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Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Visually Impaired Students At Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Sufia Khowaja, Nishat Fatima Aug 2020

Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Visually Impaired Students At Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Sufia Khowaja, Nishat Fatima

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study is conducted with the purpose to determine the attitude, perception and the pattern of knowledge sharing among visually impaired students of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Appropriate pattern was formulated for data collection wherein schedule was used to gather data from 76 visually impaired students, the data so collected was analysed using SPSS (ver.23). The results formulated out of the analysis confirms that the visually impaired students consider knowledge sharing as a best practice as they frequently practicing it among their peer groups through various channels of communication e.g. audio material, URLs of websites, etc. The purposes of …


Use And Access Of Grey Literature By The Scholars Of Aligarh Muslim University With Reference To Arts, Social Sciences, And Sciences: A Study, Abdul Moid, M Masoom Raza, Keshwar Jahan Jun 2020

Use And Access Of Grey Literature By The Scholars Of Aligarh Muslim University With Reference To Arts, Social Sciences, And Sciences: A Study, Abdul Moid, M Masoom Raza, Keshwar Jahan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of this study is to examine the use and access of grey literature by Scholars of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and to evaluate the grey literature contents along with general contents in AMU Repository. The study used a quantitative approach using the survey method to collect data by applying the questionnaire as a tool and analyzing the archived resources in AMU repository. Results showed that the Thesis is the highest in number among other archived resources in AMU Repository. Based on the survey, majority of the Scholars opted Theses & Dissertations as the most essential resources for their …


Information Literacy Skills Among The Postgraduate Students At Aligarh Muslim University, India, Shamim Aktar Munshi, Priyanka Nagar Nov 2016

Information Literacy Skills Among The Postgraduate Students At Aligarh Muslim University, India, Shamim Aktar Munshi, Priyanka Nagar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study is to examine the information literacy regarding the library resources among the postgraduate students at Aligarh Muslim University, and to know their basic needs of information and information search strategies in the library as well as in web based resources. The present study selects the descriptive survey method and covers 329 postgraduate students of five selected faculties e.g. Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Commerce, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Social Science at AMU. The questionnaire discusses their information searching strategies on OPAC, their search engine preference, awareness of e-resources, level of information …


Ict Applications And User Satisfaction In Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh: A Survey, Jafar Iqbal Dr., Amjad Ali Dr., Rais Ahmad Khan Mr. Aug 2016

Ict Applications And User Satisfaction In Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh: A Survey, Jafar Iqbal Dr., Amjad Ali Dr., Rais Ahmad Khan Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to investigate the researcher’s awareness and use of ICT based library services provided by Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. For this study, 200 questionnaires have been administered among research scholars through e-mail. Investigators have received a total of 160 responses from respondents showing an overall response rate of 80% and same have been included for the study. The study shows that majority of respondents (46.87%) visit the library daily, 38.12% respondents are frequently using online journal lab, 86.87% respondents are using online journal lab for research purpose, a very high percentage of respondents (93.12%) claim …