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Social Cataloguing Sites: An Analysis Through Webometric Approach, Arindam Sarkar, Udayan Bhattacharya Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The basic purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the social cataloguing sites via content analysis from various parameters and also through SEO analyzer. The nine social cataloguing sites have been considered for this webometric analysis. Collected data were analyzed according to forty criteria under nine main aspects. Finally it was found that LibraryThing, Goodreads, aNobii etc. are good example of social cataloguing sites.

Library Knowledge Management (Lkm) Assessment Comparison Between Scopus And Web Of Science: A Bibliometric View, Mohamed Idhris, Manuelraj Peter, Mohammed Barkath Ali, Anand Pandiyarajan

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Background: The evolution of information and knowledge has affected all organizations, including Libraries. Knowledge management is predominant in the fields of business management information systems, Management library and information science. The aim of this study is to identify and gather literature on the concepts of knowledge management (KM) related to libraries.

Methods: The purpose of this article is a bibliometric study on the Knowledge management related to library in the WoS and Scopus databases. The aim is to know main issues such as the evolution of development over the years, Citation, publication, source, author, and country comparative areas are discussed. …

Research On Application Of Information Technology For Library Information Service, Nasa Zata Dina, Nyoman Juniarta

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This paper aims to analyze and show the research trends on published research on information technology applications for library information services from 2011 until 2020. The papers are collected from SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. The study reveals 310 papers from various journals, and the total number of citations is 896 from 10 years. The data from 310 papers reveal that the most productive journal with the highest number of publications is “Library Hi Tech Journal”. The Library Hi Tech Journal published 24 papers for a particular topic. Meanwhile, China dominates other countries with the highest number of publications …

Islamic Library: History, Classification, And Waqf Role, Muhammad Syafii Antonio, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Dwi Purwoko, Husnul Khatimah, Amelia Tri Puspita

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Islam provides a great impetus for humans to pursue knowledge. The first verse revealed from the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is Iqra, which means “to read”. The Qur’an uses repetition to instill certain concepts in the consciousness of its listeners. Allah (God) and Rab (Sustainer) are repeated 2,800 and 950 times, respectively, in the Alquran and Ilm (knowledge) 750 times. The need to preserve the Alqur’an aroused a passion for compiling writings in various forms, which paved the way for establishing the earliest libraries in the Muslim world. Libraries in Islamic history occupy an important position. Its existence is very …

Visualizing The Research Trends And Authorship Pattern In The Literature Of Knowledge Organization And Management, Praveena Naik, Keshava . Dr.

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The paper visualized on the research trends in the literature of knowledge Organization and Management which reflected in SCOPUS database by the quantitative analysis. This study analysis the literature growth rate by relative Growth analysis (RGR) and the rate of publication of the research literature by Doubling time (Dt), also give a visualization on authorship pattern by the Collaborating and coefficient authors. To the achieve of the objective of the study, retrieved the bibliographical data from the SCOPUS database use the keyword “Knowledge organization” OR “Knowledge Management” in the .csv format. After retrieving the data, systematically organize and process data …

Taliban: A Bibliometric Investigation, Javid Ahmad Dar, Ufaira Yaseen Shah, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Aadil Bashir, Manzoor Hussain

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The primary objective of this study is to identify the global research output on Taliban during the period of 25 years spanning from 1996-2020. Specific objectives are to analyze the distribution of literature, publication trends, authorship patterns, institutional productivity, collaboration networks, and prolific funding agencies. The data was harvested from the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 614 records were retrieved on Taliban having 4416 total citations. The highest output was recorded in 2002, with a share of 7.83% of overall literature. The citation pattern depicted a fluctuating, the highest share being received in the year 2002 (14.47%), …

The Impact Of Teaching Il On Academic Performance Of Students Of School Of Public Health (Sph) Of University Of Health And Allied Sciences (Uhas), Hawa Osman Ms

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The study explores the impact of the teaching of IL skills on the academic performance of undergraduate students of the SPH of the UHAS. The study uses primary data collected from 54 students with the help of a questionnaire and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. The result of the data was represented by frequencies and percentages. The study found that there is actually a positive (higher grade) relationship between the skills learnt from the study of the course and academic performance. Specifically, they can find the information they need, analyse the information, and use …

Public Library Organisation Analysis For Hybrid Library Governance Model In Indonesia, Salahudin Salahudin, Achmad Nurmandi, Rendra Agusta, Amirullah Amirullah

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This article aims to evaluate the ability of the National Library of Indonesia in its function as a public library. It also describes the ability of the National Library of Indonesia organization in the context of Hybrid Library Governance (HLG). The article, through a qualitative descriptive approach, reveals the dimensions of the organization and shows the Indonesian National Library has formalised a support system in which there are several regulations that support the governance of the library. Moreover, within the dimensions of the process, national libraries have a budget, human resources, and technologies that support their performance. However, the library …

Assessment Of Entrepreneurship Education Undertaken By Library And Information Science Students In Imo State University, Owerri., Chinedu C. Egbuchu, Adaora Joy Udo-Anyanwu

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This paper is tailored towards investigating the teaching and learning of Entrepreneurship as a compulsory course of study as a means of combating the high rate of unemployment among Nigerian undergraduates. It focused on assessment of entrepreneurship education undertaken by Library and Information Science students in Imo State University, Owerri. It was guided by five (5) research questions. Survey research design was adopted for the study while the 87 final students of Library and Information Science in the 2019/20 academic session was the population of the study. Rating scale was used as instrument for data collection and frequencies and …

Knowledge Transfer And Knowledge Sharing Tools Used By Employees Of Higher Education Institutions Of Pakistan: Mediating Role Motivation, Liaquat Ali Rahoo, Muhammad Memon, Sirajul Haq Kandhro, Zareen Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Khan

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The aim of study is to examine the impact of knowledge sharing tools (i.e., technology and organization rewards) on knowledge transfer in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIS) of Sindh, Pakistan. The study utilized quantitative method. The population of the study was the employees who are working in HEIs of Sindh Province. The cluster random sampling technique was implemented to collect primary data from 750 respondents. The survey method was used in questionnaire to collect the data from employees of HEIs. The results of the research study indicate that knowledge sharing tools and organization rewards and technology have a significant impact …

Smartphone Usage Among University Students During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study, Pinky Bhagat, Somipam R. Shimray

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The unusual lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has exploded globally, revealing the whole population and touching all areas in our lives: education, work, politics, entertainment, economy, markets, etc. Online teaching and learning during pandemics have exposed students to technology, ultimately resulting in ingesting of digital media. In this favor, the research aims to determine the use of smartphones among university students during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to examine the use of smartphones by university students during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study collected 165 respondents from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A central university), Lucknow. This study …

Importance Of Special Libraries For History And International Studies Learners’ With Special Needs In South-East, Nigeria, Chidi Amaechi Ph.D

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The study is an impactful investigation carried out in South-East, Nigeria. The study's rationale was to understand the importance of a special library among special learners. Specifically, it seeks to ascertain the importance of a special library among learners of History and International studies. Several scholarly journal articles were reviewed. Documentaries and published materials found in libraries and the internet were mostly reviewed especially on the relevance in ensuring quality discussion of the issues at stake. From studies reviewed, it was gathered that special learners especially those in History and International studies need information centers where they could gather all …

Usability Assessment Of Library Services By The People With Disabilities In Digital Environment: Study Of Ncr, India, Dr Gareema Sharma, Dr Shailendra Kumar

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The study aims at assessing the usability of library services in the digital environment by the users with disabilities in the libraries of Delhi National Capital Region, India. The survey method is followed for data collection where questionnaire as a data collection tool is used along with personal interviews with the users as well as with the experts and data was analyzed using statistical software ‘Stata version 11’. The results from statistical analysis shows that Internet is the most preferred source among the users with disabilities for the access of required information. Also, there is lack of orientation and training …

Influence Of Computer Self-Efficacy On The Use Of Electronic Information Resources Among Polytechnics Students In Ogun State, Nigeria, Morenikeji Modinat Bello Miss, Bokoh Ma Ajoviyon Mr.

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Electronic information resource planning makes it conceivable for users to access new tools and applications for information seeking and retrieval. Electronic information resources have become helpful research tools that enhanced the print collection in the analogue library setting. Computer self-efficacy is an important component to consider in terms of the use of e-resources that are computer-based. A survey research design was adopted for the study. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 370 respondents for the study. Data were collected with the use of a structured questionnaire on the Influence of Computer Self-Efficacy on the Use of Electronic Information …

Information Needs Versus Information Services: Assessing Predictors Of Secondary School Students With Visual Impairment Satisfaction At School Library Media Centres In South-Eastern Nigeria, Samuel K. Ibenne, Oluwole Olumide Durodolu

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This study investigated the information needs versus Information services by assessing predictors of Secondary School Students with Visual Impairment Satisfaction at School Library Media Centres in South-Eastern Nigeria. This research embraced a positivist research paradigm in which quantitative research method was used to gather statistical data and generalizing it across various groups of respondents in order to elucidate a certain phenomenon.The population of the study is 95 consisting of 84 students with visual impairment enrolled in the secondary schools selected for the study and 11 SLMC personnel who are responsible for services to the students with visual impairment.The study revealed …

An Analytical Study Of Managing Institutional Repositories By University Libraries In Assam, Dibanjyoti Buragohain, Amit Kumar

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Institutional Repositories is Considered as an important jewel of a university library. Consequent upon the advancement of Information and communication technology, the libraries across the globe have emerged with the innovative ideas to meet the information needs of the patrons of which Institutional Repository is one of such invention. Institutional Repository facilitates scholarly communication where the research output can be shared and communicate to the mass audience of scholaristic society. The present study tends to study about the management and maintenance of Institutional Repositories of some selected universities libraries of Assam. The study is confined to university libraries namely Assam …

The Influence Of Covid-19 Pandemic On The Access To Health Information By The Elderly In Edo State, Nigeria, Confidence Reghagwa Idjai Mr., Ono Ebireri-Ojo Mr

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The study assessed the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the access to health information by the elderly persons in Edo State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The main population of the study are elderly persons in Edo Central, Edo State, Nigeria. Edo central comprises a total of 33,499 elderly people ages 65 years and above. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 500 respondents from the 5 local government areas in Esan Central. The instrument used for data collection in this study was a structured interview and questionnaires by the researchers and five research …

Information Management In Television Media Library: A Study Conducted In Pride East Entertainments Private Limited, Assam, Rosy Chakraborty, Sanjay Kumar Singh Professor

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In the year 1959, Television media has started as an experiment and since then it is a part of media in India. This paper examines the information archives management of Television media from a technical as well as an intellectual point of view and discusses how they organize and manage the information in these organizations. (“Television”,2021) Television media are very rich in providing digital information, which is electronically accessible, and therefore for an effective information cycle, archives were developed in such places. Here, information can be found in different formats i.e. .mpeg, .mp3, .mp4, .mov, etc., and in different types …

Organization And Accessibility Of Information Resources In Federal High Court Libraries In North-East Geo-Political Zone Of Nigeria, Muhammad Murtala Ibrahim, Amina Barkindo

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Information organization and accessibility are part of the core functions of any special library. The need for organization is necessary to accomplished a planned library's goals. Effective organization provides effective retrieval and use of the resources and also saves time for both the user and the information professional. This study highlights and describe the method of information organization and access in the Federal High Courts libraries in North-eastern geo-political zone of Nigeria. It also discusses the various ways the federal high court libraries Organize information resources, the means for information access and the challenges associated with the organization and accessibility …

Major Theories Of Job Satisfaction And Their Use In The Field Of Librarianship, Mushtaq Ahmad, Amjid Khan, Muhammad Arshad

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This study explored the importance of two major theories of Job satisfaction (content and process theories) and their sub domains and how LIS professionals could use these theories in the field of librarianship. The study was carried out by a review of the literature to identify the significant contribution of these two related theories in human resource management. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature, the literature on these two theories was wide among scholarly sources such as web-based sources, including Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and subject-specific e-databases namely JSTOR, Emerald, Sage Journals, Taylor &Francis, and ERIC. This study explores several aspects of …

Library Role In Promoting Moral Values In Nigerian Education, Odion Evans Kakulu Mr, David O. Okhakhu Mr.

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The study examines the role of the library in promoting moral value in Nigeria education. Based on the findings, the paper reveals that lack of functional libraries in school systems to educate, inform plays a significant role as the cause of moral crises which lead to the erosion of our moral values and emergence of other vices such as Boko Haram, kidnapping, corruption and bad leadership that create setback in Nigeria economy. The paper investigated moral value, library in education and library as primary agents of moral restoration in Nigeria education. The paper also considers morality as a tool for …

Application Of Ict Tools And Techniques In Collection Building And Development, Madhabilata Mallick, Krushna Chandra Panda Prof.

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Examines the application of varied ICT tools and techniques in the domain of collection building, development and management. Discusses how ICT has substantially impacted every sphere of academic library activity and more so in collection building and management. Explains the impact of IT on different stages of collection development process-right from the identification and selection of items to weed out obsolete documents. Enumerate sources for selection of recommended items; varied information Channels to identify the needed documents and discusses some popular selection tools and their functions. Explains some of the helpful LIS software and their modules that support collection …

Professional Development As A Correlate Of Job Performance Of Librarians In The State Polytechnics In North Central, Nigeria, Dr. Nathaniel Agbo A. Oche Dr., Rachael Opeyemi Odunlade Dr, Joshua Onaade Ojo Dr

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The study correlated professional development and job performance of librarians in the State Polytechnics in North Central, Nigeria. The study adopted correlational survey with the population of 32 which comprised of the librarians in the State owned Polytechnics in North Central, Nigeria. The entire population was studied. The study adopted structured questionnaire and the data collected were analyzed using frequency, mean and standard deviation with the aid of SPSS version 23. The study revealed that, major professional development programmes provided to librarians in State Polytechnic in North Central, Nigeria are on-the job training, professional conferences, in-service training, …

Pioneering Public Space Reading Park In The Karangsong Mangrove Forest Ecotourism Area, Indramayu Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia, Sukaesih Sukaesih, Yunus Winoto, Falih Ijlal Septian

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The eco-tourism area of the Karangsong mangrove forest is one of the educational tourism areas that is very useful in providing knowledge and insight to tourists about the environment and nature conservation, because in this tourist area there are various types of flora and fauna. To complete information about the types of flora and fauna that exist in the Karangsong eco-tourism area, it is necessary to have sources of information in the form of reading materials, infographics, or in visual form. Departing from this, it encourages researchers to collaborate in pioneering a public reading room park in the Karangsong eco-tourism …

Users’ Sentiment Analysis Toward National Digital Library Of India: A Quantitative Approach For Understanding User Perception, Ritu Sharma, Sarita Gulati, Amanpreet Kaur, Rupak Chakravarty

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Sentiment analysis is also known as opinion mining. Sentiment analysis is contextual mining of text which identifies and extracts subjective information in textual data. It is extremely used by business, educational organizations, and social media monitoring to gain the general outlook of the wide public regarding their product and policy. The current study looks for gaining insights into user reviews on the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) mobile app (android and iOS). For this purpose, sentiment analysis will be used. It yields an average of 3.64/5 ratings based on 11,861 reviews. The dataset includes a total of 4560 user …

Information Marketing Through Social Media During Covid-19: A Study On A Public University Library In Bangladesh, Md. Mozammel Bhuyan, Nusrat Jannat Bipasha

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Purpose: The main objective of the paper is to investigate the status of using Social Media for information marketing during COVID-19 at Dhaka University Library (DUL), Bangladesh. More specifically the study aims are to identify the user’s tendency of using Social Media; explore the purposes of library professionals and library users of using Social Media; observe user’s satisfaction about existing Social Media tools at DUL; identify the obstacles about the usage of Social Media during COVID-19 and finally determine the parameters based on respondents view to develop information marketing plan by using Social Media tools.

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Impact Of Covid-19 On Academic Libraries: A Case Study, Mohan Tej M, Mahabaleshwara Rao, Shivananda Bhat K

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This paper aims to find the impact of COVID-19 on Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) libraries and the measures taken to overcome the challenges in accessing the information during the COVID-19 situation and render services to the users. A structured questionnaire was prepared and distributed to ten libraries of MAHE at Manipal, India campus. The study revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on the usage of resources and services provided by MAHE libraries. The libraries were kept open, but the working hours of the libraries have been reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that …

Connecting The Dots: Research Discovery Using Network Analysis Algorithms, Soma Prasad, Rupak Chakravarty

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The purpose of the study is to examine the process of research discovery using network analysis algorithm. To assess the paper discovery module and other associated features, the paper titled “Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication” as selected as “seed paper” authored by American sociologist “Ronald C Kessler”, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. The findings of the experimental study revealed that unlike traditional citation databases which would yield results by keyword or topic search, Inciteful creates a graph of academic papers based on selected “seed papers” which …

Research Trend Of Journal Of Information Science: A Bibliometric Analysis Through Web Of Science Database, Nusrat Ali, Muhammad Naveed, Sanila Aslam, Muhammad Waris Bhatti

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The main objective of this bibliometric study is to examine the publications globally from the Journal of Information Science in the specific period of forty two years (1979-2020). It provides insights into research-based activities. The data was extracted from the Science Citation Index database, Web of Science. This analysis provides information about the document types, yearly published documents within 42 years, top productive authors, top productive institutions and countries, frequently used keywords, and greatly cited articles. These aspects also meet the objectives of the study and provide the major findings such as the majority of the publications are "articles" belong …

Digitization Of Assamese Literatures: A Descriptive Study Of Internet Archive, Nilakshi Sharma, Prof. S N Singh

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Internet Archive is a well-known digital library of Websites, Books, Audio-Video, Softwares and other information media. The Open Library is a project undertaken by the Internet archive to collect books of different subjects of different language from different parts of the world and made it available for user in an open platform. The paper tries to evaluate and analyze the data of Assamese Languages books available in Open Library of Internet Archive. The paper focuses on collection of books according to subject, author, publisher, publication year etc. Total 2753 Assamese Books are archived in Open Library according to its statistics, …