an ongoing issue in the profession. In particular, due to the current significant changes in library and information services in ...
Cross-Boundary Information Sharing By Knowledge Brokers During A Disaster

Md Ali, A Fahimi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis explores and investigates the process of cross-boundary information sharing by knowledge brokers (KB) during a disaster using lenses of knowledge management and naturalistic decision making. The study ...
Culture at the Edge: an Exploration of Cultural Adaptation and Sense-Making Across Workgroup Boundaries in Complex Organizations

Harmer, Brian Martin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

The nature and conduct of relationships between functionally specialised workgroups in complex organization is explored in this dissertation. Interviews with twenty eight individuals and two entire workgroups from four ...
The Development of Learning Regions in New Zealand: An ICT Perspective

Toland, Janet Mary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The term "Learning Region" is used to identify a region which is innovative, economically successful, and inhabited by citizens who are active members of their local community. Such regions are characterised by strong links ...
The Development of the Learning Exchange School Clusters in New Zealand: An Actor Network Theory and Complexity Theory analysis

Ali, Arif (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Students and teachers from secondary schools located in remote areas are faced with barriers to educational access not seen in denser population areas. Students have the problem of accessing teachers of specialised subjects ...
Digital Genre: a Mechanism for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse in Business Clusters

Molina Barrantes, Maria Eugenia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge transfer mechanisms in project bidding for two business clusters in New Zealand, and how ICT played a role in facilitating a "virtual space" for sharing and re-use ...
Digital library services: perceptions and expectations of user communities and librarians in a New Zealand academic library

Xia, Wei (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

Digital services provided on demand by academic libraries offer simple and fast access to collections and services tailored to users' information needs from anywhere in the world through computer networks in an online ...
Digital Materiality, Heritage Objects, the Emergence of Evidence, and the Design of Knowledge Enabling Systems

Sanderson, Kay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Beneath the problem of achieving digital convergence in the heritage sector is a problem of deeply entrenched discourses generated in a physical paradigm where objects kept in heritage sector institutions were treated as ...
Digital service problems: Prevention and user persistence in solving them

Nili, Alireza (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The service sector is an important and consistently growing sector of the world economy. It is estimated that the sector will make up two thirds of the total world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Information Technology (IT) ...
E-campaigning: An Empirical Study of the Utilisation of ICTs for Election Campaigning in the 2008 New Zealand General Election

Gong, Xiaoyi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

E-campaigning refers to the utilisation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), predominantly the Internet, and related applications for election campaigning. At present, scholarly research in this social ...
The effect of ICT connectivity on individual work productivity: Investigating the influence of ICT self-discipline

Al-Dabbagh, Balsam Nabil (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the workplace are increasingly connecting employees. This ICT connectivity has mixed effects on individuals' work productivity and it raises ongoing concern in literature ...
E-Learning in Information Management (IM) Education in Sri Lanka: An examination of contextual issues

Suraweera, Namali (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Information is considered a fundamental resource for improving the quality of governance and promoting socio-economic development in developing countries. In Sri Lanka, under the government’s vision of higher education, ...