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{"title":"Faculty-librarian collaborative culture in the universities of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand: A comparative study","authors":"T. Yu, C. Chen, Christopher S. G. Khoo, Sujin Butdisuwan, Leo F. H. Ma, Chutima Sacchanand, Kulthida Tuamsuk","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.6","url":null,"abstract":"This study considers that “collaborative culture” is the basis for faculty members and librarians to work together in higher education institutions. The study therefore attempts to explore the collaboration between faculty members and librarians from the perspective of culture. It can not only provide an opportunity to elucidate the current development of the faculty-librarian collaboration in some parts of Southeast Asia such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, but also compare the distinctions in the value of faculty-librarian collaborative culture. It also aims to describe and evaluate the perceptions/experiences toward the current development of faculty-librarian collaboration in universities in these different countries. Two online questionnaires, entitled “Faculty-librarian Collaboration Survey-Librarian” and “Faculty-librarian Collaboration Survey-Faculty”, were designed and developed by the researchers to collect data. 480 valid responses were collected from December 2015 to May 2016. Seven key elements were investigated in this study that can represent the content and concept of faculty-librarian collaborative culture. They are: (1) Organizational collaborative environment; (2) Mutual benefit and responsibility in collaboration; (3) Collaborative commitment; (4) Collaborative leadership; (5) Mutual understanding and communication; (6) Mutual respect and trust; and (7) Collaborative relationship and interaction. It was concluded that the responding faculty members and librarians in different regions of Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan exhibited distinctions in the value levels of faculty-librarian collaborative culture, as well as in the perceptions/experiences toward the current development of faculty-librarian collaboration. Finally, a number of implications and suggestions were proposed by the researchers for librarians and faculty members to develop faculty-librarian collaborations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, respectively.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42680648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is there the Pareto principle in public library circulation? A case study of one public library in Taiwan","authors":"Y. Yang, J. Shieh","doi":"10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule is currently an important and popular management rule applied to marketing and customer relationship management (CRM). The rule indicates that the vital few causes inputs or efforts bringing the most results, outputs, or rewards. Analyzing circulation data to understand the usage status of library collections can help libraries comprehend their patrons’ behaviour. However, little research has been done to analyse circulation data of public libraries to reveal patrons’ usage behaviours. This paper aimed to analyse the circulation data generated by a municipality public library in Taiwan to gauge if the Pareto Principle manifested in this context. Subsequently, using bibliomining analysis, this research further identified vital patrons and their characteristics, as well as book-borrowed distributions to help analyse patrons' book borrowing behaviour to improve the efficiency of library management and library marketing as well as CRM. The circulation data of the public library follows the Pareto Principle, approximating to the 80/20 rule. Findings showed that when the accumulative percentage of patron is 24.7 percent, the accumulative percentage of borrowed books is 75.3 percent. The vital few patrons borrow the majority of the collections. This paper is the first study to reveal that the Pareto Principle could be found in circulation data of a public library in Taiwan. It could help libraries identify vital patrons and major collections, and improve the efficiency of their management and marketing activities in future. For other types of libraries, it would be interesting for us to explore the existence of the Pareto Principle further.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68663655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adoption of linked data technologies among university librarians in Pakistan: Challenges and prospects","authors":"N. Warraich, Abebe Rorissa","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.1","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explore librarians’ perspective about the adoption of Linked Data technologies along with their level of interest to adopt these technologies in Pakistani university libraries. It also identifies their perceived hindrances that obstruct them to adopt and effectively implement Linked Data technologies in libraries. This is a quantitative study based on survey research design. To meet the objective of the study, a self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used to collect data. Findings show that university librarians believe in the effective adoption of Linked Data technology in libraries. They perceive that Linked Data technology can enhance navigation between the traditional online tools to access library resources and Linked Data will soon be the standard for creating metadata and records for information resources management in libraries. They are eager to attend events about Linked Data application in their libraries and willing to explore ways to incorporate Linked Data standards in bibliographic records management as well. Barriers do exist such as the general lack of awareness of basic Linked Data concepts and best practices for this emerging technology. To foster the research and to set Linked Data best practices in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, there is a potential to invest in this area in terms of financial and social capital.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47026874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diagnosing the service quality improvement of university libraries in intuitionistic fuzzy environment","authors":"H. S. Tooranloo, Arezoo Sadat Ayatollah, Mahtab Tavangar Marvasti","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Libraries and information centres are service organizations connecting academic communities to knowledge and information through efficient services as their main mission. Given the importance of high-quality services in libraries and increased users' demand for receiving better service, the promotion of service quality levels is as one of the crucial challenges of libraries. This study is an attempt to provide a model for diagnosis of library service quality using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach in an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. The proposed model is applied in libraries of Yazd University of Science and Art in Iran. Accordingly, 25 failure items of library service quality in library services are first determined for diagnosis through reviewing the literature and interviewing the academic experts, as well as library managers at Yazd University of Science and Art. Following the determination of these items, a questionnaire was administered to the experts. The results indicate that \"the lack of appropriate social spaces for group learning and study\" is an item of highest priority in quality improvement of library service. The results of this research can be used to guide managers and decision makers in order to plan for improving the quality of library services.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47929280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accessibility and utility of library resources in research methodology course: A case of non-science students at the University of Malaya","authors":"M. D. Azman, Mashitah Hamidi, S. Ong","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the accessibility and utility of library resources when studying research methodology among the non-science students at the University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur. It addresses the primary concerns of accessibility and utility among students when engaging library resources and undertaking the core subject “Research Methodology” both at the faculty level, as well as at three departments under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In doing so, survey questionnaires were distributed among students doing research methodology across three distinct yet interrelated subfields of the Arts and Social Sciences, namely Anthropology and Sociology, Chinese Studies, and International and Strategic Studies. This descriptive study employs both quantitative and qualitative data gathering techniques through: (a) survey captured through an email invitation to a specific target of undergraduate and postgraduate students who have completed their research methodology course; (b) a focus group discussion (FGD) conducted to discuss students’ responses toward initial findings from the surveys. The findings indicate that despite the pivotal role played by the library in facilitating the learning of research method, there is greater need to recognise the specific needs of library resources in research methodology in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. This should be able to help the acquisition division of respective university libraries in their future planning, particularly given the variety and diversity of research traditions in the non-science discipline.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43993149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authors at the boundary: Interaction of local and general scientific literature","authors":"Cigdem Baskici, S. Atan, Yavuz Ercil","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.2","url":null,"abstract":"How a scientific literature is shaped both at the local and general level is an important question to answer. One practical way of achieving this task is to identify the roles played by authors (academicians) as actors creating and disseminating knowledge in the relevant literature. To this end, this study examines roles undertaken by authors in the field of learning organizations. Identifying role typologies first requires revealing the author citation network in the field. Citation network is a matrix that summarizes citations and citation numbers between authors. To construct this matrix, articles in the local and general literature in the field of learning organizations, published and indexed between January 01, 2015 and February 20, 2017, were collected from Google Scholar by using the Java-based Selenium Library. An author citation network with 19,525 actors was created from this list. A social network analysis was conducted to identify author roles, followed by a discussion of what these roles mean for the local literature. Despite defining four typologies, observing only one type of role typology indicates that the local literature is not well integrated with the general literature. This study recommends strategic assessments for increasing the contribution ability of local literature to general one. Using this approach, it would be possible to find answers to the questions of which roles to develop via which authors and relationships, and how to remove the obstacles to development of local literature.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The spatial-temporal transfer of scientometrics research topics based on citation analysis","authors":"Jia-lin Hou, Xiucai Yang","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the spatial-temporal transfer of research topics in the field of scientometrics was analysed through citation analysis and information visualization tools such as CiteSpace and Google Fusion Tables software. We collected 12,839 articles, including 214,748 references, about citation analysis in Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) databases for the period of 1971 to July 2016 as the data source. We obtained the following findings: The transfer of central research topics in the field of scientometrics is accelerating. There have been three milestones: the middle of the 1990s, 2005, and 2010. The number of central research topics has also changed from one between 1971 and 1993 to two after 1994 and three after 2008. At the same time, the geographical centres of scientometrics research showed a general shift from the US and Britain to Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and China. At present, the countries that are centres of research include the Netherlands, US, Belgium, China, Spain, and Italy. There is a close positive correlation between the transfer of the central research topic and the transformation of the country to a centre of research. The countries acting as centres of research enjoy not only a high output of literature, but also a great academic influence. Both the theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46737527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determining factors of perceived elf-efficacy in information seeking practices through Facebook","authors":"Musa Ya’u Giade, M. Y. I. Aspura, A. Noorhidawati","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO3.3","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on factors that drive students’ perceived self-efficacy in information seeking practices through Facebook. The quantitative study employed random sampling of postgraduate students in a higher learning institution. A total of 354 responses were gathered through a self-reported survey. The findings showed four factors, namely, past performance, other’s experience, verbal persuasion and psychological state, have statistically significant correlations with students’ perceived self-efficacy in information seeking practices through Facebook. Past performance was found to be the most influential factor followed by other’s experience. Verbal persuasion and psychological states were the least influential factor. The outcome of the study contributes to the existing literature particularly on the self-efficacy standpoint in social networking sites (SNS) platform. In addition, the findings are relevant to the field of information seeking behaviour especially in providing evidence that people are searching information using Facebook","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41528638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The scale-invariant properties of the citation-based performance of internationally co-authored articles","authors":"Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo","doi":"10.22452/mjlis.vol23no2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mjlis.vol23no2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to determine the scale-invariant properties of the citation-based performance of internationally co-authored articles on Management Information Systems (MIS). A total of 20, 485 articles which received a total of 432,386 citations were analyzed. Collaborative articles accounted for 83 percent of the papers. Citation-based performance and international collaborative papers exhibited a power-law correlation with a scaling exponent of 1.28 ± 0.05. Citations to MIS articles increased 21.28 or 2.42 with a doubling of the number of internationally collaborative papers. The scaling exponent for the power-law correlation for domestic collaborative papers was 1.22 ± 0.04 indicating that citations grew by 21.22or 2.32 times when the number of domestic papers doubled. MIS articles published through international collaboration show a stronger Matthew Effect than those published through domestic collaboration. International collaborative papers were further analyzed by global regions. The papers that were internationally collaborative with authors being from different global regions have a scaling exponent for the power-law correlation with citation-based performance of 1.25 ± 0.06. This exponent shows that citations grew 21.26±0.06 or 2.37 times when the number of these inter-regional papers doubled. Those papers that were internationally collaborative with the authors being from the same global region (intra-regional) have a scaling exponent for the power-law correlation with citation-based performance of 1.56 ± 0.14. This performance demonstrates that citations grew 21.56±0.14 or 2.94 times when the number of intra-regional papers doubled. This indicates that the Matthew Effect is stronger for intra-regional collaborative papers than for inter-regional ones.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46320297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of an information literate school community: Perceived roles and practices of teacher librarians","authors":"M. Aisah, A. Abrizah, M. Y. I. Aspura, W. Dollah","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The research investigates the perceived roles and practices of teacher librarians in developing an Information Literate School Community (ILSC). The study employs a survey method, which was based on a set of an ILSC benchmarks developed by Henri (1995). A web-based questionnaire was e-mailed to 148 teacher librarians from Malaysian secondary schools in which their School Resource Centers (SRCs) received 4 and 5 stars rating for the year 2015 SRCs evaluation. The result showed that the teacher librarians rated 11 roles as being important, however they acknowledged that they have successful (very much) in executing only one task in their practice that is they “ensure that teachers are efficient library users”. Teacher librarians evaluated the information services as very important and at the same time, they thoroughly practiced their roles as the stakeholder in terms of delivering and providing information services to the school community. The finding also revealed that the integration of ICT was recorded as having the highest mean gap between perceived roles and practices. This indicated that although teacher librarians had placed integrating ICT as an important role, there was still a lack of practice. Furthermore, this study has attempted to bridge the apparent divide in the practices of information literacy and the perception of the role in developing an ILSC.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48227573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}