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Book Club As Collaborative Intervention To Reduce Aliteracy Among In-School Adolescents In Nigeria :The Roles Of Library School Educators, Dr Margret Olusola Abimbola 010, Aramide Akinjide Kolawole Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Aliteracy, the lack of interest in reading by capable readers among the in-school adolescents in Nigeria, has raised many concerns among the stakeholders. This study examines the role of Library School educators in reducing aliteracy through the cooperative intervention of Book Clubs establishment and sustenance in secondary schools. This paper presents opinion reports through a literature search and review. The study was carried out to describe aliteracy and its prevalence among in-school adolescents, ascertain the need for cooperative intervention to reduce aliteracy among in-school adolescents and examine the role of Library School Educators. Literature search and review were used …

Publication Trend In Library Philosophy And Practice (E-Journal) : A Scientometric Approach, T K Gireesh Kumar, Kunwar Singh, Abhishek Ranjan, Somesh Rai

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Scientometrics is an effective method to quantitatively analyse the productivity and progress of all forms of written communication. This study aims to examine the scientific research productivity of Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) for a selected period of 22 years between 1998 and 2019. Required data pertaining to this study under various parameters were collected from Scopus database. Further, analysis was carried out under various dimensions to measure the year wise distribution of articles published during the selected period, its relative growth rate, doubling time, collaboration coefficient, country and affiliation wise distribution of articles and its citation patterns etc. The …