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The Sermon On The Mount And Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary [Review] / Pennington, Jonathan., Ernest Bursey

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Some Hermeneutical Principles For The Biblical Historian, Paul J. Ray Jr

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

While the grammatical-historical method of interpretation, which focuses on the languages of the biblical text and its historical backgrounds to arrive at meaning, has long been the interpretive procedure of choice in many faith communities, modern methods of biblical study have tended to move away from text-historical, to text-exclusive or more reader-centered hermeneutics. Unfortunately, this trend has either basically removed history from the interpretive arena or left the field open to simplistic and sensationalistic historical explanations. Since one’s view of biblical history is predicated on background matters such as conceptions of revelation, inspiration, the Bible, and even history itself, I …

Women In Leadership In The Beginnings Of The Seventh-Day Adventist Church In South America [Review] / Scholtus, Silvia C., Eric E. Ritcher

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review

Assessing The Integration Of Ict Resources In Teaching And Learning In Selected Senior Secondary Schools In Cape Coast Metropolis, Kwaku Anhwere Barfi Mr., Alexander Amenu Mr, Valentina Arkorful Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Despite the effort Government and other stakeholders are making to support Ghanaian senior high schools in information and communication technology (ICT), most of the schools are teaching ICT as an isolated subject rather than integrating the ICT resources into the educational curriculum to improve teaching and learning. The objective of the study was to assess the integration of ICT resources in teaching and learning in senior secondary schools in the Cape Coast metropolis. A total of 270 respondents took part in the survey. Five senior secondary schools were selected. This comprised of teachers and students. Random sampling was used to …

Subject Approach To Information Retrieval With Special Reference To Bengali Documents: A Critical Study, Dr. Sambhu Nath Halder

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The library provides its services to satisfy the user’s approach. This study is done to assess users’ attitudes towards the retrieval of the Bengali document in OPAC through subject headings. It also traces users’ perceptions regarding subject access highlighting the problems in the retrieval of Bengali documents by subject in OPACs. It can be inferred that some features are required to be incorporated to improve the functionality of the OPACs and thereby to satisfy users’ requirements. Results revealed that search experience using subject headings is not satisfactory. Keywords search rather performs better but due to redundancy of search, it is …

Weather Information Needs Of Displaced Artisanal Fishermen In Bakassi Pennisula Nigeria, Friday O. Idiku, Kalu Iroha Ogbonna, Patrick Ogar Ogar, Goodness Mosiokpahe David

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Information on weather forecast is necessary to guide fishermen on their fishing adventure. The purpose of this study was assessed the weather information needs of displaced fishermen in Bakassi Pennisula, Nigeria. This study was conducted in Bakassi which is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea that lies between latitudes 4°25′ and 5°10′N and longitudes 8°20′ and 9°08′E. It has an area of 665 km² (257 sq mi) with displaced Fishermen settling in the area who were the main respondents. It was a descriptive study. One hundred and five (105) displaced fishermen were randomly selected as respondents using snowball …

Information Needs Of Women Market Vendors In Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso District, Uganda, Caroline Nankinga, Walter Omona, Joyce Bukirwa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information needs are an awareness of the information gap that exist among a group of people and differ from one group to another. The purpose of this study was to establish the information needs of women market vendors in Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso District in Uganda by establishing the information needs of women market vendors, sources of information that are available, barriers faced when accessing information, and making recommendations on the possible measures that can be put in place to address the information needs barriers. The study used a qualitative exploratory research design. Data was collected using interviews and observation, …

Attracting Prospective Students To Master’S Program: A Dilemma For Library And Information Science Education, Amara Malik, Kanwal Ameen

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examines the issue and challenges of enticing promising students in library and information science (LIS) education in Pakistan. It also identifies the practical strategies in this regard by exploring the perceptions of faculty members. A questionnaire sent to heads of departments and semi-structured interviews with faculty were employed to collect data. The findings of the study identify social, physical, procedural, and behavioral hindrances to attracting brilliant students. The study revealed a need for fundamental changes by expanding intellectual jurisdiction, restructuring academic offerings, redesigning curriculum contents and revamping social image of the profession and professionals. The findings of the …

Libraries And Sustainable National Development In Nigeria, Idogbe, Ibukunoluwa M., Philip, Kathryn J. Dept Edutech And Library Science

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Nigeria has changed in diverse sectors such as education, politics, agriculture, health, technology and so forth in view of development and modernisation across these sectors. Consequently, the diverse structure of Nigerias federalism is discussed in terms of the various development plans put forward by successive governments. This paper particularly noted the various institutional and special libraries as contributing to these strides with a responsibility of developing a literate community of its patrons. Some of the roles that libraries play in the development of Nigeria have been buttressed through various writers relayed in this paper. The work concludes that there is …

Highly Cited Publications Of Selected Indian Institutes Of Technology (Iits): A Bibliometric Study, Shipra Awasthi, Shiva Kanaujia Sukula

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study highlights the highly cited publications published by selected five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) during the period 2010-2020. The IITs are the institutes of eminence and produced the quality scholarly output. They always occupy top positions in the ranking of institutions by different agencies. The data has been collected from the Essential Science Indiactor (ESI) which is a tool of Web of Science database. A total of 468 highly cited articles have been downloaded and analysed. The various parameters considered for the study are the year-wise distribution of articles, subject-wise distribution; the renowned journals published these articles, and …

An Assessment Of Open Educational Resources By Students In Selected Academic Institutions In Southwest, Nigeria, Njeze Miracle

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examined assessment of Open Educational Resources (OER) by students in selected Academic Institutions in Southwest Nigeria. A descriptive research design was used for this study and the instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The population of this study comprised two hundred and fifty two respondents from selected academic institutions and a stratified sampling technique was used to select respondents from each of the nine institutions investigated. This study assessed the use of Open Educational Resources by students in nine academic institutions in Nigeria which comprised (Federal, State and Private Universities; Polytechnics; and Colleges of Education) in …

Trends Of Publications In Peshawar Islamicus Research Journal: A Bibliometric Study From 2010- 2020, Mohammad Hussain, Ms. Saddiqa

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of “Peshawar Islamicus” a research journal published by the Department of Islamiyat, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. The analysis covers authorship pattern, gender-wise distribution, number of articles, paper length, most prolific authors, number of references and department wise distribution etc. The data was collected from different issues of the journal which was analyzed by using MS Access and MS Excel 2016. The study found that 290 articles were published from 2010 to 2020 and highest numbers of articles (34) were published in 2019. The trend of male and two author was dominant, the volume of …

Employing Bibliometric Analysis On Research Published In Pakistan Journal Of Medical And Health Sciences From 2019 – 2009., Zameer Hussain Baladi, Abdullah Alabdali

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction: Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences is peer review and indexed in the Scopus-Elsevier database. This study signifies the participation of (PJMHS) in the research productivity, published from 2019 - 2009.

Material and Methods: The records of the published data retrieved from PJMHS website and Scopus-Elsevier database for tabulation in MS Office Excel Sheet. Frequency of publications, type of documents, usage of pages, citations, and association of the first author with their countries.

Results: Total 3817 documents written by 15401 (4%) authors in seven categories published in 43 issues. An average of (2.8%) pages consumed …

Challenges Faced By School Teachers When Seeking Information: How Barriers Be Addressed, Chamani Gunasekera, R. Balasubramani Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study explored the challenges faced by school teachers when seeking information for teaching purposes and made suggestions to overcome these challenges. The study used a mixed-method approach, comprising a questionnaire survey and focus groups discussions. The data collected through the questionnaires were mainly quantitative and were analysed using the SPSS (21.0) while the qualitative data from the focus group discussions were analysed using thematic content analysis. For the quantitative approach, 318 school teachers were sampled in questionnaires survey where the descriptive statistics were used for analysis. The study found a variety of barriers that influenced teachers’ information seeking …

20 Years Of Dentistry Research At World Perspectives: A Scientometric Study, Mohammad Amees, Saddam Hosaain, Sadik M. Batcha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Dentistry is a branch of medicine that is involved in the study of diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases disorders and conditions of the oral function. The study rummages world performances based on its publication output in Dentistry during 1999-2018 (20 years) based on several parameters including a whole country of world’s annual average growth rate of publications share and rank Relative Growth Rate (RGR). The study was carried out from Web of Science on Dentistry research at Global perspective. The maximum records published 1536 with 9.62% in 2018 out of 15970 on Dentistry research, whereas the year 1999 is …

Awareness Of Plagiarism Among Research Scholars Of Karnatak University, Dharwad: A Study, Savitha K S, Krishnamurthy C Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Plagiarism is a subject of academic misconduct among teaching and research community in higher educational institutions. Information and communication technology has immensely made easy to access information in digital form or electronic form that can lead to copying words/text from any kind of information sources such as Internet, books, magazines, journals, project reports, publications, white papers etc, without acknowledging the original author/ authors with proper citation. Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else's work and attempting to pass it off as one’s own. In the global academic scenario plagiarism occurs due to lack of knowledge or due to ignorance. …

Collection Development For Graphic Novels In Academic Libraries: Results Of A National Survey, Stephen Finlay

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A survey on collection development for graphic novels was sent to 632 collection development librarians and also placed on the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services listserv. Once 200 responses had been received analysis of results began. Findings indicate that while all libraries reported possessing at least some graphic novels and most reported having what they would call a “graphic novel collection,” the medium is still quite uncommon when compared to existing library collections, comprising less than 1% of all books in academic libraries. Further, while it was found that most libraries are currently collecting graphic novels, collection development …

Publications Pattern And Collaborations Trend In Webology Journal During 2010-2019: A Bibliometric Analysis, Manoj Kumar Verma Ph.D., Maya Deori, Gururaj S. Hadagali Ph.D.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study analyses the papers published in Webology journal from 2010 to 2019. The parameters used in the study were: distribution of articles, Authorship Patterns, Collaboration Index (CI), Degree of Collaboration (DC), Collaboration Coefficient (CC), Modified Collaboration Coefficient (MCC), Growth Rate, Lotka’s law, distribution of references and length of references. The study reveals that a total of 138 scholarly papers have been published by LIS professionals across the world. Iran ranked first among the researchers of different countries. The study reveals that the highest number of articles appeared during 2019 and has the maximum Collaboration Index, Collaboration Coefficient, and …

Emergency Management In Higher Education During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenology Inquiry Comparing A Developed And Developing Country, Saira Hanif Soroya, Mohsin Abdur Rehman, Zuhair Abbas, Farhan Mirza, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Aboidullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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Bibliometric Analysis Of Published Literature In Journal Of Medical Sciences Peshawar-Pakistan, Saeed Ullah, Saeed Ullah Jan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective: To carry out the bibliometric analysis of Journal of Medical Sciences Peshawar from 2014 to 2018.

Methods: This study was an attempt to analyze the scholarly documents published in Journal of Medical Sciences. All the original articles, reviews and case reports published from 2014 to 2018 were scrutinized. Website and hard copies of the Journal were used as data collection sources.

Results: A total of 322 scholarly documents were studied. It was observed that male contribution is more prominent than female. The year 2017 was reported as the more productive. The contribution from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was on the top …

Growth Of Open Access Law Research Articles Seen Through Doaj: A Bibliometric Analysis, Archana Sahu, Puspanjali Jena Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study provides a bibliometric analysis of law literature published from 2015-2019. A total of 3001 articles were retrieved from DOAJ database for the study. The law literature has been further divided into two categories, i.e. Public law and Private law. This paper focuses on the journal-wise distribution of publications, subject-wise distribution of publications, annual growth rate as well as compound annual growth rate, relative growth rate (RGR) and doubling time (DT) of open access law literature. Various statistical tests and methods such as Student’s t test, Chi-square test and correlation studies have been applied to verify the significance difference …

Bibliometric Review On Classification Of Alzheimer’S Disease, Nishad Vyas, Keta Modi, Saanil Khanna, Chinmay Katpatal, Mrinal Bachute Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Use Of Web Resources And Services By The Research Scholars In The Field Of Social Sciences Of Selected Central Universities (Du, Bhu, Amu, Jnu), Utkarsh Dwiwedi, Rajani Mishra (Associate Professor)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current study was conducted with the objective to study the usage of Web Resources and services by the Researchers in the field of social sciences of selected Central Universities (DU, BHU, AMU, JNU). A well-structured questionnaire was directed through irregular testing strategy to the Research Scholars of the Institutes to gather the information with respect to the utilization of Web Resources. This paper confines the investigation only to utilization of Web Resources by Researcher of Language and Literature in selected Central Universities (DU, BHU, AMU, JNU). The extent of the examination can be stretched out to former Indian Universities …

Personal Digital Information Archiving And Organizing Practices Of Engineering And Information Technology Students, Amna Saeed Miss, Alia Arshad Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose

The study aimed to examine the attitude of students towards organizing and safekeeping their digital documents. It also investigated students’ personal digital information archiving and organizing practices from engineering and information technology disciplines.

Design / Methodology / Approach

The design of the study was quantitative and the survey method was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The survey instrument was the questionnaire and distributed to students of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and Punjab University College of Information Technology of the University of the Punjab personally and with the help of information professionals. The questionnaire was …

Perceptions Of Buddhist Monks Towards Monastic Library: A Case Study Of Dali Monastery, Darjeeling, Prabin Karkee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examined the Buddhist monks’ attitudes toward monastic library and their reading preferences. These monks are attached with the Dali Monastery of Darjeeling. 62 residential and trainee monks participated in the survey. All the monks are male. Survey method has been adopted for the present study. A structured questionnaire was prepared and circulated among the monks. 80 questionnaires were distributed and among them 62 filled-in questionnaires were received with response rate of 77.5%. The researcher personally visited the monastery to collect data and get a chance to talk with the monks and closely observe the resources and facilities. Hence …

Bibliometric Review Of Energy Storage System For Grid Connected Wind Power Plant, Jayshree Ashok Pande, Paresh Nasikkar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The integration of RESs like wind energy pose several problems for aggregators and grid operators majorly because of their intermittent and unstable behavior. The instability and intermittency can be reduced through accuracy in forecasting and reliable and effective storage and utilization. The main objective of this bibliometric review is to understand the extent of the available literature for the area of Energy Storage Systems for renewable energy resource specifically grid connected wind power plants. The bibliometric analysis is primarily based on Scopus, Research Gate, Mendeley and tools like GPS visualizer. It is revealed from the bibliometric analysis that major publications …

Open Educational Resources: Initiatives In India, Praveen Shukla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper tries to discuss the concept of open education resources, creative commons licensing and the initiatives taken by India with regards to the open education resources, it presents a variety of open educational resources in India as National Digital Library of India, SWAYAM, E GYANKOSH, SWAM PRABHA, NCERT, Consortium for Educational Communication,, NPTEL etc. The paper highlights the pros and challenges of the open educational resources and the role of library professionals in the changing scenario.

Parent’S Role In Promoting Reading Habits Among Children: An Empirical Examination, Zaheer Ahmad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Parents play an effective role in inculcating reading habits among their children because they are the first and main strength to boost and stimulate learning potential by developing the constant habit of reading. The major objective of this study was to know the parent’s perception about the effect of leisure reading on the overall educational performance of their child and determine the parental comparative reading role in behavioral, communication and academic development of the children. The population comprised of parents of those students who were studying from 6^th to 8^th grades in private schools based at Lahore, Pakistan. …

Use Of Information And Communication Technologies By School Teachers In Sri Lanka For Information Seeking, Chamani Gunasekera, R. Balasubramani Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examines the use of ICT by school teachers in Sri Lanka for information seeking and using the internet for communication. The survey method was adapted and the questionnaire was used as the main data collection tool for the study. The results revealed that the level of school ICT capacity in Sri Lanka is not satisfied because only the half of schools survey had ICT labs. The teachers are more confident in using word processor such as word programs and the basic ICT skills than other applications. It was found that even though a substantial amount of ICT resources …

Enhancing Literacy Learning Among Primary School Pupils In Nsukka Local Government Area Of Enugu State: The Role Of The Children’S Centre Library, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka., Ezi O. Njoku Mrs, Alice O. Okore Dr., Ngozi Eunice Osadebe Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examines the role of the Children’s Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in enhancing literacy learning among primary school age pupils of Nsukka Local Government Area. The study is a case study that employed qualitative method. Four specific objectives guided the study. Five members of the Children’s Centre were purposively selected to participate in the study. An unstructured questionnaire and oral face to face interview were used for data collation. The data collated were coded, sorted, interpreted and presented in narratives. Findings revealed that Children’s Centre contributed in enhancing literacy development among primary school pupils in Nsukka Local Government …