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Assessment Of Professionals’ Outlook On The Application Of Electronic Security Systems In Select University Libraries Of Northern India, Parul Gupta Ms., Madhusudhan Margam Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In a digital era, library professionals are not only responsible for efficient transaction services but also act as custodian of material in all forms. With the constraints of funding, more and more librarians are relying on different technological advances such as Electronic Security Systems (ESSs) to bring security to library material, building, and premises. The present paper uses survey methodology to assess their perception of library professionals of select libraries of Northern India on different ESSs such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Closed-circuit television (CCTV), Biometric and Burglar system and its applications, benefits, and problems. The work highlighted that most …

Use Of Electronic Journals By Research Scholars And Postgraduate Students Of University Of Delhi And Jamia Millia Islamia: A Comparative Survey, Md. Sohail, Mr. Maksood, Nazia Salauddin

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The emergence of the internet is a new medium of information storage and delivery represents a revolution, which will have a lasting impact on the electronic publication and delivery of information system in the twenty-first century. The developments in information technology have brought e-journals as a boon to research community, which are becoming a major source for scholarly communication. As e-journal is a journal available online or offline containing research papers, review articles, scholarly communications. In the electronic environment teaching, learning and research are being supported by e-journals which are emerging as new powerful tool. E-journals have an impact not …

Building Public Library Collection In India: A Study Of Book And Non-Book Material, Mehtab Alam Ansari Dr., Shamim Aktar Munshi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

India is the second most populous country in the world. It has 29 states and 7 union territories. The state of West Bengal with nineteen districts has a well-established public library system. The present study covers the district of Murshidabad which has 160 public libraries, in total. Significantly, three categories of public libraries namely rural library, town/sub-division library and district library exists in whole district. Covering 21 public libraries with representation of all categories of libraries, the present work aims to study the collection development of material. Data for the present study has been collected through well-structured questionnaire. Study also …

Research Output Of Greenhouse Effect In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Mohanathan P, Dr. Rajendran N

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The research Article presents a Scientometric analyst of research output in India in the field of Greenhouse Effect during the period of 2001 to 2017 as reflected in SCOPUS Database. Collected data for a total of 568 have been published in India in the field of Greenhouse effect and it’s analyzed according to objectives. The research paper reveal that the year wise growth of literature in terms of year wise growth in the number of publications, subject areas leading to maximum publications, international affiliations, relative growth rate, doubling time and the individual contributions of authors to name a few and …

Trend Of Public Library Research In India: A Bibliometric Study, Trishna Bhui, Sanjukta Sahoo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective - The aim of this paper is to reveal the trend of public library research in India. Public libraries are considered as an imperative institution to provide information and to spread knowledge within the rural and urban settings, therefore a closure examination on public libraries is necessary in order to know the researches going on in these libraries. This paper is thus intent to investigate the year wise researches on public library, core areas of public library in which researches are done, keyword analysis by using zipf’s law, supervising pattern, university wise ranking in contribution of public library research …

Library Professionals’ Adoption Of Cloud Computing Technologies: A Case Study On Kerala University Library, India, Sudhier K G Pillai Dr., Seena S T

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the awareness and use of cloud computing technologies among the library professionals in the Kerala University Library system, India. A survey was conducted using questionnaire among the 102 library professionals employed in the central and departmental libraries of the University of Kerala. The study revealed that 42.16% of the library professionals did not have much idea about cloud computing technology. Analysis showed that Facebook and Google Apps like Gmail, Google Doc etc are the cloud computing technologies used by majority of the respondents. It is also worth to note that the library …

Use Of Legal Information Sources And Services By The Undergraduate Students Of Government Law College, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu State, India : A Study, Ramasamy K Dr., Padma P Dr., Helan Ranjitham C Ms

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is undertaken to investigate the use of legal information sources and services by the undergraduate students of Government Law College, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu State, India. It is a descriptive research study which employed questionnaires to collect data from 200 students who are pursing III, IV and V year of undergraduate law courses. The findings of the study reveal that : A majority of 83 students need human rights information and 78 students need academic information. A majority of 62 (93.94%) students know and use textbooks, 50 (75.76%) know and use law books and 49 (74.24%) know and make …

Indian Lis Schools: Status Of Job Placement And Internship, Sarika Sawant, Prachi Sawant

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study attempted to know the status of job placement & internship activity held in LIS schools /colleges in Maharashtra state of India. The survey found to be most suitable method for present study. The LIS teachers of all universities and affiliated colleges that offer library science course in Maharashtra were considered as a population of the study. It was observed that half of the universities/colleges responded to the questionnaire have separate job placement cell. It was revealed that all dept/colleges receive job requests for students through telephone. It was observed that nearly all (14) respondents receives job request …

Mapping Of Colorectal Cancer Research Output With A Focus On India, Richa Narzary Miss, Chinnaraj Murugan Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper explores the Colorectal Cancer research scholarly communications published by Indian researchers based on the data available in web of science database for the period of 12 years (2005- 2016); using tools like WoS, MS Excel & Histcite. The analysis revealed that there is an increasing trend in total CRC research publications and majority of the publications are in the form of articles both in case of India and world. Total citations and average citation per paper in case of India also shows increasing trend except in 2009 and 2012. Increasing trend could also be observed in case of …

Impact Of Institutional Repositories’ On Scholarly Practices Of Scientists, Prachi Shukla Research Scholar, Dr. Naved Ahmad University Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Institutional Repositories (IRs) are established mainly to provide access to information resources which are otherwise not easily accessible in digital format. Many institutions across the world and particularly in India have successfully developed their own IRs but have not attempted to assess their importance and impact on the Users. This study conveys the findings of the survey conducted at research centric CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) laboratories of India to determine the scientists’ and research scholars’ preference for publishing their research materials; to measure the impact of IRs on their scholarly practices and to recommend future changes for …

Scholarly Communications Of Nephrology By Indian Scientists In Science Citation Index Expanded: A Scientometric Profile, Chandran Velmurugan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objectives: Nephrology is one the complicated diseases of the human body. This study tries to focus the scholarly communications of Nephrology which were indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from the Web of Science (WoS) bibliometric database and to observe various elements in terms of yearly growth, author productivity, document, language, institution, geographical, most productive keywords, collaborative index (CI), degree of collaboration (DC) and many more characteristic features during the study period.

Method: The data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database by using the keywords as topic ‘Nephrology’ and refined by ‘countries /Territories’ (India) and …

Evaluation Of Library And Information Science (Lis) Professional Skills: A Case Study Of Dr. B R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jnu, New Delhi, India, Ajit Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Skills are very essential for every professional, which help them to deliver services on time and in efficient manner to their users. In this article skills of the Library and Information Science Professionals of Dr. B. R. Amberdkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi has been evaluated based on the predefined skills required for the LIS professionals in new age’s library. It has been noticed that the LIS professional of this library has up to date their skills as per the demand of digital age.

Bibliometric Study Of Indian Open Access Social Science Literature, Deep Kumar Kirtania

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to trace out the growth and development of social science literature in open access environment published from India. Total 1195 open access papers published and indexed in Scopus database in ten years have considered for the present study. Research publication from 2008 to 2017 have been analyzed based on literature growth, authorship pattern, activity index, prolific authors and institutions, publication type, channel and citation count have examined to provide a clear picture of Indian social science research. The study shows the dominance of shared authorship and sixty percentages of total articles have been cited. …

Content Analysis Of Web Presence Of National Law University Libraries In India, Soumya Singh Tomar, Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed, Amarjit Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper is an attempt to examine the contents of National Law university library website, that has been carried on the twenty national law universities in India. The content available on the website was analysed according to a framework designed to meet the objectives of the study. The data was collected from the websites of universities during March 2017 to May 2017 that has been ranked using a rating scale. Analysis reveals that NLUO ranks the top most among all the national law universities in India followed by NLSIU, RMLNLU, NALSAR, NLSJA and WBNUJS. The study would be helpful for …