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Analyzing The Acceptance Of Digital Library System By Students And Librarians, Retno Sayekti, Mardianto Mardianto, Usiono Usiono

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigates the acceptance of digital library system (Digilib system) by students and librarians of the State Islamic University of North Sumatera (UIN Sumatera Utara) Medan. It highlights the system’s rate of acceptance from the perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), behavioural intention to use (IU), and actual system usage (AU). Furthermore, the study investigates the problems in using the system and the users’ strategy in coping with the problems. Data were collected using an online survey from 186 respondents, comprising 26 librarians and 160 students. A quantitative approach was applied using a TAM model to measure …

The Impacts Of Covid-19 On The Use Of Academic Libraries And The Emerging Trends Of Digital Libraries In South Asia, Dr. Ghulam Shabbir, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chawla, Ms. Faiqa Bhatti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Human history is full of many bitter examples of natural calamities which affected mankind with heavy losses. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most disastrous calamities which momentously impacted every sphere of life, especially, higher education and the use of academic libraries. This pandemic instigated the worldwide subsequent lockdown policies imposed by various governments. These policies badly devastated the physical use of the academic libraries. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the faculty and students who are reliant on the physical use of libraries have badly suffered. This temporary postponement of the in-person operation of libraries has opened up new challenges …

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2020, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

On the Cover

Fall Semester 2020: By the Numbers

Library News

• New Services Here to Stay
• Student Studies Library Culture During Pandemic
• Flashback
• Mapping the Battlefield

African-Americans at Gettysburg College: An Oral History Project

• Raymond Lee '61
• Jim Hyman '69; Admissions Counselor, 1969-1970
• Halbert R. Carmichael, Jr. '74
• Donald L. Cooper, Jr. '74
• Cyrus Tribue '77
• Edmund Hardy '09
• Spotlight: Buddy Glover

A Continuing Fight: The Black Student Union

A Sign of the Times: The Knoxville Exchange

Black Voices Matter: African-American Speakers & Performers

Library Bookshelf

• Books
• Podcasts
• African American Writers

When Gettysburg Students Graced …

Using University Research In Food Science To Study Their Characteristics And To Model The Research And Information Needs Of Researchers, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jeremy Smith, Abayomi Omotola Omolewu

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using University Research in Food Science to Study their Characteristics and to Model the Research and Information Needs of Researchers.

Making collection management decisions of resources is important and challenging. The challenges arise from finding the balance between the mission of libraries to meet the needs of a wide range of users; the high cost of subscription to journals and databases; the escalating annual increases imposed by publishers, and limited budget for collection management activities.

By identifying and analyzing the research output from faculty and graduate students from the Food Science Department to determine where they published and the sources …

Establishing And Promoting An Institutional Repository And Research Information Management System, Darren Sweeper, Karen Ramsden

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences and to highlight lessons learned from the establishment of the institutional repository (IR) while collaborating in a state-wide initiative to showcase the scholarly output of New Jersey researchers.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2020, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library News

• Mini-Golf
• Get Acquainted Day
• Edible Books Festival Moves Online! (Kim Longfellow '16)

What do librarians do when a campus suddenly closes? (Janelle Wertzberger)

Blotchy Scribblings and Spider-like Initials (Jim Ramos, Carolyn Sautter)

Boxed Belongings (Natalie Hinton)

Notes from the Field (Kerri Odess-Harnish)

Who is helping you via email, chat & text with those questions? Our awesome librarians & sometimes their pets! (Kevin Moore)

ZOOM: Teaching Moves Online (Kevin Moore, Mallory Jallas, Clint Baugess)

Vietnam (Devin McKinney)

Quarantined on Campus (Betsy Bein, Chakriya Ou, ’23, Dung Doan, ’23, Precious Ozoh, ’20)

Conservation in the …

2020 State Of The Library, Jennifer Nutefall, Lev Rickards, Nicole Branch

State of the Library

Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian

• Budget & Library staffing
• Mission, Vision, Values

Lev Rickards, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Scholarly Communication & Open Access
• Archives & Special Collections

Nicole Branch, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement

• Instruction & Assessment
• Space & Access

Year In Review 2019-2020, Margarett And Herman Brown Library

Library Research and Publications

This Year in Review Annual Report highlights the scholarly activities of the Margarett and Herman Brown Library at Abilene Christian University, its departments, and its faculty and staff.