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Scientometric Dimensions Of Research Productivity Of The Botany Department, During 1960-2000., Amitava Nandi, Amit Kumar Bandyopadhyay

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometric analysis for 160 theses and 739 thesis articles collected from the Botany Department at The University of Burdwan in eight subdivisions of Botany during 1960-2000 has been carried out to determine year wise productivity, authorship pattern and collaboration. The study has identified that the highest number of thesis submission was 40 during 1981-1985 and the highest number of article submission was 189 during 1976-1980. The highest 22 number of theses were guided by Balen Nandi. Authorship trend is towards multiauthored papers. The Degree of Collaboration is 0.70. The most prolific author was M.A Choudhuri who topped the list with …

The Digital Public Library Of America (Dpla) Is Open!, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is open!

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 60, April 18, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

2013 Libqual+ Survey Results, Kennesaw State University Library System

Library Reports and Surveys

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The Anchor, Volume 126.21: April 17, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Keeping Up With Ebooks: Automated Normalization And Access Checking With Normac, Kathryn Lybarger

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Cataloging ebooks is difficult to do well, as they are often purchased in large collections, sometimes with only low-quality cataloging copy available. MARC records may be provided upfront in a large batch, or trickle in one at a time as they become available. Records may contain links that point nowhere, to the wrong book, or to an offer to sell you the book you already own. Loading records sight unseen may introduce inconsistency or overlay good print records with poor electronic ones, making the catalog much more difficult to search.

This article describes in more detail the major challenges in …

Assisting Students With Disabilities: A Partnership Between The Disability Unit Of The Cape Peninsula University Of Technology And Its Libraries, Petro Coreejes-Brink, Nina Du Toit

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This presentation focuses on attempts at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) to develop a meaningful partnership between the five libraries and the Disability Unit, in order to reconstruct and enrich the academic experience of students with disabilities. CPUT hosts a variety of students from different countries, cultures, economic and social backgrounds, including a number of students with disabilities. In the past, students with disabilities could often not participate fully in academic and student life, due to a context of discrimination, inequity and even inhumanity. They experienced a sense of exclusion, and had the perception that they were not …

The Human Sciences Research Council’S Virtual Library As An Information Hub Which Ultimately Drives The Creation Of New Knowledge., Mark Douglas Frier

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

One of South Africa’s premier research councils, the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) has been actively engaging with its researchers in a virtual space for more than a decade. The nature of the HSRC’s research business model has dictated a footprint which acts as research hubs across South Africa and involving Southern Africa as well. These research hubs are a fundamental inclusion in the virtual space, which is the HSRC’s Virtual Library. Essentially, the HSRC has dedicated research professionals in most of the major city centres in South Africa, namely Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Port Elizabeth. It is …

Doing It Together For Cost Effective Access To Scholarly Information: A South African Perspective, Yvonne Halland

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The South African National Library and information Consortium (SANLiC) is a consortium of 30 public universities and government supported research councils.

It was established in 1999 with envisaged outcomes of substantially increasing the quantity, quality and depth of research literature available to the entire South African academic and research community on an equitable basis and to foster innovation, increase research output and support the competitiveness of the South African science and technology research community.

This paper will give an overview of SANLiC’s history, growth, achievements and current products and services to its members.

Student And Library Services In Cooperation, Eva Nordgren, Linda Gerén

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

At Ångström Laboratory, one of the largest campuses at Uppsala University, the Library and the Student Services Office merged in November 2012. This merger is a pilot project to improve service for students and faculty. Ångström Laboratory has around 900 staff and almost 10,000 students, of whom most also spend time at other campuses. In this paper we describe the background and the implementation of the pilot project.

One of the main reasons for moving together was the wish to gather together all kinds of student services, including the distribution of written examinations in one place. The central location and …

The Design Of An Alternate Reality Game As Capstone Course In A Multimedia Post-Graduate Degree, Koos De Beer, Marlene Holmner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria offers a unique undergraduate and post graduate programme in Multimedia which focuses on aspects of IT that require both creativity and logical thinking. These skills enable students to build and design multimedia products, thus consolidating technology and visual design. One of the Honours (fourth year) programme modules requires the students to consolidate and use all knowledge and skills obtained in the three year degree to successfully design and implement an Alternate Reality Game (ARG).

An ARG is a game that uses interactive fiction, integrated with reality, as its narrative and context. The …

The Embedded Library: A Marriage Made In Heaven Or In Hell?, Glenda Myers, Trish Warner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This case study covers a number of areas in which a 90 year old medical library has been able to redefine purpose and services, and considers both the positive as well as the negative aspects of the embedded relationship.

According to the Shumaker assessment of readiness for embeddedness, the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library (WHSL) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand were more than ready to embrace a partnership by 2010. A survey indicated that a high proportion (93.5%) of academic staff felt that evidence-based information literacy (IL) should be included in the formal medical …

A Collaborative Partnership: Libraries And Careers Services, Cyrill Walters, D Casey

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Globally, universities are rethinking traditional models of service delivery to better serve the new generation of students entering our campuses.

Academic libraries are evolving from their traditional passive role as information repositories to proactive participants in the academic enterprise. However, student support divisions, in this case, UCT Careers Service, are often overlooked as areas in need of library liaison and possible collaboration.

Historically there had been no relationship between UCT Libraries and the Careers Service; neither informal nor infrequent interaction occurred. A new Director was appointed to the UCT Careers Service in 2011. Faced with the task of aligning service …

Towards A Holistic Analysis Tool To Support Decision-Making In Libraries, Lorena Siguenza-Guzman, Ludo Holans, Alexandra Van Den Abbeele, Joos Vandewalle, Henri Verhaaren, Dirk Cattrysse

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic libraries have recently been subjected to continuous budget reductions, mainly due to the increasing costs of information and the global economic crisis. As the primary purpose of an academic library is to provide well-balanced collections and a wide range of services to support education and research, an efficient use and allocation of limited resources is vital. However, allocating resources such as money, staff, time, and infrastructure between the library collection and services represents a challenge due to the multitude of data sources required to consult during a decision-making process.

Academic libraries are accustomed to keeping voluminous statistics on their …

From Cornerstone To Capstone: Information Literacy Collaboration Across The Curriculum, Fiona Salisbury, Jenny Corbin, Tai Peseta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians and academics alike are passionate about how students engage with scholarly information. We want students to build on their existing information literacy skills when they commence university and to graduate with the information skills needed for lifelong learning in their chosen profession and society at large. Collaboration between librarians and academics to embed information literacy into curriculum design is a key strategy for developing students’ information skills. But what impact does our collaborative effort have on student learning outcomes and long-term information seeking behaviour? Are our graduates information literate and ready for a complex information society?

At Latrobe University …

Strategies For Gaining And Maintaining Academic Support For The Institutional Open Access Repository, Martin Borchert, Paula Callan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The impact of research can be measured by use or citation count. The more widely available that research outputs are; the more likely they are to be used, and the higher the impact. Making the author-manuscript version of research outputs freely available via the institutional repository greatly increases the availability of research outputs and can increase the impact.

QUT ePrints, the open access institutional repository of research outputs at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, was established in 2003 and is managed by the QUT Library. The repository now contains over 39,000 records. More than 21,000 of these records have …

Getting In Bed With Our Customers: How Did We Embed Our Services To Push The Library Mission At Vaal University Of Technology, Ntombizodwa G. Thomas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Emerging trends in technology have changed the academic libraries’ landscape and services. These changes will forever impact and influence how libraries conduct their businesses to satisfy the most important people in their lives; that is; the customers we serve, especially in academic libraries.

In the 21^st century waiting for customers to come to the libraries to is no longer working and is also no longer relevant. Getting out of our comfort zones, getting close to our clients, invading their space when they least expect and getting in bed with those customers to satisfy their information needs is now a …

Library As A Coordinator Of University Open Access Initiatives:, Lenka Němečková, Vera Pilecka, Helena Kovarikova

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Service Career System A New Approach To Manage Competencies In An Academic Library, Irma Pasanen, Mari Svahn, Eva Tolonen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Impact Of Cloud Computing On The Future Of Academic Library Practices And Services, Judith Mavodza

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Mobile Library Service At Unisa Western Cape: A Case Study, Geraldine Cele

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The purpose of this poster is to describe the mobile library as a method of library service delivery in Open Distance Learning (ODL). In the context of this presentation the mobile library is a vehicle that carries library material and services to UNISA students. The mobile library is considered as one of the dynamic strategies of providing library and information service to students residing in outlying areas of Cape Town. It reaches out to students who would under normal circumstances not be able to visit branch libraries. It strives to be student-centered by enhancing opportunities of equitable access to library …

The Academic Library Partnership With Faculty: The Case Of James White Library At Andrews University, Silas Olivera

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library Support For Research At Cape Peninsula University Of Technology: Tracking Co-Authorship And Collaboration, Rolf Proske

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Impact Assessment Of E-Learning Initiatives At The University Of Jos And The Role Of Information Literacy In Teaching And Learning, Vicki Lawal, Stephen Akintude

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Acceleration Of Service Delivery By Multiple Collaborations, Elena Vvedenskaia

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Development Research Uptake In Sub-Saharan Africa, Sara Grobbelaar, John Kirkland

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Use Of Electronic Resources By Distance Students In Nigeria: The Case Of The National Open University, Lagos And Ibadan Study Centers, Omoike Adenike Damilola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed factors affecting use of electronic information resources by distance learning students using the National Open University, Lagos and lbadan Study centers as a case study. Survey method was used for the study. The sampling method adopted for the purpose of this study was the simple random sampling techniques. The sampled respondents were drawn from the total population of 12,500 students at the Lagos and lbadan study centers. However 2% of the population from each study centers was used as the sample size. A structured questionnaire was developed and administered to elicit information from the respondents. A total …

Special Interest Group, Caroline Leiss

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Coming Together – A Model Of Integration For Tib And University Library Hannover, Uwe Rosemann

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) and the UB (University Library) Hannover have been successfully working together in an organisational and spatial association for over 40 years, with each having their own business and personnel plans. In the near future, both libraries are to be completely integrated whilst, at the same time, getting their own independent legal status – in this way, the basis for a common strategy, as well as joint organisation and personnel development, will be created.

Parallel to this, various areas are to be significantly strengthened:

The new library will take over the co-ordination …

Iatul Quality Management, Deborah Becker

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

IATUL Quality Mangement