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Designing Targeted Mobile Advertising Campaigns, Kimia Keshanian

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the proliferation of smart, handheld devices, there has been a multifold increase in the ability of firms to target and engage with customers through mobile advertising. Therefore, not surprisingly, mobile advertising campaigns have become an integral aspect of firms’ brand building activities, such as improving the awareness and overall visibility of firms' brands. In addition, retailers are increasingly using mobile advertising for targeted promotional activities that increase in-store visits and eventual sales conversions. However, in recent years, mobile or in general online advertising campaigns have been facing one major challenge and one major threat that can negatively impact the …

Work Stress And Information Anxiety Of Library Personnel In Academic Libraries In Nigeria, Adenike Ayokari Adebamiro, Sunday O. Popoola Prof

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper investigates work stress and information anxiety of library personnel in academic libraries in South-west, Nigeria. The research design adopted for the study was survey method of the correlational type. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample population of 308 (60% of the population) out of 703 library personnel in academic libraries in South-west, Nigeria. The findings of this study revealed that the level of work stress of the library personnel is moderate with a mean score X = 52.45; SD=7.366. The level of information anxiety of is also moderate with mean score X=36.87; SD= 6.370. …

A Bibliometric Study On Dc, Rgt, And Dt Of Publications And Citations Of Istl Journal During 2010-2020, Dr Arup Kumar Mondal, Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents a bibliometric study on DC, RGT, and DT of Publications and Citations of ISTL Journal during 2010-2020. The study was based on 224 articles published in ISTL Journal during the years 2010-2020. This paper aims to analyze the Authorship distribution of the publication, degree of collaboration among authors, relative growth rate, and doubling time of publications and citations. It is found from the analysis that the degree of collaboration in ISTL publications is 0.5 i.e., equal to the standard DC. It means the progress of collaborative research neither slow nor so fast. It is in a balanced …

Interested In Institutional Open Access Policies? Coapi Can Help!, Arthur J. Boston, Jere Odell, Mona Ramonetti, Alainna Wrigley

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Institutional open access policies serve as a pledge by institutional authors to make their works open access in a repository to ensure that anyone can access and use their research—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives. Librarians that support policy implementation connect readers from far and wide to research—getting to the heart of what an academic library should be. Often trained in providing faculty guidance and familiar with scholarly publishing, librarians are well …

Opening Calasys To All Members, Sai Deng, Weiling Liu, Suzhen Chen, Mingyan Li, Meng Qu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Since the Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources and Repository System (CALASYS, https://ir.cala-web.org/) was initiated in 2013, its collections have grown gradually by way of the Committee’s curation and entries with occasional help from LIS students. In order to resolve the bottleneck problems, promote CALASYS and expand its content, the 2020-2021 CALASYS Committee has strongly pursued the idea of opening CALASYS to all of the CALA members. The Committee began to implement the author self-contribution plug-in in the CALASYS’ Omeka platform in 2020. This poster will focus on the implementation of the self-contribution plug-in. It will cover the main …

Web Presence Of Arts And Science College Libraries In Kerala, India: An Analysis Of Content, Archana Sn

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to ascertain how and to what extent the information regarding libraries is presented in the websites of the Arts and Science Colleges of Kerala, India. The contents of the library websites/webpages were analysed using a check-list containing 28 criteria, developed for this purpose. A sample of 32 colleges were selected for the study. The most popular features available in these websites were identified and the websites/webpages were ranked on the basis of certain scores assigned to every criterion. The major findings shows that majority of these colleges have a web presence and information regarding library opening hours, …

Halal Tourism Indicators: A Bibliometric Study, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Muhammad Aswad, Wahyu Ario Pratomo, Endang Hendrayanti, Yulizar Djamaluddin Sanrego

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the development map of halal tourism research that is published by reputable journal. By searching with the keyword “Halal Tourism”, the data analyzed from 65 publications of indexed halal tourism research publications. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of halal tourism research from 2009-2020 experienced a fluctuated increase and the most were published in 2020. The author who published the most research results in the field of halal tourism was Amr Al-Ansi, Mohamed Battour and Joan C. Henderson. In addition, the most significant journal on halal tourism is International Journal …

Exploring The Boundless Influence Of Electronic Resources On The Patrons Of Medical And Engineering College Libraries, Keshav Ramesh Dhuri Dr, Jovita Lobo Ms

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present research study is a snapshot of the influence and use of e-resources by the patrons of Engineering and Medical Colleges in the state of Goa. Living in the digital era, e-resources are increasingly important to all aspects of education from learning to teaching. The study aims at exploring the boundless influence of e- resources on the patrons, the use and needs and also the availability of e-resources in the libraries of medical and engineering colleges in Goa. The data for the study is gathered from 960 users which comprised of students and faculty. The exploration discovered that the …

Fifty Six Years Research Productivity Of Library Resources And Technical Services: A Bibliometric Analysis, Nusrat Ali, Sanila Aslam, Muhammad Naveed, Nadeem Siddique

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This bibliometric analysis represents the fifty six years (1965-2020) research productivity of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS). Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has been publishing a journal “Library Resources and Technical Services”. It is a peer-reviewed journal and continuously serving from 1957. The research having aims to highlights the research outcomes/research productivity of the journal from the last fifty six years. Data was accumulated from Web of Science (core collection). Tools such as Biblioshiny, VOSviewer and MS Excel have been used for processing and data analysis. The assessment is based on various occurrences such as types …

A Bibliometric Study Annals Of Library And Information Studies, Sachin Vaidya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to analyze the Annals of Library and Information Studies for a period 2016 to 2020. In this study the issue wise number of articles, authorship pattern and the degree of collaboration are analysed. The study also analysed the country and state wise contribution of articles, the length of articles on the basis of pages and the number of reference.

Utilization And Awareness Of Electronic Resources By The Teaching Staff Of King Fahd University Of Petroleum And Minerals (Kfupm), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Md.Safiqur Rahaman, Dr. Saleh A Al-Baridi, Asif Altaf, Khadeeja M N Ansari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the usages of e-resources by the teaching staff of the KFUPM and evaluate the level of awareness, knowledge of the availability and retrieval of electronic resources.

Methodology: A survey was designed to conduct the study using Google form and send it to the targeted participants through email. One hundred-one responses were received from the eight colleges and 33 departments of KFUPM.

Results: The majority of teaching staff uses electronic resources and are aware of them. Most of them access electronic resources for their research work; most of them access electronic resources from off-campus and …

A Study Of Teacher Educators’ Skill And Ict Integration In Online Teaching During The Pandemic Situation In India, Subaveerapandiyan A, R Nandhakumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information and communication technology prompted the sharing of information over the world. For its impact on education, the government and the authorities like the University Grants Commission in India have energized the higher education institutions in India to implement online education during the pandemic situation. This paper attempts to know the teaching faculties' ICT skills and related online class skills in higher educational institutions in India. In India, like developing countries, quick as the lightning change in traditional to fully online classes are like a rumble of thunder because faculties are adopting this situation but students are challenging to adopt. …

Strategic Human Resource Management As Exemplified By The Centre Of Scientific And Technical Information Of The Lublin University Of Technology, Katarzyna Weinper, Stanisława Pietrzyk-Leonowicz

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

So far, there has been no study on strategic management issues at the Library of the Lublin University of Technology. The article presents the main elements of the strategic management of the unit, i.e., the methods and techniques of employee recruitment, staff adaptation and turnover, the employee evaluation system, as well as incentives and motivation. It presents a training strategy supporting professional development and defines the problem of pathology and dysfunction in a unit.

Creating Topical Exhibits In Digital Commons, Linda Tesar

Sandbox Series

When the William & Mary Law School Equity and Inclusion Exhibits Committee decided to begin hosting a series of physical exhibits with online components, the Wolf Law Library staff eagerly offered the scholarship repository as the best place to house the online exhibits collection. In late February, the library launched the first digital exhibit, “Black History at W&M Law.” In this talk, Linda will discuss the repository structure and format W&M chose, how different material was integrated into the collection, and give some insight into what worked and what didn’t.

Teaching Them How To Fish: Supporting Digital Collection Building Through Regional Partnerships, Marianne Swierenga, Sharon Carlson, Amy Bocko

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

When asked what the barriers were to digitizing and sharing their unique collections online, many smaller cultural heritage institutions say a lack equipment, systems, and expertise. Our answer to that: mobile digitization lab, training, and digital collections hosting. Western Michigan University Libraries, in partnership with the Gilmore Car Museum and Richland Community Library, has been developing a model that aims to make digitization, metadata creation, and digital collection building possible for smaller-scale regional libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Supported by a LSTA grant though the Library of Michigan, and leveraging digital collection building expertise at WMU, this pilot project will …

Library Services Program Review- Executive Summary, Lindenwood University

Library Services

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The Format That Time Forgot!!! The Return Of The Microcards, Jen P. Kirk, Mel Desart, Laura Sare, Sinai Wood

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Hidden away in the darkest recesses of some libraries you will find... Wait! Don't! Don't open that microcard drawer!!

Seriously, it feels that way when you walk by those long-neglected microcards. Very few cataloging records exist so discoverability is close to zero, and if there are records how do you read the cards? Wouldn't it be great if you could bring that microcard back to life so the content could be used? Good news! A collaborative open-access effort to do so is underway. After two successful pilot projects, working with roughly 2700 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) reports on microcard, the …

What’S The Big Deal? How Researchers Are Navigating Changes To Journal Access, Danielle Cooper, Oya Y. Rieger

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The dominant mode by which research libraries have provided maximum journal access as cheaply as possible—subscription bundles or “Big Deals”—is giving way to new approaches. This transition is taking place through a combination of negotiations, activism, business modeling, user needs research, and decision support, among other factors. To support these processes, Ithaka S+R partnered with 11 academic libraries to understand researcher perceptions to help inform their ongoing strategic decision making about Big Deal journal subscriptions.

Recognizing that libraries must also undertake case-by-case assessments prior to making decisions about any particular journal package, in this report we share findings from the …

Development And Validation Of The Librarian’S Happiness Program Based On Fordyce Happiness Fundamentals, Leili Seifi, Maryam Hassanzadeh, Mitra Rastgoumoghadam

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study was conducted to develop and validate a happiness program for librarians based on Fordyce's happiness fundamentals. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and educational program construction. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, by qualitative content analysis, the steps of developing the training program and its validity were performed. Based on the findings of the content validity index, the approved activities were divided into services such as providing ancillary services, providing social services, providing independent learning services, refreshing the public library environment, and so on. The activities expressed in the content validity …

Google Scholar Adoption By Lis Educators In India: An Exploratory Study, Subham Giri, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Google Scholar (GS) is one of the popular online databases fulfilling the research needs of academicians by providing an open and freely accessible platform for searching scholarly research along with basic research metrics (citations, h-index, i10, etc.) to assess productivity of an author or researcher. Now that GS is being used to measure the research performance of individual’s as-well-as institutions, it becomes very important to maintain a verified profile. This paper aims to analyse dual inter-related issues. Quantify LIS schools in India are the primary focus area of the study. Secondly, the scenario of LIS educators of India under GS …

Plotting The Literature On Learning Outcomes And Academic Performance In Higher Education From 2001 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad Anwar, Bilal Shaukat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly used. The high majority of these published documents are published in the English language and gradually increased in the number of published documents in terms of the year. Further, the author Chamorro-Premuzic T is the top author with 1139 citations and Univ. Grandada at top of twenty …

Digital Information Seeking Behaviour Of Engineering Faculty Members In Rayalaseema Region Of A.P., India-A Study, B Deenadhayalu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper analyzes the information seeking behaviour of engineering faculty members of selected engineering colleges in Ryalaseema Region of AnadhraPradesh. Data were collected by using questionnaire from 41 engineering colleges in Rayalaseema Region. A structured questionnaire was distributed among 1230 faculty members, of whom 968 (78.69%) responded. This study investigates the information seeking behaviour of engineering faculty members in Rayalaseema Region of A.P. The purpose was to investigate the types of information sources used by the faculty members, problems faced while seeking information, purpose of using e-resources, use of e-consortiums and priority of information seeking habits.

Users’ Satisfaction On Sc/St Book Bank Scheme Through Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis, Kutty Kumar Dr, Kutty Kumar Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) is used to predict an ordinal structured variable given one or more independent variables. In this study, OLR used to decide the level of satisfaction on SC/ST book bank scheme (ordinal independent variable), measured on a five-point Likert type scale from “completely dissatisfied-1 through completely satisfied-5, depending on the discernment of ‘life science’ and ‘engineering students belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Tribe (ST)’. Model appropriateness depends on determining which explanatory variables considered for the model and selecting the link function (complementary log-log link function used in this study). Likewise, the model fitting perceptions, the accuracy …

Mapping The Research Output Of Bundelkhand University: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Publications From 2000-2019, Aparna Dixit, Ritu Singh D.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Measuring the productivity and output is a common practice for the institutions, when we discuss about research and publications. Keeping this in mind, the bibliometric analysis of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi from the year 2000-2019 is performed in the given paper. This study shows the growth of Bundelkhand University in terms of Primary research output and publicaions in all disciplines. The total number of publications (579) indexed in SCOPUS were retrieved and analyzed to find out the year wise growth, authorship pattern, collaborative coefficient, prolific authors and popular journals for communicating the research work. MS-Excel is used for analyzing and sorting …

Bibliometric Assessment Of Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology., Rupsikha Kashyap, Aman Verma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study presents a bibliometric study of DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology for the period of 7 years (2014-2020). The paper covers the bibliometric analyses of year wise publication of articles, authorship pattern, total number of contributions, geographical distribution, average number of references per article, etc. The result showed that out of 384 articles single author contributed 112 articles while the rest articles were contributed by joint authors. Study reveals that most of the contribution are from India with 319(83.07%) and the rest 65(16.92%) only from foreign sources. On average 9.14 articles were published by the journal per …

Scholarly Open Access Veterinary And Animal Science Journals Indexed In The Doaj: A Bibliometric Analysis, Ganesan Rathinasabapathy, Koti Veeranjaneyulu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The objective of this study is to report the outcome of the bibliometric analysis of Open Access (OA) journals in veterinary and animal sciences (VAS) indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).The DOAJ which indexed 16,460 open access journals as on 10 June 2021, contains 335 open access veterinary and animal science journals (2.03%) and provides access to 1,63,500 articles which is about 2.63% of the total articles. Two journals were indexed in 2003 and the highest number of journals i.e. 46 (13.73%) were added during 2018. The 335 OA journals are contributed by 63 countries and the …

Disruptive Innovative Library Services @ International Nalanda University: Present And Future Roadmaps, Dr. Nihar K. Patra

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper discusses innovative technologies that have implemented at international Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar, India and also planning to implement some other advanced tools and technologies in future. The Nalanda University is an avant-garde International University, a truly “sui generis” supported by 17 partner countries of the East Asia Summit. The Government of India designates it as an “Institution of National Importance” under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Nalanda University envisions its library to be the central fulcrum of its master plan, both in terms of its design and bearing. This paper explains in details the services which are …

Covid-19 And Nursing: A Scientometric Mapping Of Global Literature During 2020-2021, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Jayasuriya T., Srinivasaragavan S., Rosaline Mary A.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the global Covid-19 and Nursing literature to discover underlying trends and developments at the global, national, institutional, and individual level using Scientometric indicators. The publications and citations data for the study were sourced from the Web of Science database published during 2020–2021. The most productive and leading countries are: USA with 621 (43.4%) share far by China with 136(9.5%), UK with 108 (7.5%) share and Australia with 101(7.1%) share and other countries are published less than 5% of publications. India possessed 14^th rank with 15 (1.0%) publications share. International collaboration …

Library Professionals Learning Behaviour With The Level Of Expertise: A Survey From Pakistan, Ahsan Ullah Bhatti, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Tufail Khan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study is designed to examine the relationship of learning behavior with the level of expertise among library professionals working in Pakistan. It aims to compare the level of professional skills for different library areas. The study also explores the correlation of demographic factors with the level of expertise.

Research Methodology: A quantitative research design is used to carry out the current study. A structured questionnaire is developed to seek responses from respondents. Some hypotheses are developed to check these relationships. Library professionals working as practitioners in different library sectors or faculty members teaching at library schools are the …

Covid-19 And Emergency Medicine: A Scientometric Assessment Of Global Publications, Surulinathi Muthuraj, Prasanna Kumari N., Shanmuganathi A., Bhuvaneswari A., Jayasuriya T.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study analyses Covid-19 and Emergency Medicine research output during 2020-2021 on different parameters including global publications share, citation impact, contribution of authors and patterns of research communication in most productive and preferred journals. Web of Science Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 2 years (2020-2021) with 991 publications using the combined search of Covid-19 with topic field and Emergency Medicine with using Web of Science Subject Categories. The USA tops the list, with a publications share of 38.6%(383) followed far by Italy and UK ranks second with 7.7%(76), Canada with 7.6% and India ranks 14 …