Alerting Services As Tools For Promoting The Uptake Of Open Access Resources In Higher Learning Institutions. Case Of The University Of Zambia, Eness Munzya Miyanda Chitumbo Dr., Thomas Van Der Walt Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

This study aimed at identifying and recommending appropriate alerting services to promote awareness and uptake of open access resources in higher learning institutions such as the University of Zambia. It identifies itself with the pragmatic paradigm; using the mixed-methods approach and a case study mixed-methods design to investigate the problem of low uptake of open access resources and how alerting services can improve the uptake. The study further applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to provide the context for examining and explaining open access usage and promotion.

The study used University of Zambia students, researchers …

Social Support And Technology Use And Their Association With Mental And Physical Health During The Covid-19 Pandemic Among Asian Americans: The Compass Cross-Sectional Study, Linda G. Park, Oanh L. Meyer, Marcelle M. Dougan, Bethany Golden, Kevin Ta, Bora Nam, Janice Y. Tsoh, Marian Tzuang, Van M.Ta Park

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

BACKGROUND: The global COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and revealed significant health disparities with reports of increased discrimination and xenophobia. Among AAPIs, the pandemic exacerbated their social, linguistic, and geographic isolation. Social support may be especially important for AAPIs given the salience of collectivism as a cultural value. Another mechanism for support among AAPIs was technology use, as it is generally widespread among this population. However, older adults may not perceive the same benefits. OBJECTIVE: We examined social support and technology use and their relationships with mental and physical health outcomes through the COVID-19 pandemic …

Utilization Of Electronic Resources In University Of Abuja Library By Undergraduate Students Of University Of Abuja, Nigeria, Rose Lade Mommoh Dr., Hadiza Eneze Gomina Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the utilization of electronic resources in University of Abuja library by Undergraduate students of University of Abuja. The descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. The study was guided by three research questions. The population of the study comprised of 3520 and 3750 undergraduate students from faculties of Science and Arts respectively. The sample size of for the study comprised of 352 and 375 undergraduate students from faculties of Science and Arts respectively. The study adopted a structured questionnaire for data collection. The study revealed moderate use of electronic resources by undergraduate students in faculties of …

Analyzing And Addressing Data-Driven Fairness Issues In Machine Learning Models Used For Societal Problems, Vishnu S. Pendyala, Hyungkyun Kim

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This work aims to systematically analyze and address fairness issues arising in machine learning models because of class imbalances present in data, specifically used for addressing societal problems and providing unique insights. Using a specific data set, spectral analysis is first performed to present evidence and characterize the fairness issues. Subsequently, a series of class imbalance correction techniques are applied before the data is used to generate various machine learning models. The models so generated are then evaluated using multiple metrics. The results are then analyzed to compare the various approaches to determine the relative merits of each. As the …

The Best Confucian Hybrid Meritocracy-Democracy For Liberal Democracies, John J. Park

Comparative Philosophy

Several contemporary Confucian philosophers have posited differing hybrid views fusing meritocracy to democracy. There is a good deal of interest in a meritocracy in contemporary Confucian thought, and such a view perhaps should receive more serious consideration in liberal democratic thought since it may make for a stronger form of government when appended to democracy. In this paper, four contemporary hybrid theorists who combine elements of a meritocracy with a democracy are critically analyzed concerning an ability for their views to be instantiated in liberal democracies for the legislative branch only. Finally, I provide a modified hybrid view for the …

Mexica Monism And Daoist Ethics In The Philosophy Of Gloria Anzaldúa, Saraliza Anzaldúa

Comparative Philosophy

Critical scholarship regarding the philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa has proliferated in recent decades, especially in the fields of feminist theory, phenomenology, and epistemology. However, there is little analysis of the metaphysics which undergird their work and make possible their views on identity, experience, and community politics. First, this article will explore the significance of Anzaldúa’s ‘nos/otras’ and its relation to Mexica (Aztec) monistic metaphysics. Such a concept resists an us/them construction of the world because it situates the other as us: the Spanish word for ‘we’ is ‘nosotros’ and holds the ‘other/otros’ as its …

Media And Disaster Mitigation Literacy, Yuanita Setyastuti, Lalita Hanief, Aulia Shafira Putri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of disaster communication media in improving disaster mitigation literacy for the community in Pengaron District, Banjar Regency. This study is a quantitative research and uses an experimental type. Data collection techniques used pre-test and post-test questionnaires, observation and documentation. Respondents in this study were people who were affected by floods in January 2022 in Pengaron, Banjar Regency. Supporting informants are BNPB as an institution involved in flood disaster management.

The sample in this study amounted to 20 people for the experimental group and 20 people for the control group with data analysis techniques …

Lecturers’ Perception And Participation On E-Learning Platform In Michael Otedola College Of Primary Education During Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Adesanya Olusegun Oyeleye, Famuiwa Folasade O

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated lecturers’ perception and participation on e-learning platform in Michael Otedola College of Primary Education in Lagos State during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. This is to ascertain the level of lecturers’ perception and participation on the use of the college e-learning platforms. The descriptive research design was adopted, while total enumeration was used to select respondents for the study. A structured questionnaire tagged “Lecturers’ Perception and Participation in E-learning learning platform in Michael Otedola College of Primary Education during COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (LPPMOCPEC19PL) with the reliability coefficient of 0.87 was used for data collected. Four research questions were …

E-Learning Participation Among Senior Secondary Students During Covid19 Pandemic Lockdown In Epe Local Government Area Of Lagos State, Adesanya Olusegun Oyeleye, Oshodi Odunola O Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated e-learning participation among senior secondary school students during COVID-19 in Epe local government area of Lagos State. This is to ascertain the level of students’ participation in using e-learning platforms in Epe local government area of Lagos State. The descriptive research design was adopted, while a multi-stage sampling procedure was used, stratified sampling technique was used to select senior secondary school in Epe local government area. While simple random sampling method was employed to select 195 students (116 males and 79 females) participant in the study. A structured questionnaire tagged “tagged Questionnaire on Senior Secondary Students …

Library Operation And Services As Determinants Of Researchers’ Satisfaction In An Agricultural Research Institute In Nigeria, Akinade A. Adewojo, Saheed, Abiola Hamzat Ph.D, Basirat O. Amzat, Aderinola O. Dunmade Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Operations and services provided by libraries are seen as social services with a responsibility to encourage society's reading habits, especially in academic settings. The educational, economic, cultural, and recreational life of the whole population are strongly impacted by library services. A special library is known to offer services like interlibrary loan, reference and information, current awareness, selective information dissemination, user education, literature searching, bibliography compilation, indexing and abstracting, knowledge management, preservation and conservation, bindery, information literacy, and information media literacy. The research focuses on the following goals: discovering the library services offered by research libraries in Kwara State; identifying the …

Librarians’ Ict Skills And Effective Library Service Delivery In University Libraries In Rivers State, Grace Ntuboderia Daniels, Humphrey Igwechi Wiche, Onyema Nsirim

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated Librarians’ ICT skills and Effective Library Service Delivery in University Libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational research design. Three objectives and three research questions guided the study and three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was 56 comprised librarians in the five university libraries in Rivers State from which purposive sampling technique was used to select three university libraries in Rivers State. Census sampling technique was adopted where all the 46 librarians in the three university libraries were used as the sample. A …

E-Skills Scarcity And The Digital Records Management Landscape In Zimbabwe, Samson Mutsagondo, Njabulo Bruce Khumalo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the adoption of electronic government in Zimbabwe in 2011, more and more government records are now generated, received, used, maintained, preserved and disposed in electronic form. Use of electronic mail records, word-processed documents, audio-visual records and social media records as official government records is now commonplace. This calls for the mobilisation and hiring of records and information managers with requisite electronic skills to manage such records. This article used the theoretical frameworks of the innovation diffusion theory and the skills theory to show the unprecedent rise in use of digital records as well as the importance in acquisition of …

Evolution Of Research On Prison Library: A Bibliometric Study, Andreu Sulé, Jordi Ardanuy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The primary objective of the article is to present the historical evolution and current state of research in the field of prison libraries: what has been published, when, where, how and by whom it was published, the topic covered, etc. The study is based on the results obtained from the bibliographic databases LISA (ProQuest) and LISTA (EBSCO Publishing) up to early 2023. Entries were manually checked for irrelevant publications, and filters and specific tools, such as OpenRefine, followed by a final manual check, were used to remove duplicate entries. The same mechanisms were used for detecting duplicated entries regarding author, …

Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol. 12, Iss. 2

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Bill And Mike: How Two Irishmen Slaked The Thirst Of California’S Great Cities, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Los Angeles and San Francisco, with nearly 20 million residents in their combined metropolitan areas, are California’s two most famous cities. Yet neither city has anything close to an adequate water supply within hundreds of miles. Tremendous feats of hydraulic engineering are necessary to store and transport water from California’s inland mountain rivers to big cities on the state’s semi-arid coast. In the early twentieth century, a pair of Irish immigrant engineers named Bill and Mike took charge of building these water systems for Los Angeles and San Francisco. William Mulholland (“Bill”) was a self-taught school dropout whose projects bringing …

Libraries As Determinants Of Guided Inquiry Learning Approach In Social Studies, Favour O. Atubi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is an attempt to determine how school libraries can be used to provide a guided learning approach to social studies. The case study was carried out using a group study approach, supervised by three social studies teachers and a school librarian. The population of this study comprises of one hundred and sixteen (116) Junior Secondary Three (3) students from a state owned school in Delta state, southern Nigeria. A sample of fifteen (15) students, made up of three (3) groups of five (5) students each were drawn through a purposive sampling technique. Three teachers of social studies and …

Understanding The Importance Of Creativity Towards Psychological Safety In The Library Workplace, Jennifer Hopwood Ed.D.

School of Information Student Research Journal

Employee Engagement is one of the leading factors toward organizational success. Happier employees are engaged employees. However, employees cannot reach engagement unless there are feelings of psychological safety. One tool that libraries can utilize to increase the engagement of their staff is to invest in opportunities for workplace creativity.

Haitian Immigrants' Information Needs And Behaviors: Libraries, Information Professionals And Haitians In The United States, Natasha Finnegan

School of Information Student Research Journal

Haitian immigrants are a socially excluded growing demographic in the United States that deals with racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-Haiti rhetoric, and language barriers. Information professionals need to understand Haitian information behavior, their cultural preferences, and barriers in order to successfully fulfill their information needs. This article examines other disciplines’ relevant and scholarly research literature on Haitian immigrants in the United States to discover their trends of information behavior and barriers so that the Library and Information Science field can create effective information pathways to support their community. Haitian immigrants turn to their families and trusted individuals for their information needs, …

Librarians’ Digital Literacy Skills And Services Delivery In Academic Libraries In Taraba State, Nigeria: A Correlation, Chukwuemeka Chukwueke, Israel Habibu Idris

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study correlated the digital literacy skills of librarians in academic libraries in Taraba State, Nigeria and their services delivery. The correlational design was adopted in studying 112 librarians drawn from 11 academic libraries in Taraba State. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collection. 112 copies of the questionnaire were administered but 109 were retrieved. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The single null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance using the linear regression. Consequently, the strength of relationship between variables was decided using the Creswell correlational ranking and results presented in frequency tables. Findings …

Hip Hop Medicine Mixtape, Johnny C. Ramirez

Faculty Learning Communities

No abstract provided.

2022/2023 Lrsp: Inaya Rehman, Inaya Rehman, Michael Aguilar

Library Research Scholars Program

This research study examines the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic-induced social isolation, self-efficacy, and academic outcomes among students at San Jose State University.

Using survey data from a sample of students, the study found that social isolation negatively impacts self-efficacy among students, leading to a decline in confidence and belief in their abilities to succeed academically. In turn, self-efficacy was found to be positively related to academic outcomes, as students with a strong sense of self-efficacy were more likely to perform well academically. The study also found that the negative relationship between social isolation and academic outcomes was less pronounced among …

2022-2023 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter

Annual Reports

The 2022-2023 Annual Report records the activities of the San Jose State University Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC). The report lists SAASC members who are also individual members of SAA, provides a summary of the chapter’s events for the year, and updates to chapter outreach and visibility. The report also includes information on the publication of Archeota, the SAASC open source digital publication.

Evaluation Of Left Shoulder As Part-Time Travel Lane Design Alternatives And Transportation Management Center Staff Training Module Development, Zhuohang Deng, Zhiliang Luo, Neil Hockaday, Ahmed Farid, Anurag Pande

Mineta Transportation Institute

Permanent capacity expansion, such as adding new lanes, is no longer a viable strategy to address traffic congestion in California; hence, ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) strategies, such as part-time use of the shoulder as a travel lane, need to be explored. The use of the shoulder as a travel lane during peak traffic hours has limited applications in the US, and most use the right shoulder as a part-time travel lane even though either the right or left shoulder (but not both) may be used. Caltrans District 5 is exploring the use of Left Shoulder as a Part-time Travel Lane …

Classification Of Darknet Traffic By Application Type, Shruti Sharma

Master's Projects

The darknet is frequently exploited for illegal purposes and activities, which makes darknet traffic detection an important security topic. Previous research has focused on various classification techniques for darknet traffic using machine learning and deep learning. We extend previous work by considering the effectiveness of a wide range of machine learning and deep learning technique for the classification of darknet traffic by application type. We consider the CICDarknet2020 dataset, which has been used in many previous studies, thus enabling a direct comparison of our results to previous work. We find that XGBoost performs the best among the classifiers that we …

Archeota Fall/Winter 2023, Amanda Leung, Benja Thompson, Katrina Williams, Amelia Smith, Lawrence Lorraine Mullen

Archeota

Archeota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession.

Contents:

The Southwark Archives: Stories of a London Borough and its People

by Amanda Leung

Chains of Fire: Building a Queer Archive in Mill Valley, CA

By Benja Thompson

The Fabric of a Community: How Events Connect Individuals to Institutions

By Katrina Williams

Farewell to Our Winter 2023 Graduates: Interviews With …

Graph Based System For Evidential Reasoning, Divyarajsinh Chauhan

Master's Projects

In the modern data driven world, graph editing tools have become very essential as they provide means to understand, visualize and manipulate complex relationships between various datasets. They have especially played a crucial role in the space of evidential reasoning, where it has made a significant impact in the decision making process by developers, analysts and researchers to understand and represent the connection in the data. Existing tools fail to handle huge amounts of data efficiently and also don’t have the features required to handle tasks related to evidential reasoning.To address these gaps, we developed Pygrapher Web UI tool. We …

Gesture Recognition With Deep Learning, Chaz Chang

Master's Projects

Gesture recognition is a machine learning and computer vision application where gestures are detected from videos. This project uses pose estimation to find the coordinates of important joints as a preprocessing step before trying to classify the gesture. Machine learning layers such as Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory are used. Various types of machine learning models are trained. The accuracy and f1 score of each model are compared. Feature selection is done by testing with different subsets of features. The results show that pose estimation as a preprocessing step provides good accuracy for gesture recognition. The results also …

Prediction Of 2024 Indian Pm Election Results Using Sentiment Analysis On Twitter Data, Surabhi Gupta

Master's Projects

This sentiments analysis study presents a methodical approach to predict the 2024 Indian Prime Minister Election. Data collected spanning from 2020 to 2023 from Twitter using hashtags such as IndianPMElection2024 and on topics such as the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Farm Bill, and the Digital India initiative, form the core of this research. We utilized a combination of sentiment extraction tools-namely, the NLP Town's Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based multilingual uncased sentiment model, Valance Aware Dictionary for Sentiment Reasoning (VADER), and TextBlob. Additionally, we used a well-established machine learning model Naive Bayes, deep …

A Data Delivery Mechanism For Disconnected Mobile Applications, Shashank Hegde

Master's Projects

Previous attempts to bring the data of the internet to environments that do not have continuous connectivity to the internet have made use of special hardware which requires additional expenditure on installation. We will develop a software-based infrastructure running on existing Android smartphones to exchange application data between a disconnected user’s phone and corresponding application servers on the internet. The goal of this project is to implement client and server modules for this infrastructure to run on a disconnected phone and the internet respectively. These modules will multiplex application data to be sent into packages and distribute the data present …

Graph Deep Learning Based Hashtag Recommender For Reels On Social Media, Sriya Balineni

Master's Projects

Many businesses, including Facebook, Netflix, and YouTube, rely heavily on a recommendation system. Recommendation systems are algorithms that attempt to provide consumers with relevant suggestions for items such as movies, videos, or reels (microvideos) to watch, hashtags for their posts, songs to listen to, and products to purchase. In many businesses, recommender systems are essential because they can generate enormous amounts of revenue and make the platform stand out when compared to others. Reels are a feature of the social media platforms that enable users to create and share videos of up to sixty seconds in length. Individuals, businesses, and …