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Library Users And Their Reading Habits: Assessing The Impact Of Ict, Dr. Kumara B, Prof. B T Sampath Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper examines the assessing the impact of ICT on the library users and their reading habits. A total of 2463 samples were selected from 11 state universities in Karnataka State, India. A well designed questionnaire was used for the data collection and data has been analyzed using SPSS. The present study consisted of an equal number of males (51.3%) and female (48.7%) respondents and most of the them are from rural (63.0%) areas. It can be seen from the table that the majority of female (71.8%) and male (66.3%) respondents read information sources at their home. It is …

Kepangeranan Banyumas Dluwang Manuscripts Collection: An Initial Assessment, Tamara Adriani Salim, Yeni Budi Rachman, Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Kepangeranan Banyumas is one of the old and noble family members from Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, who owned and kept the ancient Banyumas manuscripts in the physical form of dluwang paper. This is a preliminary study to provide an initial overview of the physical conditions of Kepangeranan Banyumas dluwang manuscripts. The results showed that the four manuscripts were in category three, or critical condition, and needed immediate conservation treatment.

A Brief Bibliometric Survey On Microstrip Antennas For Machine-To-Machine (M2m) Communication In Smart Cities, Vardaan Saproo, Stuti Choudhary, Smriti Priya, Seepja Payasi, Sanjeev Kumar, Priyanka Tupe-Waghmare

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Stupendous progress in heterogeneous communication technologies has allowed smart city gadgets to communicate with one another. However, these communication technologies are not able to offer the connectivity that is needed in smart cities because of the coexistence of hundreds and thousands of devices, which leads to various problems like, high energy consumption, interoperability support among the heterogeneous wireless networks, interference management, scalable wireless solutions, and mobility management. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is one of the key enablers for advanced applications and services. The aim of this bibliometric review is to understand the extent of the existing literature for the area of …

Islamic Moral Economy: A Scientometric Using R, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Aisyah Assalafiyah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This scientometric study investigates the current state of various studies on the Islamic moral economy published by journals equipped with a digital-object-identifier. The analysis is focused on descriptions of the characteristics and trends of keywords, authors and journals. The data analyzed were 182 research publications in Dimensi (https://dimension.ai). The search used to determine the research dataset was last updated on January 9, 2021. Descriptive statistical methods were used, and bibliometric analysis was performed using the R Biblioshiny to determine the bibliometric map. The number of articles discussing the theme of the Islamic moral economy is quite large in recent years. …

Assessment Of Bradford’S Law In Publications Of Central Institute Of Plastics Engineering And Technology : A Study Based On Scopus Database., Rajib Debnath , Research Scholar, Dlisc, Sanjay Kumar Singh , Professor & Head, Dlisc

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bradford’s Law states that for a given subject area the scattering of literature can be divided into three zones. The first zone (Zone 1)also called as core zone consists of very few number of sources (journals) with highest number of citations, the second zone (Zone 2) consists of moderate number of sources (journals) with a few number of citations and the third zone (Zone 3) consists of highest number of sources (journals) with seldom citations. The present study tests the applicability of Bradford’s Law using 606 articles that were collected from the Scopus database for the period from 1988 to …

Bibliometric Survey On Effect Of Socio-Economic Factors On Spread Of Corona Virus (Covid-19), Seema Patil Prof., Aayushi Verma Ms, Isha Patil Ms, Ravneesh Singh Mr, Raghav Gaur Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Novel Coronavirus disease has been rapidly spreading all around the globe, from the time when it was first reported in the Wuhan city of China. The primary focus of this bibliometric survey is to distinguish the documents which have hypothesized and expanded on the effects of various socio-economic factors when it comes to the spread of the Coronavirus.

This survey does the evaluation on the 480 documents found. The United Kingdom of the Great Britain and United States have contributed the largest number of publications in this field of research followed closely by India and Italy.

The survey includes …

An Analytical Study Of Problems Facing College Libraries In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Atta Ur Rehman Marwat, Dr. Muhammad Younus

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aimed to analyse the problems facing college libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For conducting this research study, the researcher adopted a mixed-method research design. A literature-based questionnaire was administered amongst the 221 professional librarians serving in college libraries, in which 186 librarians responded to the questionnaire. The response rate of the study was 84%. To obtain in-depth information, qualitative research was conducted. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted of the 15 senior librarians and M. Phil and Ph. D Scholars (librarians). The interview data was further analyzed thematically. The results revealed that the majority of college libraries faced a …

Missing And Defective Identity Of Authors Cited In Library And Information Science Literature, Vishnu Kumar Gupta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study explores the inaccuracies in the author names in journal references cited in five randomly selected theses in the subject of Library and Information Science (LIS) submitted to Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India during the period of 2012-2016, choosing one thesis per year. Five hundred and forty eight verifiable journal references appended in five LIS theses contained 924 cited authors. Findings show that 149 (16.13%) author names cited in 114 (20.8%) journal references were inaccurate. Furthermore, these 149 inaccurate author names contained 169 inaccuracies in both first name and surname. A sum of 49 errors (including 32 errors of missing …

Iranian Authors' Contributions To The Library Philosophy And Practice, Heidar Mokhtari, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Hossein Vakilimofrad, Sana Barkhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective: This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis and scientific visualization of the contribution made by Iranians' authors in the Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) from 2006 to 2019.

Material and Methods: This bibliometric analysis used Scopus database for retrieving data on all papers published by Iranians in LPP during the study time span. VOSviewer and Microsoft Excel software packages were used for data analysis.

Findings: Out of 139 papers authored by Iranians in LPP, the first published paper belonged to 2006. An increasing trend can be seen in annual publication number, with 1 and 64 papers in …

Relaxed Selection Underlies Genome Erosion In Socially Parasitic Ant Species, Lukas Schrader, Hailin Pan, Martin Bollazzi, Morten Schiøtt, Fredrick J. Larabee, Xupeng Bi, Yuan Deng, Guojie Zhang, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Christian Rabeling

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Inquiline ants are highly specialized and obligate social parasites that infiltrate and exploit colonies of closely related species. They have evolved many times convergently, are often evolutionarily young lineages, and are almost invariably rare. Focusing on the leaf-cutting ant genus Acromyrmex, we compared genomes of three inquiline social parasites with their free-living, closely-related hosts. The social parasite genomes show distinct signatures of erosion compared to the host lineages, as a consequence of relaxed selective constraints on traits associated with cooperative ant colony life and of inquilines having very small effective population sizes. We find parallel gene losses, particularly in …

How Far Has Halal Transportation Been Researched?, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Mustika Sari, Yudhistira Adi Seputra, Achmad Firman Wachyudi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the development map and trend of halal transportation published by well-known journals with Islamic economics and finance. The data were analyzed from 50 Scopus indexed research publications. The export data is then processed and analyzed using the R Biblioshiny application program to determine the bibliometric map of the development of halal transportation researchs. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of halal transportation research had increased significantly. The results showed that the most types of documents were journal articles. The most popular writer is Ngah Ah, Iranmanesh and Mohammad, while …

Asynchronous Validations Using Programming Contracts In Java, Rahul Shukla

Master's Projects

Design by Contract is a software development methodology based on the idea of having contracts between two software components. Programming contracts are invariants specified as pre-conditions and post-conditions. The client component must ensure that all the pre-conditions are satisfied before calling the server component. The server component must guarantee the post-conditions are met before the call returns to the client component. Current work in Design by Contract in Java focuses on writing shorthand contracts using annotations that are processed serially.

Modern software systems require a lot of business rules validations on complicated domain objects. Often, such validations are in the …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Trends Of Inter Linkages Between Disaster Management And Law, Shashikala Gurpur Dr, Manika Kamthan Dr, Vartika Tiwari Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is the bibliometric analysis of research publications that focus on highlighting the inter linkages between disaster management and laws. The main objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of such publications and also to establish that inter linkages between disaster management and law have not received enough attention from the researchers. The data was collected from the Scopus database using VOSviewer software. Literatures written from 2000 to 2020 were perused. The study consisted of a total of 1649 documents which are classified into articles, letters, editorials conference papers, and reviews. Data collected is analyzed and presented …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Trends Of Inter Linkages Between Disaster Management And Law, Shashikala Gurpur Dr., Manika Kamthan Dr., Vartika Tiwari Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is the bibliometric analysis of research publications that focus on highlighting the inter linkages between disaster management and laws. The main objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of such publications and also to establish that inter linkages between disaster management and law have not received enough attention from the researchers. The data was collected from the Scopus database using VOSviewer software. Literatures written from 2000 to 2020 were perused. The study consisted of a total of 1649 documents which are classified into articles, letters, editorials conference papers, and reviews. Data collected is analyzed and presented …

Bibliometric Study Of Saarc Countries Research Trends In Public Health Using Scopus Database, Ashok S. Chaudhary, Shishirkumar H. Mandalia Dr., Shanti P. Chaudhari, Amita B. Parmar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Public health is facing a current covid-19 crisis situation in the world. This study aims to analyze particular the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries' public health research interest and growth. This bibliometric study selected the "Public Health" keyword from Scopus database geographical area selected was only SAARC countries in the title only and retrieved 1720 published articles. The time period selected was from 1957 to March 2021. 5758 authors were identified to published relevant studies on total over an average of 7.34 years in public health. The data retrieval most productive three main publishing countries India, Pakistan, …

The Impact Of Covid-19 On The Halal Economy: A Bibliometric Approach, Nisful Laila, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Aisyah Assalafiyah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the map of the development of research on the halal economy's theme during the COVID-19 pandemic published by digital object identifier-equipped journals. The study was conducted in November 2020. The data analyzed were more than 200 published papers. The object of the study is a published journal in 2020. The data is then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to determine halal economic research development's bibliometric mapping. The results showed halal finance, halal banking, halal philanthropy, and halal food were the most popular topics used. The research development map of this theme is …

Dea On Islamic Banking: A Bibliometric Study And Critical Perspective, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Rafika Rahmawati, Shafitranata Shafitranata

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the map of the development of Islamic Bank DEA research. DEA or Data Envelopment Analysis is one method for efficiency and productivity measurement. The data analyzed were in the form of publication of the DEA application research on Islamic banking totaling 201 articles. Map of the development of Islamic Bank DEA field research is obtained through the export process into the .txt file format. The export data is then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to determine the bibliometric map of the development of the DEA Islamic Bank application research. The results showed …

Attitudes Of Female Librarians Towards The Use Of Social Media (Whatsapp): A Study Of Balochistan, Pakistan., Tang Zhiwei Dr, Anwar Muhammad Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: the Prime objective of this research is to examine the attitudes of Female Librarians towards the (SM) use of WhatsApp.

Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative research design and survey method were used where data have been collected using an online Google doc survey. A total of 31Female Librarians have participated in this study. All the participants were using WhatsApp and have created their own WhatsApp group. The collected data has been analyzed using SPSS and MS excel.

Findings of the study: the findings of the study revealed the majority of the Female Librarians were with 97% were having a degree of …

Bibliometric Survey On Flood Prediction Using Machine Learning, Seema Patil Prof., Daksh Khurana Mr., Kartik Rao Mr, Priyanshu Meena Mr, Shivendra Singh Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards, and modelling them is extremely difficult. Flood prediction model advancement study led to factors such as loss of human and animal life, property damage, and risk mitigation. The focus of this bibliometric survey is to recognise the few studies which have upheld on the factors affecting the floods. The analysis is done based on 254 documents such as articles, conference papers, article reviews and some reviews and notes. India contributes to the maximum number of documents followed by China and the United States of America. This bibliometric survey is conducted using …

Trend Of Research Visualization Of Covid-19 Complications In Pubmed Database Using Scientometric Analysis From 2020 To March 20, 2021, Dr. Abeel Naseer, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Dr. Muhammad Bilal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study focused to evaluate the published articles on PubMed whose focus was to study the different relations between COVID 19, and different complications caused due to it. The main complications that were used to formulate this study are Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT), Stroke, Pulmonary Embolism, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), Myocardial Infarction (MI), anosmia, and pneumonia. The data was extracted from the PubMed database on March 20, 2021at 03:20 PM, PST with the period of 2020 to March 20, 2021. We used Biblioshiny, VOSviewer, and MS Excel software to analyze data and found 2375 published documents. The results revealed that …

The Information Needs And Use By Secondary School Teachers In Western Ahoada County High School Ahoada East Local Government Area Of Rivers State, Humphrey Igwechi Wiche, Chibueze Norbert Onwuekwe

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

This paper investigated the information needs and use by secondary school teacher in Western Ahoada County High school, Ahoada East, Rivers state. The population of the study comprises of 60 teaching staff and sample of the study was 40 teachers which was selected randomly using simple random sample techniques. Four research questions were formulated to guide this study. Data was collected using the questionnaire. Data was analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency count and simple percentage. The findings of the study revealed that secondary schools teachers needs information for job performance, promotion in place of work, lesson plan. …

Open Access And Self-Publishing In The Academic Communication: A Case Study, Vimal Kumar, Dhanya P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Commercial publishing houses dominate the academic publishing sector, and they discourage the sharing culture to protect business interests. Authors and institutions have no control over the publishing processes and lost the copyright on the works after publishing. The traditional model of publishing gives more financial commitment to authors. Self-publishing gives full control to the authors over the publishing processes. Open Access model gives the publications faster impact and greater user engagement. This article shares the experience of self-publishing an Open Access book in a higher education institution.

Knowledge, Perception And Attitude Of Science And Social Science Undergraduates To Plagiarism In University Of Ibadan, Nigeria, Osarobu E. Igudia Dr, Doyinsola Olagunju Miss

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

It is a common knowledge that undergraduates in the discipline of science and social science consult a wide variety of information materials to carry out researches, assignments, prepare for examinations and accomplish their terminal projects. As such, they are prone to unethical use, which may constitute plagiarism; hence this study investigated knowledge, perception and attitude of science and social science undergraduates to plagiarism in University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population consisted of 3,459 undergraduates during 2016/2017 academic session. A two stage sampling technique was adopted. A stratified sampling was first employed to …

Empirical Investigation Of The Extent Of Utilization Of Social Media For Effective Library And Information Service Delivery In Selected University Libraries In Abia State, Nigeria, Innocent O. Adayi Mr, Dogara Kudu Mr, Ishaya Lami Dutse Mrs, Nathaniel Agbo Oche Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study empirically investigated the extent of utilization of social media for effective Library and Information Service delivery in selected university libraries in Abia State, Nigeria. five research questions guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Using multi-stage sampling technique 350 library users and staff were sampled from the entire population. Questionnaire and Observation Checklist was the instrument for data collection constructed for the study. The data collected was analyzed using frequency distribution table, charts, percentage and mean. The findings revealed that, both ABSU, Library and MOUAU, Library has no official facebook, twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Nairaland, Skype, …

Librarians’ Ict Competencies And Utilization Of Emerging Technologies In Academic Libraries In Rivers State, Nigeria, Anthonia Omehia, Emmanuel Okwu, Onyema Nsirim

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the relationship between Librarians’ ICT competencies and utilization of emerging technologies in academic libraries in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study was carried out using a correlational design. Three research questions, three objectives guided the study and three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was 55 librarians in four academic libraries in Rivers State. A census sampling technique was used for this study, where all the 55 librarians were used as respondents. A structured questionnaire titled: Librarians’ ICT Competencies …

The Prevailing Library And Information Science Distance Education System In Northern Part Of West Bengal, India: A Swot Analysis, Dr Santanu Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The attributes and functional profile of the global education system have been changed a lot due to globalization. With the ever-increasing demands of higher education, the distance education system has emerged as a boon to the global academic system. This particular paper basically deals with the application of a strategic planning tool on the LIS distance learning system to evaluate the current situation of the system. This paper tries to represent the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of library and information science students who are pursuing their academic courses through distance mode. This situation analysis has been done through the …

Information Literacy Competency Levels Of Social Science Researchers: A Diagnostic Study, Rajesh Singh Dr., Shailendra Kumar Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study is a diagnosis of Information Literacy Competency (ILC) levels of social science researchers. The data was empirically collected from 520 researchers and analyzed using differential and inferential statistical techniques. The Information Literacy (IL) competent researchers were maximum 79.6% in ‘Information Use Ethics’, followed by 77.7% in ‘Information Need’, 76.2% in ‘Information Use’, 66.9% in ‘Information Evaluation’ and 53.8% in ‘Information Access’. The study has identified IL deficiencies on different parameters and suggests necessary improvements in the current practices for further enhancement of ILC among researchers.

Information Literacy Competency Of Researchers In Social Sciences: An Assessment From Diverse Perspectives, Rajesh Singh Dr., Shailendra Kumar Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy (IL) provides essential proficiency for academics and research in the networked digital information landscape. The present study is an empirical assessment of information literacy competency (ILC) levels of researchers in social sciences from varied frames of reference i.e. gender, age groups, periods of research, subjects and universities. The data collected from 520 researchers were processed and analyzed using various techniques of descriptive and inferential statistics to identify IL competent and incompetent researchers on different variables. The descriptive statistics included frequency distribution, percentage distribution, etc. and was aided by computing mean, standard deviation, and range. Inferential statistics consisted of …

Trend Of Research Visualization Of Learning, Classroom, And Class Participation In Higher Education Institutions: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2001 To 2020, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Akhlaq Ahmad, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Mr. Farooq Abdullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main objective of this research is to inspect the classroom environment, student learning, interactive learning, class participation, higher education institutions using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. For the scientometric analysis, we extracted data from the Science Citation Index database, Web of Science (Core Collection) using a searched query. The data was extracted on February 27, 2021 (GMT-4:29 AM). Further, the period was 2001 to 2020. There were 6340 published documents were found. The study findings illustrate that the topic of higher education institutions was on top of the topic list and a major proportion of published documents was …

Information Needs And Seeking Behaviors Of Communal Frontline Health Workers In Anambra State., Atkinson Ike Madukwe, Justina Ogochukwu Osonwa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

Background: Libraries all over the world has being under lockdown as a result of the problems presented by this novel coronavirus. While still grappling through this pandemic is the challenges of libraries to provide timely access to information to frontline health workers who are in dire need of information to better understand this virus. It is in view of the above ugly scenario that necessitated the researchers to undertake this study.

Objective: This paper suggest that information needs of health workers in Anambra State are diverse and vary from communities to communities depending on the prevalent health conditions available …