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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 …

Use Of Electronic Information Resources By Social Scientists Of Banaras Hindu University, Rajani Mishra, Ashok Kumar Shukla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The dependency on e-resources in every sphere of intellectual activity is increasing day by day. This study investigates the use of electronic information resources by social scientists of Banaras Hindu University with regard to the advocacy of electronic resources. The study revealed that electronic resources available are fairly accessible to the social scientists. Findings revealed that social scientists fairly used the library for their research and other academic purposes.

Health Information Seeking Among General Public In India During Covid 19 Outbreak: Exploring Healthcare Practices, Information Needs, Preferred Information Sources And Problems, Nida Nafees, Daud Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background: As of October 1, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) reports that COVID-19 has spread in 216 countries or territories or areas which results into throwing billions of lives under lockdown as healthcare services struggle to cope. Therefore, timely access to healthcare information during COVID-19 crisis is mandatory to restrain its spread.

Objectives: To comprehend the information needs and seeking behaviour of general public during COVID-19 outbreak in India.

Methods: A national survey through an online questionnaire was conducted in India and 1310 respondents participated in the study through snowball sampling technique.

Results: The most decisive information needs of majority …

Investigating Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Resources By The Library Users Of Selected Colleges Of Solapur University, Patel Adam Burhansab, Dr. M.Sadik Batcha, Muneer Ahmad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the use of electronic resources/information by library users in selected colleges of Solapur University. Specifically, to investigate the awareness and level of use of electronic resources; perceived reliance, benefits and impact of use of electronic resources on the research activities. The research design for the study was a survey. Questionnaire schedule was used to collect data from 1022 library users from selected colleges of Solapur University. The result revealed that preponderance of users from aided 33.51% Self financing 26.10% and Education colleges 43.24 % preferred to visit the Library once in three days. While analyzing the entire …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Bearing Fault Detection Using Artificial Intelligence, Pooja Kamat, Rekha Sugandhi Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The new industrial revolution called Industry 4.0 is proliferating at its peak. The time is no longer away when the human race is going to witness a huge paradigm shift. Intelligent machines empowered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)will take over the presence of human workers in the industrial manufacturing sector with the target of achieving 100% automation. With the emergence of cut-throat price competition in the product market, it has become equally important to manufacture goods at minimal costs and with the highest quality. Predicting the decrease in machinery efficiency at an earlier stage to accomplish this objective helps to reduce …

Measuring Research Productivity And Performance Of Medical Scientists On Coronary Artery Disease In Brazil: A Metric Study, Muneer Ahmad, Dr. M.Sadik Batcha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of this study was to analyze Brazil research performance on Coronary Artery Disease as reflected in indexed publications in Web of Science with a view to understand their distribution of research output, top journals for publications, most prolific authors, authorship pattern, and citations pattern on CAD. The results indicate that highest growth rate of publications occurred between the years 1995-1999. University Sao Paulo topped the scene among all institutes. The maximum publications were more than ten authored publications. Ramires JAF and Santos RD were found to be the most prolific authors. It is also found that most of …

The Role Of Social Media In Collaborative Library And Information Science Education: Nigerian Perspective, Charis Onuoha Mrs, Chris Enyia Dr, Doris Obiano Dr, Peter Odeh Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Collaboration is highly required in today’s educational setting to guarantee that abilities, flairs, skills and knowledge are dispersed to peers as extensively as possible. The objective of this study was to examine the assumption of social media in curriculum development, education and research in Library and Information Science (LIS) the Nigerian perspective. The study reviewed the Library and Information Science Educational scenario in Nigeria, the LIS Education in Nigeria is offered at various levels ranging from National Diploma (ND), Higher National Diploma (HND), BLS/BLIS, PGD, MLS/MLIS and Ph.D. These Library and Information Science Education programs are offered on regular basis, …

Awareness And Use Of Electronic Information Resources By Students In Nigeria Polytechnics, Bello Sani Manzo, S. Kannan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examines student’s familiarity and extent of using electronic information resources in the polytechnic libraries of Nigeria. The rationale for the study was inform by the paucity of research on e-resources usage among students in polytechnics, particularly in Nigeria. The specific objectives were to identify the types of e-facilities and the availability of e-resources, students level of familiarity, the extent of use, and the purpose of utilizing the e-resources. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. Questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection instruments. the population of the study consists of regular students from 12 polytechnics in …

Measuring Growth And Impact Of Neuroscience Researches In India: A Scientometric Analysis Based On Scopus, Vinod Kumar Gautam Mr., Rajani Mishra

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present study focuses on growth of neuroscience research in India and its impact on scholarly world. Total 4812 data were collected from Scopus database for the period of 2004-2018. Analysis of the data revealed considerable increase in Annual Growth Rate in neuroscience research with 10.52% CAGR for the entire period. Relative Growth Rate (RGR) was increasing with minor fluctuations i.e. growth in Neuroscience research is not exponential ratio rather than it is arithmetic ratio and Doubling Time is similar to RGR. Trend (Least Square) of the neuroscience publications showed an increase trend during the study period. But the prediction of …

Role Of Digital Libraries In Library And Information Science Education: A Study Among Lis Students Of Mg University, Kottayam, Prakash Abraham, Sajan Kuriakose, Althaf M. Salim

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this electronic era, students, professionals, and researchers have to access the information at any time and from anywhere. Libraries play a crucial role in the education system by sharing their expensive resources and provide various kinds of services to learners. Other than the traditional concept, the upcoming concept of the borderless library is applied recently. It becomes a need of time to provide digital access to the learners. LIS education is the area of education where the future library professionals are created and generated. Digital library functions as a single interface where LIS students can acquire all the necessary …

Influence Of Ownership Structure And Leadership Styles On Turnover Intention Of Lis Professionals: Empirical Evidence From Private Universities In Osun State Nigeria, Saheed Abiola Hamzat Dr., Blessing Damilola Abata-Ebire, Tolulope Tosin Ogunjinmi, Omobola Abigail Babarinde

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated the influence of ownership structure and leadership styles on turnover intention of Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals in private universities in Osun State, Nigeria. Descriptive and inferential statistics of frequency counts, percentages and correlational methods were employed to analyse the data gathered from 59 LIS professionals in the State. The indices of ownership structure (functional, divisional, matrix and hybrid) and leadership styles (democratic, autocratic, transactional) were found to have positive linear correlations with turnover intention of LIS professionals. Deployment of varying leadership styles, promotion of ‘entity concept’ and facilitation of inter-relationship among …

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 …

Evaluation Of Nigeria Universities Websites Using Alexa Internet Tool: A Webometric Study, Samuel Oluranti Oladipupo Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper seeks to evaluate the Nigeria Universities websites using the most well-known tool for evaluating websites “Alexa Internet” a subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. The present study has been done by using webometric methods. The top 20 Nigeria Universities websites were taken for assessment. Each University website was searched in Alexa databank and relevant data including links, pages viewed, speed, bounce percentage, time on site, search percentage, traffic rank, and percentage of Nigerian/foreign users were collected and these data were tabulated and analysed using Microsoft Excel worksheet. The results of this study reveal …

The Anxiety Of Covid-19 Outbreak And Its Impact On Students’ Academic Activity: A Case Study Of Nit Durgapur, India, Jitendra Kumar, Amit Kumar Verma, Rajesh Das

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Central Library National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, West Bengal, India conducted study after the announcement of nationwide lockdown in India to know the students’ awareness about COVID-19, anxiety caused, if any, due to the Pandemic and its impact over their academic activities. Central Library also tries to find out the user satisfaction and expectations during the lockdown. Authors opted Google form as a questionnaire which contains the questions of general perception and distributed via Institute email Ids. Responses were analysed using Microsoft Excel. Two hundred fifty research scholars and postgraduate students were selected randomly for the study and 135 …

Analysis Of The Needs Of Information About Issn For Scientific Journal Managers In Indonesia, Dwi Ridho Aulianto, Pawit M. Yusup, Yanti Setianti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to find out what information is needed by scientific journal publishers. The method of this study was a questionnaire and interview to the participants of the ISSN workshop held by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). The answers of the question are processed and analyzed as the research data. The results of the study showed that the information which is needed by scientific journal managers are not only about the national accreditation but also the basic information needs regarding the use of ISSN, there are still many scientific journal publishers who published their works without any guidance or …

Indian Wheat Research Output In Two Decades: A Bibliometric Study Based On Scopus Data From 1996-2015, Anil Kumar Siwach

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the Indian wheat research output during 1996 to 2015 from a bibliometric point of view.

Methodology: The data for the study was extracted from Scopus database for the 20 years time period from 1996-2015 using the keywords identified through MeSH. A total of 8554 Indian papers on wheat research were selected and analyzed to study the year-wise output, most prolific authors, document types, top journals, top institutions, international collaborations, funding agencies, citation profile and top cited papers.

Findings: With 8.52% of the global research output on wheat, India …

Awareness And Use Of Academic Social Networking Sites Among Library And Information Science Professionals In North Eastern Region In India, Stephen G, Pramanathan U

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A variety of Academic Social Networking (ASN) Platforms, Including ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Google Scholar, have gained popularity over the past decades. A common capability of many of these academic social networking websites is to provide an online repository to which users can upload and share research papers. Now 10 years since the launch of the three main platforms which currently lead the market (Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley), it is timely to review how and why ASNS are used. Recently Microsoft Academic also. These sites allow uploading academic articles, abstracts, and links to published articles; track demand for published articles, and …

Bibliometric Mapping Of Scholar Publishing In Physics: Exploratory Study, Anna Novotna, Jan Novotny, Kamil Matula

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The focus of this study is quite narrow, still we strove to keep our ways of exploring the data extensive to thoroughly examine them. We were not led by specific hypotheses but we tried to find dependencies and interesting points which could be examined further in bigger scope with more data.

We investigated preference of journals based on publications. We also explored publishing groups and their core journals. We also examined quantity of topics in which the scholars publish and their behavior in terms of their uploads of preprints to arXiv.org before the paper gets officially published.

There were some …

Cell Phone Use And Social Alienation Of Young Teenagers, Alireza Atarodi, Marzeyeh Rajabi, Ahmadreza Atarodi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract:

Introduction: The aim of the study was to survey the degree of cell phone use with their dependence to it and the social alienation of young teenagers.

Methods: It was a review, a survey type and in terms of application it was an observatory research on correlation between cell phone usages with student alienation in 2020.

Results: The results of the research showed that there is a relationship between the degree of cell phone dependence with social alienation among users and mostly young teenagers.

Conclusion: Young teenagers use cell phone much and incorrectly in some ways …

A Comparative Study On The Use Of Information Sources Among Undergraduates In Academic Institutions, Sumaira Jabeen Baba, Dr Shabir Ahmed Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In the present era of information explosion, the library, in all forms (academic, public, special etc.) acts as the inseparable part of the society and brain of the academic institution. As the quality of education is mostly judged by the quality of libraries of a particular nation. Besides this these (libraries) can help in the close examination of growth and development. Although with the introduction of world wide web, the position of the library does not appears to be the same. It (web) gives rise to a Generation of users (library users) who now perceive the web technology as the …

Inclinations Of Global Research On Saffron As Represented By Science Citation Index-Expanded, Muzamil Mushtaq, Basharat Ahmad Malik, Ali Raza, Mohammad Afaan Fazili

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Using the Science Citation Index-Expanded of the Web of Science Core Collection, we analyzed global saffron research literature published between 1991 and 2017. The variables examined were research performance of nations, institutions, and authors. The study noted that the distribution of author keywords, citations, and publication patterns of saffron related articles to ascertain the research inclinations. The highly cited articles and author keyword analysis showed that the chemical and biochemical qualities of saffron were of key interest for the researchers.