Chao-chen Chen

Chung Yuan Christian University · College of Humanities and Education

Overseas charitable organizations often play a crucial role in fostering educational and cultural development in developing countries. Taiwan’s Zhi-Shan Foundation (hereinafter referred to as “Zhi-Shan”) has been establishing school libraries and promoting reading programs in rural counties and cities in Vietnam since 2008. This study analyzes diff...

The ACRL Framework and the ACRL Standard are conceptually and practically very different, and such changes have a great impact on the teaching of information literacy education in universities. This chapter first describes two important theoretical foundations of the ACRL Framework: the threshold concept and metaliteracy. Secondly, the actual imple...

Information literacy is a core research topic in the fields of library and information science. Long-term retrospective literature analysis can reveal the development context of this field. This study used bibliometric mapping analysis and content analysis to compare and analyze the research on information literacy in higher education (ILHE) in Asi...

Information literacy is a core research topic in the field of library and information science. The developmental context of this field can be examined through a long-term retrospective analysis of relevant literature. This study explored the research trends and potential research issues in the top 100 most frequently cited articles on information l...

Mobile learning strategies have been employed for social learning activities, includ�ing library- and museum-supported learning. Previous studies have reviewed the litera�ture from the technological aspect. However, a retrospective study from the perspective of bibliometric and network structure has not yet been provided. The aim of this study wa...

New terms and theoretical concepts in information literacy have emerged over the last decade, and these have led to revisions in the standards for information literacy. In order to determine whether information literacy research has reflected these trends, we collected SSCI literature for the 2011 to 2020 period related to information literacy in h...

Regarding whether school libraries have an effect on students’ learning achievement, previous findings in empirical studies are inconsistent across different developing and developed countries. This is an interesting phenomenon, which is still an important research topic that needs to be further tested and explored. In this study, a total of 16...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the influences of task-technology fit on university students’ attitudes towards ubiquitous library-supported learning when they use a mobile library app, Line@Library. Design/methodology/approach In this study, structural equation modelling to examine 158 valid questionnaires are used. The study aims to exami...

School librarians are not only managers of the school libraries, they are also educators, administrators, teaching consultants, information specialists, and information literacy teachers, etc. Unfortunately, in many countries, especially in Asia, there has always been a lack of understanding on the parts of the classroom teachers and school adminis...

Social media is a crucial platform for modern people to create, communicate, exchange perspectives, and sharing experiences. It has been applied in various fields. Analyzing the dialogue content of the social community reveals the core issue the group cares about. At the moment the library and information degree were not mandatory for being a teach...

Quality Talks has been proven to be a group discussion approach that helps improving student’s reading comprehension and enhancing critical thinking. However, cultural and language differences in context might influence the discussion and interaction in class. In most Asian countries, teachers are deemed as the main role in teaching knowledge. Stud...

Comic books and their characters are an integral part of popular culture. However, comic books, as educational material, still remain controversial in certain education systems, as this medium is regarded by some as sheer entertainment – thereby hindering students’ motivation to seek out other more formal, text-based literature to read. For this st...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions around the world are facing unprecedented challenges in the year 2020; many schools have closed their campuses and suspended teaching and learning activities, while others have switched to distance learning to keep learning going. The purpose of this study is to explore the learning pr...

This book explores the application of a significant discussion approach, Quality Talk, to English learning in Taiwanese college classrooms. Quality Talk has been found to successfully enhance students' reading comprehension and higher-level thinking in American contexts. It offers an introduction to Quality Talk and demonstrates how it can be imple...

In the digital age, electronic resources, digital devices, and reading services are more and more increasing, to enhance the diversity and convenience of digital reading. Therefore, the goal of this study is to explore teachers' and students' reading preferences and collection needs on printed books and e-books in elementary schools. As a reference...

Popular scientific reading books, as the bridge between scientific academic research and general public’s knowledge capital, could raise scientific literacy and facilitate comprehension for general public. Popular scientific reading books could attract children to read because of vivid exhibition of text and illustrating graphs. However, some scien...

Although the perceptions of library user education of academic libraries has been studied in a general context, specific studies on perspective of library and information science students are relatively few, especially in the context of Asia. Filling this research gap is particularly important because it affects the experiential learning of these p...

This study considers that "collaborative culture" is the basis for faculty members and librarians to work together in higher education institutions. The study therefore attempts to explore the collaboration between faculty members and librarians from the perspective of culture. It can not only provide an opportunity to elucidate the current develop...

Reading engagement is an important factor that influences student's reading performance and reading ability. Students with higher degree of reading engagement perform higher learning achievement. Reading engagement contains three aspects: reading motivation, reading behavior and reading strategies. Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a r...

Comic books are becoming increasingly popular in the field of education. In the past, comic books were excluded from school libraries and classrooms. However, with the resurgence in the popularity of comic books and students’ increased demands for them, they are now considered as recreational reading with educational value. In response to this, sch...

This study explored the concept of faculty-librarian collaboration from the perspective of culture. Five research purposes are proposed in this study. They are: (1) to discover the elements that can be utilized to construct the concept of faculty-librarian collaborative culture; (2) to explore the value levels of faculty-librarian collaborative cul...

This study examined the career and learning motivation of students studying a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree programs at universities located in four different countries, namely the University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan Normal University, Peking University, and the University of Copenhagen. The MLIS students from these f...

For university students stepping into learning of the professional field or even graduate students that have engaged in learning of such a field for many years, they are often unable to grasp the big picture of “the scope of professionalism”, neither do they have a clue how to engage in self-learning. Therefore, how to construct the discipline-orie...

The rapid development of MOOCs has started a revolution in higher education. Whether the platform of MOOCs will become the Google of higher education remains to be seen, and is a point of concern for universities. Nevertheless, because of the special subjects offered, and cultural and linguistic characteristics, the OpenCourseWare materials offered...

This paper presents an App prototype capturing Library Information Science in Taiwan (LIS-TW) for researchers’ information from unique author identifiers such as Scopus Author Identifiers, ORCID and Google Scholar Citations. By using Linked Open Data technologies, this App can push not only the latest information of researchers but the links of pub...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the different roles and expectations of the school librarians as information literacy (IL) instructors between Hong Kong, Japan, Shanghai, South Korea, and Taipei. School librarians are not merely managers of the school libraries nowadays; they are also expected to serve as administrator...

In the age of the knowledge economy, the business performance of an enterprise depends on both the collective aptitude of its human resources and the general possession of knowledge. Company employees can only gain knowledge through constant studying. A company culture of learning is the impetus behind the growth of the organization, and while shar...

The biomedical information environment is in a state of constant and rapid change due to the increase in research data and rapid technological advances. In Taiwan, few research has investigated the information literacy of biomedical graduate students. This exploratory study examined the information literacy abilities and training of biomedical grad...

It is an important trend to expand the use of bibliographic records from the supply chain for libraries. However, what are the sources of vendors’ bibliographic records? Their quality? How do libraries deal with these bibliographic records? Are they satisfied them? This study first drawn 1,080 bibliographic records from 29 e-book products, and Marc...

In this paper, the authors describe X-System, a general digital library platform which is capable of handling large-scale digital contents with flexible, extensible management features. The development of X-System achieves several important goals of modern digital library systems, including fully functional system, neutral and portable architecture...

Over the past few decades, organizational learning has become a significant concept for the development of organizations. Many scholars and experts in the field of librarianship have advocated the importance of creating a learning library for handling various challenges, such as the rapid development of internet and digital technology. However, an...

School librarians are not only managers of the school libraries, they are also educators, administrators, teaching consultants, information specialists, and information literacy teachers, etc. Unfortunately, in many countries, especially in Asia, there has always been a lack of understanding on the parts of the classroom teachers and school adminis...

School librarians are not only managers of the school libraries, they are also educators, administrators, teaching consultants, information specialists, and information literacy teachers, etc. Unfortunately, in many countries, especially in Asia, there has always been a lack of understanding on the parts of the classroom teachers and school adminis...

This paper presents a prototype of TLIS VIVO, a researcher networking system of the Library and Information Science field based in Taiwan, by using ORCID, VIVO, and Linked Open Data technologies. It extends VIVO with the author identifier system ORCID, and integrates data thus harvested from Chinese Library & Information Science Abstracts (CLISA),...

Academic research plays an important role in universities and higher education evaluation. A correlation between a researcher’s scope of collaboration and his/her research impact. That’s why collaboration becomes more and more popular. When discussing about research collaborations, we found that most of the related literatures were based on subject...

Most of the college and university libraries in Taiwan always pay much attention on their staff training and give highly support on their staff learning through various workshops or conferences. However, can these learning activities bring positive influence to performance and effectiveness in a library organization? And, whether library staff memb...

This paper introduces a semantic approach to open scholar and scholarly identify based on VIVO, an open-source semantic social network platform for researchers. The research demonstrate NTNU library how to build a semantic framework using VIVO technologies and integrate open educational resources.

Accompanying with the growing Internet, DL/M has become an important researches issue. Metadata as a concrete foundation for Digital Libraries and Museums (DL/M) researches and systems, its role has being recognized by different research fields. Due to the essence of Internet, the paper not only describes the research and development of metadata fo...

Digital image files and metadata are critical functionally-related components of digital archiving and management. However, as digital image files and their metadata are usually independent, applications dealing with them have proven to be relatively complicated. This research attempts to develop metadata storage and exchange through extended techn...

In this chapter, we describe X-system, a general digital library platform which is capable of handling large-scale digital contents with flexible, extensible management features. The development of X-system achieves several important goals of modern digital library systems, including a fully functional system, neutral and portable architecture, sta...

p>This study implements an FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) model to organize master’s and doctoral theses available in the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) and attempts to assess its feasibility. There are a few relationships in theses. So we select thesis as our object. We employ the FRBR model to analyze entities...

This chapter describes metalogy, an XML/metadata framework that can handle several different metadata formats. Metalogy was developed under the Digital Museum Project funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan. It is common to have different data types and catalog formats even within one organization. In order to accommodate a variety of obje...

The research project presented in this paper aims to meet the need for courses in Chinese traditional calligraphic art through the use of digitalized paintings. Thus, this paper delineates vital aspects associated in converting such materials to e-formats and the platform on which digital archives and digital learning may become possible. Moreover,...

Due to the quantity and the diversity involved in e-government presentations and operations, traditional approaches to web site information management have been found to be rather inefficient in time and cost. Consequently, the necessity of establishing a government knowledge management system, so as to speed up information lookups, sharing, and li...

With the development of Internet, digital libraries/museums have received worldwide attention and many developed countries are doing extensive researches on digital libraries/museums. In Taiwan, many institutions have digitized their collections. In addition, major research projects such as Digital Museum Project, Digital Archive Program, Digital L...

This chapter describes metalogy, an XML/metadata framework that can handle several different metadata formats. Metalogy was developed under the Digital Museum Project funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan. It is common to have different data types and catalog formats even within one organization. In order to accommodate a variety of obje...

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The Chinese genealogies are the best resources for the family histories.They contain excellent information for people’s root tracing and for academic researches. Our Taiwan Genealogy Online Project aims to digitalize genealogy material and to provide online services. This paper explains the design theory and implementation ideas of our system for C...

Digital learning contents mainly come from materials designed by instructors, free network, commercial databases, digital libraries and digital archives. Our national digital archive projects started at 1999 and, since then, have produced many valuable digital resources. These resources will support many aspects of researches, teachings and learnin...

Metadata plays a crucial role in a digital library/museum environment. However, the development of metadata is not an easy task. Its formulation starts with analyzing the attributes of collections as well as understanding the user information needs and information seeking behavior. The issue of interoperability also needs to be considered in terms...

p>頁次：57-64 本文主要在介紹歐美公共圖書館地方文獻收集的範圍、方法、居民使用情形及網站服務現況，以供國內公共圖書館之參考。 The purpose of this paper is to introduce acquisition method, usage and web services of local document in public libraries of western countries. </p

On January 1st 2002, the National Science Council of Taiwan launched a National Digital Archives Program (NDAP). To share the digital collections of all the archive participants, search via a union interface, and allow the general public access to the collections, it is urgent to build a union catalog of the National Digital Archives. In this artic...

In the digital library/museum environment, metadata plays a crucial role, and the development of metadata is not an easy task. Its formulation has to begin with analysing the attributes of collections, and understanding the user information needs and information seeking behaviours. The issue of interoperability needs to be considered in terms of bo...

p>頁次：48-67 在資訊社會中，政府資訊電子化將是大勢所趨，雖然技術進步相當快速，而我們對於網路環境的資訊出版、利用、管理、分享、儲存、安全性、智慧財產權等問題的了解事實上還很淺顯，但是資訊系統的建立與資訊的電子化，交不能等待，為免人力、經費等投資上的浪費，學習他人既有的經驗及採用適當的標準是較妥善的作法。本文主要將就政府出版品電子化所牽涉到的資料處理相關標準，如電子化格式、書目處理、資訊查尋與檢索標準等，以目前歐美國家已普便遍採用者做一深入的探討，作為我國政府出版品電子化與組織與檢索系統建立的參考。 To digitalize our government publications, it seems better to learn from the experience of t...

Digital Libraries and Museums (DL/M) have become one of the important research issues of Library and Information Science as well as other related fields. This paper describes the basic concepts of DL/M and briefly introduces the development of Taiwan Digital Museum Project. Based on the features of various collections, wediscuss how to maintain, to...

This article is mainly to survey the centennial controversy between controlled vocabulary v. uncontrolled vocabulary of subject indexing in the western library and information society. We also discuss the related problems in Chinese information retrieval systems and analyze the factors affecting their performance. [Article content in Chinese]

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Along with the popularity of Internet, electronic information is getting more and more important. To find efficient organization methods of electronic information is the main issue for information retrieval. Many solutions have been proposed.The aim of this article is to discuss the existing organizational models of electronic information. We expla...

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