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This paper sought to explore the acquisition modes of collections in the libraries of Tamale and Bagabaga Colleges of Education in Ghana. The population consisted of all the library staff in both colleges. In all, the sixteenlibrary staffs of the two libraries were use as respondents. Centenary Library has four library staff and Addabor library has twelve library staff. The entire population was used for the study. Archival and structured interview were used as data collection instruments/tools of the study. The study findings revealed that the two libraries largely build their collections through donations aside the few collections from purchase, exchange, interlibrary loan and consortia. The findings also indicated that donation was the most infectious (bookworm, termites, fungi, silverfish, rodents, booklice) acquisition mode in the Addabor and Centenary libraries.
The study concludes that both libraries largely build their collections through donations and gifts. The purpose of the study was to add to academic knowledge of the field, fill literature gap, serve as a policy document to acquisition librarians, Ministry of Education and Princof in their bid to building relevant collections to meet user needs. The recommendations from the study which include recruitment of more professional librarians, training of acquisition librarians, provision of enough funding, provision of enough infrastructure, provision of preservation chemicals for the treatment of infected collections and assertiveness in the refusal of being dumping grounds for irrelevant collections. Collections of libraries are acquired to meet the objective of advancing knowledge and wisdom to promote sustainable and comprehensive education for national development.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become increasingly used in public policymaking around the world in recent years and has been associated with improved decision-making as well as enhanced government transparency and accountability. Despite growing pressures to adopt EBP and the documented benefits of this approach, however, the limited available evidence suggests that, compared with the healthcare sector, governments generally have been very slow to adopt EBP in policy-making. In the Sultanate of Oman, where the development of modern democracy has been evolving only slowly over recent decades, it seems that current decision-making within the Oman Council may not be well informed by evidence, thus undermining the adoption of democratic processes in this country. This article presents the initial findings from a review of literature conducted for the purpose of developing a Model for Evidence-Based Strategic Decision-Making (MEBSDM) in the Council of Oman. It sets out key findings from the international literature about trends in EBP and the reported barriers to its use, from studies relating to government decision-making and from the healthcare sector, where EBP has been most widely used to date. The limited body of research relating to the use of EBP in Oman is also discussed. In the concluding section, some implications for the adoption of EBP by the Council of Oman are set out, as a precursor the development of the proposed model.
Gender equity represents usually based on custom, tradition, religion or culture and social justice, which is regularly to the disservice to female. This article examines data which was downloaded from the Web of Science database. The Web of Science is one of the leading bibliographical database in the world. “Gender Equality” keyword used for retrieving the data. The keyword analyses for five-years, during 2013 to 2017 taken for the study 2212 records were retrieved by the authors for the present study. Each record contains year wise publication, Authorship pattern, Funding agencies and Document type etc. The collected data were analyzed through Histcite and calculated using excel sheet. VOS viewer is a software tool which was used for visualizing bibliometric network. The major findings are 1062 number of articles was published by single authors, 89.7% of the scientific research is published in articles, 1981 number of research articles are published in English language and 50.2% of the publications exposed that the word ‘Gender’.
The general purpose of the study is reward system variablesandjob satisfaction of librarians in academic libraries in Imo State. The survey research design was used for the study using questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The study covers the entire population of One hundred and seven(107) librarians in academic libraries in Imo State. One hundred and five (105) copies of the questionnaire were completed and returned for analysis representing 98.1%. The findings showed that when the rate of compensation improves or increases positively, the rate of librarians’ satisfaction increases in direct proportion. Again as the rate of welfare benefit increases the rate of satisfaction and job commitment increases. The study recommended that compensation should be given to workers both in direct and indirect forms, integrating the two into a package that will encourage the achievement of an organization’s goal.Welfare services should be formulated and implemented in order to encourage workers. The academic libraries should set in motion strategies to address child welfare package to library employees. Prompt payment of salary and salary increment as when due should be given a priority in any organization.
The study discuses the Use of indexing and abstracting services by the customers of fisheries college , and to find out the problems hindering the use of indexing and abstracting services by the customers. A survey research method was employed in conduct of this study. 30 students from the faculty were selected for conducting survey. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire; the data collected for the study were presented and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Frequency tables, simple percentages were used for the study. The study discovered majority of the library users were not using the indexing and abstracting services due to lack of awareness of their availability and Lack of currency of the resources in library. the study recommended that awareness should be created for the users to enable them use this services in accessing relevant information without the waste of time. Which can be achieved through orientation and publicizing its services.
This article is on influence of social media on library service delivery to students in University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria. Librarians, in this digital age, are responsible for a wide variety of resources and services that expand far beyond the typical eight-hour work day. Promotion in library and information science has a newer meaning. It finds deep roots in social media. It is a set of techniques which is aimed at reinforcing the basic values of the library in a changing environment at the same time meeting the needs of the library clientele. Essentially, promotion is the means of informing users on what you do and what you can do. The benefits for those who promote their library services and resources include: increased usage, increased value in the organization, education of users and changed perceptions the study was carried out within a period of five months (September 2018 to February 2019) when the university was in session. Survey research design was used for the study. A ‘purposive sampling technique’ was used to select the registered students with the library. The population of this study was made up of 846 students from 200 level to 400 level student. Some findings showed that Facebook is the most social media/networking tools students using to communicate with their friends and follow by Twitter and YouTube. Majority (86 %) respondents agreed that social media provide quick feedback from library, library tours and promotes services; cost low while 14 % respondents disagreed. Also, 76 % of the respondents agreed that Social media has the potential to communicate and send out information to the library users while 24 % of the respondents are of a contrary view.
The purpose of this study is to examine the utilization of Dandeli City Central Library use, resources, and services among the old age people in Dandeli town. Based on this background, a survey method has been adopted and a well-structured questionnaire was distributed to collect relevant data about usage behavior by the old age people. Data were collected from 80 senior citizens in Dandeli town and final results indicate that maximum usage of the central library is observed in respondents. The overall statistics show that usage, collections, and services of city central library as satisfactory. It was found that old age people visit the library regularly and their usage of literature is mostly read by the users are Novels, magazines, and newspapers.
Diffusion of information continues to increase within the health care community with the guidance of medical libraries and available resources whether print or online. This paper is such an attempt to provide some insight for the medical stakeholders about the online journals (scholarly & trade) acquirable in ProQuest health & medical complete database.
The paper reports that scholarly journals expedite access to nearly 2113 journals in medical discipline which outnumbers the trade journals. Furthermore, article examines the subject, publisher, and language wise contribution of the leading scholarly & trade journals communicated in the database.
The study is advantageous to the researcher & student community by providing immediate visibility to the journals in light of various dimensions to make the intellectual output accessible to all.
This paper study to determine the availability of INFLIBNET Nlist resources in Islamic Management Arts and Science college libraries of Tamil Nadu. Objective of the study is to inspect the usage, awareness and level of satisfaction of N List resources in Libraries. Methodology- adopted to indentify the Islamic Management Arts & Science colleges in Tamil Nadu. A systematic Questionnaire has prepared and distributed to selected colleges of TamilNadu. Total 1000 questionnaires were distributed among them 864 were received back and taken into account for analysis. SPSS Software version2.0 applied for analysis of data. Findings of the study reveals that 90% of the colleges were subscribing INFLIBNET NList resources and users are very well known about the INFLIBNET resources, incase of level of usage 112 respondents that is 15.5% accessing the NList resources. Suggestions were given to conduct proper orientation, user awareness about the Nlist resources and regular internet connection and high bandwidth network facility to be provided.
Digital library is the need of the present scenario and it is highly in demand these days for the libraries to provide the good services to the users. This article focus on what is digital library, types of software i.e. Commercial software & Open Source Software, and Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) silent features for creating institutional repository. Requirements of hardware for open source software GSDL installation. GSDL installation process, and Jaipuria Institute’s GSDL institutional repository screen-shots including case study presented in this article e.g. how to improve digital collection. This paper explores the Digital library needs, advantages & disadvantages and include some suggestions for using Greenstone Digital Library, how this is useful for small libraries and administrative staff work as well, i.e. policy document etc.
By using multivariable linear mode to fitting the data of scholarly journals, it can be found that a large land mass and GDP give a positive contribution to open access scholarly journals publishing. At the same time, it can also be found that a large population gives a negative contribution. One hindrance to open access scholarly articles publishing is that publishing companies don’t permit prestigious journals to be open access because of high profit. The other is that authors haven’t enough money to publish an open access article in prestigious journals due to high publishing price. The possible solutions to get a better scholarly publishing environment are that publishing companies lower journal prices, governments enact the law to permit published scholarly articles self-archiving, and developing countries develop their own prestigious scholarly periodicals
Librarians down the ages have been charged with the responsibility of managing information resources and the library users. One of the management practices in the library is preservation and conservation of library resources which is aimed at ensuring the longevity of the library resources. This is a critical concern at this period of dwindling budgetary allocation to public universities where subtle fund is release to the library for the purchase of resources and therefore little or no chance should be given to deterioration. This study therefore investigates some of the key preservation and conservation practices in public universities in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 183 respondents. Questionnaire was used for data collection and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The finding revealed that the knowledge level shown by librarians towards the preservation and conservation of information materials was relatively high and the level of training for staff and funding of conservation and preservation practices in the selected university libraries has improved greatly when compared with previous studies of conservation and preservation. The study recommends that the library management should maintain and improve on the pace of funding and training of staff on preservation and conservation practices in public university in Nigeria.
This study presents the scenario of the selected private and public university library e-book performance through UGC digital library in Bangladesh. Moreover, this study tries to calculate the university’s library performance through quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods where used eight university’s library data and their respective students and professional respondents. This study finds that most of the university’s library to join a member of UGC digital library and also smoothly runs the e-book services and others online reading services. However, this study further finds that in university’s library sector runs their operation by unskilled human resources for operating ILS software and IT activities. Due to less skilled human resources, many students and users could not get proper services. As a result, many e-book users have faced the critical problem in conducting their operation such as reading books, journals, and newspapers. Finally, this study assists the decision makers to take more attention to the significant e-book library activities that may help in increasing the efficiency positions and skilled manpower’s and also ensuring favorable quality education and e-book user’s productivity. Moreover, this study will assist the management of the university’s library in Bangladesh in setting up plans and technological strategies in future.
Ever expanding set of Web and ICT services has changed the way of learning and communication and research.Discovery system is a platform to facilitate Single Search box to search all resources the Library and it provides result based on relevance. Academic libraries are transforming from federated search technologies to Web Scale Discovery system. The WebScale Discovery services increase the value of the library by providing high research productivity with a single search box. This paper highlights the Web Scale Discovery and the importance of the discovery tools and services for academic libraries.
Purpose of the Study: The social networking sites enable the users to maintain contact with friends and also increase academic knowledge. The purpose of the study aimed at examining the awareness, application, frequency and time spent on using of Social Networking Sites(SNSs) by the students of Engineering colleges in Bhubaneswar , Odisha.
A structured questionnaire was distributed among top ten engineering colleges, out of 57 engineering colleges. These top ten engineering colleges established more than ten years back. Frequency counts and percentage were used to analyze the data.
The findings shows that majority of the users agreed they used Social Networking Sites for study related information and most of the responded SNS technology is greater impact to find their suitable job , studies and career.
The study is an original research work mainly dealing data collected through a survey in top ten engineering colleges, out of 57 engineering colleges. The collections of these libraries have been evaluated. Results highlighting for the major findings, suggestions and conclusion
The study focused on the extent of access and use of electronic journals by the students of an engineering college in Dindigul District from the different E-journal sources available. The study adopted the quantitative research and used cross-sectional survey research design. Findings from the study revealed that personal access through open source was the most used source of e-journals for their academic activities. E-journals were also most frequently used in academic activities. Students should attend more training and workshops on E-resources search and retrieval skills; modules should include effective search strategies, designing appropriate metadata and subject headings to enable easy retrieval.
The study investigates the use of electronic resources by the users of Amity University Lucknow, BBDNITM Lucknow and Kanpur Institute of Technology, Kanpur. It surveyed the user’s awareness about available e-resources in these libraries, purpose and frequency of using e-resources by the users, the factor affecting resource utilization, impact of e-resources and services on the academic work of the users. Suggest the ways and means for the effective use of e-resources and services available in these organizations, etc.
The present study focuses on use of ICT resources by users of C. K. Shah Vijapurwala Institute of Management (CKSVIM) Library, Vadodara. This study main objective are to identify the users awareness of CKSVIM library ICT resources, know the users internet using skills, availability of ICT resources in the CKSVIM library, purpose of using ICT resources, use of different types of ICT resources, frequency of use of ICT resources, usefulness of ICT resources, methods of learning ICT resources skills, factors that influence to use ICT resources, satisfactory level of using ICT resources, problems faced in using ICT resources and suggestions to improve usages of ICT resources. Survey method was used to carry out this research. A well- structured questionnaire was used to collect the primary data from the respondents; total 267 questionnaires were distributed to the sample population and received back 235 filled in questionnaires. The researcher took 235 questionnaires for analysis using simple percentage techniques.
Modern libraries have been providing value added services and catering to diverse technologically savvy patron base. Libraries are acclimatizing to digital technology by adopting Library Management Systems (LMS) that work with most of the existing facilities or minimal additional financial investments. Professionals are well aware of Open Source Software (OSS) and their applications in LMS for more than two decades. Effective OSS solutions for LMS demands professionals form Library to collaborate with computer experts and develop technologically viable OSS solutions to meet requirements of the library patrons. This paper attempts to discuss the challenges experienced by Central Library of KLE Dr M S Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belagavi (KLE Dr MSSCET) and implementation of the value added services by using the Open Source Software (OSS). An attempt is made to project the advantages of using OSS and also shares the experience of transition at host institute with minimal effort and least expenditure.
The aim of the study is to find out the user awareness programs that are being organized by the rural libraries of the selected districts of Assam. The result shows that the rural libraries are in the miniature stage regarding user awareness program due to the poor financial condition.
This study attempt to examine the Library Services provided to the users in Agricultural College libraries affiliated to Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri. In Library services it is focus on Manual Library Services, Computerized Library Services, ICT Based Library Services and ad on services. For the present study there were 40 colleges selected. Out forty 6 are Government Colleges and 34 Self financed Colleges. From this study it was found that majority of the libraries don’t have necessary infrastructure facilities to provide ICT Based Services for their users.
This study was conducted to determine the contribution of Africa to the global open access literature. Data were extracted from the Directory of Open Access Repository (OpenDOAR). The findings indicate that only 22 (40.74%) African countries contributed 155 OA repositories in the OpenDOAR. Most of these repositories were from South Africa (33; 21.29%), Kenya (28; 18.06%) and Nigeria (21; 13.55%). Africa contributed 1,024,851 documents in the OpenDOAR, with Egypt and South Africa contributing nearly two thirds (634,025; 61.2%) of these documents. Despite its large size, the African continent had only 4.52% of the OA repositories and 0.14% of documents in the OpenDOAR. The average number of documents per repository in Africa was only 6,611.94 as compared to other continents such as Australasia (752,094.80 documents), Europe (342,896.64 documents) and North America (201,997.12 documents). The top 25 OA repositories in Africa contributed 820,574 documents, which is over 80% of the total African contribution to the OpenDOAR. Most OA repositories in Africa contained journal articles (74.84%) and they were multidisciplinary (61.73%). Overall, Africa’s contribution to the global open access literature is still very low. Efforts should be strengthened to increase the level of research and publication productivity as well as increase the capacity of institutions to develop OA repositories.
In this global information age, there has been explosive growth in volume of information with an ever-increasing proportion of factually incorrect information. Fake news is intentionally fabricated news articles or information and has garnered a considerable amount of media attention in recent past. As users receive plethora of information with the growth of digital and social media, there is very blurred line distinguishing between fake andthe real. This studyfocuses onwhatfake news is and how a librarian can play an important role in developing media literacy and critical thinking skills among the students so that they can achieve capability to retrieve, validate, manage, analyze and use the information they are bombarded with effectively. The study was conducted among Doon University library users to know their awareness and how they can spot the fake news.
Purpose- The purpose of present study is to examine smart phones use by post graduates in enhancing e-learning, in academic scenario in Aligarh Muslim University, a well established and renowned university in India.
Design/Methodology/Approach- The earlier studies paved a direction to this study, to get an answer of Smartphone usages, purpose, and their opinion about the advantages in scenario of their literacy skills. To know the respondents, smart phone usages, demographic and academic characteristics were analyzed by Descriptive statistics and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).
Findings- The findings shows that majority of the students are aware about the use of smart phones with its prime purpose of academic benefit and enhancement of their literacy skills. The findings also indicate that they are enhancing their search techniques and learning skills also. The study further reveals that portability and easy access are the factors for increasing the use of smart phones among the post graduates of university.
Originality/value-Though, many related studies had been conducted in this particular area yet the present study is virtually fictional. Investigator tried best to ensure the originality of this paper with a huge number of post graduates especially in Aligarh Muslim University in perspective of Smart phones usages.
Background of the study: Though a small venture, this article is intended to investigate the information seeking behaviour and the role of mass media in socio-economic empowerment of the Santals, who are the major tribal communities of West Bengal in general and Birbhum district in particular and mainly depend on interpersonal mode of communication to share information.
Objectives: Specific objectives of the study is to investigate information seeking behaviour and role of media in socio-economic empowerment of the Santals of Birbhum district, Wet Bengal.
Population of study: The study conducted in 4 villages, viz, Balipara, Kaliganj, Baganpara, Pearson Pally in and around Santiniketan, within a radius of ±1 Km. from Visva-Bharati, the first central university of independent India.
Methods and tools: The study is based on questionnaire survey, though interview was taken from the illiterate Santals. 100 respondents from the 4 study villages (50 male and 50 female) were selected applying multi-staged stratified random sampling technique.
Findings: (i) Most of the Santals suffer for lack of education and information due to various socio-economic and cultural factors like economic backwardness, unemployment, massive poverty, illiteracy, language problem etc., (ii) Santals till now believe interpersonal communication and traditional media to share information (iii) Mass media like radio and television is mostly used by the Santals for their entertainment, (iv) Best time for listening radio or watching television is evening.
Conclusion and suggestions: The study finally suggest for balanced combination of traditional and mass media in human empowering as well as aware the Santals towards active participation in various ongoing developmental programmes, which in turn will help to achieve sustainably developed of the Santals.
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