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Contribution Of Bimstec (Bay Of Bengal Initiative For Multi-Sectional Technical Economic Co-Operation) Country Through Opendoar As On: 01.10.2020, Sheuli Hazra

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper study open access repositories in the contribution of BIMSTEC country through OpenDOAR to demonstrate country wise no of repositories, ccategory wise, language wise, software wise, subject wise, software wise, content wise distribution of these repositories. These BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectional Technical Economic Co-operation) country which is include Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal. This paper includes only one conceptual part – i) analysis of these countries through OpenDOAR set a parameter like software in use, country of origin, language wise distribution, document types etc.; and ii) growth of these countries using these OpenDOAR. …

Covid-19 And Its Implications On Students’ Learning Behaviour, Ashu Taneja, Ishwar Dutt

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the educational institutions in India suddenly switched to online mode of teaching. This new learning mode gives the flexibility to connect at any time from any place. This sudden shift has impacted the learning behaviour of students to a large extent, which is studied and analysed in this paper for a computer programming course. An online questionnaire is prepared and circulated among the students for which 158 responses were received. Based on the responses, it is found out from the analysis that 75.32% of students favour learning this course in offline mode while 48.1% …

Impact Of Scholarly Articles On Social Media: An Altmetric Mapping Of University Of Calicut, Kerala-India., Haseena V K K M, Abdul Azeez T A

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Article level metrics (Altmetrics) is a source of a wide range of metrics regarding the scholarly impact of articles by generating the statistics of usage, citations, bookmarks, social shares, attentions, and online comments on various social media and other platforms. The paper is an attempt to showcase the state of the art of the most viewed fifteen scholarly articles of the University of Calicut through various social media platforms and which were selected and ranked based on altmetric attention score in the Dimension database during January 2021. The study intends to explore the most viewable social media platforms to disseminate …

Digital Marketing And Smes: A Systematic Mapping Study, Abdurrahman Rahim Thaha, Erna Maulina, R Anang Muftiadi, Mohammad Benny Alexandri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have a high priority for many governments because of their important economic contribution and the number of people they employ. The very rapid development of ICT in the digital era has an impact on various lines of life, including changes in business environment and consumer behavior. Therefore, the need to find out about research trends and themes in digital marketing in SMEs is important. The objective of this paper is to classify, and identify related themes and trends in the literature that are directly related to digital marketing and SMEs over the past 10 years. …

Unsupervised Data Mining Technique For Clustering Library In Indonesia, Robbi Rahim, Joseph Teguh Santoso, Sri Jumini, Gita Widi Bhawika, Daniel Susilo, Danny Wibowo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Organizing school libraries not only keeps library materials, but helps students and teachers in completing tasks in the teaching process so that national development goals are in order to improve community welfare by producing quality and competitive human resources. The purpose of this study is to analyze the Unsupervised Learning technique in conducting cluster mapping of the number of libraries at education levels in Indonesia. The data source was obtained from the Ministry of Education and Culture which was processed by the Central Statistics Agency (abbreviated as BPS) with url: bps.go.id/. The data consisted of 34 records where the attribute …

Mapping Of Global Research Trends In Financial Literacy: A Scientometric Approach, Avadhesh Kumar Patel, Madan Singh, Ayush Kumar Patel, Kunwar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main goal of this present study was to access the global research trends in financial literacy. The data obtained from the Scopus database, one of Elsevier's largest bibliographic databases. The various scientometric indicators have been applied in this study, such as year-wise growth pattern with Citation, Annual growth rate (AGR), Relative growth rate (RGR), Authorship pattern, degree of collaboration (DC), Correlation coefficient (CC), Most prolific authors, highly cited documents, most collaborative institutes, highly preferred sources, top funding agencies, Subject wise distribution and types of papers, etc. The study comprises a review of 2000 research documents published with 22229 citations …

The Urgency Of Digital Literacy For Generation Z In Improving Learning Of Islamic Religious Education, Samsul Susilawati, Abdulloh Chakim, Muh Hambali, M Irfan Islamy, Aniek Rahmaniah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This is very important considering that their daily lives are inseparable from gadgets, especially for Z generation children. The generation born in the early 2000s, namely the Z-generation, is a generation born at a time when technology is so rapidly developing and the beginning of the emergence and development of social media the passion of all generations. Psychologically, this condition makes this Z-generation to have its own personality, psyche and character which is different from previous generations who do not have the postmodern environment setting. It is certainly impossible to educate them with the same educational methods as conventional educational …

Nephrology Publications Of Bibliographic Coupling And Co-Authorship Network Using Vos Viewer: A Scientometric Profile, Chandran Velmurugan Dr, Ramasamy G Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study has made an attempt to explore the co-authorship network and bibliographic coupling with institutions, authors, and countries based on the research output of Nephrology. Using the Web of Science core collection citation database from the Clarivate Analytics, a total number of 2626 literature found by the researcher and the total citations in global level was 11, 993 and the total cited references were 84, 129 and the total authors was 10, 846, a total number of core journals was 595 and institutions (3494), Institution with subdivision (6630), and 108 total countries have participated in the study. The scientometric …

Growth Development And Health Promotion Across The Life Span Nur 208, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Tackling The 3 P'S In An Lsp Migration: Policies, Procedures, And (Best) Practices For Technical Services, Alie Visser, Christina Zoricic, Annabelle Drobniak

Western Libraries Presentations

This session reviews an approach to refreshing policies, procedures, and practices following a migration to a library services platform (LSP). Using a method of intensive collaboration, we revised and developed new workflows to optimize consortial and international standards while evaluating and updating local policies and procedures with a critical eye. We designed templates and procedures incorporating standards established by Collaborative Futures partners, and including other international standards, such as CONSER, RDA, BIBCO and PCC.

Relationship Mediation And Conflict Resolution Hdf 550, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Usage Of Library Resources And Services Of Maritime Academy Of Asia And The Pacific (Maap): Bases For Promotional Strategies, Charie Kaye F. Colar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The primary aim of this study is to create a promotional strategy plan based on the usage of resources and services. Survey questionnaire was used to gather data from a stratified sample of 372 students and 98 faculty members. Only 64 faculty members returned their questionnaires. The study employs independent sample t-test, ANOVA (f-test) and Mann Whitney (U-test) to test the operational hypothesis. Upon analyzing the demographic profiles, it was noted that the students were frequent visitors of the library while the faculty have minimal visits.

Statistical results show that both students and faculty used the resources only for “sometime” …

Research Performance Of Postgraduate Institute Of Medical Education And Research (Pgimer), Chandigarh: A Scientometric Analysis, Ashok Thomas, Gesa George

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper attempts to analyze the research profile of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, on several parameters including its status, growth rate, impact, international collaborative research patterns, media of communication. The paper also evaluates the research characteristics under 10 broad subjects and of 10 productive authors. Scopus International multidisciplinary bibliographical database has been used to retrieve the 10 years data covering the years 2011-2020.

From Classroom To The Field Of Library Practice: The Gaps And Its Cost In The Librarianship Profession., Oluwaseun Lekan Ipadeola, Aderonke Ayobami Ogungbade Miss

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Librarianship is a service-oriented profession which focuses on managing relevant information resources to meet diverse needs of users. The goals of librarianship, particularly its role in transmission of knowledge cannot be achieved without users occupying a huge portion in the process of information services; this preoccupation has implications for how librarianship is and will be practiced.

In modern usage, professions tend to have certain qualities in common. A profession is always held by a person, and it is generally that person's way of generating income.

A specialized knowledge of the concerned field is needed by the professional. Those persons who …

Institutional Digital Repositories: A Systematic Review Of Literature, Bijan Kumar Roy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Institutional Digital Repositories (IDRs) throughout the World are at a critical point in their development. The barriers are multifaceted and derive from the different stakeholders such as organization, funding body, publishers, users, academicians, administrators, and the governmental policies. The problems that have been identified after reviewing existing literatures are basically three folds viz. technical (hardware, software, open standard), non-technical (administrative, policy issue) and cultural (social acceptance, advocacy and promotion etc). The main objective of the study is to discuss several key parameters that are required to be considered before developing institute-specific IDR. Here, the following four issues viz. advocacy and …

Research Productivity Of Pakistani Authors In Library And Information Science; An Overview Of 2019 Publications, Ikram Ul Haq, Mumtaz Hussain Satti

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Aim: The present study aims is to evaluate the research productivity of Pakistani Library Information Science (LIS) authors produced during the year 2019.

Methodology: The retrospective study technique was used to extract the dataset on LIS literature produced by Pakistani authors, from different online and print sources. The bibliographic information was inserted in Microsoft Excel-2016 for data analysis. The findings of the data have been presented in 3 tables and 2 figures.

Results: Pakistani LIS authors produced 154 documents, and the majority of the documents (n=97; 63%) were published in international journals and 37% of the documents …

From Story To Research: Storying Human Experience Narratives, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation discusses the qualitative research methodology narrative inquiry. It then presents some of the background theory to Coralie McCormack's storying stories approach to narrative analysis of interview transcripts. Finally, the speaker uses examples from her own research using storying stories to reflect on the relationship that power has to the particular methodology and methods discussed in the presentation. This presentation was given as part of the 2021 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship's (IRDL) Speaker Series: Thinking Critically about Research and Power.

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Pr_P1 Report Fy2020 - Platform Usage, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report PR_P1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The PR_P1 report is defined as "Platform Usage." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Searches Platform - 463,082
• Total Item Requests - 952,876
• Unique Item Requests - 701,210
• Unique Title Requests - 24,372

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_J1 Report Fy2020 - Journal Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Title, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_J1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The TR_J1 report is defined as "Journal Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only of e-journal usage by title.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 846,964
• Unique Item Requests - 620,899

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_B1 Report Fy2020 - Book Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Title, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The TR_B1 report is defined as "Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only of e-book usage by title.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 70,859
• Unique Title Requests - 31,282

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_J1 Report Fy2020 - Journal Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Platform, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_J1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The TR_J1 report is defined as "Journal Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only of e-journal usage by platform.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 846,964
• Unique Item Requests - 620,899

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Dr_D1 Report Fy2020 - Database Search And Item Usage, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report DR_D1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The DR_D1 report is defined as "Database Search and Item Usage." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Searches Automated - 236,041
• Searches Federated - 12,211
• Searches Regular - 1,077,009
• Total Item Investigations - 637,104
• Total Item Requests - 291,719

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Ir_M1 Report Fy2020 - Multimedia Item Requests, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report IR_M1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The IR_M1 report is defined as "Multimedia Item Requests." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

Total Item Requests - 447

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_B1 Report Fy2020 - Book Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Platform, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020. The TR_B1 report is defined as "Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only of e-book usage by platform.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 70,859
• Unique Title Requests - 31,282

Safeguarding Assamese Culture Through Indigenous Librarianship: Awareness Among The Library Professionals And Students Of Ustm, Rajesh Chutia, Bedanta Kalita

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In the present day context, indigenous knowledge is unraveled and isolated in many parts of the world. Most of the indigenous knowledge is not documented, in spite of being a vital cradle of information. It is generally transferred orally from generation to generation; wherein the role of Libraries should be to preserve and disseminate such indigenous treasure among the common masses, especially the users. Considering its usefulness in uplifting one’s ethnic cultural characteristics, the aim of the study is to find out the level of awareness among library and information science professionals and students on the importance of indigenous knowledge …

Usability Analysis Of Indian Institutes Of Science Education And Research (Iisers) Library Websites: A Study, Manish Kumar Yadav, Rajani Mishra

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of the websites of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) libraries are evaluated in this paper. Online survey and observation methods were considered suitable for conducting the research. A Checklist was prepared and used for the data collection from the websites of IISERs. Study shows that selected IISER libraries have helpful websites but have overlooked the essential usability characteristics and tend to be in the primitive phase. Most of the websites of the selected IISER libraries were relatively simple. They had fundamental and popular usability characteristics in terms of general library information, search …

Understanding The Roles Of Public Libraries And Digital Exclusion Through Critical Race Theory: An Exploratory Study Of People Of Color In California Affected By The Digital Divide And The Pandemic, Raymond Pun

Urban Library Journal

With the arrival of COVID-19, public libraries have been closed or partially re-opened in various phases. This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of select library users in California, particularly people of color who experience digital exclusion, and how they use their public libraries prior to and during the pandemic. The study is guided by two research questions: 1. What are the barriers in using public libraries’ technology resources experienced by patrons of color before and during the pandemic? 2. What are their perspectives, purposes, and beliefs in using technologies in the public library before and during the pandemic? Using …

Public Notes To The Rescue! Connecting Resources, Services, And Practices In The Library Catalog, Rebecca Hunnicutt, Jeffrey Mortimore

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Presentation given by Georgia Southern faculty members Rebecca Hunnicutt and Jeffrey Mortimore at the Catalog Management Interest Group, ALA Core Virtual Interest Group.

Communicating connections between library resources, services, and practices is challenging, especially via the catalog. How do we help researchers find special collection items, locate finding aids, and schedule viewings? How do we communicate that demand-driven ebooks are briefly available, but then must be requested for purchase? To use resources effectively, patrons need to be aware of related services and practices but relaying that information can be difficult. What if the catalog is the patron’s only point of …

Are We Doing Enough? A Bibliometric Analysis Of Hate Speech Research In The Selected Database Of Scopus, Richa Mishra Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The use of the bibilometric analytical technique for examining hate speech research does not exist in the literature till now. Phenomena of hate speech are quite novel and urgent. The objective of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of hate speech research work and publication in the Scopus index. Analysed parameters includes document type, publication output, most active countries, most involved universities and funding agencies etc. Social media and new media is one of the most powerful tool of communication. Digital world has gained its firm foothold. More and more communication, business, lifestyle related work is moving on-line …

From Conceptualization To Implementation: Fair Assessment Of Research Data Objects, Anusuriya Devaraju, Mustapha Mokrane, Linas Cepinskas, Robert Huber, Patricia Herterich, Jerry De Vries, Vesa Akerman, Hervé L’Hours, Joy Davidson, Michael Diepenbroek

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Funders and policy makers have strongly recommended the uptake of the FAIR principles in scientific data management. Several initiatives are working on the implementation of the principles and standardized applications to systematically evaluate data FAIRness. This paper presents practical solutions, namely metrics and tools, developed by the FAIRsFAIR project to pilot the FAIR assessment of research data objects in trustworthy data repositories. The metrics are mainly built on the indicators developed by the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group. The tools’ design and evaluation followed an iterative process. We present two applications of the metrics: an awareness-raising self-assessment tool …