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Ict Infrastructure And Services In The College Libraries Of Assam: A Study, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

College education plays an important role in developing the knowledge power of any individual in a society. The libraries of academic institutions are not confined only to printed information sources; in fact, they have started acquisition and management of digital or electronic or virtual information resources. Thus the College libraries are able to fulfil the needs of the students, teachers and researchers by providing different kind of printed or digital resources. Better and effective library services can be ensured by the application of information and communication technology (ICT) with skilled and qualified library manpower. The technological aspect of ICT has …

Book Review: Palaces For The People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, And The Decline Of Civic Life, Eric Klinenberg, Georgia Westbrook

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Slis Student Research Journal, Vol. 9, Iss. 1

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Palaces For The People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, And The Decline Of Civic Life, Eric Klinenberg, Georgia Westbrook

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Art And Historical Archives: Collaborations And Convergences In A Digital Multicultural Age, Suzanne S. Lapierre

School of Information Student Research Journal

Literature illuminating the relationship between contemporary art and historical archives around the turn of the twenty-first century and how these interactions inform the evolution of archives in a digital multicultural age is the topic of this review. The literature reveals the extent to which art has been a means for members of marginalized groups to address their representation in historical archives, and also a means for archives to connect with a broader audience. Collaborations between artists and historical archives add new dimension to the debate about the nature of the archive as a creation in and of itself, and in …

Digital Commons And Contentdm: Not Entirely Accessible, Channon Arabit

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Challenging Girlhood, Mary Ann Harlan

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The More You Know, The More You Owe, Megan Price

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Awareness And Use Of Social Media Among Pg Students Of Ccs Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Rajive Kumar Pateria, Seema Parmar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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The present paper reflects the status of awareness and use of social media tools among PG students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. For collecting data questionnaire technique was adopted wherein 60 questionnaire were distributed among PG students. The results shows that 100 percent respondants were aware and using social media tools in the University. Facebook, Watsup and Youtube were the most used social media tools; preffered device for using social media was smartphone; prefered place was home or hostel; and main difficulties in using social media tools were academic pressure & restriction of using social media in …

Une Ufa Aac Library Subcommittee Resource Highlight: Popular Reading, Une Library Services

UFA AAC Library Sub-Committee Library Resource Highlights

May 2019 library resources highlight compiled for the University Faculty Assembly Academic Affairs Committee's Library Sub-committee at the University of New England. Focus on: UNE Library Services' "summer" (popular) reading resources, including ebook and audiobook downloads and a physical popular reading collection, along with interlibrary loan options.

Future And Value: The Library As Strategic Partner [Ebug 2019], Antje Mays

Library Presentations

This keynote presentation was based on the 2018 Charleston Library Conference. The session outlined broader economic shifts facing higher education and libraries, then facilitated audience participation vis anonymous live poll at the Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group (eBUG) annual conference focused on library systems.

Broader economic trends spawn budget pressures for education and libraries, prompting a plethora of studies on the value and relevance of libraries. Numerous reports on economic decline in libraries and studies with mixed pronouncements on the value of libraries have led to a negative self-image within the library profession. Yet libraries' leadership in connecting learners to …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University

Library Publications (1999-2023)

Library Resource Updates for June

• Educational Research Abstracts Online
• HighWire, MedlinePlus (at National Institutes of Medicine / National Institutes of Health), and NAICS

Research Impact On Drone By Means Of Scientometric Analysis, Pichai Janaarthanan Mr, Stanleay Prabhakar Dr, Kannan Nithayanandham Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Scientometric analysis done on “Drone” is based on the literatures indexed in SCOPUS from 1999 to 2018. The data reveals that 2902 records were published with a total of 2746 Local Citation Score and 16494 Global Citation Score. The Regression test has been conducted to test the hypothesis in an intention to check the deviation among the research publications. The year wise, language wise growth of literature and the type of documents involved in process of publications were assessed. The Bradford’s Bibliometric law was applied to identify the core journals. Top ten countries, ten journals and top five authors …

Managing Researcher Expectations: Defining The Scope Of Your Expert Gallery, Heather Martin

DC+MED

Learn about the process Providence St. Joseph Health has gone through in implementing their Expert Gallery and the lessons they've learned when it comes to managing researcher expectations of what the library will do.

Opex Opts In: Mainehealth’S Repository Partnership With Lean Process Improvement Projects, Dina Mckelvy

DC+MED

Learn about MaineHealth's Operational Excellence initiative and how Library Services has leverage Digital Commons for this purpose.

Hacking Selectedworks To Promote Graduate Medical Education Scholarship, Jennifer Deal

DC+MED

Learn how to use SelectedWorks to create group profiles to promote graduate medical education program scholarship.

Welcome And Introductions, Brenda Fay

DC+MED

Get to know the library staff and IRs from Advocate Health, Aurora Health Care, Baptist Health South Florida, Beaumont Health, CentraCare, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Henry Ford Health System, MaineHealth, Parkview Health, and Providence St. Joseph Health.

Use Of Mobile Technology For The Provision Of Reference Services In Nigeria University Libraries, Abata-Ebire, Blessing Damilola (Mrs), Roseline Omoadoni Okesanya (Mrs), Oluwasogo J. Abiodun, Abiodun Kusoro

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This work is focus on the use of mobile technology for the provision of reference services in Nigeria universities libraries. The Nigerian populace has overwhelmingly embraced the use of mobile technologies as an integral part of their everyday lives. As at 2015, Nigeria ranks 7th in the world list of mobile phone users and 1st in Africa. On the world list of internet users, Nigeria is also 7th with 86,436,611 internet users. Also, in a 2015 profiling of countries that love smart phones by e-marketers, Nigeria was ranked 17th in the world. …

Citation Analysis Of Doctoral Theses Of Physics: A Bibliometrics Study, Mithu Anjali Gayan, Sanjay Kumar Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Citation analysis is one of the thrust areas of research in Library and Information Science. It provides very useful insights to librarians and policy makers in terms of which sources to be purchased and what to be replaced. The current study was carried out to understand different characteristics of Physics as a discipline by analysing the citations appended at the end of Doctoral theses of Physics, Tripura University. A total 5640 citations were analysed from 18 theses during the 10 years period of 2007 to 2016. Bradford’s law of scattering of periodical was tested as it did not fit in …

Library Space As A Teaching And Learning Resource: The Experience Of One Class, Margaret Adeogun

Journal of Adventist Libraries and Archives

Academic libraries today are asked to justify the value they bring to the advancement of learning. The challenge for accountability has pressured many libraries to re-examine anew how students learn, and the best approaches to 21^st century learning environment. Libraries are re-examining their assets – information materials, services, abilities and skills, and particularly, the library space. They are deliberating on how they can better support a learning environment that is geared toward knowledge-building and reflects a need for flexible space, time, people, and technology. Library space has turned out to be the library’s most cherished resource. Despite the fact …

Ensemble Cast: Reinventing First-Year Library Orientation To Feature All Departments, Mallory R. Jallas, Kevin Moore

All Musselman Library Staff Works

As the year winds down, you may already be planning new student orientation activities to showcase your library and services. This unique program, designed by a committee of departments, offers insight into the types of activities they implemented to help enhance interaction between library staff and students.

Research Consultations: Growing A New Model Of Reference Services From The Foundations Of Librarianship & Faith, Andrea Abernathy, Justin Lillard

Faculty Publications - George Fox University Library

Two Models

George Fox Univeristy

• 1 Year ago, libraries adopted Research Consultations as primary model of references service.
• We do not have a reference desk.
• Available by appointment through LibCal
• Drop in available as well
• Access Services refers patrons to the librarians either by walking students over, or by helping patrons make an appointment.

Harding University

• Evolved as a response to practical problem. Professional literature review came much later.
• Research Consultations part of the three-legged stool (along with Ref Desk and Group Instruction).
• Available by appointment (different librarians have different scheduling mechanisms)
• Available in-person, by phone, video conferencing

A Creative And Poetic Approach To Creative Commons License Education, Nicolas Pares, Jenelys Cox

University Libraries: Staff Scholarship

A presentation given at the Kraemer Copyright Conference on June 12, 2019.

This set includes one slide deck and one handout. The slides reference works and handouts available at https://digitalcommons.du.edu/libraries_staff/2.

Personal Digital Archiving Of Social Media Content Creators: A Preliminary Study, Yeni Budi Rachman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study, researcher attempt to explore how the activities of the content creators who are also undergraduate students of Library and Information Science (LIS) of a public university in West Java, Indonesia in managing and storing digital content produced. This research is interesting because the LIS students are assessed knowing the steps in preserving digital content. This is a qualitative research with case study method. The phenomenon studied in this study is the experience of the Indonesian LIS students as creators of social media-digital content in creating, managing, and preserving their digital content which they share with their followers. …

An Introduction To Legal Research, Anne Burnett, Stephen Wolfson

Presentations

As part of UGA Summer Academy Legal Camp two law librarians teamed up to give an introduction to legal research to high school students from across the country, including tips and strategies for using Google effectively.

Analysis Of Library Professional’S Opinion In Implementing The Social Network Media In Academic Library, Sebastiyan R ,Research Scholar, Rameshbabu V ,Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present compact research study aims to find the opinion of Library Professional by approaching a well structured, informative questionnaire which was distributed and gathered with the help of electronic channel of e-mail, WhatsApp and Facebook for refreshing goods and services of academic library on SNM with ICT for getting maximum satisfaction from academic users. The various observations have been evaluated as in the form of result that most of librarian suggested that the SNM is an essential tool for updating the educational resources such as employment news, previous question paper and educational e-resources for the purpose of remote scholars …

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Oer, Yang Wu

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Cloud Computing Adoption In Higher Education: A Comparative Study Between Public And Private Universities In Sub Saharan Africa, Valentina Arkorful

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cloud computing is fast gaining a significant ground as a solution to offer institutions with competitive advantage compared to the old traditional Technology. Despite the potential benefits that is associated with cloud computing which includes reduction of total costs of acquisition or ownership (TCO) of hardware, software and skilled resources, the adoption level of cloud services is still very low in higher institutions of learning due to security issues, especially trust issues which remain a major concern over cloud solutions. The study was carried out in some selected public and private universities in sub Saharan Africa to determine the reason …

Impacts Of Information And Communication Technology On Libraries In Ghana: A Review, Albert Paa Kojo Ebi Bilson, Evelyn Dedei Markwei (Dr.)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this article was to provide a review of literature on the impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Libraries in Ghana. Some of the ICT impacts identified were in the area of cataloguing and classification, online public access catalogue, acquisitions, video conferencing, web 2.0 and social media tools, online searching and retrieval, electronic resources, digitization, electronic/digital libraries and institutional repositories, library website, indexing and abstracting, technical services, bibliographic instruction/library instruction, mobile digital library, interlibrary loan and document delivery, information access and video and photo libraries. Our review indicates that despite the tremendous changes brought about by …

Assessment Of Cervical Cancer Health Literacy Among Female Secondary School Teachers In Anambra State. Nigeria., Ejeagwu Nwafor-Orizu, Obiageli Fidelia Emelumadu Prof, Achunam Simeon Nwabueze Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Background: cervical cancer health information equips women with basic knowledge that enables them to take informed decisions to prevent and control infection. Cervical cancer awareness will help curtail the raising trend of cervical cancer disease among Nigerian women.

Purpose: the research was carried out to assess the cervical cancer literacy level of female secondary school teachers in Anambra State, Nigeria.

Design: it is a descriptive survey of 3,031 female secondary school teachers.

Findings: the research outcome shows that the respondent’s cervical cancer health literacy level is low. This is in terms of their knowledge and awareness of the risk …