Guest editorial

Pages761-763
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/EL-10-2019-269
Date07 October 2019
Published date07 October 2019
AuthorChia-Chen Chen,Carmen Cámara,Kuo-Lun Hsiao,Tien-Yu Hsu,Arun Kumar Sangaiah
Subject MatterInformation & knowledge management,Information & communications technology,Internet
Guest editorial
Smart libraries: the application of emerging and innovative technologies
Introduction
The digital revolution has created signicant changes in everyday life. The Internet
and mobile technologies have revolutionized the way that people nd,consume,and
interact with content. New emerging and innovative technologies are playing a pivotal
role in shaping every aspect of our lives and libraries are no exception. The role of the
twenty-rst century library in the digital era has now changed. Smart people, smart
places, smart collections, and smart services have become an integral part of smart
libraries of the future. The root and base of future smart libraries is closely interrelated
with the cohesive relationship between people, place, knowledge and technology to
create a platform for learning, participation, creativity, and innovation. Future smart
libraries will focus more on data management, innovative organization of data and
information and the increasing accessibility of research content, maintaining the
scholarly record, innovation in collections and services, and better use of human
resources.
There are many challenges associated with future smart libraries. Technologies, such as
electronic publishing, mobile apps, citation technologies, open content, the Internet of
Things, semantic web, linked data, machine learning, deep learning, articial intelligence,
and so on are playing a major and bigger role in reshaping libraries. Libraries all over the
world are in a transitionphase while adopting these changes.
Fewer research questions, diverse elds
The rst eld describes the The Innovative Techniques in Smart Library. In this special
issue, Gul and Bano (2019) discussed the emerging and innovative technologies which
applied into the smart libraries. They searched the recent literature by various keywords,
such as smart library, smart technology, Internet of Things (IoT), electronic resource
management (ERM), data mining, articial intelligence (AI), ambient intelligence (AmI),
blockchain and augmented reality (AR). In addition, Yu et al. (2019) proposed a technology
classication approachfor omni-channel library. The contributionsof this study can be used
as a reference to design the library channel integration strategy. Finally, Jo et al. (2019)
presented a trusted securityzone architecture that adopted a blockchain technologyto offer
the secure sharing of data. The empirical resultswould be very useful for the public library
and the future smart library.
The second eld focuses on The Learning Applications in Smart Library.Inthis
special issue, Deng (2019) proposed a MOOC-based knowledge map of higher education
domains and implemented it into the university libraries. The empirical results can
provide the personalized library services for every visitors. Li (2019) investigated the
effects of the combination of synchronous Web-based teaching with visually creative
teaching on art studentscreativity. This study can extend to another perspective of
enlightenment for the future self-learning activities in the library. In the same way, Jian
(2019) investigated the effects of digital ipped classroom teaching method integrated
cooperative learning model on learning motivation and outcome. The empirical results
illustrated the proposed model can enrich the scienticity and diversity of the self-
learning activities in the library and classroom. Finally, Liu et al. (2019) discovered the
corresponding ways and methods to strengthen the environmental moral education
Guest editorial
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TheElectronic Library
Vol.37 No. 5, 2019
pp. 761-763
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DOI 10.1108/EL-10-2019-269

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