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{"title":"Analysis of training initiatives undertaken for professional development of library professionals in Pakistan","authors":"A. Ullah","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2918803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2918803","url":null,"abstract":"IntroductionInformation explosion means huge growth in information and emergence of information age, which is characterized by the ability of individuals to have instant access to information and to transfer it freely. Information has emerged as important source of education, teaching, research and development, and has immensely affected the modern library and information centers. The convergence of information and communication media such as telecommunications, broadcasting, communication and print media is another important factor reshaping the future of libraries. It has made it possible to acquire and store digitized versions of many different kinds of learning content such as texts, pictures, audios and videos. Growth of electronic resources due to emergence of processes like digitization and automation has transformed the library activities and has also triggered the need for professional development of library professionals. Emerging use of cloud computing in libraries has made it possible for libraries to manage their contents at remote servers. Open source software spread has made the content management very cheap and simple and also made it possible for libraries to automate their resources without purchasing costly databases. Access to information, with the help of telecommunication infrastructure is one of the underlying factors of this transformation process.Moreover, teaching and learning environment has been changed completely with the introduction of web 2.0 tools and has connected the people across the globe irrespective of their physical location. Exchange of information in collaborative environment with library users is made possible with the help of web 2.0 tools like blogs, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter and wikis. Information has become ubiquitous and it has overcome the barriers of space and time. Now information can be reached with mobile tools like iPod, mobile phone etc. These technologies have connected the library professionals all around the world into social networks for serving library users more diligently. According to Ullah, Ameen and Bakhtar (2011) information and communication technology has not only transformed library and information services but also \"transformed the information seeking behaviour of library users and they demand and expect the services and programmes accordingly\".Continuing technological advances require more professional development of library professionals to grasp basic as well as modern skills and knowledge for using these technologies in libraries. Professional development seems to be the crucial component for information management that will inculcate the ability to apply innovative technologies effectively in libraries for the completion of tasks. Training of professionals can enhance and activate their knowledge in an integrated manner to fulfill users' needs for information. Professional development is the way to enhance the skills and competencies needed for performing the li","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":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/SSRN.2918803","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68431277","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 Scientometric Analysis of Global Forensic Science Research Publications","authors":"John Jeyasekar Jesubright, S. P. Dr.","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3340357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3340357","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTIONForensic science refers to the application of principles and methods of specialized scientific and technical knowledge to criminal and civil legal questions and presenting the finding in an unbiased and objective way in courts of law. According to Saferstein (2001) \"Forensic science is the application of science to those criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system.\" Thus forensic science is related to the police agencies and to the judiciary.Forensic sciences include, but are not limited to pathology, psychiatry, psychology, odontology, toxicology, molecular biology, entomology. A forensic scientist must be skilled in applying the principles and techniques of the physical and natural science to the analysis of the many types of evidence that may be recovered during crime investigation. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, forensic literature are not limited to core forensic science journal but also can be found in interrelated disciplines of anthropology, chemistry, engineering, entomology, dentistry and physics, among others.SCIENTOMETRICSThe field of Library and Information Science (LIS) has developed several quantitative methods to study the various aspects of subjects. The metrics of LIS are increasing day by day starting from Librametrics, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, Netometrics to Cybermetrics.The origin of the term scientometrics goes back to the year 1969, when two Russian scientists Nalimov and Mulechenko coined the Russian term naukometriya the Russian equivalent of scientometrics (Nalimov and Mulechenko, 1969). However, the advent of scientometrics as a discipline was in 1978, when the journal Scientometrics was founded by Tibor Braun in 1978. Scientometrics defines its content as \"Scientometrics includes all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science, and science policy.\" (Wilson, 1999)The focus of scientometrics is the measurement of science and is therefore concerned with the growth, structure, interrelationship and productivity of scientific disciplines. Tague-Sutcliffe defines \"Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of science as a discipline or economic activity. It is part of the sociology of science and has application to science policy-making. It involves quantitative studies of scientific activities, including, among others, publication, and so overlaps bibliometrics to some extent.\" (Tague-Sutcliffe, 1992)NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDYScientometric studies have increasingly been used over the last few years. These studies are useful to understand the evolution of literature or trends in particular fields or within a geographical area. However, in forensic science, scientometrics have barely been used. Alan Wayne Jones is the only author to have worked on bibliometric analysis of forensic science literature. His interesting work is mainly focused on most highly cited articles,","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":"68586652","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":"Glaucoma Research: A Scientometric Study of Indian Publications Output, 2002-11","authors":"B. Gupta, A. Bala","doi":"10.14429/DJLIT.34.1.5944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14429/DJLIT.34.1.5944","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractObjectives: Analyses the Indian publications output in glaucoma research during 2002-11 on several parameters including contribution & citation impact of top most productive countries, India's overall contribution, its growth pattern and citation impact, the share of international collaboration in India's overall research output, contribution of leading countries and identification of leading foreign collaborating partners, Indian contribution & impact of different types of glaucoma, glaucoma research by sub-fields and glaucoma research output by different population age groups, productivity and impact of leading Indian institutions and authors and pattern of communication of Indian output in most productive journals.Methods: The Scopus Citation Database has been used to retrieve the data for 10 years (2002-11) by searching the keywords \"glaucoma or intraocular pressure\" in combined Title, Abstract and Keywords field.Results: The Indian publications output in glaucoma research consisted of 1078 papers during 2002-11, which increased from 61 papers in 2002 to 207 papers in 2011, witnessing an annual average growth rate of 18.29%. The average citation impact per paper registered by Indian publications in glaucoma research was 3.03 during 2002-11, which decreased from 3.87 during 2002-06 to 2.49 during 2007-11. The international collaborative share of India in overall glaucoma research was 21.06% during 2002-11, which increased from 17.92% during 2002-06 to 23.09% during 2007-11Conclusions: The glaucoma's irreversibility, lacking of glaucoma specialists and patients unawareness demand for an economic and effective glaucoma diagnosis system for screening. Disease control and elimination require an adequately trained functional workforce with an enabling infrastructure and technology.Key Words: Glaucoma research, publications, India, scientometricsIntroductionThe term \"glaucoma\" covers a number of different eye conditions, all of which involve damage to the optic nerve. One common cause is that there is too much pressure inside the eye. This pressure is called intraocular pressure. Intraocular pressure is caused by a fluid called aqueous humor produced by the eye itself in the chambers of the eye between the cornea and the lens. If the aqueous humor is prevented from draining properly, it starts to collect and pressure within the eye builds up. This presses against the optic nerve and there is a risk that nerve cells die. Whether the increased intraocular pressure does cause damage depends on, among other things, how well the optic nerve can resist this pressure. Intraocular pressure is measured in mm Hg (millimeters of mercury), the same unit used for blood pressure. Readings between 10 and 21 mm Hg are considered normal. Someone who has glaucoma does not always have above-average intraocular pressure1.There is different type of glaucoma: (i) Open-angle glaucoma (also called primary or chronic glaucoma), caused by the slow clogging of the dra","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67008330","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":"Academic Libraries' External Environment and Environmental Scanning by Managers of Central Libraries of Islamic Azad Universities of Iran","authors":"F. Babalhavaeji, M. Farhadpoor","doi":"10.15612/bd.2011.198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15612/bd.2011.198","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Academic libraries such as other libraries and information centers and organizations operate within the context of two environments-internal and external. Both of these environments are interconnected. Whilst, internal context of library consists organizational structure and functions and the way they are configured in pursuit of specified organizational objectives; each library operates in complex and changing external environments, which frequently produces new challenges which must be controlled to ensure the library's future survival and success. Their impact is a two-way process. Changes in the external environment affect the organization's internal environment, whilst decisions made at managerial level will impact upon both the external and internal environment (Bryson, 1990). Finally, one of the major and important tasks of a manager is the environmental scanning to acquire information and use it to determine the role of the library in its environment, its influence and image, and the services it provides. The external environment of an organization may be viewed as a source of information, resources, or variation (Choo, 1993b). External environment is not a collection of other systems and organizations, but it is an active environment. Changes, events and trends in the environment continually create signals and messages. Organizations detect or receive these cues and use the information to adapt to new condition. Dill views the environment as a source of information, and suggests that the best way for analyzing the environment is to treat the environment as information which becomes available to the organization, or the organization may get access via search activity (Dill, 1962). Because information allows management to improve its strategic planning, tactical implementation of program and it's monitoring and control; in messy environments, having access to timely and relevant information can give a firm competitive advantage. Information perspective indicates that, when managers suppose that.the environment is unpredictable, they feel uncertainty, and this situation occurs, when they feel that they have no information for accurate decision-making (Hatch, 2006); (Dill, 1962). Another perspective views the environment as a source of resources upon which the organization is dependent. Munificence, or scarcity of resources; Concentration, or the extent to which power and authority in the environment is widely dispersed; and interconnectedness, the number and pattern of linkage among organizations in the environment, are three structural characteristics of the environment that affect resource dependence (Choo, 1993b). To survive, organizations require resources. Typically, acquiring resources means that the organization must interact with others who control those resources (Pfeffer and Salancik, 1978). The third perspectives based on ecological view in organization studies, developed principally by Hannan and Freeman, and Aldric","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67087755","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":"Using Google Analytics for Improving Library Website Content and Design: A Case Study","authors":"W. Fang","doi":"10.7282/T3MK6B6N","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7282/T3MK6B6N","url":null,"abstract":"Google Analytics is a free web analytics solution that provides webmasters with insightful information about how visitors find and interact with their websites. In this case study, we have experimented in using Google Analytics to analyze two of our websites: The Rutgers-Newark Law Library main website and The New Jersey Digital Legal Library website. It was used to monitor our visitors' browsing activities and viewing behaviors for three months. Based on our findings from Google Analytics reports, we have redesigned our website. Subsequent data collected by Google Analytics have confirmed that our new design better fits the information needs of our visitors and librarians. Google Analytics is very powerful and can be used for almost any website. We believe that other libraries will benefit from using Google Analytics as well. Limitations of Google Analytics are also discussed based on our experience with it.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71383876","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 Plane Tree Turns Fifty: a History of the Department of Librarianship at Ankara University","authors":"Oya Gürdal, Fatoş Subaşioğlu","doi":"10.1501/ANKARA-631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1501/ANKARA-631","url":null,"abstract":"Education for librarianship in Turkey, which was established at Ankara University in the academic year 1954-1955, has lasted 50 years, with the contributions of national and foreign collegues and scholars, and organizations such as ALA, the Ford Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. This article describes that history and those who participated in it.","PeriodicalId":53692,"journal":{"name":"Library Philosophy and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66744474","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}