Volume 27, Issue 1

November 2017

SPECIAL ISSUE: SELECTED PAPERS OF A-LIEP 2016 CONFERENCE

Guest editors: Shiyan Ou and Qinghua Zhu, School of Information Management, Nanjing University, China

Selected papers of A-LIEP 2016 : The 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice, November 3-4, 2016 at Nanjing University, China. The papers were subject to an additional round of review and revision.

Leisure Reading Preferences of Bilingual Female Students in Singapore
Shaheen Majid, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hazel Kai Jie Ng and Su Ying, Raffles Girls School, Singapore

Changing Patterns of Perceived ICT Skill Levels of Elderly Learners in a Digital Literacy Training Course
Makiko Miwa, Emi Nishina, Masaaki Kurosu, Hideaki Takahashi, Yoshitomo Yaginuma, Yoko Hirose, and Toshio Akimitsu
Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan

The Structural Characteristics of the Japanese Paperback Book Series Shinsho
Ruri Shimura and Shohei Yamada, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Education, Japan
Bin Umino and Shin’ichi Toda, Toyo University, Faculty of Sociology, Japan
Kyo Kageura, The University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Japan

Physico-Symbolic Characteristics of the Japanese Paperback Book Series Shinsho: A Descriptive Study
Shohei Yamada and Ruri Shimura, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Education, Japan
Bin Umino and Shin’ichi Toda, Toyo University, Faculty of Sociology, Japan
Kyo Kageura, The University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Japan


EDITORIAL BOARD for this issue

Christopher Khoo (Editor)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Bradford Lee Eden
Valparaiso University, USA

Heather Moulaison (Associate Editor, Research Section)
University of Missouri, USA

Ross Harvey
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Mary Beth Weber (Associate Editor, Essays and Opinions Section)
Rutgers University, USA

Philip Hider
Charles Sturt University, Australia

Brendan Luyt (Associate Editor, Special Issues)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Paul Nieuwenhuysen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Yew Boon Chia (Associate Editor, Social Media)
Nanyang Technological University Libraries, Singapore

Anthony Olden
University of West London, UK

Kerry Smith (Editor-in-chief Emeritus)

Vernon R. Totanes
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Ann Curry
University of Alberta, Canada

K.S. Raghavan
PES Institute of Technology, India

Stephen J. Bensman
Lousiana State University, USA

Brenda Chawner
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Donald Kraft
Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, USA

Diljit Singh
Malaysia

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