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Componential Study Of Lis Websites And Blogs As Tools For Communication, Mohammadi Asra Sultana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library and Information Science professionals are using technology indigenously to their benefit. Websites and blogs serve their purpose of communicating with their users and bringing to the fore the diverse resources, services and requisite information which is of immense utility to the users as utmost care is taken to create a well designed, organized and structured portal. This study is taken up to investigate the features included in LIS websites and blogs which guides and helps our fraternity to develop a state of the art site.

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 …

Comparison Of E- Resources With Their Usage Statistics In Southern Region, Dr. Senthilkumar Kr, Maniiarsan P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Perception is the ability to see, hear or understand things related to an awareness of information sources. The study reported that the impact of electronic resources on the higher education community has considerably increased. Consortia access of electronic resources has increased the level of library services and convenience for the patrons of large libraries with "global access". The major findings of the study were that maximum number of the respondents had good awareness and adequate knowledge with electronic resources and were satisfied with the use of electronic resources.

This study dealt with the perception of electronic resources provided by Bharathidasan …

Use Of Customized Marc Framework For Recording Books In Koha: With Special References To Public Libraries Of West Bengal, Rounak Biswas

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library automation means a high degree of mechanization of various routine and repetitive tasks to be performed by library staffs. Presently, public libraries of West Bengal are moving towards automation with koha. Koha, being open source software, allows extensive customization. Most of the libraries are now use their own bibliographic framework for recording different type of documents to save the time of data entry work. This paper highlights the need of customized MARC framework for books in libraries with an instance of use of customized MARC framework in Public libraries of West Bengal.

Evaluating The Use Of Information Systems Among Employees In Food And Beverage Companies In Lagos, Nigeria, Nelson Ige

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Information system is a collection of interrelated components that collect, process, store, organize, retrieve, manage and provide information to support business activities, decision making, and performance in an organization. Information systems use is a computerized database of information, organized, and programmed in a way that produces regular reports on the operations for every employee in the company. This paper presents findings from adapted questionnaire on the extent of information systems use by employees in Lagos State of Nigeria.. The study was carried out using a survey design to collect data from 200 respondents in 10 companies. Data collected was analyzed …

Use Of Social Media Space For Library Service Delivery: Evidence From Southern Nigeria Universities, Titilayo Comfort Ilesanmi Mrs., Iyabo Mabawonku Prof.

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The incorporation of social media into service delivery by librarians is essential to render tandem library services to the users in the universities. Literature has established the awareness and perception of emerging technology for personal use while there is a paucity of literature on the use of social media for library service delivery. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the use of social media for service delivery by librarians in Southern Nigeria universities. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised the librarians in the university in Southern Nigeria. Total enumeration technique was …

Investigating The User Experience In Academic Libraries (Special Emphasis To E-Resources), Sumaira Baba, Shabir Ahmed Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In the present era of information and communication technology wherein knowledge is increasing exponentially. At the same time learning is fundamental for the development of mankind. Which can be achieved and enhanced with the assistance of new advancements? These (technologies) increase possibilities for learning throughout life, improve access, and spread the process of knowledge creation. Although it is difficult to keep up the pace with this drastically changing phenomenon. With the result information is not being used properly for solving the problems. Thus proper strategies should be incorporated which can help users to improve the abilities for problem solving. The …

Four Legs Make A Table: Service And Identity In Academic Librarianship, Maura A. Smale

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Information Seeking Behavior In E-Environment: A Study Of Mass Media Professionals In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Shehzad Ahmad Dr, Sajjad Ahmad Dr, Riaz Ghafur Mr

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Purpose: This study investigates the Information-Seeking Behavior (ISB) of mass media professionals in E-environment working in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the most important strategic area of Pakistan. To explore the perceptions of mass media professionals towards information seeking in e-environment is significant, because traditional print newspapers, radio and electronic media (TV) face a steady decline in their information sharing due to the growth of free online contents available through internet.

Research Design: A quantitative survey approach was adopted and 130 structured questionnaires were distributed and received back from the working journalists selected through snowball sampling.

Key Findings: Findings of …

Information And Communication Technology Projects And Nigeria's Academic Libraries: A Design-Reality Approach, Odomero E. Omohwovo, Wole M. Olatokun, Ifedapo R. Ojutawo

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Instances of information communication technology project failure are being recorded in Nigeria. This paper focuses on a design-reality gap to assess the selected information communication technology (ICT) projects in federal universities, South West of Nigeria. We determine the success and failure rates of the selected ICT projects based on the design-reality gap model dimensions: information, technology, processes, objectives and values, staffing and skills, management systems and structures. The outcome of the study showed that, of all the ICT E-library projects assessed, only FUTA E-Library was a success, while the rest E-Library projects were partial failures and only FUNAAB E-Library project …

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

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Current Status Of Information Literacy Practices In Medical Libraries Of Pakistan, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abid Hussain, Arif Khan, Abdus Salaam, Sarah Saeed

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The paradigm shift in medical academic practices in Pakistan is becoming a challenge for medical librarians. Majority of medical schools in Pakistan have started problem based learning, undergrads medical research program and Postgraduate programs. This quantitative study aims to investigate the information literacy program in medical libraries situated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan. The questionnaire administered with in 20 medical colleges libraries using Google Forms as an instrument for data collection and distributed link among all medical college librarians of the province. Findings of the study revealed that majority medical libraries are providing informal information literacy using …

Examining Usability Of The Internet By The Teaching Staff Of The Peshawar Medical College, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abid Hussain, Sarah Saeed, Abdus Salaam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aims to examine the access and purpose of internet use by the teaching staff of Peshawar Medical College, Peshawar.

Method(s)/Materials: Data were collected through a tested questionnaire from 115 teaching staff members of two major groups’ basic sciences and clinical sciences with a response rate (57.39%) of 66 members positively. Teaching faculty comprising 71.40% Male faulty members and 28.60% female took part in the study. Data were analyzed and tabulated using the SPSS tool.

Research Limitation(s): This study was limited to the teaching faculty of basic and clinical science departments of Peshawar Medical College Peshawar.

Key …

Application Of Lotka’S Law To The Research Productivity In The Field Of Thermodynamics During 2015-2019, Chaturbhuj S B, Sadik Batcha M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study applied Lotka’s law of the author’s productivity in the field Thermodynamic from 2015 to 2019. The Goodness of fit test Kolmogorov – Smirnov (K-S) test was applied to the data of thermodynamics research. It is found that the applicability of Lotka’s law is confirmed with 0.003 level of significance in the field of Thermodynamics. Bur Lotka’s inverse square law does not fit the present data. The study found that the most productive author is ‘Wang, J.’ with 159 articles, and the most productive journal is ‘Journal of Molecular Liquids’ with 547 published articles in Thermodynamics. The study reveals …

Bibliometric Estimation Of Research Productivity, Published In The European Journal Of International Law From 2006 – 2019, Zameer Hussain Baladi, Sardar Ali Shah, Taimoor Ali

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Introduction of study: This study portrays the European Journal of International Law's published data from 2006 - 2019, indexed in the Scopus-Elsevier database.

Methodology: The retrieved data tabulated in MS Office Excel Sheet. The author's role and collaboration, type of documents, and association of the first author with the country aimed to explore the issue and year wise frequency of publications.

Results: Total 739 documents published and distributed in seven categories original articles 582; 78.7%, followed by 59; 8% review articles and 56; 7.5% editorials got the top slot in the publications. Single or solo authors wrote …

Role Of Library Professionals In Satisfying User Needs During Pandemic Phase, Sumaira Baba, Sofi Gh.Mohiuddin Jeelani, Dr Shabir Ahmed Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries are considered as treasures of knowledge providing access to huge variety of materials (books, journals, manuscripts, audio/visual etc.) with the help of institutions to which these (libraries) are associated. But, the preservation of such knowledge (material) is also of prime importance in order to make these resources (material) available for information seekers. In this whole process of collection, storage as well as dissemination of (knowledge), library professionals (librarians) has a great role to play. Which cannot be separated at any cost. Even at the time of pandemic, their (library professionals) role need to be very much vibrant to benefit …

An Appraisal Of Research Delineate Of Jordan During 2015 To 2019: A Reflection From Scopus Database, Omar Al Jaradat

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The study is perceived to find the research performance of Jordanian Institutes during the last five years in scopus database. Jordan has produced a total of 14722 research articles published in national and international journals during 2015 to 2019 with a continuous gradual increase both in publications as well as in citations. The public and older universities have performed better as compared to the private and newly established universities. Although, the major chunk of articles has been published in national journals however, as far as the citations are concerned, the international journals have taken a lead. A total of 4767 …

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

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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 …

Beyond The Family Tree: Genealogy Instruction As A Gateway To Primary Source Literacy, Deedee Baldwin

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Say the word “genealogy” in an academic library, and you are bound to see weary librarians and archivists roll their eyes and sigh. But academic librarians can do more than accepting genealogists as a frustrating fact of life: they can recognize a perfect opportunity to teach primary source literacy concepts to a group that is more than open to learning them.

Lotka’S Law And Authorship Distribution Pattern In Global Synthetic Biology Literature, Naheem Kt Mr, Sivaraman P Dr, Saravanan G Dr

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An attempt is made to examine the authorship distribution in Synthetic Biology (SB) literature and to validate Lotka's law of author productivity. Authors obtained data for this study from the WOS database. A total of 12012 papers with 33151 unique authors has identified , and used for further analysis. Authors calculated the exponents "n" and "c". Researchers employed Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test of goodness-of-fit to verify the validity of Lotka's Law in SB literature. The results of this study proved that Lotka's Law of author productivity does fit with SB literature based on the calculated values n = -2.45 and c= …

Library Services And Resources For The Patrons With Disabilities: A Study In Selected College Libraries Of Jorhat District Of Assam, India, Niraj Barua, Zafrina Rahman

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A survey based study was undertaken in selected College libraries in Jorhat District of Assam, India to find out the current status of services and resources for the patrons with disabilities. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from the librarians of the Colleges under the study. Convenience sampling method was used to select the libraries to be part of the study. Data coding and descriptive analysis of data was done using Microsoft Excel. Results show that majority of the College Libraries in Jorhat district are not in a position to provide adequate services to patrons with disabilities. Results …

Awareness And Usage Pattern Of Learner’S On Elearning Platform: A Survey, Vijay Kumar, Shweta Pandey Dr., Parminder Kaur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

During this covid-19 pandemic situation, virtual e-learning environment is more effective and useful for learners’ and for any educational system to cater the needs. E-Learning provides opportunity to the learner’s regardless geographic location, independent of time and place. E-Learning platform helps the learners to enhance their learning skills, employability skill development, subject expertise, and research skills by which the teaching and learning strategy get increases. Learning through e- platforms develop the technical skills, exploring the knowledge, interest of learning and way to change teaching style. Through this paper, an attempt is made to understand the learner’s perception, their interactive pattern …

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

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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 …

Freedom Of Information Law And Records Management Practices Among Records Managers In Nigeria’S Premier University, Oluwabukunmi Dolapo Ifenaike, Wole Michael Olatokun

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Introduction. This study was designed to investigate the awareness level, perception, and the adherence of record managers in the University of Ibadan to the provisions of the Nigerian Freedom of Information Law in relation to stages of records management practice.

Method. Survey design was adopted. The population comprised of 705 records managers and 255 were selected as sample. Data were collected using questionnaire and interview schedule and thereafter analysed using frequency distribution and percentage tables. The interview responses were transcribed and themes were identified using Nvivo version 12.

Results. Findings revealed that the level of awareness of records managers about …

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 …

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 …

Social Media Use Among Undergraduates In Ghanaian Public Universities, Obed S.O. Dadzie, Theophilus Fiawotoafor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated social media use among students of University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to investigate social media platforms and their usage among students, the purposes for students’ use of social media, the amount of time students spent on social media and the amount of time they spent studying daily. The study is a quantitative design that used survey research methodology. A sample size of Level 300 and Level 400 students was selected, out of which 390 (97.5%) responded to the questionnaire that was administered. Stratified random sampling …

Users’ Perception Of Print Media Retention In A Digital Era., Obia Inyang, Margaret Umoh Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Print media usage presented some important qualities overtime, which have made it an advantageous medium of study regardless of the technological advancements of the contemporary times popularly described as the information age. The value, as perceived by scholars in training (users of academic libraries especially), were sort by this research to analyze why prints are still glamour for, in a digital era with all the improvements made by digital adoptions. This study revealed that 378 respondents returned their questionnaire copies out of the 500 sent out and constituted 75.6% returns. Results for objective 1, revealed among others that, clients’ have …