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Digital Information Literacy Among The Engineering Students: A Survey, Rajender Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper describes the level of digital information literacy among engineering students of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra affiliated Institutes (Ganpati Institute of Technology & Management, Shivalik Institute of Engineering & Technology and Swami Devi Dyal Institute of Engineering and Technology). In this study, an attempt has been made to know the information literacy competency among the students. A questionnaire was prepaired for data collection and distributed among students of each Institute. The response rate was 90% (42 from GITM, 47 from SIET and 46 from SDDIET). The result of the study shows that email is the most indispensable source of information …

Undergraduates’ Digital Literacy And Access To Information In Nigerian University Libraries: Does Subject Background Make A Difference?, Harriet Uche Igbo

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The study attempted to find out whether undergraduates’ subject background has influence on their application of digital literacy skills in accessing digital information for educational problem solving.The design of the Ex- Post Facto survey was used for the study. A37- item Questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 1506, which represented 5% of 30,121 undergraduates of seven federal universities in southern Nigeria, which were purposely selected for the study. The major finding of the study showed that subject background had strong influence and makes the difference in undergraduates’ ability to use digital literacy skills in accessing information. …

Information Literacy Skills And The Use Of E-Library Resources Among Undergraduates In South-West Nigeria, Paul Adeoye Omosebi, Fehintoluwa E. Omosebi .

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This study is a correlational survey study which investigates information literacy skills and the use of E-library resources among business administration undergraduates in south-west Nigeria. A sample size of 900 respondents was used but 800 questionnaires were retrieved. The target population for the study comprised of undergraduate business administration students in private universities in Southwest Nigeria. A simple random sampling technique was adopted for the purpose of this study. The questionnaire was the main instrument used for data collection and was divided into three sections namely demographic characteristics, information literacy and use of e-library among students in the private universities …

The Archival Knowledge And Practices Of Academic Librarians In A Private University, Sheryll D. Barut, David A. Cabonero

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Archivists are managing a large amount of information every day. Hence, the basic foundation of archival philosophy is understanding the nature of archives and manuscripts and that an archivist or a librarian should manage the collections to properly preserve corporate memory. This study used the descriptive methods of research using survey questionnaire to: 1) determine the extent of knowledge and practices of academic librarians on the ten domains based on RA 9470 namely: a) scope, interpretation, and objectives; b) functions of the University Archives; c) structure and staffing pattern; d) management of archival records; e) transparency of transactions and access …

Strengthening Democracy With Information: An Assessment Of Rural Dwellers’ Political Information Behavior, Muhammad Asif Naveed

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This study explored political information behavior of citizens residing in a rural setting from the district of Toba Tek Singh, Punjab-Pakistan. Qualitative research design using an unstructured interview guide was employed to conduct this research. Face-to-face interviews of 51 participants, selected through purposive sampling process, were conducted for data collection by visiting their homes using local language. Each participant was informed of his responses at the end of the interview for data verification and authentication. Each interview was carefully recorded and transcribed. Using thematic analysis, the verbal data were analyzed and multiple responses were grouped together and reduced into ‘information …

Exploring The Usage Pattern Of Smartphone For Academic Pursuit: A Case Study Of Utkal University, Satyajit Nayak, Kunwar Singh, Ramesh Kuri, Abhimanyu Pradhan, Dillip Kumar Parida, Madan Singh

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This paper aims to determine the usage patterns of smartphones by Utkal University students for their academic pursuits. This study uses a survey method to collect data from students at Utkal University. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed, and 215 duly filled questionnaires were received, with the response rate of 86%. The students expressed that they used smartphones for both general purposes as well as academic purposes. The main aim of this paper is to throw light on how students are using smartphones for their academic purposes without prior training. The study found that 90% of the respondents indicated …

Students’ Perception And Practices Of The Use Of Electronic Resources In Public University Libraries In Ghana, Akwasi Duffour Frimpong Mr, Gertrude Obuobi Addo Miss

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Electronic resources are transforming most academic library systems and how students view and use these information sources is critical. The study thus explored students’ perceptions and practices regarding the use of electronic resources in public university libraries in Ghana. The study adopted the descriptive research design, and the quantitative research approach was used; hence questionnaires were the main instrument employed for data collection. A total of 537 students were conveniently sampled from six public universities. From the results, it was found that most of the public universities have Web OPAC systems, e-books, e-databases, and e-journals available for students’ use …

The Documents Published In The Electronic Library: A Scientometric Overview, Vishal Dattatray Bapte

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The present article is a bibliometric analysis of 2340 documents published in The Electronic Library retrieved from Scoups during 1983 to 2020. However, the primary focus has been on the prominent authors, thematic map and multiple collaboration ratio. The average citation for these documents is 4.74 citations per paper. Articles and review papers have been the important ingredients of the source journal. Overall 9787 citations were calculated for 2340 documents. The collaborative index is calculated as 1.99%. USA, United Kingdom and South Korea have been the leading countries in case of country-wise output. USA is equally ahead in terms of …

Library Management Software: A Comparative Study Of Cloud Service And In-House Software Implementation At Upsa-Ghana, Amy P. A. Asimah, Sebastian H. Ofoe

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This study looks at Library Management Software, a comparative study of Cloud Service and In-house Software implementation at UPSA-Ghana with the help of key performance indicators. The purpose of this study is to identify the security effects of Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), the benefits of Cloud Service as compared to In-house Software implementation within the context of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The study uses self-administered questionnaires to collect data and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) tool to analyze data collected from 52 respondents from UPSA. The results indicated that the users of the In-house library system …

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Productivity On Diabetes Modeling And Artificial Pancreas 2001 To 2020, Karim A. Jabali, Murtaza Ashiq, Shakil Ahmad, Shafiq Ur Rehman

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The prevalence of diabetes apparently increases all over the world. Thus, significant research works have been carried out in all aspects of the disease to control and mitigate its effects. Many researchers looked to the disease as a biomedical control engineering problem where the main task is identifying the model that can be used to mimic the healthy person's metabolism and therefore relieving the lives of millions of diabetics. This work aims to explore the dynamics of the produced scientific research in the area of diabetes modeling and control from a bibliometric method. In this work, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis …

Utilization Of Electronic Resources By The Library Users Of Central Library Of North Bengal University, Siliguri: A Case Study, Mohammad Rafiqur Rahman, Dr.V.P Khare

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The present study assessed the utilization of electronic resources by the faculty members, research scholars,and UG, PG students of the central library of north Bengal university. Out of hundred, ninety respondent’s data condidered as sample for analysis.The study reveals that 41.11% of patrons of North Bengal university utilizing the electronic resource. The main purpose of using electronic resources is to teach i.e. 94.44%, the bibliographic database is the most frequently used electronic resources (80%),the study also disclosedthat the unavailiblity of remote access is the barrier of utilizing electronic resource by the patrons (82.22%). On the basis of result some recommendations …

A Bibliometric Study Of Mphill Theses At The Department Of Information Studies, University Of Ghana (2000 – 2018), Philip Kwaku Kankam, Earvin Kofi Okyere, Paulina Awuah

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It is evident from literature that bibliometric analysis and application of citation indexes have been established as far back as the 18^th century. It is a major tool employed to evaluate the performance and also measure the impact of scientific publications. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) theses accepted at the Department of the Information Studies (DIS) of the University of Ghana for the period between 2000 to 2018. Through the use of the DIS library catalogue, the study retrieved 101 accepted theses and these theses served as the source documents for …

Information Dissemination During Covid-19 And Lockdown: The Role Of University Libraries Of Sindh, Pakistan, Sadia Ishtiaq Ms, Naveed Sehar, Attya Shahid

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Universities librarians play vital and varied roles in the life of the university, guiding students and faculty at the reference desk, instructing library research sessions, and developing library collections. It is a truism to say that librarians in all sectors of an academic library wear many different hats and provide numerous services to patrons. This research paper seeks to investigate the role of university libraries in this outbreak situation. The novel virus COVID-19 discovered as a global pandemic. This contagious virus changed the working Style tradition to online because of the shutdown of all activities of life. The main objective …

Social Media Use And The Challenges Of Information Dissemination During Emergencies: Experience Of Library And Information Scientists On Covid-19 In Nigeria, Saheed Abiola Hamzat, Dumebi Otulugbu

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Corona virus is a form of respiratory ailment that ravaged human health and social interaction. Since its emergence and subsequent spread to various countries of the world, various governments, organisations, agencies and individuals have been making frantic efforts to curtail the disease using different media. Prominent among the media being used is social media. However, the preliminary investigation of the researchers indicated that the social media are being wrongly used to disseminate information on the emergence, causes, prevention and curtailment of the disease particularly in a developing country like Nigeria. The need to address these challenges and to drum home …

Bibliometric Study Of Selected Lis Journals Published Online In The 21st Century, Asish Maity, Nivedita Bhattacharyya Sahu

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This paper is a study of the LIS journals published by Emerald group of publications which originated online in the 21^st century upto the year 2015. Five such journals include Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM), Journal of Intellectual Capital(JIC), Online Information Review (OIR), Performance Measurement and Metrics (PMM) and Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES). Highest publication is by OIR and 2009 produced most articles followed by 2008. Research paper tops the list in all the five journals. Single authored papers are predominant followed by two authored papers. Authors from UK contribute maximum numbers of …

Aspects Of Literacy In Vision And Mission Of University Libraries In Indonesia, Kundharu Saddhono, Puji Lestari, Yuliana Sari

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Literacy is closely related to libraries. Aspects of literacy existing in visions and missions become the main points and characteristics of a library. This study aimed to describe and explain aspects of literacy of libraries in top universities in Indonesia in terms of text and social context. It employed content analysis with descriptive qualitative approach. It also used critical discourse analysis model as proposed by van Dijk. It was textually related to micro analysis and socially connected to activities supporting the textual analysis. The result shows that aspects of literacy in top universities in Indonesia are textually and socially dominated …

Electronic Legal Databases In Context To Connectors/ Symbols/ Command Used In Legal Research: A Comparative Study, Ritu Nagpal

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Impact Of Academic Library Services On Students Success And Performance, Maya Carvalho E Rodrigues Dr., Bala Mandrekar

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Libraries play an important role as a reliable and beneficial information provider in the students academic success and performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the students satisfaction with library resources and services provided by the academic library. Random surveying was conducted to find out the problem and difficulties faced by the students in accessing the library resources and its impact on their academic success and performance. The finding in the study showed that there is a significant and remarkable relationship between the library usage and the students’ academic performance and success. the major finding of the study …

Association Of Usage Of Online Journals With Impact Factors: A Descriptive Analytical Study, Jessy A, Mahabaleshwara Rao, Kalesh M. Karun, Shivananda Bhat

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A case study of association between usage of online journals and their impact factors was conducted for the subscribed journals of the Health Sciences Library of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal. The publisher-generated usage statistics were collected and tabulated for the period 2010-2015. The full text usage was considered as the criteria for identification of the extent of usage of online journals from different publishers. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of these journals were retrieved in 2015 from Journal Citation Report to check whether association existed between the most used and the least used journals with their impact factor. …

Adolescent- Parent Communication And Information Sharing, Shantha Kumar M.V.

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The study is conducted among 100 adolescents in Kerala State in India to know the sharing of information by the adolescents with their parents. The matters they communicate with their parents and the matters they are reluctant to communicate are studied. The data was collected using questionnaire. The analysis of the data was done based on the responses received from 92 adolescents. The analysis reveals that the adolescents communicate with their parent most frequently. The females are more communicative in many respects. They share with their parents the method of teaching, behavior of their teachers, marks obtained in the …

A Holistic Evaluation Of Buddhism Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Global Publications Related To Buddhism Between 1975 And 2017, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Engin Senel

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Although Buddhism is the fourth largest religion of the world with almost 500 million followers, to the best of our knowledge, academic literature lacks a bibliometric study investigating Buddhism documents. We used four databases provided by Web of Science; Thomson Reuters to extract the academic documents related to Buddhism and included all items published between 1975 and 2017. We generated info-maps and info-graphics showing distribution of world countries’ publication productivity and connections in bibliometric networks. A total of 25,267 articles were included and the most common document types were original articles, reviews and meeting reports (76.11, 19,38 and 3.84, respectively). …

Availability And Accessibility Of Information Resources In University Libraries For Students' Academic Use: A Case Study Of Pharmaceutical Science Students Of The University Of Jos, Daniel Abubakar

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The purpose for the establishment of every university library is to provide information resources, make them available and accessible while ensuring the information resources meet the information needs of the users. This study became necessary considering the poor performance of university students and low reading habit nowadays. This study aimed at finding out the availability and accessibility of information resources for Pharmaceutical science students of the University of Jos. The study adopted survey as the research design, 549 undergraduate students of Pharmaceutical science constituted the population and from which 55 samples were drawn to represent the population. Questionnaire (closed ended) …

The Effectiveness Program Of User Education At University Of Malaya’S Library, Dessy Harisanty, Aulia Farah Diba, Khoirotun Layyinah

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Introduction: The college library is established to support academic activities including education, research and public services. Then particular services are needed for particular users related to the learning process with the availability of user education. User education acts as literacy of information to users in mastering accessing and evaluating sources of information needed.

Data Collection Method: It uses a quantitative methodology of descriptive research by making direct observation when program user education was held by Bahagian Kemahiran Maklumat.

Results and Discussions. This study found that the implementation of user education resulted in the effectiveness of the program from …

Assessment Of Social Media Use On Study Habits Among Nursing Students: A Case Study Of Babcock University, Sussan Udoaku Ogbuiyi Phd, Chuks Daniel Oriogu, Folashade Munirat Lawal, Chukwuemeka Anthony Onyebuchi

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Objective- The main objective of the study is to investigate the assessment of social media use on study habits among nursing students in Babcock University ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. Methods- The study adopted survey research design. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analysis. Specifically, data collected were analyzed using charts, graphs, percentages and frequency were used to answer the research questions. The Analysis of Variance were used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significant level.

Results- The results and findings revealed that 66 (68.8%) of the respondents use the social …

Knowledge Sharing Through Mobile Phone To Develop A Knowledge Base: A Study On Rural Women Of Bangladesh, Md. Mahbubul Islam, A.K.M Eamin Ali Akanda, Md. Nazmul Hasan, Dr. Partha Biplob Roy, Farzana Islam Any, Mst. Tahera Khatun, Md. Armanul Haque, Xiaojuan Zhang, Dr.

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The study has an aim to figure out the role of mobile communication in developing Knowledge base among rural women through knowledge sharing. Using a structured questionnaire quantitative data have been collected by survey method and qualitative data through FGDs. Data has been collected on the way of sharing knowledge, areas of expertise, sharing knowledge types, with whom sharing knowledge etc. Rural women are being interested in knowledge sharing through mobile phone because mobile phones are cheap, easier, and available medium for communication to them. Among the rural women who have completed at least secondary education, are sharing both …

Elucidating The Information Literacy Activities Of Fm Radio: A Comparative Study, Srijani Kundu, Aditi Mukherjee, Nilofer Nishat

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Purpose: The main concern of this study is to compare how the government and private FM radio channels cater to information literacy to the general people through their programmes.

Design/methodology/approach: The study encompasses 1 Government FM channel namely FM Rainbow run by All India Radio from the Akashvani Bhavan, Kolkata and 1 Private FM channel namely Radio Mirchi Kolkata run by the Times Group. The radio personnel associated with both the channels were interviewed in order to accomplish the study. A web survey was carried out to depict the effect of the information literacy programmes of the channels on the …

A Survey On Reading Habit Of Library Users During Covid-19 Lockdown, Kshama Parikh, Priyanki Vyas Dr, Saurin Sharad Parikh Phd

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E-Libraries has become more relevant in present situation of COVID-19 pandemic as it has caused an international lockdown in the world and India. Causing majority of the citizens to stay at home. The survey was conducted to study the reading habits of various library users (volunteers) during this situation. Besides the reading habit, the survey also collected the data for the various activities carried out by users at home. Main finding of the survey is that the users had taken keen interest to switch over to reading eBooks and 70% of student users and 53% of faculty users are reading …

Literature On Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) And Library And Information Science: An Analysis, Anna Kaushik Dr.

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Massive open online courses (moocs) concept has become a hot topic in all disciplines. Therefore, different types of literature on massive open online courses are producing in various disciplines including library and information science domain. Thus, this study aims to analyse the literature produced on massive open online courses (moocs) and library and information science from January 2008 to December 2019. The results of the study revealed that the 2013 year noted as a most productive year, most of the literature contributed by the single author and the United States of America found the leading country in terms of producing …

Improving The Web Presence And Visibility Of Delta State Polytechnics, Ogwashi-Uku, Ozoro, And Oghara., Isaac E. Anyira, Lucky Njoeteni

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This paper focused on identifying ways of improving the web presence and visibility of Delta State Polytechnics, Ogwashi-Uku, Ozoro and Oghara, to enable them to maximize the potentials of innovative technologies for effective education delivery. The paper treated what web presence and visibility mean and how they can be measured. The web presence and visibility of the three Delta State polytechnics were comparatively examined. The comparative analyses indicate that Ozoro Poly has the highest web presence and visibility followed by Oghara Poly, then Ogwashi-Uku Poly. The causes of poor web presence and visibility were identified. It was recommended that polytechnic …

Open Access Resources: Option For Libraries In A Challenged Economy, Isaac E. Anyira, Imade Idubor

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Inadequacy of information resources has emerged as a major challenge facing libraries in Nigeria currently. The causes of this inadequacy include poor funding of libraries, high cost of materials, high exchange rate (as many library resources are imported) and global economic recession. The open access initiative presents the library with the solution to this challenge by providing access to high quality E-journals, E-books and other information bearing resource at minimal or no cost at all. This paper considered what constitutes open access resources, reasons why libraries should embrace them, their sources and web addresses, and the barriers to their integration …