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Elementary Education And Library System In India: The Symbiotic Model Based On Bloom's Taxonomy, Amit Kumar Das Mar 2021

Elementary Education And Library System In India: The Symbiotic Model Based On Bloom's Taxonomy, Amit Kumar Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bloom’s taxonomy has been utilized in many brunches of disciplines and several user and nonuser study has been conducted by researchers to find out the reasons of degradation of library usage. But the application of Bloom’s taxonomy in elementary education in order to flourish the reading habit and library usage has not been done much. This paper outlines the lacunas of elementary education systems in India to indicate the primary deficiency of ability to make a library-oriented community and listing the antecedents of learning to read as well as draws a relationship model between education and library system and a …


Dataset Search In Biodiversity Research: Do Metadata In Data Repositories Reflect Scholarly Information Needs?, Felicitas Löffler, Valentin Wesp, Brigitta König-Ries, Friederike Klan Mar 2021

Dataset Search In Biodiversity Research: Do Metadata In Data Repositories Reflect Scholarly Information Needs?, Felicitas Löffler, Valentin Wesp, Brigitta König-Ries, Friederike Klan

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Abstract

The increasing amount of publicly available research data provides the opportunity to link and integrate data in order to create and prove novel hypotheses, to repeat experiments or to compare recent data to data collected at a different time or place. However, recent studies have shown that retrieving relevant data for data reuse is a time-consuming task in daily research practice. In this study, we explore what hampers dataset retrieval in biodiversity research, a field that produces a large amount of heterogeneous data. In particular, we focus on scholarly search interests and metadata, the primary source of data in …


Global Trend In Career Satisfaction, Self-Perception, And Gender Differences Among Library Personnel In The University: An Important Parameters For An Organizational Success, Moyosore Adegboye, Hajarat Oyiza Abubakar, Oladotun Ayowumi Osunkentan Mar 2021

Global Trend In Career Satisfaction, Self-Perception, And Gender Differences Among Library Personnel In The University: An Important Parameters For An Organizational Success, Moyosore Adegboye, Hajarat Oyiza Abubakar, Oladotun Ayowumi Osunkentan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

It is known that low levels of job satisfaction can have a negative effect on morale, employee relations, employee performance, organizational functioning, organizational efficiency, and productivity. Low job satisfaction or outright dissatisfaction with a job is likely to evoke an array of negative and potentially damaging personal and professional consequences such as frustration, deterioration of mental and physical health, withdrawal, absence, lateness, sickness, accidents, intra–organizational conflict, thinking about quitting and retirement, examining the costs and benefits associated with leaving a job, and labour turnover. Intentions to quit can be very costly to an organization. It is against this background that …


Sustainability And Service Leadership Csv/Sus 306, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Sustainability And Service Leadership Csv/Sus 306, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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An Assessment Of Lis Curricula And Training Resources For Information Professionals In The Contemporary Job Market In Pakistan, Muhammad Ismail, Amjid Khan Mar 2021

An Assessment Of Lis Curricula And Training Resources For Information Professionals In The Contemporary Job Market In Pakistan, Muhammad Ismail, Amjid Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examines the status of the job market for LIS professionals and the adequacy of current curricula and training resources in LIS training institutions in Pakistan. The study was based on a survey method and a questionnaire was designed for data collection from LIS faculty, LIS professionals, LIS students, and employers). Out of 154, 115 respondents participated in the survey. The results of the study revealed that the current LIS curricula and training programs in the country do not properly address current job market requirements due to inadequate teaching resources, lack of suitable ICT contents in the curricula, courses …


Bibliometric Survey For Stock Market Prediction Using Sentimental Analysis And Lstm, Pooja Bagane, Nimit Mehta Mr, Parth Kakde Mr, Nisarg Bramhbhatt Mr, Ishansh Sahni Mr, Sirbi Kotrappa Dr Mar 2021

Bibliometric Survey For Stock Market Prediction Using Sentimental Analysis And Lstm, Pooja Bagane, Nimit Mehta Mr, Parth Kakde Mr, Nisarg Bramhbhatt Mr, Ishansh Sahni Mr, Sirbi Kotrappa Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Creating an overview of the flow fundamentals of the global market trading and sublimation of equities into a superimposed system of economic agendas. Furthermore this leads to dynamic overlapping with the current technological advancements to create a platform for information exchange and inculcations. This created a new field of access points where we could enhance and analyse the data available and create an interface to predict the rise and fall trends involved with the stock market. These help create a sense of control and format over the public personification over the economic impacts and use social media and involve discrete …


Six Steps Toward Improving Discoverability Of Ph.D. Dissertations, Ljubomir Paskali, Lidija Ivanović, Dragan Ivanović, Dušan Surla Mar 2021

Six Steps Toward Improving Discoverability Of Ph.D. Dissertations, Ljubomir Paskali, Lidija Ivanović, Dragan Ivanović, Dušan Surla

The Journal of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study proposes six steps that scientific institutions should undertake to increase the visibility and accessibility of their dissertations; these steps were implemented in the digital library of the University of Novi Sad. An analysis was conducted thereafter to evaluate the success, and it was found that the six steps and associated strategies were successful, with 400,000 downloads having been performed since the digital library was operational. Although this study presents six steps for improving electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) discoverability in the digital library at the University of Novi Sad, these steps can easily be customized and implemented for …


Hor Bouks: Or, Her Book: Finding Women Readers, Writers, & Producers In Early Modern Literature, Rebecca Fitzsimmons Mar 2021

Hor Bouks: Or, Her Book: Finding Women Readers, Writers, & Producers In Early Modern Literature, Rebecca Fitzsimmons

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The impact of women on the history of literature can be difficult to track, but they made important contributions to writing, publishing, and collecting. This short talk focuses on works in the Rare and Fine Book Collection in the Milner Library Special Collections department, with a particular emphasis on the writer Lady Mary Wroth and the collector Frances Wolfreston. Wroth was the first Englishwoman to publish a complete sonnet sequence and an original work of prose fiction and Wolfreston is considered one of the first notable women book collectors.


Research Output Performance Of Dyscalculia (2011–2020): A Bibliometric Analysis, Dr Murugan Chinnaraj, A Kavitha Mar 2021

Research Output Performance Of Dyscalculia (2011–2020): A Bibliometric Analysis, Dr Murugan Chinnaraj, A Kavitha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research paper presents a Bibliometric analysis on Dyscalculia research publications published during 2011-2020 in Web of Science. The result has pointed out the merits and weaknesses of the journal which can be helpful for its further development. Total publications during the study period (2011-2020) were 560 articles on dyscalculia, distributed in 12 document types and eight languages, published by 1406 authors with 14768 cited references 591 organizations, and 51 countries. The 560 articles are scattered in 226 journals in which Journal of Frontiers in Psychology (49), was the most published and ranked first (IF2020 =2.067). This study determines …


Households Electricity Consumption Analysis: A Bibliometric Approach, Gaikwad Sachin Ramnath, Harikrishnan R Mar 2021

Households Electricity Consumption Analysis: A Bibliometric Approach, Gaikwad Sachin Ramnath, Harikrishnan R

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The household electricity consumption ranks in the second position after the industrial electricity consumption, across the globe. This is because of the factors, which include, higher consumer income, electrification, digitalization and advancement in technologies. Moreover, the electricity demand is also depending on household characteristics, non-household characteristics and occupant’s behavior. The aim behind this study is to provide insights to researchers on household electricity consumption areas with different aspects, which includes factors affecting them, need of data collection, its approaches and techniques. To know about the research dedicated to the above-mentioned aspects, it is crucial to explore the Scopus database, refer …


Influence Of Multimedia Resources On Social Studies: Exploring Teachers And Students Experiences In Delta State, South South Nigeria., Favour O. Atubi Mar 2021

Influence Of Multimedia Resources On Social Studies: Exploring Teachers And Students Experiences In Delta State, South South Nigeria., Favour O. Atubi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Considerable effort in providing students especially those of social studies a practical and efficient learning environment through proper instructional methodology, strategies and technological resources have been attempted by researchers. Research on educational technology like Multimedia Resources have also been receiving great attention by researchers, but studies on Multimedia Resources that explores the experiences of Social Studies teachers and students in Nigeria is scarce. Therefore, this research was carried out to examine the influence of Multimedia Resources on Upper Basic Social Studies education in Delta State, as perceived by Upper Basic social studies students and teachers, teachers’ level of usage …


Libre Open Access In Science Journals: An Analytical Study Of Doaj, Pooja Kumari, Heenam Gakhar, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Jyoti Sharma, Prof Rupak Chakravarty Mar 2021

Libre Open Access In Science Journals: An Analytical Study Of Doaj, Pooja Kumari, Heenam Gakhar, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Jyoti Sharma, Prof Rupak Chakravarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is based on metadata extracted from the well known and authoritative global Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals managed by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), United Kingdom. Disciplines chosen for the quantitative study belong to Science as categorised in DOAJ were analysed using different criteria like language, Creative Commons (CC) licence, publisher country, etc.,. Findings of the study reveal that there are 104 Zoology Journals, 218 Chemistry Journals, 111 Botany Journals, 139 Geology Journals, 242 Physics Journals, 85 Microbiology Journals, 38 Astronomy Journals, 52 Physiology Journals, 11 Anatomy …


Strength Weakness Opportunity And Challenge (Swoc) Of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service (Vrs): A Feasibility Study In Consortia Environment, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Shiv Kumar Mar 2021

Strength Weakness Opportunity And Challenge (Swoc) Of Collaborative Virtual Reference Service (Vrs): A Feasibility Study In Consortia Environment, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Shiv Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Reference Service considered as the most essential service for academic and special libraries whether or not face-to-face communication is possible. While reference services differ from one library to the next, most libraries have an information or reference desk where a librarian can assist their users. Almost all libraries provide telephone information services, and many libraries also provide reference service through email, text or chat. The present study contains the universe of sample of 20 members of the CRIKC libraries was initially used in this analysis, but the number was later increased to 29. As a consequence, the research is restricted …


Digitalisation Of Library Services As A Magnifying Factor In Improving Public Library Services In Limpopo, Itumeleng Aaron Khanya, Maoka Dikotla Dr Mar 2021

Digitalisation Of Library Services As A Magnifying Factor In Improving Public Library Services In Limpopo, Itumeleng Aaron Khanya, Maoka Dikotla Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: Many public libraries embraced digitalisation while some are hesitant to embrace it.

Aim: The purpose of the study was to examine digitalisation of library services as a magnifying factor in improving public library services in Limpopo.

Method: The study used a quantitative research approach. Data were collected through a questionnaire comprising both open and closed questions.

Results: Findings revealed that ICT infrastructure in Limpopo public libraries is underdeveloped and inadequate. Given this, the majority of public librarians are unable to utilise ICTs to render library and information services resulting in limited access to those services. It is recommended …


A Study Of Public Libraries In India: Post-Independence Period, K Kandhasamy, R. K. Bhatt Mar 2021

A Study Of Public Libraries In India: Post-Independence Period, K Kandhasamy, R. K. Bhatt

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In a democratic country like India, free access to information without any form of discrimination is very essential to establish an equitable society. India, with a low literacy rate it is crucial to use public libraries as a tool to improve the quality of both formal and informal education and thereby improve the overall literacy. This paper is an attempt to trace the history of growth and development of public libraries in India through an account of all the conditions and circumstances - social, economic, and political that existed during post-independent. The paper examines the role of the government as …


Mapping The Intellectual Structure Of Linguistics Research Over 101 Years (1919–2020), Fasih Ahmed, Murtaza Ashiq, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Shakil Ahmad, Shaista Rashid Mar 2021

Mapping The Intellectual Structure Of Linguistics Research Over 101 Years (1919–2020), Fasih Ahmed, Murtaza Ashiq, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Shakil Ahmad, Shaista Rashid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article reviews 101 years (1919–2020) of research in the field of linguistics. The main objective of this paper was to analyze the published research and citations on linguistics and present the results from the perspective of growing trends, most productive and influential countries, organizations, authors, research journals, keywords, authorship patterns, and international collaborations. The subject category of linguistics selected in the Web of Science database, for this purpose, 6144 publications have been retrieved from the Web of Science database. This retrieved data is analyzed using visualization tools and dividing it into two phases on a temporal basis. Overall, the …


The Anchor: March 17, 2021, Hope College Mar 2021

The Anchor: March 17, 2021, Hope College

The Anchor: 2021

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.


German For Professional Use I Ger 251, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

German For Professional Use I Ger 251, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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German For Professional Use Ii Ger 252, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

German For Professional Use Ii Ger 252, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Ger 271, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Ger 271, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Studying And Working Abroad I Ger 351, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Studying And Working Abroad I Ger 351, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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German Literature (In England) Ger 172, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

German Literature (In England) Ger 172, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Studying And Working Abroad Ii Ger 352, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Studying And Working Abroad Ii Ger 352, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Research Trends Of Chennai Mathematical Institute (Cmi) During 2005-2019: A Study Reflected On Web Of Science Data Base, N Senthilkumar, Radhakrishnan Natarajan Mar 2021

Research Trends Of Chennai Mathematical Institute (Cmi) During 2005-2019: A Study Reflected On Web Of Science Data Base, N Senthilkumar, Radhakrishnan Natarajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study examines the publication pattern of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) during 2005 - 2019 using Web of Science (WOS) database from Clarivate Analytics. 632 articles were published during the study period, more number of articles published in 2019 with 94 (14.87%) and highest number of papers published in physical review letters journal which havs more h-index (567), average annual growth rate of CMI publications was 18.48. Researchers are interested with joint authorship rather than solo authorship pattern. Arun K G is the most prolific author with 94 records and USA is the top collaborative country for CMI with …


Germany Today: Science, Technology And Culture Ger 161, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Germany Today: Science, Technology And Culture Ger 161, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


A History Of Classifying Trans Subjects At The Library Of Congress Before 1963, Beck Schaefer Mar 2021

A History Of Classifying Trans Subjects At The Library Of Congress Before 1963, Beck Schaefer

Librarian Publications & Presentations

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Changes In Teaching And Learning In Higher Education During Covid-19 Lockdown: A Study Of Lis Students In India, Sana Aslam, Sharad Kumar Sonkar, Valentine Joseph Owan Mar 2021

Changes In Teaching And Learning In Higher Education During Covid-19 Lockdown: A Study Of Lis Students In India, Sana Aslam, Sharad Kumar Sonkar, Valentine Joseph Owan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the rapid advancement of society, online learning has become more popular in the entire world due to Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic offered almost a total paradigm shift to online teaching and learning across various educational platforms. This paper was aimed at reviewing the teaching and learning changes in higher education during COVID-19 Lockdown using empirical evidence from central universities in India. The study adopted a survey method utilizing an online questionnaire as the primary tool for data collection. The study covered 19 Central Universities in India that are offering Library and Information Science courses. Major findings showed, amongst others, …


Public Relations Practice Prs 411, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2021

Public Relations Practice Prs 411, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Rhetorical Field Methods For Science Communication Bes 521, Michael Cerbo Mar 2021

Rhetorical Field Methods For Science Communication Bes 521, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


On The Future Of Ijsl: Trans-Collaboration And How To Overcome The Structural Constraints On Knowledge Production, Distribution And Dissemination, José Del Valle Mar 2021

On The Future Of Ijsl: Trans-Collaboration And How To Overcome The Structural Constraints On Knowledge Production, Distribution And Dissemination, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

In this essay, using as a point of departure his dilemma to accept or not the invitation to be a member of IJSL’s Editorial Board, del Valle discusses the limitations that academic publishing places on scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences: their choice of objects and analytical protocols, and the modes of distribution and dissemination of their production. The constraints imposed by highly bureaucratized universities and publishing companies are set against the intellectual imperative to build academic fields grounded in equality and inclusion. The essay concludes with some thinly drawn goals towards more dynamic trans-collaborative forms of knowledge …