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Authors:Prakash Waghmare Abstract: Data for the present study was gathered from the Scopus database and biblioshiny app for bibliometrics from R Statistical Package used to carry out word cloud analysis. The objective was to identify whether the scope and objectives of the journal will meet the publication or not and to find out the major topics over the decade in the library and information science field. The five journals were selected which include DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (n=496), Journal of Academic Librarianship (n=835), Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (n=389), Journal of Library Administration (n=545), and Library Hi Tech (n=885). Only journal articles were considered and retrieved from the Scopus database from the year 2011 to 2020. Each journal has its scope and objectives respectively. The word clouds showed each journal's major topic of interest. This study proved that all the five selected journals have their interests and found different topics. All the five journals have the common topic like Management, research, technology, librarianship, knowledge, digital, services, international, reference, organization, bibliography, and academic after excluding common words like Library, Science, Journal, and Information. The study covered only ten years of journal articles only and future studies may be done with all years and with all sources of publications. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:36 +000
Authors:Sandhya Aggarwal; Narender Chimni Abstract: The ocean of information is very large. Every day new information is coming in different forms. With the advent of digital information, a fully updated web platform is also needed for its presentation and use. The website is the show window of any institution in higher education. The main objective of this paper is to see the status of digital initiatives in higher education on the university's website through the Alexa tool and checklist as well as to create awareness for the optimum use of these. The effort to provide all information on one platform has been done by MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) through a digital initiative. All these projects and programmes were started by MHRD to improve the quality of education and research. This study offers how a website can be made more effective and inspiring for using digital resources. This paper explores the practices of universities to fill the gaps present in required and available in using digital initiatives in education. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:36 +000
Authors:Manpreet Singh Abstract: Citation analysis is the examination of the frequency, patterns, and graphs citations in documents. It uses the directed graph of citations links from one document to another document to reveal the properties of the documents. This research is based on citations in master's degree (M.Tech) theses submitted to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, between 2011-2020. For this study Environment. Sc.50 (13.66%) Geo-Technical 113 (30.87) Soil Mechanic 53 (14.84) & Structural Engineering 147 (40.16). PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:36 +000
Authors:Arup Bijali Abstract: The present paper tried to highlight the importance of local history document collection in the public library arena. It discusses the divergent sources of local history documents and acquisition, organization, preservation of those documentary heritages in a public library. The current study has also tried to mention a few procedural approaches towards dissemination of effective services based upon those collected local history documentary heritage. The role of library professionals in the area of collection, organization, and use has been discussed also. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:36 +000
Authors:N. S. Harinarayana; B.M. Gupta, N. Vasantha Raju, Rajpal Walke Abstract: The paper provides a quantitative and qualitative description of “Semantic Web and Libraries” research based on global publications output (1193 publications) in the field as indexed in the Scopus database covering the 22 years 1998-2019. The research on “Semantic Web and Libraries” registered 25.85% growth per annum and averaged 5.75 citations per paper in 22 years, and bulk of global output (81.89%) and more than 100% citations global share in the field emanates from just the top 10 countries. The paper further provides an insight into the qualitative performance of research on “Semantic Web and Libraries” in terms of relative citation index, citations per paper, highly cited papers, top 30 global organizations, and 25 authors in the field, most favored subjects in the field. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:35 +000
Authors:Seema Parmar; Suman Ghalawat, Neelam Kaushal Abstract: The pandemic COVID-19 has created stress and anxiety among people over the globe. Every person is afraid of getting infected by the disease and following all precautionary measures suggested by health centers and associations. The present study aims to assess the level of anxiety and stress aroused from the disease among academicians of the Haryana state. The present study has been conducted to examine the anxieties and fear of academicians towards COVID-19 and develop a model for reducing anxieties and fear among academicians. For this, a Google questionnaire was framed and circulated among all teachers via different social media apps. A short link to the questionnaire was copied from Google drive and shared among100 different teachers for filling out the responses against Haryana's questions. It was divided into two parts: Part 1 contained questions about the respondents' demographic profiles. Part 2 covers statements relating to expectations regarding COVID-19 (Factor1), preventive measures (Factor 2), and anxieties for COVID-19 (Factor 3). Factor analysis and Discriminant analysis were used for attaining the objectives. All the factors were contributing to variation in percentage were 31.393, 16.699, and 12.501%, respectively. As per factor analysis, factor1 to factor 3 were of utmost importance for the effectiveness of webinars, and the Cronbach alpha values were .772, .593, and .558 respectively. As a result, it can be concluded that for reducing anxieties and fear among academicians, expectations regarding COVID-19 would contribute maximum followed by preventive measures. Hence it can be concluded that academicians were full of hope from the government and the medical experts for the solution to end this pandemic disease very soon. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:35 +000
Authors:Sadaf Zia; Muzamil Mushtaq Abstract: The present study aimed to examine and assess the existing status of digital reference services provided in select national libraries. The web content analysis method was used to explore the range of digital reference services provided by the libraries. The relevant and required data has been collected by compiling a list of different assessment criteria followed by separate checklists of all the four select libraries. The study revealed that the Library of Congress is in advance of all the four select national libraries because it provides virtual library tours, video conferencing services, bulletin boards service, and search engine reference service. Moreover, only the Library of Congress can provide all the referral services and delivers the maximum number of e-mail based reference services. Notably, it has been also found that Inter-Library Loan is a common practice in libraries however bulletin board service is not adopted with full gusto. Libraries prefer to cooperate in offering services as they all are capable to deliver consortia-based resources to the users and they offer chat reference services as a means of providing real-time reference services. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:35 +000
Authors:Sukhbir Singh; Sapna Goel, Neha Garg, Chetan Sharma Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to discover the use of various e-resources under the umbrella of the E-ShodhSindhu consortium by the teachers and researchers of two noticeable Universities of Haryana, i.e. Kurukshetra University and Maharshi Dayanand University. The study adopted the survey method to collect the essential information with the help of a self-structure questionnaire. Total 196 questionnaires were distributed among the respondents, out of which 185 questionnaires were found suitable for analysis. The result of the study indicates that the majority of faculty members and research scholars of both the universities are aware of the various e-resources covered in the E-ShodhSindhu consortium and they mainly use ESS Consortium for research work. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:35 +000
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