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{"title":"Acceptance of Computer-Based Testing (CBT) by Part-Time Undergraduate Students: Case of “Use of Library” at LAUTECH, Ogbomoso","authors":"Adeola Adesoji Arinola, E. T. Olatunji, Isau Adewole Adegun","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a7","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined Part-time Undergraduate Students‟ experience of Computer Based Testing (CBT) in „Use of Library‟ (LIB101) at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design method using the descriptive approach. Purposive sampling technique was used in selecting the sample size used for the study. The study covered all 100 level part-time students offering „Use of Library‟. The data for the study was collected with a structured questionnaire designed by the researchers. 323 copies of the questionnaire were administered out of which 240 (74.7%) were retrieved and certified to be valid for the analysis. Frequency counts and percentages were carried out using SPSS. The findings from the study revealed among others that, CBT is being preferred to the conventional paper-based method of assessment by part-time students. That a significant percentage of the respondents performed fairly good in the „Use of Library‟ CBT examination. Respondents relatively were familiar with computer systems. While constant electricity supply was identified as critical to enhancing CBT Examinations, students‟ poor ICT skill, lack of ICT literate invigilators and inadequate examination time were identified as the major problems facing the conduct of „Use of Library‟ CBT Examination. The paper recommends the need for part-time directorate to create more awareness on CBT in order to enhance acceptance of CBT examination among part-time students.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133625429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Contribution of Libraries to Education and Social Rehabilitation of Prisoners","authors":"Eleni Semertzidou","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a12","url":null,"abstract":"\"Equal opportunities\" presuppose the provision of the same opportunities regardless of the social group, gender or class to which one belongs. The protection and enforcement of this right constitutes one of the most basic principles. Today there is still inequality, among other things, in the provision of education. The creation of libraries in prisons is based on the right of prisoners to be educate, to experience, albeit incarcerated, a dignified life and to be treated with dignity during their imprisonment. Reading therefore, not only has an entertaining role, but a deeply educational and social one. \"Equal opportunities\" presuppose the provision of the same opportunities regardless of the social group, gender or class to which one belongs. The right to education is fundamental and guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948) and can be enjoyed by all citizens, including those incarcerated in prisons (Krolak, 2019). All people should enjoy the right to be educated regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, their abilities and characteristics. The protection and enforcement of this right constitutes one of the most basic principles of the 2030 Education Action Plan and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). 4. This obliges Member States to “ensure open and equal quality education. and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all ”(Krolak, 2019). Today there is still inequality, among other things, in the provision of education, on the one hand because not everyone has access to education and on the other hand, because neither the content nor the quality of education is common to all (eg minorities, people belonging to low socio-economic strata, people living in rural communities, children in insecure conditions, people in need of special education, people unable to attend highlevel universities). Many people around the world encounter obstacles to equal access to education, which prevents them from enjoying various goods in addition to the education itself (Lazanby, 2016). According to Unesco, 758 million people, both children, adults, and the elderly remain illiterate. Of these, older people, who have difficulty escaping illiteracy, are the most problematic group. People are unequal to each other because they have different genetic characteristics, different abilities and different cultural stimuli. In particular, in the case of cultural deprivation or inadequacy initially associated with the social class to which the students belonged (eg children of the working class) while today it is more closely linked to family culture (eg ethnic / ethnic minorities), it is considered to be an impediment to school performance and students' academic success. Education can act as a kind of equalizer, helping marginalized and sensitive social groups (people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, minorities, children with disabilities, the elderly, incarcerated, etc.) to overcome disadvantages and fully participate in society, as long as t","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124831640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Web Presence of Repositories of Indian Institutes of Technology: A Webometric Study","authors":"Dr.Babita Jaiswal, R. Arya","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"Links weave web documents together in a complex, structured hypertext corpus. Web links studies have been conducted by the scholars and information professionals all over the world since its introduction. The main objective of the study is to investigate the web presence of repositories of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) as a part of the World Wide Web. To investigate the web presence the few sub-objectives have been framed such as to identify IITs which are having their repositories; to find out the TLD, cc TLD and file formats use by the repositories; to find out total number of Web Pages, Link Web Pages, Self Link Web Pages, External Link Web Pages and Inlink Web Pages; to calculate Overall Web Impact Factor, Simple Web Impact Factor, Self Link Web Impact Factor, External Link Web Impact Factor and Inlink Web Impact Factor. Google covers more hyperlinks with advanced search facilities to count links possessed by the websites. Therefore, the present study has used Google to collect raw data, i.e., number of web pages, number of inlinks, self links and external links etc. Boolean operators are also used to form query syntaxes for retrieving data. SocSciBot web crawler is also employed. It is used to create network map of all the websites. URLs/websites of repositories are tested through command line textual queries like link, linkdomain, site, etc. Findings have been derived after analyzing the data.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121952921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citation Analysis of Undergraduate Projects Report in the Department of Library and Information Science Kabale University Uganda: An In-Text Citation Study","authors":"Achugbue, Iroroeavwo Edwin, Ahimbisibwe Benjamin, Olivia Nina Rugambwa, Odong Patrick","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a7","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The study focused on citation analysis of in-text citations of undergraduate projects research in the department of library and information science, Kabale University Uganda. The purpose is to determine numbers of in-text citations, in-text citations sources, number of in-text citations per programme and students conformity with American Psychological Association style of citations and references. Design/method/approach - The study adopted a citation analysis method to study the in-text citations of undergraduate research projects submitted by graduates of the department of library and information science Kabale University, Uganda. The study covered the period of 2015 to 2019 sets of graduate’s research projects submitted to the department. Analysis focused on in- text citations, in-text citations per programme, in-text citations conformity with APA and in-text citations not in conformity with APA. Findings - The study found that students had the highest number of in-text citations in their research project in 2019 and most of their citations were in journals and books. The study also revealed that programmes in the department of library and information science (Bachelor of Library and Information Sciences- BLIS and Bachelor of Records Management -BRIM)) students’ projects research had the highest number of in-text citations in their research and that most of their in-text citations in both programmes did not conform to APA style of citations. Originality - will help them to guild against plagiarism and ensure that sources of research information, authors and literature are acknowledged.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115412005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Repositioning Academic Libraries for Provision of Effective Services in time of Corona Virus Pandemic","authors":"E. Anyanwu, J. Ogbonna, Uchenna Nwaigwe","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n2a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n2a3","url":null,"abstract":"This work is a position paper on proactive ways of providing Library services to users of academic libraries in time of pandemic. Many academic libraries in Nigeria offer traditional library services. Although some of them are hybrid libraries. This paper suggested Some simple online services that could be provided by all academic Libraries in the present circumstances. The services include online Reference services through email, text messages, and social media. Other services include translation, information literacy, document Delivery, online business support etc. The challenges include poor network, Poor electricity supply, poor funding and lack of ICT skills. These issues can be surmounted through effective use of the resources available, provision of solar energy , training of library staff and Provision of palliatives to the reference librarian.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114431073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electronic Resources as a Main Tool for Improvement of Research Output of Academic Staff: A Case Study of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University","authors":"Doaa Abdel-Gaber Abdel-Aleem Ali","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n1a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n1a9","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of electronic resources as a main tool for improving the research output of academic staff and to investigate the impact on and the different challenges that are faced by researchers who use the online database in Princess Nourah University (PNU). For conducting the research, a survey method was implemented and data from 274 respondents were collected and analysed. The obtained data were expressed in simple frequency counts and percentages. Findings revealed the great dependence of the academic staff on the e-resources and online databases for achieving and improving their teaching and research outputs. The study recommends that the PNU libraries subscribe to different eresources and databases to cover all programmes (medicine, science/engineering, and social sciences) that are run by the university, establish regular training programs and ensure off-campus retrieval of these resources.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130987375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of Social Media Networks for Research among Academic Librarians: A Survey of Academic Libraries in Imo State, Nigeria","authors":"Chidi Dike, D. Obiano, C. Okere, Damian N.Ogaraku","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a9","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigated the application of social media networks for research among academic librarians in five academic libraries in Imo State, Nigeria. The survey method was used for the study while a structured questionnaire captioned, Application of Social Media, Networks for Research among Academic Librarians Questionnaire (ASNRALQ) was used to elicit data from the respondents. The population of study was 74 drawn from the five academic libraries under study. Data collected were analyzed using simple descriptive method while the results were tabulated. The study concluded that academic librarians in Imo State have essentially embraced the use of social media networks in their research, though restricted to a few of the media: Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube. Some challenges like poor funding, inadequate ICT infrastructure, epileptic power supply, poor maintenance culture, etc, were found to hinder effective use of social media tools for research. Amongst the recommendations made to enhance effective use of social media in research were: government should guarantee adequate ICT infrastructure in academic libraries through conscious funding and supervision, management of academic libraries should provide internet services to enhance the use of social media tools by academic libraries, academic librarians should go all out to acquire ICT skills and competencies via personal efforts while management ensures regular training and retraining of staff on ICT.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133258326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of the Services of the Medical Library of University General Hospital of Thessaloniki AHEPA","authors":"Eleni Semertzidou","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n1a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n1a5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Reality and the Challenges of Using the School Library in Algeria in the Face of Technological Change: a Field Study","authors":"Larbi Benhadjar Miloud","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v7n2a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v7n2a4","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to cast the light on the use of the school library in the secondary levels in western Algeria, by the students and especially the third stage of secondary school, the purpose of this study is to examine the need to reestablish the objectives of the library and the crucial roles it may play in the educational society in order to cope with the changes and challenges that have taken place in order to cope with the effect of globalization and technology.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123524070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future of Libraries in Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria","authors":"E. Anyanwu","doi":"10.15640/jlis.v8n2a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15640/jlis.v8n2a2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discuss the future of libraries in developing countries; the case of Nigeria. This paper traces the history of librarianship in Nigeria from the time of colonial masters and missionaries to the time of independence. The challenges of libraries which include lack of infrastructure, lack of training of library staff, corruption, poor state of Nigerian economy were discussed. This work states that the future of libraries in Nigeria is bright if Nigerian government funds libraries, provide infrastructure, improve the economy and provide information and communication technology. The need to train librarians, changing of attitude of librarians and encouraging innovation spirit were recommended.","PeriodicalId":142897,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}