Guest editorial: Social robots, services and applications

Editorial: 40th anniversary: contemporary library research

“…Yoon et al (2022) surveyed public and academic librarians in North America and noted that academic librarians were aware of and used AI more often than public librarians. We recently had a special issue on social robots, services and applications (Kelner et al , 2022). We shall have an upcoming special issue on AI and blockchain for information and library sciences.…”

Editorial: Advances in information and knowledge management

“…Moreover, the pandemic has accelerated service transformation (Chan and Chiu, 2022; Cheng et al ., 2022; Chin and Chiu, 2023; Hsu and Lin, 2021; Khan and Ayesha, 2022; Kelner et al ., 2022; Li et al ., 2023a, b, c; Lin et al ., 2022; Lo et al ., 2020; Noh, 2022; Nwagwu and Matobako, 2022; Okunlaya et al ., 2022; Tsang and Chiu, 2022; Tse et al ., 2022; Yao et al ., 2023; Wong and Chiu, 2023a; Wu et al ., 2022a, b, 2023; Xue et al ., 2023), leading to various recent advancements in information and knowledge management. In this issue, we present 12 papers that research various contemporary issues related to information and knowledge management.…”

Guest editorial: Contemporary learning behaviors on mobile devices and social media – part II

“…Following our previous special issues on social robots (Kelner et al , 2022), smart cities (Chang and Abdel-Basset, 2022) and COVID-19 (Huang et al , 2021, 2022, 2023), we are glad to continue with part II of this special issue on contemporary technologies for education from part I (Chiu and Ho, 2023d) with 15 articles. As we have overwhelming responses on our recent special issues and thematic selection of articles to be published in recent issues (Chiu and Ho, 2021, 2022a, b, c, 2023a, b, c, 2024; Ho and Chiu, 2023), we shall continue this practice in organizing our publication and guide readers to thematic research and practices presented by authors of Library Hi Tech .…”