Aims and scope

Library Hi Tech (LHT) is an international, double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal that welcomes empirical, conceptual and methodological contributions on any topics relevant to the broad disciplines of information and communication technologies. However, LHT is particularly concerned with information management, technologies, and systems that support libraries and cultural memory, education and the academy, health and medicine, government/public sectors, and non-government organizations (NGOs). LHT covers the IT-enabled creation, curation, representation, communication, storage, retrieval, analysis, and use of records, documents, files, data, learning objects, and other contents. It also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary and emerging topics such as socio-information studies, educational technologies, knowledge management, big data, artificial intelligence, personal information protection, digital literacy, other media and technology innovation topics in their applications to libraries, as well as other education, information, government and NGOs. LHT welcomes research that applies a broad array of approaches and epistemologies, including any mix of qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, action, participatory, evaluation, design, development or other established methodologies.

LHT invites full research and conceptual papers, as well as scholarly viewpoints and review articles (normally between 4,000 to 8,000 words). LHT will also occasionally publish shorter research notes (under 4,000 words) on current work of excellent potential. Authors must make a request for reviewing of research notes, if required, in the cover letter.

Current coverage of LHT includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

Information platforms, interfaces, and applications
System development, adoption, diffusion and maintenance
Human-computer interaction
Information experience
Human information processing
Human information behaviour
Data and information analytics
Information privacy and security
System quality and reliability
Technology management and governance
Media and technology innovation
Human communications and development
Social development and social informatics
Culture and digital humanities
Data curation, visualisation and repositories
Educational technologies
Knowledge management
Metadata and semantics
Recommendations and personalization
Intelligent and service-oriented information systems
Big Data and cloud technologies
Internet of Things and devices.