Abdoulaye Kaba

Al Ain University

The interconnectedness of sectors displays the demand for inputs and supply as a level of output in any economy. This paper addresses the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in Kazakhstan sectors by using input-output tables during 2012-2017. The change in total sectoral production was separated into two parts: the changes in technical coefficients of...

This case study was designed to investigate the use of social networking sites (SNSs) for seeking news and information by internally displaced people (IDP). The study is guided by media dependency theory and related literature. Data were collected from 288 Iraqi internally displaced people (IDP) in four large camps through a survey questionnaire. T...

Despite the importance of vaccinations to combat COVID-19, some people are still wary. This study examines factors affecting attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Data were collected using an online survey to determine the factors that affect people’s attitudes reluctant to have the COVID-19 vaccine. In total, 958...

Purpose The main purpose of this study is to test and verify return on investment (ROI) model proposed for academic libraries in Arab countries. The study assessed the value of AAU digital library resources and identified the value of the digital library in supporting the funded research projects. Design/methodology/approach The proposed ROI model...

The current study aimed to identify the level of emotional intelligence of outstanding students at the College of Education, Al Ain University (AAU), the United Arab Emirates, and their counterparts at Princess Nourah University (PNU), in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A sample of 77 students was selected from both universities, of whom 41 students (...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between demographic diversity and research productivity. The paper attempts to identify the influence of gender diversity, college diversity, and diversity in collaboration on the research productivity of faculty members. The paper is based on data collected from the Deanship of Scie...

Purpose The purpose of this case study is to assess and compare the performance of an academic library, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on data collected from the library management system, usage reports of online databases, and mo...

Purpose This study aims to investigate and assess the first experience of faculty members and students with distance learning implemented at Al Ain University (AAU) to contain the spread of Coronavirus or COVID-19. The paper attempted to understand faculty and students’ satisfaction with institutional readiness for distance learning and perception...

The spread of COVID-19 presents an opportunity for many educational institutions to implement distance learning and ensure the provision of educational resources and services, secure income and revenues, and contribute to the control and prevention of the coronavirus. This study was conducted to investigate the impact of demographic characteristics...

This paper presented a review of literature related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The paper discussed the nature and types of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, theories and models of knowledge acquisition, in addition to the review of empirical studies measuring knowledge acquisition. For knowledge creation, the paper discussed t...

The purpose of this study was to investigate and understand the perceptions of faculty members and students toward Islamic and law information resources and services. The paper explored the perceptions of respondents’ toward library buildings and facilities, availability of references, provision of reference services, and digital information resour...

Purpose Academic institutions play a crucial role in social and economic development. They share responsibilities to equip students with knowledge and skills. This study aims to examine and investigate the impact of knowledge sharing enablers (KSE) on knowledge sharing behavior (KSB). The paper measured KSE through perceived instructor support of k...

This paper presented a review of the literature related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The paper discussed the nature and types of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, theories and models of knowledge acquisition, in addition to the review of empirical studies measuring knowledge acquisition. For knowledge creation, the paper discuss...

ABSTRACT According to official reports, the divorce rate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is very high. Such a high rate is attributed to many factors. This study investigates factors and causes leading to separation and divorce in Al Ain, UAE. The article uses a descriptive approach to analyze data collected from 114 participants, including 70 wo...

This paper reported the findings of a case study conducted about the use of educational technology among deaf students. The paper explored gender and academic major differences of deaf students in using the computer and the Internet. Data was collected through a survey questionnaire. The participants were 38 deaf students, 18 males and 20 females,...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the attitude of students toward Arabic and English textbooks in communication and media. The study used a survey questionnaire to collect data. A total of 157 university students, consisting of 95 females and 62 males, participated in the study. English textbooks received the highest satisfaction fro...

South Africa (BRICS) for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The study used 53 indicators of four factors to assess the ability of target groups. The four factors are environment, readiness, usage, and impact. GCC countries have better preparation for the fourth industrial revolution than the BRICS countries. The difference between the two groups was...

An attempt is made for bringing out the growth of literature on human genetics. Web of Science database has been used to retrieve the data of five years (2014-2018) by searching a keyword “Human Genetics" in the combined topics, abstract and keywords fields. The scientometric tools and techniques such as document type, year wise distributions, lang...

The main objective of this study is to investigate and analyze global research productivity in knowledge management (KM) research published from 1960 to 2017 and indexed in Scopus database. It is the first scientometric study investigating and analyzing 56 years of KM literature indexed in Scopus. The study used scientometric approach to identify a...

Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to report about an investigation on the relationship between knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation to find out whether knowledge acquisition can predict knowledge creation. The study measures the concept of knowledge acquisition through the faculty use of knowledge acquisition tools and reading k...

With the necessity to be connected to the Internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) will receive more and more attention. By using RFID technologies, IoT will be able to connect everyday devices and transfer data between them. Like other service providers, IoT technologies will offer many opportunities for libraries, from tracking room usage and progr...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of the internet among deaf and hearing students. The study also explores the perceptions of students toward the internet, online databases and digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a survey questionnaire to collect data from the sample. The sample consists of 59 he...

Arab countries understand the importance of the Internet of things for the development of society. This entails many efforts to conduct research related to the Internet of things in the Arab countries. Analysing contributions of researchers to the Internet of things research could be useful to go further in this filed. In this study, bibliometric t...

This paper present a review of literature related to knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. The paper explains the nature and types of knowledge, knowledge acquisition, theories and models of knowledge acquisition, along with to the review of important empirical studies related to measuring of knowledge acquisition. With regard to knowledge...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of ICT tools for knowledge sharing among faculty members. It also identifies the ICT tools used mostly for knowledge sharing by the participants. Data were collected through an online survey questionnaire instrument. A total of 300 faculty members from 26 academic institutions participated in the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of ICT tools for knowledge sharing among faculty members. It also identifies the ICT tools used mostly for knowledge sharing by the participants. Data were collected through an online survey questionnaire instrument. A total of 300 faculty members from 26 academic institutions participated in the...

The evolving needs of library users have offered more opportunities for librarians to support learning, teaching, and research activities. As users need to access knowledge and information contents more often than ever, librarians as knowledge workers have more responsibilities to ensure the provision and access to knowledge sources and services. T...

The paper reports the use of knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources by faculty members. It also identifies demographic differences among participants in using knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources.

Purpose This study investigates library employment in UAE. The paper explores the perceptions of academic librarians towards job satisfaction, employment opportunities, employment challenges, and future actions needed to improve employment opportunities for librarians in UAE. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through an online surv...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze demographic differences in using knowledge creation tools among faculty members. It also attempts to identify the most knowledge creation tool used by the participants. The tools comprised of 13 items including data mining, metadata, classifications, expert profiling, Mashup and blogs....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate and analyze library jobs advertised by higher education institutions, newspapers and job market sites in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses summative content analysis approach for data collection, data analysis, evaluation and assessment. It reports about the a...

As a knowledge intensive organization, academic institution has an obligation to support knowledge sharing among the faculty members. The support should include, among others, the provision of tools that enable faculty members to share data, information, knowledge, experience, insights, values, etc. As knowledge workers, faculty members are continu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a survey undertaken at Al Ain University of Science and Technology (AAU) to investigate and understand faculty awareness, use and perception of Open Access (OA) resources. Design/methodology/approach – Using a Web-based survey questionnaire, data were collected from full-time faculty...

This paper seeks to examine and describe the provision of digital resources and services by academic libraries in the GCC countries. It specifically targets the top three or 18 academic institutions of six GCC countries as reported by the Ranking Web. The study uses digital access tools, digital resources, digital services, digital forms, digital c...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and measure the relative efficiency of the academic libraries within the GCC countries in terms of their abilities to transform their allocated resources into a specific level of outputs using a non-parametric frontier method – data envelopment analysis (DEA). Design/methodology/approach – In order...

Bridging the gap of the digital divide can play an important role in education, employment and economic growth of any country. The present study attempts to examine and analyze the digital divide status of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries compared with countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other Arab countr...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Arab countries are progressing in developing information society and how they differ in their efforts to build an information society. The researchers are interested to know if there is any relationship between ICT Development Index (IDI) and ICT Price Basket (IPB), as well as the relationship between...

This paper presents the results of an analysis of usage reports of ebrary database. The five indicators (pages viewed, pages copied, pages printed, unique documents usage, and user sessions) were identified to determine the extend of ebrary usage by 18 government and private institutions in the UAE based on their counter reports. The analysis of va...

The purpose of this paper is to explore undergraduate research skills of students from private universities in the UAE. A survey was conducted in two private universities. These are Al-Ain university of Science & Technology and Ajman University of Science and Technology. The survey questionnaire centered on the understanding of the nature of resear...

This paper seeks to analyze and describe the current status of academic library websites. It specifically targets public and private universities and colleges accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of High Education, United Arab Emirates. A total of 29 academic library websites were examined using a checklist of criteria...

This paper reviews and compares master programs of library science schools in Malaysia, using IFLA "Guidelines for Professional Library/Information Educational Programs-2000. "The programs are the master's of library and information science (MLIS) at the University of Malaya (UM) and the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), and Mast...

Thesis is a key indicator for academic achievement. Analysing and studying theses assist in assessing and evaluating the quality of students' researches, as well as productivity level of supervisors and their departments. It also helps in identifying research trends and monitoring research activities. This study analyses master's theses in the Huma...

Many libraries in Malaysia are currently experiencing a transition from a traditional print-based collection to one that holds a mix of print and electronic resources. This has led to the existence of so called hybrid libraries. It has also led to changes in collection development practices. The aim of this paper is to investigate the practices of...

This study investigated the information-seeking behaviour of African students at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) library. The study attempted to understand students’ awareness of services available to them in the library, and the main sources of information consulted by them. It also investigated students’ perceptions of the li...

The use of bilingual authority files in academic and research libraries has been successful in most of the multicultural societies. Today, with the advancement of information and communication technology many libraries and information services providers on the Internet are accessible in more than one language, facilitating access, retrieval and use...

Many universities require students enrolling in masters programmes to submit a thesis for the completion of the programme, and the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) is no exception. This study investigates and identifies research trends of the MLIS students' theses for the past nine years at IIUM. The study also investigated features...

Assessing and evaluating information resources is necessary for the improvement of library services. Recently, Malaysian libraries have witnessed a growing utilization of digital technology in the provision of library services, coupled with the emergence of the Internet-based digital libraries. Although the trend is timely, the cost-effectiveness o...

The integration of the Internet has affected all functions of the library, particularly reference services. In the reference department, this integration has led to the utilisation of new tools and methods for providing information to library users. This study investigates the effect of the Internet on reference services in Malaysian academic libra...