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Strategies Of Knowledge Sharing Among The Postgraduate Students Of University Of Science And Technology, Meghalaya: A Study, Rajesh Chutia, Rima Mani Devi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the emergence of knowledge based society and knowledge based economy, it has become very important for the knowledge seekers to manage and utilize knowledge to achieve their goals. This research paper highlights the knowledge sharing strategies adopted by the postgraduate students of University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM). It also discusses the problems faced by the students while sharing knowledge. Survey method of research was carried out to collect the data from the post graduate students of USTM using a self-constructed questionnaire to investigate different aspect of Information Communication Technology and their effectiveness in knowledge sharing practices. Findings …

Content Modelling For Unbiased Information Analysis, Milind Gayakwad, Suhas Patil Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Content is the form through which the information is conveyed as per the requirement of user. A volume of content is huge and expected to grow exponentially hence classification of useful data and not useful data is a very tedious task. Interface between content and user is Search engine. Therefore, the contents are designed considering search engine's perspective. Content designed by the organization, utilizes user’s data for promoting their products and services. This is done mostly using inorganic ways utilized to influence the quality measures of a content, this may mislead the information. There is no correct mechanism available to …

An Altmetric Approach To Measure The Social Media Attention Of Covid-19 Articles, Vysakh C, Rajendra Babu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the entire world. This study aimed to measure how well COVID-19 articles attracted in the social web during the deadly pandemic period. A total of 145 articles from Nature journal were collected and analyzed to gauge the major metrics from various social platforms. The results showed that social media attention to the articles was fluctuating in each month recording an upward and downward trend. Twitter was the major carrier of COVID-19 articles with total 143452 mentions followed by news outlets with 5251 mentions. Articles were yet to penetrate in many other platforms like …

Libraries Without Walls And Open And Distance Learning In Africa: The Nigerian Experience, Ukoha O. Igwe

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is gradually gaining ground in Africa. Nigeria is a newcomer in the Open and Distance Learning paradigm. The experiences of several open and distance learning institutions such as the Open University of United Kingdom (OUUK), Athabasca University (Canada’s Open University), Open University of Hong Kong, Indira Gandhi National Open University, (IGNOU), and University of South Africa (UNISA), have provided a baseline for the take-off of the only Open University in Nigeria – the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The successful take-off of NOUN is not without the incorporation of functional libraries. Effective library support …

Does Job Satisfaction Predict Organizational Commitment? An Information Professionals’ Perspective, Haroon Idrees Phd, Muhammad Asif Naveed, Muhammad Ahmad Shah

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This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among information professionals working at university libraries in Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey using a questionnaire was conducted. The questionnaire contained items related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment along with demographic variables. All the professionals working in university libraries of Punjab and Islamabad were considered as study population. It was decided to collect data from all these professionals. The questionnaire was administered either through personal visits or through email. A total of 329 questionnaires retuned which were used for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for data …

Attitude Towards Information Technology And Digital Divide: A Study Among Students In Universities In Kerala, India, Aswathi P, Mohamed Haneefa K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main aim of this research is to evaluate the attitude of university students' towards Information Technology (IT) and to identify whether their attitude plays any significant role in contributing digital divide among them. The study used quantitative research design and administered a pre-validated questionnaire to a sample of 644 postgraduate students selected with stratified random sampling. This study reports that about one third of the students fall under the high level attitude towards IT, while just above two thirds of them came under the medium level attitude. A significant gender divide persisted in the case of attitude towards IT …

Marketing Of Library Product And Services In The Government Undergraduate College Libraries: A Comparative Study, Debdas Debdas Mondal, Debal C. Kar Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose of the present study is to evaluate, awareness and use of marketing of Library services and products for better use of the library resources in the Government undergraduate college libraries in the sub-division of Durgapur, West Bengal, India. The study has used the two most common methods of survey, namely the descriptive survey method and the questionnaire tool through simple random sampling. The study shows that Computerization of the library system plays a vital role in the present scenario for better use of library services and information products as well as library resources. Both the users and the staff …

A Critique Of Relationship Between Performance And Effort Expectancy Of Lecturer’S And Their Adoption Of Open Access Scholarly Publishing In Nigerian Universities., Blessing Otubelu, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr.

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The study investigated the relationships between lecturers’ performance expectancy, effort expectancy and their adoption of open access scholarly publishing in the state universities. A correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 1,111 lecturers in Faculties of Education and Sciences in the five state universities in the South-East of Nigeria while the sample was 834 respondents selected through proportionate sampling technique. The alpha coefficients of the instrument were 0.85 and 0.83 for the two sections of the instrument. The Pearson Product Moment correlation was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used …

Students’ Perceptions And Use Of The Sakai Learning Management System In The University Of Ghana, Noah Darko-Adjei, Ebenezer Ankrah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated students’ awareness of the Sakai LMS tools, the extent of use, and the major challenges faced by students. Also, hypotheses were tested in the bid to find out relationships among variables. The study is useful to education practitioners, management of Distance Education, policymakers, and learning management system developers and also pertinent in the COVID-19 era. The study was based on the Technology Acceptance Model and survey methodology with a sample size of 230 level 300 Distance Learning students of the University of Ghana. Convenience sampling was adopted, data were gathered using a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS. …

Informetrics Education In Library And Information Science (Lis) Academic Department In South Africa, Nkosingiphile Zungu

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The purpose of this paper is to explore literature on informetrics education globally, in order to determine the relevance of informetrics education in South Africa. This paper is based on the literature review on informetrics education in the field of LIS worldwide. The paper addresses the status of informetrics education; extent and levels at which informetrics education is offered; teaching methods for informetrics education; and, challenges associated with informetrics education. The literature reveals that there are 32 countries that offer informetrics education within the field of LIS worldwide. The informetrics education is commonly offered to both under-graduate and post-graduate students. …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Online Extremism Detection, Mayur Gaikwad, Swati Ahirrao, Shraddha Pankaj Phansalkar, Ketan Kotecha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Internet has become an essential part of modern communication. People are sharing ideas, thoughts, and beliefs easily, using social media. This sharing of ideas has raised a big problem like the spread of the radicalized extremist ideas. The various extremist organizations use the social media as a propaganda tool. The extremist organizations actively radicalize and recruit youths by sharing inciting material on social media. Extremist organizations use social media to influence people to carry out lone-wolf attacks. Social media platforms employ various strategies to identify and remove the extremist content. But due to the sheer amount of data and …

Exploration Of Leadership Styles And Employees’ Commitment To Effective Library And Information Services In A University Library In Ghana, George Tesilimi Banji Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper discusses the types of leadership style exhibited by leaders in the library and how the leadership style has influenced employee’s commitment in the provision of library and information services in Ghana. The rationale of the paper was to find ways of improving upon leadership in the library and employees’ commitment. The investigation was underpinned by the path-goal theory; adopted the positivism paradigm and employed the survey research design. Questionnaires was used to collect data from 140 respondents. Interviews and observations were also used to triangulate the data collected. Participants were selected using purposive and simple random sampling. In …

Assessment Of Employees’ Perception On Leadership And Information Services: A Study Of The Sam Jonah Library (University Of Cape Coast) In Ghana, George Tesilimi Banji Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The perception of employees on their leader could affect their behaviour and work culture. This paper assessed employees’ perception on leadership and information services of the Sam Jonah library (University of Cape Coast) in Ghana. The rationale of the paper was to find out how the leader (director)influenced the behaviour of the employees as well as the library’s culture in providing information services. The study adopted the positivism paradigm and employed the survey research design. A set of questionnaires was used to collect data from 140 respondents drawn from various sections of the library. Interviews and observations were also used …

Adopting The Social Media And Infopreneurship Skills For Overcoming The Unemployment Problems Of University Graduates In Nigeria, Uchenna Andrew Ogbonna Mr, Lamidi Abel Dare Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Social media is currently changing the terrain in our day-to-day communication and interaction in our society and organizations. Currently, many library graduates are becoming “netizens” and digital natives who are no longer comfortable with the conventional traditional library education after graduation. In the same vein, there is this driving zeal of these new breed librarians to become job creators and no longer job seekers especially after graduation, hence, the need for adopting entrepreneurship stance such as the introduction of “Infopreneur” to their library education. This is because, joblessness has been on the increase for so many years. Library graduates are …

A Bibliometric Survey On Cognitive Document Processing, Dipali Baviskar, Swati Ahirrao, Ketan Kotecha

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Heterogenous and voluminous unstructured data is produced from various sources like emails, social media tweets, reviews, videos, audio, images, PDFs, scanned documents, etc. Organizations need to store this wide range of unstructured data for more and longer periods so that they can examine information all the more profoundly to make a better decision and extracting useful insights. Manual processing of such unstructured data is always a challenging, time-consuming, and expensive task for any organization. Automating unstructured document processing using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Robotics Process Automation (RPA), seems to have limitations, as those techniques are driven by rules or …

Students’ Attitude Towards Digital Reading: A Study In Universities In Kerala, India, Divya P, Mohamed Haneefa K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to understand the attitude of students towards digital reading. Survey method was used to conduct the study among the postgraduate students of the universities in Kerala state of India. Stratified random sampling method was used to select a representative sample of 588 students from the teaching departments of the universities. Results reveal that majority of the students have an average level of attitude towards digital reading and the male students have more positive attitudes towards digital reading than the female students. Further the results reveal that there is no significant discipline and university wise difference in the …

Relationships Among Librarians’ Knowledge Of, Attitude To And Social Media Use For Information Dissemination In Universities In South-South, Nigeria., Victor Okeoghene Idiedo, Bassil E. Posigha Dr.

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The study investigated relationships among librarians’ knowledge of, attitude to and social media use for information dissemination in South-South Universities Nigeria. The study was necessitated by the under-utilization of information resources and services in university libraries, as a result of inadequate dissemination of information about the available resources and services to library users. The study adopted the correlational research design. The population of the study comprised all the 176 librarians working in all the 12 federal and state university libraries in South-South Nigeria. The entire population was used for the study because of its relatively small size. Three instruments …

Analysis Effect Of Audit Information Technology : Green Technology, Smart System And Innovation Behavior Working For Improving Business Services University In Indonesia, Merlin Apriliyanti, Ilham M, Tanti Handriana, Indrianawati Usman

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This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the use of technology and integrated information systems and recommend the development of new systems at PTKIN (UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya and UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang). The study of information technology management in tertiary institutions aims to measure the extent to which the application of information technology is able to support the activities of the Tri Dharma College in order to achieve world class universities. In measuring the results of the audit of information technology management the tertiary institution will conduct evaluation, monitoring and further development of information …

Teachers’ Attitude And Reading Culture Of Pupils In Selected Staff Primary Schools In Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria., Andrew Oshiotse Okwilagwe Prof., Deborah Kelikume Duke Miss

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This study investigated teachers’ attitude and reading culture of pupils in selected staff primary schools in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The study population consisted of 400 primary four and five pupils and ten staff selected from three staff schools in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria adopting the total enumeration sampling technique. The questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection. It consisted of 42 questions arranged in four sections. Simple percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment correlation were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that pupils read story …

The Influence Of Information Technology Governance Audit Using Cobit 5 For The Development Public Library : (Case Study : Public Library In East Java ), Ilham M, Anis Eliyana, Indrianawati Usman

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This study current technological developments have entered almost into the lines of people's lives. Currently, many public library have grown even bigger. And this development does not escape the good management of information technology governance. To maximize management to a better level, public library need information technology governance audits. The information technology audit used in this study uses the COBIT 5 framework which focuses on the APO04 and DSS01 domains. This study aims to improve the quality of services owned and to increase its competitiveness. The results of this study refer to the vision and mission of the public library …

Role Of Library Instruction In Curbing Plagiarism Among Undergraduates Of University Of Ilorin, Nigeria, Olubukola Oluyemisi Ajiboye, Baheer Abiodun Basheer, Saheed Abiola Hamzat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the role of library instruction in curbing plagiarism among undergraduates in University of Ilorin. The research design was descriptive survey .The research was guided by two questions and a hypothesis. It was a questionnaire based study. Purposive sampling technique and total enumeration were used to sample the respondents. The target population constituted 382 undergraduates but 235 copies of the questionnaire were found usable which represented 61.1% of the response rate. The findings from the study showed that there was no significant relationship between the attendance of library instruction and the knowledge of plagiarism among undergraduates. This was …

Development And Validation Of A Covid-19 Literacy Scale, Muhammad Asif Naveed, Rozeen Shaukat, Mumtaz Ali Anwar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research intended to develop and validate a Covid-19 Literacy Scale (CLS). This study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase items were generated based on an extensive literature review, public advisory platforms, and public service messages related to Covid-19. After that these statements were submitted to a panel of experts for content and face validity. While in the second phase, a cross-sectional survey was conducted using students of three university from the province of Punjab, Pakistan for construct validity and reliability. An online questionnaire was administered among students with permission from the concerned authorities. A total of …

Mapping Of Data Mining Research Productivity In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Sumathi Meyyar, Ranganathan Chandrakasan

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This study analyses the Indian Scientists contributions of research papers related to the topic in Data Mining was undertaken from Web of Science Databases has been used to retrieve the data for 22 years (1999-2020) by the searching the keyword “Data Mining”. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 88.59% of articles were published in journals. More numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 1096 literature published, 95.53 % of the publication published under the joint author. It is …

Design And Implementation Of Competency Based Lis Pedagogy: An Experiential Approach With Dlis Centre At Rajagiri College Of Social Sciences (Autonomous) Kerala, India-A Case Study, Neethu Mohanan, Vijesh P V

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Utilization of collective manpower in an effective manner is the key to the success of every organization. LIS Students need to be more practical and trained with intensive and extensive knowledge about the use of IT, Communication as well as Soft skills. A competency-based pedagogy and interdisciplinary approach within the institutions can deal with all these. Pedagogy is the approach to learning, refers to the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences the social, political and psychological development of learners. LIS schools have redesigned their teaching-learning techniques to a great extent to keep track of the latest …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Wastewater Literature Published In Web Of Science 2019 To 2020, Elham Mounir Bador, Isam Mohammad Abdel-Magid, Shakil Ahmad, Mohd Akhter

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The present study used bibliometric and visualization techniques for the analysis of wastewater literature published in the Web of Science 2019-2020. The bibliometrix tool based on R package, Excel, MS-Access, ScientoPy and VOS-viewer software packages were used for data analysis and bibliometric indicators extraction. This is for evaluating the research productivity of wastewater based on the data collected from documents that covered two recent years. The work ventured to examine the overall performance of wastewater researchers in their research quest, productivity achievements, and publications accomplishments. The study answered questions related to most productive countries, organizations, and authors; preferred types of …

Enhancing The Role Of Academic Librarians In Conducting Scoping Reviews, Peter Kokol, Jernej Zavrsnik Dr, Marko Turcin, Helena Vošner Blažun

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information exposing, in conjunction with technological innovations and the emergence of social media, altered the traditional roles of academic libraries and enabled librarians to become necessary partners in research. The role of academic librarians in conducting systematic reviews is well recognised, however, their role in conducting scoping reviews is not yet well established. Nevertheless, we propose that, in more and more frequent situations when it is not feasible to read and analyse all relevant literature to be scoped manually, librarians employ bibliometric analysis and mapping to visualise and chart literature content. Our study demonstrated that science landscapes induced automatically by …

Library And Information Services Move Quickly Online In The Covid-19 Pandemics: A Mixed-Method Approach, Naimat Ullah Shah Mr., Salman Bin Naeem Dr., Rubina Bhatti Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information professionals such as librarians are rapidly moving to streamline the resources and services related to Covid-19 for healthcare professionals and the general public through online and virtual services. The study attempts to assess library and information services delivery status and the role of librarians in service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. We adopted an embedded approach of mixed-method design to conduct the study. We assessed the academic libraries' websites of the top five affected countries by a coronavirus to determine the ways of service delivery and evaluate the role of LIS professionals towards library & information service delivery in …

Scientometrics Profile Of The Banasthali Vidyapith: A Deemed University Of Rajasthan, India, Md.Safiqur Rahaman, Shakil Ahmad, Khadeeja M.N Ansari, Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid, Dr. Praveen Babel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current investigation work utilized bibliometric and visualization techniques. Scopus bibliographic database sources used to retrieve data. Two thousand seven hundred sixty-four (2764) papers retrieved by applying the 'Affiliation' in Scopus' simple search section. Biblioshiny (3.0), MS-Access, Excel, and VOS Viewer software used to analyze data and bibliometric indicator extraction employ to evaluate the research productivity of Banasthali University for a period of twenty-one years from 2000 to 2020. This data analysis leads to monitor the university's past and present status to maps its future perspectives. This study ventured to examine the overall performance of the faculties and researchers of …

Relevance Of Generational Cohorts In The Analysis Of Academic Library Usage, Laura D'Aveta, Thomas Sullivan, Tina Budzise-Weaver

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The literature surrounding student usage of academic libraries often relies upon generational cohort classifications when discussing patterns and preferences. We analyzed the most recent data available at [University] Libraries to determine whether any statistical significance could be attributed to these generational cohort classifications. We found that no significance could be attributed to generational cohorts that could not also be accounted for by other factors, bringing into question the importance of alleged generational differences when making decisions within academic library practice and policy.

Information Access Skills In Social Science Researchers: Assessment Of Competency, Rajesh Singh Dr., Shailendra Kumar Prof.

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The study assesses levels of Information Access Skills (IAS) in social science researchers at select central universities in Delhi. Questionnaire was used to collect relevant data on skills like information browsing, use of information search tools, and information search strategy consisting of natural language search, keyword search and Boolean search. The descriptive and inferential statistical tools like ANOVA, Post-hoc test using LSD were used to analyze and interpret the collected data. On the competency scale, a big total of 46.2% of researchers were found incompetent in IAS. Suggests measures to enhance the IAS levels of information privileged researchers.