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{"title":"Curbside book pick-up services during a time of crisis in South African University Libraries","authors":"D. Mashiyane, M. Molepo","doi":"10.38140/ufs.14983791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.38140/ufs.14983791","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sought to determine the implementation of curbside/book pick-up services within South \u0000African University libraries. This study seeks to quantify South African university libraries that \u0000use curbside book pick-up services during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44734015","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":"Gender, Age and Staff Preparedness to Adopt Internet Tools for Research Sharing During Covid-19 in African Varsities","authors":"V. J. Owan, M. Asuquo, S. O. Ekaette, Sana Aslam, Moses Obla, D. Agurokpon, M. V. Owan","doi":"10.14293/111.000/000020.v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14293/111.000/000020.v1","url":null,"abstract":"This study assessed the partial as well as the collaborative impact of age and gender on academic staff preparedness to adopt Internet tools for research sharing in African universities during Covid-19. Although evidence abounds in the literature on gender and age as they affect relatively, scholars’ utilisation of digital tools for research communication, such studies did not examine scholars’ preparedness to adopt from a broad perspective of Africa. This study was conducted based on the argument that the preparedness of scholars may affect their future interest to utilize digital tools for research sharing. A quantitative method, based on the descriptive survey research design, was adopted to provide answers to four prevailing research questions. The examination focused on a populace of 8,591 staff in African universities, nonetheless, information was gathered from 1,977 of them, who deliberately took part from 24 African nations. A validated electronic rating scale, which was mailed/posted to targeted participants, was used as the instrument for data collection. Gender and age significantly affected academic staff preparedness to adopt Internet tools for research sharing partially and interactively in African Universities during Covid-19. Female staff were more prepared than males to adopt internet tools for research sharing during the pandemic. Older lecturers reported a higher rate of preparedness than their younger colleagues to adopt Internet tools for research sharing during Covid-19. In light of these proofs, ramifications and proposals for future exploration are discussed.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46016910","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":"A case of pre-implementation of the integrated repository for university administration by academic librarians","authors":"Marek Deja, Leszek Szafrański","doi":"10.26106/3GSR-WS56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26106/3GSR-WS56","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69258504","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":"Effect of Social Media Addiction on Reading Culture: A Study of Nigerian Students","authors":"I. Anyira, Obiora Kingsley Udem","doi":"10.31229/osf.io/bkzhc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/bkzhc","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of social media addiction on the reading culture of Nigerian students in higher institutions of learning. An online survey was sent to 1500 students of higher institutions in Nigeria during the Lockdown necessitated by the outbreak of the dreaded Corona Virus (COVID-19) Pandemic. A total of 1300 questionnaires were completed and returned. This implies an 86.7% return rate. Data were analyzed using graphical charts. The findings of the study showed that social media mostly used by the student include Facebook, followed by WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, WordPress, Snapchat, Reddit, respectively; while 75.3% of the students use the social media daily, 92.3% of them access the social media via their mobile phones. The study also found 97% using social media for the purpose of chatting with friends and family. While 79% of the students indicate they read mainly to pass exams, only 43% read books daily. 67.3% indicated that they rarely visit the library. A massive 84.4% strongly agreed that social media has a negative effect on reading habits. The researchers, therefore, concluded that as the world’s economy is becoming more knowledge-based, the future of the country is unpredictable except something drastic is done to tackle the decline headlong. It was therefore recommended that lecturers should use social media to teach, give assignments to students, and create reading groups. Libraries should make their services and resources accessible to students through their mobile devices. Seminars to motivate students to read and research should be organized. Parents should monitor their children reading at home and take their children out to libraries instead of shopping malls or cinemas.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44334570","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":"Analysis of the Altmetric top 100 Altmetric Attention Score Coronavirus Publications","authors":"L. Parabhoi","doi":"10.31235/osf.io/4bxjt","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4bxjt","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the publication of many scientific papers. The goal of the present research was to analyse these papers using the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). Statistics for 100 publications with high AAS scores were selected and exported from the Dimension database on May 22nd 2020. The major findings were that these publications were published in 34 different journals or preprint repositories. More than one-third of the total of 657, 350 posts were collected from the Twitter platform. The top contributing countries were China, followed by the USA. The paper “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” by Andersen, Kristian G., etal., 2020 had the highest AAS (33 514. These findings may help others to design studies of the AAS in Covid-19 literature and compare them with traditional citations.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48572001","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":"Open Digital Repositories: Prospects of African Countries within the Global Information Space","authors":"J. Ogungbeni, A. R. Obiamalu, Obiora Kingsley Udem","doi":"10.31229/osf.io/v3apj","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/v3apj","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the contributions of African countries to open digital repositories in the world information space. Two online directories of open digital repositories were used as data sources. The OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories listing 3,670 repositories as at 6th January, 2019. The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a directory of 4,580 institutional repositories and their contents as at 7th January, 2019. Extracted data were analysed using quantitative techniques and presented in tabular and pictorial formats to reveal findings in accordance with desired objectives. The results revealed that Dspace is the most preferred open digital repositories software across the world. The results showed that the contributions of African countries (3.78%) to open digital repositories in the world are low. The results also showed that only 22 African countries contribute to global open digital repositories and that the rate of contribution increased rapidly in the last few years. The study concludes that for Africa to overcome the challenges associated with open digital repositories there is need for more African countries to be involved in the African Open Access Initiative and the need to tap into the experiences of various professionals on the African continent","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43849076","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":"NCE Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Library Course as an Aid to the Use of Library Resources in South-West, Nigeria","authors":"Martins Obinyan, Obiora Kingsley Udem","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/e627g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e627g","url":null,"abstract":"The study was carried out to survey NCE students’ perceptions on use of library course as an aid to their use of library resources in Colleges of Education in South-West Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was employed and four research questions guided the study. From a population of 60,481 students, a sample of 1,210 was drawn using the proportionate stratified sampling technique. Meanwhile, out of the 1,210 copies of the questionnaire distributed, 1,097 were fully completed (filled out) as retrieved and analyzed. It represents (90.66%) or approximately (91%) response rate and considered adequate because the standard and acceptable response rate for most studies is 60%. A questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection after validation by experts in the field, and pre-tested through Cronbach Alpha method that yielded 0.743 aggregate values. Complete data subsequently gathered from 1,097 copies of the questionnaire retrieved were analyzed by employing the statistical mean to answer the research questions and criterion mean placed at 2.50. Among the major findings of the study were: Students perceived use of library course as an aid to their use of all library resource categories examined in the study (that is, reference, reserve, circulation and serials resources). The study therefore recommends that students should be given increased opportunity to access “use of library course programme” as a veritable tool of enhancing their capacity for adequate use of reference resources among others in colleges of education in the region to ensure their effective integration into our 21st century society even after college life.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41248086","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":"Knowledge and Use of Electronic Information Resources by Medical Students at Al-Jouf University in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Aquil Ahmed, Sulaiman Al-Reyaee Dr","doi":"10.12816/0038790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0038790","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic resources are becoming an integral part of the modern education system, especially in higher education settings. Due to the need of medical professionals for high quality, authoritative, relevant, accurate and timely information, students studying in healthcare institutions need to know the various e-resources and the best suitable way to track and access them in order to support their learning and evidence-based medical practice. The present study has tried to assess and compare the awareness and usability level of medical students of two different colleges at Al-Jouf University in using the subscribed electronic resources. The main purpose was to determine students' knowledge and use of e-databases, and to identify the areas in which further training and research needed. A questionnaire, supplemented by an unstructured interview was used to collect data from 300 randomly selected undergraduate medical students. The study found that the awareness and utilization level of students related to available e-databases varied significantly especially when comparing individual colleges and databases. The overall knowledge and use of e-databases by medical students was much higher than the dental students and those who were aware of the existence of e-resources found using e-books' databases more than those containing journal publications and EBM. The overall low response from dental students and lack of e-resources useful to them, are very much evident from the study. The study also found that those dissatisfied with the subscribed e-resources tend to use general search engines and databases of other university in order to meet their information needs. The paper concludes that the medical students lack the necessary information literacy skills needed to meet their academic and research requirements. It is recommended that the medical librarians and faculty should come together and intensify their efforts through proper information literacy programs in order to educate students how to use these resources effectively.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43276558","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":"Use of E-Journals by Research Scholars in University Libraries in Andhra Pradesh","authors":"Makkini Anil Kumar, V. P. Reddy","doi":"10.17821/srels/2016/v53i3/73897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2016/v53i3/73897","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionLibrary contains the different types of reading materials namely books, periodicals, maps, microforms, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic resources etc. These are procured to meet the information requirements of the user community.It is necessary to conduct user studies to examine the use of these reading materials to design a need-based acquisition policy, develop a balanced collection in the prevailing environment of diminishing budgetary provisions and maximize the use of collection.One of the main functions of the university is the creation of new knowledge by research. The university library through its reading materials and services helps in the successful conduct of research programmes of the university. In this context, among all the reading materials, periodicals are playing an important role in informing the latest research findings and avoiding the duplication of research work.An increasingly important function of academic libraries today is the provision of right information to their users at the right time. Latest advances in computer applications during the past few decades have brought radical changes in the way information is generated, stored, organized, accessed, retrieved and consumed. The vast speed at which different operations are carried out in an automated environment has attracted information professionals to wards a computer-based system. It has opened floodgates to people to access information through many different ways. The information could be located even at far-off locations and could be in different languages. These capabilities were unheard in the library world before of computers entered into information field. The demand for information and the majority of journals are available electronically. Today, libraries are providing access to e-journals by spending a substantial amount on them. Availability ranges from sites, which provide table of contents only, to those supplying the full text of every issue. Some journals only exist in their online format and others have two different versions. In case of subscription, they may be free or chargeable. The paid subscribers are permitted to browse full text of the article with downloadable facility.The e-journals available in university libraries in India are journals of UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium which is launched in 2003, open access journals and the journals subscribed by the libraries on their own. UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium is providing access to current as well as archival access to more than 7000 core and peer reviewed journals and 10 bibliographical data bases. The present study has been undertaken to examine the use of e-journals in university libraries in Andhra Pradesh as previously no study has been undertaken on that aspect.Earlier StudiesThe following are the major studies conducted on use of e-journals.Bonthron made a study on the use of electronic journals in higher education in U.K. The disciplinary di","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67440610","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":"Much Obliged: Analyzing the Importance and Impact of Acknowledgements in Scholarly Communication","authors":"Joshua Finnell","doi":"10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.4802314.V1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.4802314.V1","url":null,"abstract":"Author rights, peer review, open access, and the role of institutional repositories have all come under scrutiny by scholars, librarians, and legal experts in the last decade. Much of the conversation is centered on liberating information from the confinements of legal, financial, and hierarchical restraints. The relevancy of traditional citation analysis too, understood within the framework of an h-Index and Eigen factor, is under scrutiny with the rise of altmetrics. Collectively, these issues form the core of the scholarly communication process, from creation to dissemination to impact. However, an overlooked facet of the scholarly communication process is the acknowledgement. As an expression of scholarly debt, the acknowledgment is an important facet of intellectual networks. Not only does the acknowledgement demonstrate the intellectual contributions of colleagues, advisors, funding agencies, and mentors but also the significance of librarians in the scholarly communication process.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71212347","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}