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Utilisation Of Academic Library Information Resources And Services By Administrative And Professional Senior Members For Scholarly Communication And Work-Related Activities – The Case Of Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology, Esther White (Phd.), James Kwasi Oberko

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This article contributes to the body of knowledge on scholarly communication and effective utilisation of academic library information resources and services by Administrative and Professional Senior Members in public universities. The aim of the article was to ascertain the utilisation of information resources and services from the academic library system by Administrative and Professional Senior Members for their scholarly communication and work-related activities. A case study research design and sequential explanatory mixed method approach were adopted with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as the research site. Data for the study were collected through self-designed questionnaire using Google …

Impact Of Ict Skills Upon Legal Professionals Of Lahore High Court Bar Association And Their Practice, Muhammad Jameel, Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Tariq Dr., Muhammad Shahzad Chaudhry Dr.

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Objective:

Objective of this research was to investigate the impact of ICT skills upon Legal Professionals of Lahore High Court Bar Association and their Practice.

Methodology:

In view of the suitability and usability as well as the previous studies conducted in the field, the survey research method was adopted for this study. The population of was Advocates of Lahore High Court, Pakistan. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to conduct this study. The survey questionnaire was adapted as a data collection tool for this study. After collection of data, a numerical analysis using SPSS was performed to present the …

Bibliometric Review On Inertial Sensors Based Position Estimation Using Sensor Fusion, Animesh Mishra, Hamshita Kancharlapalli, Ankit Kumar, Aditya Chauhan, Parag Narkhede

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Background: This paper analyzes the position estimation of UAV in a 3D environment, on the basis of inertial sensors and sensor fusion algorithm, done from the year 1994 to 2020. This paper contains various bibliometric analyses previously done on this topic.

Methods: The content for this topic was taken from the popular Scopus database. The Scopus provides many filters for searching databases with different document categories like document by year, country, etc. The research carried in this paper also includes co-authorship, citation analysis, etc.

Results: A total of 345 articles were obtained from the last 20 years, on the topic …

Remote Access Mechanism Exploring Electronic Databases In Law Schools In India: A Lifeline During Covid-19 Lockdown, Akash Singh

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Bar Council of India under Section 4 of Advocates Act 1961 passed by Indian Parliament, governs legal education and practice in India. Law Schools are approved and governed under the rules framed by Bar Council of India. Currently, India has twenty three law schools apart from more than 2000 law departments and colleges in India. Lockdown of academic institutions due to COVID 19 interrupted educational and research activities in law schools too. The paper here and now showcases a comparative study of usage of electronic contents by their patrons during pre-lockdown and lockdown period by remote access mechanism. The paper …

Satisfaction Of Visually Impaired Students With Resources And Services At Gc University Lahore, Pakistan, Abid Iqbal Iqbal, Khurram Shahzad, Samreen Lateef, Nazia Azeem

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Purpose: This research's main goal was to know the resources and services being offered to the visually impaired students at GC University Lahore and their level of satisfaction with the facilities they are being provided.

Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative study design was opted to get the purpose of this research. Convenience Sampling technique was applied to get required results. 50 visually impaired students were chosen as a sample from the population of almost 300 special students who were currently enrolled in different disciplines at GC University Lahore. Required data was collected after having used close-ended interview technique because majority of the target …

E-Learning Enhancement, Status And Attitude Of Learners Towards Teaching Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic, Shweta Gupta, Shri Ram Pandey, Sujata Gupta

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The study explored the several dimensions of eLearning used by Indian Higher Institutions and presented insight into current eLearning pedagogy, infrastructures, services, and perceptions during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The study's findings reveal that Indian Academic institutions are unwilling to shift to the online mode for teaching, learning thoroughly. Pandemic forced them to adopt the e-learning pedagogy and tools. A majority of users still prefer the traditional classroom environment as compared to eLearning. Email, social media, and other communications tools became vital today. Email, traditionally used as a communication tool, is now a key player in delivering educational content. Social media …

The Status Of Continuing Education Programs (Ceps) In Government Sector University Libraries: An Appraisal, Khurram Shahzad

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Purpose---Information Communication Technologies have entirely reshaped services of university libraries. Library professionals of the universities need to be technology specialist to implement emerging technologies in libraries. Library practitioners can design services keeping in view the demands of digital age users through Continuing Education Programs (CEPs). The purpose of this article is to determine the status of the application of CEPs in Government Sector University Libraries of Lahore, Pakistan, reasons to pursue for CEPs, factors leading towards CEPs, and strategies for the implementation of CEPs in the universities.

Design/methodology/approach------ Quantitative research design was used to gather data from 15 …

Web Accessibility Of Indian University Library Website: An Evaluation With Wave Website Evaluation Tool, Anita Sharma, Ranjeet Kumar Choudhary Prof.

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The advent of new teaching-learning methods has brought a great demand for accessible educational websites. There is much research on the accessibility of the website on educational websites in recent years from different countries. A website serves as a communication channel for publishing information and services in higher education. It is expected that higher education institutions must provide access to their information resources and services to all its user in an equal manner irrespective of their physical disability. Hence, it should be mandatory for higher education institutions to include web accessibility as an important part of their websites. Libraries are …

Evaluation Of The Use Of University Library Resources And Services By The Students’ Of Lead City University: A Case Study Of Nursing Students, Omeiza Victor Jatto, Bakare Oluwabunmi D.

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The study was designed and conducted to evaluate the use of university library resources and services by nursing students of Lead City University, Ibadan. Descriptive survey design was use for this study and the population all nursing students was approximately 500 as at the time of this study, 20% of the population (100) was used. Close observation and a structured questionnaire were used with 100% return rate. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency counts and simple percentages). The findings shows that minority (14%) of the respondents don’t use the library on daily basis, among all the library …

A Bibliometric Analysis On Optimization Of Application Layer Protocols In The Internet Of Things, Sagar Jaikar

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Internet of Things (IoT), getting popular day by day, thanks to the every object that has been made intelligent and started communicated among themselves with ease. These objects are equipped with sensors and capable of connecting and exchanging the application data over the Internet. While the application data is getting exchanged among these intelligent objects smoothly, there are various concerns with these intelligent objects like they are constrained when it comes to resources like memory, processing capability, power consumption etc. In this regard many attempts are made to enhance or to optimize existing messaging protocols so that we can get …

National Policy Framework For Building Etds In India: With Special Reference Of Ugc Regulations And Open Doar Institutional Repositories, Dattatraya Trayambak Kalbande

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To create awareness about responsible conduct of research, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing among student, faculty, researcher and staff is the main challenge behind higher educational institutions in India. Up to the 2005 theses, dissertations, research papers and rare collection in most of the Indian libraries, are kept in closed access and it is very difficult to the researchers to access them as a reference source for the further study as well as to avoid duplication, to avoid plagiarism to maintain research ethics in the research, but after that in …

Information Discovery And Scholar Networking As Modes Of Scholarly Communication: A Comparative Study, Noor Abutayeh Dr., Berta Garcia-Orosa Dr., Khaldoon M. Al_Dwairi Dr.

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This study sought to investigate information discovery and scholar networking as modes of scholarly communication across researchers in the Arab region. An online survey was distributed in December 2020 using the Google form. The questionnaire also includes the following elements: (a) what are the researchers’ purposes of using electronic resources; (b) how do researchers look for and access scholarly material and (c) what methods of networking are mostly used for scholar connection. The findings revealed no significant differences across the groups, even when it comes to gender and respondents’ discipline, it is clear that ResearchGate is the most popular among …

Discovering Topics From The Titles Of The Indian Lis Theses, Sourav Mazumder, Tapan Barui

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A lot of text data is being generated on the web in the form of scholarly articles, doctoral thesis, social media, library databases, and data archives. They are easy to use but complicated to process for research works. That is exactly why text mining is required and topic modeling is one of the most important techniques involved in text mining. In this paper, an attempt has been made to discover topics from the thesis titles (uploaded theses) in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). For this work, the text data (n=2132) has been obtained from the Shodhganga. Then, …

Waqf As A Medium For Community Development: A Review On Literature From 2010 To 2020, Ahmad Fahme Mohd Ali, Wan Ahmad Amirzal Wan Ahmad, Nurasyikin Ghazali, Ruzanifah Kosnin, Naiziatul Aziah Mohd Radzi, Azwan Abdullah, Nurhanan Abdul Rahman

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Nowadays, the application of Waqf in community has become more widespread as a source of community development. The objective of this article is to analyse and examine the related literatures on Waqf towards community development from 2010 to 2020. Descriptive research is employed as the methodology of this article based on a number of literatures on Waqf and community development within a ten-year duration. Exactly 100 articles were gathered from on World of Science (WoS), Scopus, Google Scholar, and Mendeley software using specific keywords, namely “Waqf and Community Development,” “Waqf and Economic Development,” and “Waqf + Community …

Awareness And Usage Of Ict Tools Among Postgraduate Students’ In The University Of Ghana And The University Of Cape Coast, Samuel Ankamah

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This paper aims to identify the awareness and utilisation of ICT applications to facilitate research of postgraduate students. With the survey design, 346 respondents were selected out of 4907 postgraduate students from the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast using the stratified and convenience sampling techniques to participate in this study. Using the TAM3 theory, the study identified that most students were aware that ICT use in research can facilitate their scientific inquiries. Most students were aware of ICT tools. The results further indicated that ICT tools were well publicised. Again, most of the respondents indicated that …

Effect Of Knowledge Sharing On Nurse’S Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect Of Innovation Behavior, Ghulam Murtaza Rafique Dr., Khalid Mahmood Dr.

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Knowledge sharing (KS) plays a vital role in increasing the innovation behavior (IB) of employees which ultimately causes their job satisfaction (JS). The extant literature indicated a lack of studies that determined the effect of KS at work place on JS where the mediating role of IB was also analyzed. As, no study was conducted before on this topic considering professional nurses as a unit of analysis, therefore, this study extends the scant literature by examining the effect of KS on nurses’ JS with the mediating effect of IB. The data were collected from 208 currently working professional nurses at …

Growth And Development Of Central Secretariat Library, Ministry Of Culture, Government Of India: A Study, Meera Yadav, Kimi Mahawariya

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The present study shows the trend of collection, services, facilities, staff, information security system and digitization in the Central Secretariat Library (CSL), New Delhi, a library under the purview of Ministry of Culture, Government of India from 2010 to 2020. Data has been collected with the help of questionnaire followed by consultation of annual reports of Ministry of Culture. Findings of research shows that CSL has witnessed a significant growth and development in various horizons of the field of library with the advancement of time. It has been found that a collection of more than 1 lakh which includes books, …

Job Motivation And Personal Characteristics Of Library And Information Professionals In Universities, Dr. Naseer A

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The present study attempts to find the relationship between personal characteristics and job motivation among Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals working in university libraries. The factors analyzed for studying job motivation are interest in work, co-workers, promotion and growth, good pay, opportunities for higher studies and training, qualification and advancement. Personal characteristics such as gender, age, qualifications, experience, the scale of pay, and membership in the professional bodies are analyzed with job motivation. The primary data for the study was collected through designing a structured questionnaire. The respondents of the study are two hundred and sixty-six LIS professionals …

Role Of School Library In Meeting The Educational Information Needs Of Secondary School Students, Vera Victor-Aigbodion

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The present study examined the roles school libraries play in meeting the educational information needs of secondary school students in Nigeria. The research design was a descriptive survey. To realize the four specific purposes of the study, 200 secondary school students were sampled from four secondary schools in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State, Nigeria. Their opinions were sampled using a researcher-developed questionnaire. First, it was found that students' educational information needs were mostly academic and related to future career development. The findings further suggest that the role of school libraries as major sources of educational information for secondary …

Research On Digital Preservation: An Empirical Analysis, Sasmita Patra, Jyotshna Sahoo Dr., Basudev Mohanty

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Digital preservation is an evolving area of research for libraries, archives, and museums across the globe over the last two decades. Due to the growing recognition of the need to address various issues dealt with digital preservation, this field of study has generated quite a range of scholarly communications on several aspects. The present paper aims to examine critically the extant literature on "digital preservation and libraries" for the period from 2001 to 2019 and to assess the evolving trajectory and trends. Out of a total of 1292 extracted records from the Scopus database, a total of 710 articles are …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Research Productivity Of Academic Staff In College Of Animal Science And Livestock Production, Federal University Of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Nigeria, Hajarat Oyiza Abubakar Mrs, Anne Sam Etuk, Jemilat Iyabo Arilesere, Oluwasogo Joshua Busayo Abiodun

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An Analysis Of Knowledge Production And Patterns Of Authorship In Fourteen Law Journals From 2005 – 2019., Sardar Ali Shah, Rehana Anjum, Taimoor Ali, Saleh Ali Alqarni, Zameer Hussain Baladi

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Approach: To identify authors' association in each document published in fourteen law journals from 2005 – 2019. Methodology: Data for research downloaded from Scopus-Elsevier databases. International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) as "Default" use in the menu bar of each journal in CSV file format to tabulate in MS Excel year-wise, and degree of collaboration.

Results: There are 7688 documents under eight domains; articles, conference papers, editorial, erratum, letters to the editor, notes, review articles, and short surveys written by 13823 authors in fourteen journals linked with the subject of law from 2005 - 2019. Articles 5798; 75.4% …

Assessing Undergraduate And Post Graduate Students’ Information Literacy Skills: Scenario And Requirements In Pakistan, Muhammad Safdar, Haroon Idrees Dr.

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This study was conducted to assess information literacy (IL) skills of post graduate (PG) and undergraduate (UG) students, of one of the premier universities at the national level of Pakistan. It was also intended to explore the students’ opinion about the need of information literacy program and related contents. Quantitative research approach was employed to conduct the study and survey method using structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from 400 respondents using convenient sampling technique. Results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents lacked information literacy skills. However, the major part of the respondents considered the …

Research Trends On Law Subject During 2005 – 2019: A Biblio-Profile, Sardar Ali Shah, Rehana Anjum, Taimoor Ali, Saleh Ali Alqarni, Zameer Hussain Baladi

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This study aims to evaluate the research productivity published in fifteen law journals. Data of the survey downloaded from the Scopus-Elsevier database, store, and tabulated in MS Excel to determine the frequency of printed documents, and figure out the number of articles, conference papers, editorials, erratum, letters, notes, review articles, and short surveys yearly. Total 8789 documents published in fifteen law journals from 2005 - 2019, the 6483; 74% of documents published in article format, followed by review 1372; 16%, and note 387; 4%. The Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics published 1240; 14.1%, documents as maximum, and …

Library E-Resources At Your Doorsteps: A Study Based On Inflibnet’S Infed Access, Dr. Sudhi S. Vijayan, Renjith V. R

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Globally, during the lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, the library services are a challenging one that changed both the publishers’ and librarians’ outlook, which resulted in the maximum utilization of library electronic resources through remote login. This study aims to analyze the universities in India utilizing e-resources through the INFED facility. It seeks to analyze region-wise, category-wise and state-wise access of INFED by different universities across the country. Data was collected directly from the INFED website. A total of 171 institutions were identified as member institutions in INFED till 1^st February 2021.Out of these 171 member institutions, 101 …

User Satisfaction On The Use Of Kendriya Vidyalaya Libraries Of Guwahati, India: A Pilot Study, Nitupan Sarmah, Narendra Lahkar

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The present study is a pilot study of the user satisfaction in the Kendriya Vidyalaya Libraries of Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. The users of a school library generally are the students and the teaching and non -teaching staff of the Vidyalaya. A survey method was adopted for the collection of data and to address the research problem. KV libraries are well equipped with both human constituent and bibliographical constituent. The KV libraries are rendering some services and this paper is concentrated on the satisfaction of the users in the services provided by the library authority. A total number …

The Extent Of Online Platforms Utilization For Scholarly Research Work Dissemination: A Survey Of Academic Staff In African Universities, Valentine Joseph Owan, Michael Ekpenyong Asuquo Ph.D, Violet Makuku Ph.D., Eno Etudor-Eyo Ph.D.

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An assessment of the extent of the use of electronic platforms by African academic staff in universities to disseminate research was done in this study. The study is informed by the growing importance of online repositories and preprint servers in the scientific communication of scholarly output, especially in an era where the use of metrics for research appraisals and funding decisions is commonly practised. The quantitative research method was adopted, based on the descriptive survey research design. The snowball sampling technique was used for data collection. Data were collected from 1,977 respondents, distributed across 24 African countries, through the use …

Assessment Of Awareness Level Of E-Learning Classroom Strategies Of University Lecturers: Implication For Evaluation Of Library And Information Science Resources, Bianca Uzoamaka Mbonu-Adigwe, Bukar Alhaji Umate, William Okoroaja Onu, Ifesinachi Jude Ezugwu, Cliff Ikenna Okebanama, Maureen Nkolika Okoye, Christian Sunday Ugwuanyi Phd, Chinedu I.O. Okeke Phd

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The emergence of information technology has brought a drastic change in the role of university libraries. University Libraries play key role in supporting e-learning implying that Library and information science personnel can significantly assist in the integration of information resources in the process of electronic learning. Thus, this study investigated lecturers’ level of awareness of e-learning classroom strategies. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The sample comprised 149 lecturers teaching integrated science courses. Instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled Lecturers’ Awareness Level of E-learning Strategies (LALES). LALES was validated and the reliability index of the …

Local History Collection On Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu In The Public Libraries In Nabadwip, Shekhor Modak

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This study investigates the local history collection on Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in public libraries of Nabadwip. It focuses on the local history collection on Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu needed by the patron of the library, tourist, historians, writers. It also tries to find out what type of documents or resources needed by the information seeker, their frequency to visit the library to achieve their information queries and their satisfaction level towards library collection services and facilities provided by the library. A descriptive method used, and the data collected through a questionnaire from library users. Findings are made on the basis of …

Information Age And Knowledge Society: Implication For Libraries, Faith O. Mesagan, Christopher Eje Ogar, Olalekan F. Adurota, Eucharia N. Aye, Joseph O. Wogu

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The paper highlighted the concepts of information age and knowledge society and their implication for libraries. Basic concepts such as information and knowledge society were defined. A brief historical role of information and knowledge from the pre-historic period to modern concepts or information and knowledge society were examined. The role of libraries as facilitators to information age and knowledge society were also highlighted in the context of information and communication technology (ICT) in the present-day society, the arising need for ICT competencies was advocated. The paper concluded by making some recommendations like developing a workable ICT adequate and functional ICT …