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@article{Dimitrios2021,

title = {Migrating to a shared Library Management System: evaluation from the perspective of librarians and lessons learned},

author = {Kouis, Dimitrios and Kyprianos, Konstantinos and Efthymiou, Foteini and Koulouris, Alexandros and Karabela, A.},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LM-12-2020-0177/full/html},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-12-2020-0177},

issn = {0143-5124},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-07-22},

journal = {Library Management},

volume = {42},

number = {6/7},

pages = {448-458},

abstract = {Purpose

The purpose of this article is to investigate certain aspects, problems and benefits from the migration to a shared Library Management System (LMS).



Design/methodology/approach

A review of the literature and a quantitative survey was conducted, based on a structured questionnaire, with a response rate of 44.7%.



Findings

Among the crucial issues that should be taken seriously into consideration when transiting into a new and shared LMS, are the audit of the data quality before migration, the employees' training design and the composition of the LMS central support team. The benefits of a shared LMS are mainly effectiveness in terms of libraries' budgets and time for the employees' day-to-day work.



Originality/value

The survey presented in this article evaluates the merits of a shared LMS and contributes innovative aspects to the existing bibliography by investigating issues and problems that arose during the transition. This way, the professionals involved in similar initiatives will benefit by avoiding possible mistakes and drawbacks when implementing such a project.},

keywords = {Academic libraries, library service platforms, lirbary management systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sant-Geronikolou2019,

title = {Capitalizing on new forms of academic library's intellectual assets: a new library mobile application proposition},

author = {Stavroula Sant-Geronikolou and Dimitris Kouis and Alexandros Koulouris},

doi = {10.1007/s10639-019-09944-w},

issn = {15737608},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-11-01},

journal = {Education and Information Technologies},

volume = {24},

number = {6},

pages = {3707--3730},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

abstract = {Library and information science experts around the globe are currently exploring ways of capitalizing student workflow data within library walls. Within this realm, the researchers designed and pilot-tested a user-driven lightweight application that envisions library as a crucial contributor of co-curricular data to learner profiles' contextual integrity. The prototype usability test conducted in December 2018 with the participation of 30 students at the University of West Attica, Greece, aimed not only to record participants' perspectives about the application but also to trace their attitudes towards this new kind of intervention. Post-test questionnaires yield a variety of positive rich-textured comments indicating students' interest in the emerging conversation around library use data capitalization. The participants felt positive about the need to develop a culture that fosters the reconsideration of library value constituents and their new dynamic role in the educational context. The pilot-tested application could serve as a reference for the improvement of academic library use data collection practices.},

keywords = {Academic libraries, Institutional shared analytics, Learning analytics, Library and information science, Library mobile application, Prototyping},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{sant2018academic,

title = {Academic libraries on the creative industries track: the perception of Spanish and Brazilian professionals},

author = {Stavroula Sant-Geronikolou and Daniel Mart{'i}nez-Ávila and Alexandros Koulouris},

doi = {10.3233/EFI-180203},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Education for Information},

volume = {35},

number = {4},

pages = {377-398},

publisher = {IOS Press},

abstract = {As governments around the world are beginning to recognize the role of creativity in the promotion of innovation and competitive advantage in a Global Knowledge Economy (GKE), Creative Knowledge-based Industries are becoming the focus of attention. Nevertheless, and in spite of the rise of Big Data, the prevailing absence of systematic library collection of activity data perpetuates the persistence of traditionalist and myopic approaches that tend to overlook the nexus between libraries and creativity while perceiving libraries as exclusively or basically collection gatekeepers, information brokers, and content providers. Given the universally acknowledged fact that the central value of the library is clearly creative, we embarked on the exploration of the academic library position within the Creative Industries system, as seen through the Ibero-American library community lens. In this vein, and following a literature review that focused on the interpretation of the intensity of libraries’ creative value and content across different Creative Industries classification models, our survey within the library expert community attempts to investigate the relationship between academic libraries and the creative industries (CI) realm. Our overarching goal is to facilitate the articulation of targeted recommendations and to contribute to the conceptual foundations guiding the formation of a special interest group that will streamline the academic librarianship community response to this challenging area.},

keywords = {Academic libraries, creative industries, creativity, knowledge-intensive professions, value co-creation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}