Libraries have vital roles in society in protecting heritage, offering individuals and societies opportunities to improve the quality of their lives, and contributing to civil society. They play an important role is the ...

The increasing global recognition of Indigenous knowledge as distinct, legitimate, valuable and vulnerable systems of knowledge raises a range of issues that pose challenges for the library and information services (LIS) ...

Aims to examine the rôles of libraries and their development. Their part in fostering and supporting intellectuals in contemporary societies is discussed with particular emphasis on free access to information and freedom ...

This paper discusses the processes of cultural accretion and adaptation. This identifies borrowing and adaptation as integral to creative processes. 'Modern transport and communications technologies have facilitated and ...