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Library User Education As Panacea To Students Successful Research In Nigerian Universities : A Case Of Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria, Aminu Danbabale, Ayuba Ubale Saad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

How To Motivate Students In Using School Library, Dessy Harisanty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The school library is a place for students to find information. Due to the various information provided inside, students have many choices in finding the information they need. Therefore, school libraries should have a strategy to maximize their services. This study aims to determine the motivation of high school students in Surabaya in utilizing their school library. The method used is descriptive quantitative approach. The sample of this research is high school students in Surabaya selected using multistage random sampling with a total of 200 respondents. The data were collected through questionnaires. The results of this study indicates that the …

The Need For The Use Of Information And Communication Technology In Two University Libraries In Nigeria, Akor Solomon Obotu, Okechukwu O. Chukwuka, Sule B. Gambo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Citation Rates For Ohio State Graduate Theses & Dissertations: Trends, Surprises, And Inaccuracies, Daniel S. Dotson

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Ohio State University’s holdings of graduate theses and dissertations were examined to determine if highly-downloaded titles tended to be highly-cited. The study found that citation rates were highly variable and did not necessarily correspond to download rates. This included very highly downloaded titles with low citation rates, and lesser-downloaded titles with high citation rates. The study found that Google Scholar, which was used to identify citation rates, too often counts theses and dissertations as a version of a different work with the same title, even if it is another format and sometimes with additional authors. This article will share …

Visualizing Research Collaboration In Statistical Science: A Scientometric Perspective, Prabir Kumar Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Using Sankhyā – The Indian Journal of Statistics as a case, present study aims to identify scholarly collaboration pattern of statistical science based on research articles appeared during 2008 to 2017. This is an attempt to visualize and quantify statistical science research collaboration in multiple dimensions by exploring the co-authorship data. It investigates chronological variations of collaboration pattern, nodes and links established among the affiliated institutions and countries of all contributing authors. The study also examines the impact of research collaboration on citation scores. Findings reveal steady influx of statistical publications with clear tendency towards collaborative ventures, of which double-authored …

Why Telco Companies In Indonesia Using Social Media Monitoring As A Way To Handle Feedback ?, Martha Tri Lestari, Asep Suryana, Slamet Mulyana, Mien Hidayat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Developments within industrial technology has currently become one of the phenomenon’s in causing industries to use social media monitoring in handling feedback. People who work within an industry, have similar aims and purpose of the aforementioned industry, in which is usually related with the industry’s vision and mission.

“Both practitioners and academics agree that the social revolution occurring through digital channels will have a profound impact on how people interact with each other and how companies manage their relationships in the changing communications landscape (Greenberg, 2010;Kletzmann et al.,2011;Dennis et al.,2009)” (Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 30).

Within this …

Towards Standard Information Privacy, Innovations Of The New General Data Protection Regulation, Ali Alibeigi, Abu Bakar Munir, Md Ershadulkarim, Adeleh Asemi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Protection of personal data in recent decades became more crucial affecting by emergence of the new technologies especially computer, internet, information and communications technology. However, Europeans felt this necessity at time and provided for up-to-date and supportive laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the latest legislation in EU to protect personal data of individuals based on the recent technological advancements. However, its’ domestic and international output still is debatable. This doctrinal legal study by using descriptive methods, aimed to evaluate the GDPR through analyzing and interpreting its’ provisions by especial focus on its’ innovations. The results show that …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 044, Number 02, September 9, 2019, Grand Valley State University

2019-2020, Volume 44

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Notes For The Stalled, V12n2, September 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

--Iowa Academy of Science
--Wiki Loves Monuments
--Career Readiness
--Living Arctic
--Banned Books Week

Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access And Plan S - Final Project Report, Alicia Wise, Lorraine Estelle

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Wellcome, UKRI, and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) commissioned Information Power Ltd to undertake a project to support society publishers to accelerate their transition to Open Access (OA) in alignment with Plan S and the wider move to accelerate immediate OA. This project is part of a range of activity that cOAlition S partners are taking forward to support the implementation of Plan S principles. 27 business models and strategies that can be deployed by publishers to transition successfully to OA were published. We surveyed society publishers about their experience of and interest in these models, …

Gender Inclusivity And Equity In Academic Libraries, Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Jia Tina Du, Ulrike Lang, Jesús Lau, Amal Mostafa, Bharat Mehra, Clara M. Chu, Jaya Raju

Publications

In order to draw attention to and learn about gender inclusivity and equity in the academic library workplace in a fluid non-binary gendered society, academic librarians and researchers from major world regions were invited to respond to the question: What are the three most significant issues that are impeding and the three most significant issues that are enhancing gender inclusivity/equity in your region? The regions included are Africa, Asia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.

Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director Of The Civil War Institute, Musselman Library, Ashley Whitehead Luskey

Next Page

In this first Next Page column of the new academic year, Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute, shares which weathered volume she reads each October, her favorite book from her 9th grade English class, and explains her long-time fascination with Varina Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 03, August 26, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2018-2019, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual Report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island for FY2019. Covers personnel, work flow, special projects, and serial, monograph, and e-resource acquisitions. Supplemental files include data on library materials expenditures by a number of variables as well as important working documents from the year.

Remixing An Open Educational Resource: A Case Study Of The Uncommon “R”, Lusiella Fazzino, Julie Turley

Urban Library Journal

Open educational resources address the crisis college students face purchasing textbooks. Although academic librarians play a prominent role implementing the open educational resource solution, by engaging faculty in their use and creation, librarians could go further. At the College of New Rochelle, instruction librarians teamed up with the Scholarly Communications Librarian to revise and remix an already existing information literacy textbook. This case study outlines how an open educational resource textbook was altered and localized to reflect students’ lived reality. The textbook was used in a credit-bearing information literacy course for the College’s Liberal Arts adult education B.A. program.

Recent Trends, Current Research In Cyberpsychology: A Literature Review, Amarjit Kumar Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cyberpsychology refers to the study of the mind and behavior in the context of interactions with technology. It is an emerging branch, which has focused on the psychological aspects connected to the increasing presence and usages of technology in modern lives. This paper traces recent advancement and trends of Cyberpsychology is an emerging domain of knowledge and goes on the give a literature review of the same. An analysis of the recent research and literature covering 300 most relevant research papers from the period of 2012 to 15, August 2019 was conducted to determine and shape the research pattern based …

Library As Laboratory: Using Primary Sources And Research Tools In The Hel Classroom, Kimberly Emmons, Melissa Hubbard

Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship

This essay is the result of an ongoing collaboration among an English faculty member (Kimberly Emmons), a humanities research librarian (William Claspy), and a special collections director (Melissa Hubbard). We work at a private research university, with an undergraduate population of approximately five thousand students. Our campus is best known for its scientific, medical, and engineering research and innovation. Accomplish- ments in the arts and humanities are equally robust, but undergraduates in these fields nevertheless find themselves justifying their interests to a more pragmatic and professionally oriented peer group. Initially, our collaboration was a simple show-and-tell activity meant to give …

Print And Digital Information Seeking Behavior Of Teachers Of International Schools In Chennai : A Gender-Based Case Study, Yagnasridevi J.S., Jeyshankar Ramalingam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study examined the information seeking behaviour of male and female teachers working in the international schools located in Chennai City, Tamilnadu State, India. Descriptive research design was adopted. Well-structured, self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. Out of 500 questionnaires randomly distributed, 300 duly-filled questionnaires were received and included for the analysis. The data was analyzed using SPSS package. The findings of the study reveal that : More male respondents seek general information often and more female respondents seek academic information often ; More female respondents seek information for preparing class notes and writing articles while more male …

Alma Link Resolver Subject Report 2018-2019, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics for 2018-2019 on the number of OpenURL requests by Library of Congress classification code made to the Ex Libris Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Information provided includes Classification Code, Classifications, Number of Requests, Number of Clicked Requests, and % Clicks from Requests.

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 01, July 15, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Domain Analysis Of ‘Urban’ In Library Classification Schemes, B Preedip Balaji

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Urban is a complex domain, dealing with characteristics of life in cities to meet the needs of urban society. With a changing demography, spatial and socio-economic conditions, urbanization is experienced in the globalized cities, as half of the world’s population live in large cities and towns in 21st century. There are ongoing debates on positing ‘urban’ in social science, science and technology and in arts disciplines, which interpret and define the meaning of ‘urban.’ However, the existing disciplines are interdisciplinary, intersectional and diversified with various approaches, models and theories to study urbanism. Towards the goal of arriving at the subject …

Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies From United States Native Nations, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Andrew Martinez

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Data have become the new global currency, and a powerful force in making decisions and wielding power. As the world engages with open data, big data reuse, and data linkage, what do data-driven futures look like for communities plagued by data inequities? Indigenous data stakeholders and non-Indigenous allies have explored this question over the last three years in a series of meetings through the Research Data Alliance (RDA). Drawing on RDA and other gatherings, and a systematic scan of literature and practice, we consider possible answers to this question in the context of Indigenous peoples vis-á-vis two emerging concepts: Indigenous …

Ua52/1 Out Of The Box, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Archives and the records management program.

The Role Of The University Library In Creating Inclusive Healthcare Hackathons: A Case Study With Design Thinking Processes, Bethany S. Mcgowan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Librarians can utilize design thinking practices to develop instructional materials, in the development of new products and services, and in prototyping novel solutions to problems. This paper will explore the role of design thinking in teaching and learning via the use of the Blended Librarians Adapted Addie Model (BLAAM), and will illustrate how well-designed learning approaches can be used to create inclusive learning environments. It will present a case study showcasing how an academic health sciences librarian utilized a design thinking process to create a health data literacy instruction service that encourages diverse participation in healthcare hackathons.

Demographic Characteristics And Information Technology Competence Skills On The Use Of E-Portal Among Undergraduates In Adeyemi College Of Education, Ondo, Christopher Omotunde, Opeyemi Omotunde

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated the influence of demographic characteristics and information technology competence skills on the use of E-portal among undergraduates in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo State, Nigeria. The findings revealed a positive significant relationship between IT competence skill and their use of e-portal (r= .190, p<0.05). Gender has a significant influence on the use of e-portal (t=2.071, p<0.05) also, respondents age has a significant influence on use of e-portal (F _{(3; 246)} =2.892; p<0.05). The study concluded that IT competence skills and demographic characteristics of undergraduates have an influence on the use of E-portal. It is recommended that higher institutions of learning in Nigeria should further explore the potentials of E-portal for its teaching, learning and research.

Journal Of Clinical Biochemistry And Nutrition: A Bibliometric Analysis, Mr. T. Thangamani, Dr. M. Palaniappan, Mr. R. Vijayakumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition is a bi-monthly journal, currently published from Japan by the Society for free Radical Research. It publishes six issues in a year. The study examines the article published in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition from 2007 to 2017. This paper aimed to assess growth pattern of research output, authorship pattern, degree of collaboration, ranking of authors based on productivity and h-index, most cited references, type of items produced, keyword wise distribution, most productive countries and most productive institutions, distributions of research output and also estimate the future growth of publications using straight …

Open And Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating A More Inclusive Future, Nancy Maron, Rebecca Kennison, Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, Yasmeen Shorish

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

For many years, the academic and research library workforce has worked to accelerate the transition to more open and equitable systems of scholarship. While significant progress has been made, barriers remain. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) seeks to stimulate further advances through this action- oriented research agenda, which is designed to provide practical, actionable information for academic librarians; include the perspectives of historically underrepresented communities in order to expand the profession’s understanding of research environments and scholarly communication systems; and point librarians and other scholars toward important research questions to investigate. This report represents a yearlong process …

The Future Of Open Access Books: Findings From A Global Survey Of Academic Book Authors, Ros Pyne, Christina Emery, Mithu Lucraft, Anna Sophia Pinck

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

This report presents the findings from an online survey conducted in February and March 2019 to gather author feedback on open access (OA) books. Survey questions were designed to build on previous studies of OA for journal authors, as well as previous research on OA books, to assess the current awareness, attitudes and behaviours of authors who have and have not previously published OA. The raw anonymised data has been made freely available under a CC BY licence.2 Of 5,509 responses, 2,542 book authors completed the survey, and only these responses have been analysed here. Of these, 407 authors had …

What A Business Librarian Learned From The Health Sciences: Adapting The Pico Framework To Inform Library Instruction For Marketing Students, Jim Kelly

Library Faculty/Staff Publications

Problem/Need: How can I make a one-shot library instruction session for an undergraduate marketing research course more relevant and more interesting for the students and the librarian?

Solution: Draw on the techniques used by health sciences librarians (PICO, etc.), but reverse the PICO approach in order to create multidimensional scenarios to use when demonstrating library resources for these marketing research students.

Scholarly Communication Trends In Environmental Sciences Documented In Worldcat, Asifa Ali, Afreen Niyaz

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

WorldCat which is an online library catalog, the collections of libraries in our scholarly community and thousands more around the globe.With the help of WorldCat, one can get access to various research articles as well as digital items that can be directly viewed or even downloaded for later use. The present study explores the accessibility and availability of the collection in the stream of Environmental Science indexed by WorldCat. The data collected from the WorldCat database pertaining to the field of Environmental Science, in the month of May, 2019 and was then analyzed using the quantitative techniques. The results showed …