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.)
Dr. Tlou Maggie Masenya holds PhD in Information Science from University of South Africa (UNISA) and Masters in Information Technology from University of Pretoria (UP). She has 10 years of working experience as a senior lecturer in the field of Information Science, Information Systems and Technology. She also worked as a Senior Lecturer at University of South Africa and University of Zululand. She is currently a Head of Department in Information Technology at Durban University of Technology. She is a visionary leader and distinguished researcher with extensive and an impressive national and international research standing, and has published 17 book chapters, 19 articles in peer reviewed journals and also presented papers nationally and internationally within the broad niche area of Digital preservation and Data Curation, Records and Knowledge Management,Technopreneurship, Digital Entrepreneurship, Cloud Computing, Innovative Pedagogies, Disruptive Technologies and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, which had a positive impact on her scholarly growth. She recently edited two books, and the first book is entitled “Innovative technologies for enhancing knowledge access in academic libraries” published by IGI- Global International Academic Publisher in July 2022. The second book is entitled “Digital preservation and Documentation of Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems” also published by IGI- Global International Academic Publisher in August 2023.