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Strategy To Sharpen The Students’ Skills In Colon Classification, Saravanan T
Strategy To Sharpen The Students’ Skills In Colon Classification, Saravanan T
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The paper sheds light on the strategy opted to sharpen the skills of the Library and Information Science Students in Colon Classification Scheme (6th Ed.). A few topics, namely Notational System, Main Class, Facet Formula and Postulates & Principles have been sliced here. Understanding the need and purpose of the said topics are a must for the freshers. The freshers should make their foundation as strong in the Normative Principles. Dr.S.R.Ranganathan (1967) insisted that the Colon Classification (6th Edition) techniques need to be taught to the students in the classroom with the help of Postulates and Principles. Students …
Teaching Colon Classification Using Revised Bloom’S Taxonomy: Teachers’ Strategy, Saravanan T
Teaching Colon Classification Using Revised Bloom’S Taxonomy: Teachers’ Strategy, Saravanan T
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The strategy to teach the subject Colon Classification using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy levels (Anderson,L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R., 2001) is unpacked here. Though Library and Information Science Teachers teach the Colon Classification using S.R.Ranganathan’s Steps in Classification (0-7 successive steps and 1 final step) in the class rooms to shape the classification skills of the students, the six levels of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy make the teachers’ job easier and also help the students to learn them without much burdens. This paper unpacks the experience and teaching strategy of the teacher, who teaches the Colon Classification Scheme (6th edition) [Course Code:19LISC202; …
The Intersection Of Community Engagement And Library Science, Katherine A. Laflamme
The Intersection Of Community Engagement And Library Science, Katherine A. Laflamme
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
A community is not just a place where people live, but an aggregation of folks brought together, whether by chance or design, who share like avocations. This article details frameworks for community engagement, and also identifies the discernible intersection between community engagement work and librarianship. The main focus is to look at these intersecting fields and establish what can be done to elevate a cohesive, homogeneous patron experience and embrace the larger community as a whole.
The Role Of Information And Communication Technology (Ict) In Securing Books In Irish Academic Libraries., Emmanuel Oguche
The Role Of Information And Communication Technology (Ict) In Securing Books In Irish Academic Libraries., Emmanuel Oguche
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study examined how effective the ICT gadgets are used in securing books in academic libraries and what technological approach the libraries will adopt in the future to ensure books are secured from mutilation and theft. The study was also to understand why students steal or mutilate books. A semi-structured interview was the qualitative research design used to collect data from six librarians. It was discovered that the libraries had adopted the use of ICT security gadgets like Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, surveillance cameras, self-service machine, magnetic strips. The combined use of these gadgets led to the drastic reduction of …
Why Lis Is Interdisciplinary In Nature? Finding Root From A Fundamental Base Of The Subject, Debabrata Maity, Bidyarthi Dutta
Why Lis Is Interdisciplinary In Nature? Finding Root From A Fundamental Base Of The Subject, Debabrata Maity, Bidyarthi Dutta
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Library and information science (LIS) is evolved due to the merging and integration of two separate fields i.e., library science and information science. Interdisciplinary nature of LIS according to the identification of some scholars has been highlighted and also meaning and characteristics of interdisciplinary study has been pointed out here shortly. Brief descriptions have made about the concept of category or category analysis—a vital fundamental base of LIS field and interdisciplinary nature of the field has been interpreted here with the inherent interdisciplinary nature of category.
Transhumanism (Dot) Mil: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Technoprogressive Terms In Military Publications, K. Durwood Evans
Transhumanism (Dot) Mil: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Technoprogressive Terms In Military Publications, K. Durwood Evans
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Has transhumanism influenced military thinking? Previous work found that transhumanist terms did not appear widely in military publications. The present work analyzes and improves on previous content analysis of transhumanist terms in military literature using the tools of library and information studies.
A Comparative Study Of Journal Of Documentation And Journal Of Knowledge Management During The Period 2005-2015, Asish Maity, Dr. Nivedita Bhattacharyya Sahu
A Comparative Study Of Journal Of Documentation And Journal Of Knowledge Management During The Period 2005-2015, Asish Maity, Dr. Nivedita Bhattacharyya Sahu
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This paper presents bibliometric profile of Journal of Documentation during the year 2005-2015, based on the year wise productivity, subfield wise article distribution, type of research documents published, geographical distribution of articles, Institutional wise productivity, citation distribution of articles degree of collaboration of authors. The study found that total 489 research documents published during the time period 2005-2015. Most number of articles published on the topic Information seeking behaviour. The study also revealed author productivity through the implementation of Lotka's Law of productivity.