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Use of Social Media in Library Services: A Best Practice at Binghamton University Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahu, Srikanta; Naik, Pranoy
Social media denotes the websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. In this digital era modern libraries use social media as a platform for knowledge sharing, information dissemination and communication. This paper describes use of social media in Binghamton university libraries. Authors have taken Facebook, twitter, YouTube and Pinterest for study. The study focus two aspects: type of content published and user engagement to evaluate the response.
Use of Social Media: A Change in Library Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Das, Pradip
This paper is a study to explore the uses of Social Media (SM) for maximizing better library services. A great care is taken to study the knowledge, attitude, and motivation of respondents. Findings are indicating that LISPs (Library and Information Science Professionals) are gladly accepting the change in their services and profession. They are showing a good and positive attitude towards SM. Most of the LISPs are in favor of using SM to promote and capture the attention of their users particularly those who are online savvy. The majority follow the new trend for giving library services. LISPs are taking it as a knowledge-sharing activity. They are mostly using Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Blogging and YouTube. Some of them have also made online group to promote their library services. Some believe that there is a lack of proper training, lack of knowledge of some LISPs. They are also facing problems for the inappropriate fund and management negligence. It is also found that privacy may be a prime factor for such services. Connectivity to Network and problems due to the non-availability of electricity are also pushing back the use of SM for library services. This paper is a study to explore the uses of Social Media (SM) for maximizing better library services. A great care is taken to study the knowledge, attitude, and motivation of respondents. Findings are indicating that LISPs (Library and Information Science Professionals) are gladly accepting the change in their services and profession. They are showing a good and positive attitude towards SM. Most of the LISPs are in favor of using SM to promote and capture the attention of their users particularly those who are online savvy. The majority follow the new trend for giving library services. LISPs are taking it as a knowledge-sharing activity. They are mostly using Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Blogging and YouTube. Some of them have also made online group to promote their library services. Some believe that there is a lack of proper training, lack of knowledge of some LISPs. They are also facing problems for the inappropriate fund and management negligence. It is also found that privacy may be a prime factor for such services. Connectivity to Network and problems due to the non-availability of electricity are also pushing back the use of SM for library services.
Twitter Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study of Ten University Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Parabhoi, Lambodara
Sentiment analysis is a computer rule based automatic process that has the ability to scrutinize the short text message, user comments, and other textual information and gives the sentiment score on a given subject. The current study is to examine the sentiment analysis of twitter comments of ten university libraries. The ten of universities list was compiled from World university rankings 2019 (Time Higher Education Website). A total of 15850 number of tweets collected between 1st Jan 2013 and 1st September 2019 via Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) for further analysis. The study found overall av. Pos. - av. Neg. was 0.4115. Out 15850 tweets majority of the tweets from The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford about 2760 tweets and highest friend followers 76180 found. Significantly, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford was the highest Av. Nos. of positive sentiment (1.7728). However, the lowest Av. Neg. sentiment received by Yale Library about (1.1454). Moreover, the study found that the word “exhibition” (499) times and “archive” (401) times used in total tweets. Likewise, the word “Congratulations” found average positive sentiment (3.0152) mentioned in total tweets. The study recommended that the library can use social networking sites and examine the user comments, feedback, and reviews that, a user had given on different posts. By doing this, the library will be in better position to overcome the problem and make better decisions for future.
Role of Rural College Libraries of Assam in Digital Divide
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Choudhury, Unindajyoti
Due to the rapid growth in information and communication technology the digital divide has been identified as one of the prime issues in present situation. Again the digital divide occur maximum in rural areas which make barrier for the development. There are lots of opportunities to development in rural areas which are not full filled due to digital divide. But the rural college libraries can play a role of making bridge to overcome the digital divide. This paper contains some different reason of digital divide in rural areas and trying to put some solution to overcome from this situation so that the rural society can grow as faster as the nation grow.
Massive Open Online Courses in Academic Library Information Science Education and Its Challenges
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Pitty, Nagarjuna
This paper describes the concept and development of MOOC and also highlights the structure and features. The paper explains the challenges and roles of academic librarians in providing the best services to the MOOC environment. The challenges of academic librarians in the implementation of MOOC are obtaining copyright clearance, a possibility in providing instruction in information science education literacy to MOOC community and promoting Open Educational Resources (OER) to MOOC. This research article will be explaining and discussing the future of MOOC and its implementation in India.
An Investigation into the Relationship between Information Channels Chosen by Faculty and Its Impact on their Academic Role
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Kumari, A Rajani; Doraswamy, M
This study attempts to find out whether variations in the academic roles in teaching and research are associated with changes in the information channels used by faculty. The underlying assumption is that the specific roles cause major variations in the frequency levels in the use of information channels. After formulating six research hypotheses, testing of the targeted dimensions was done through information channels. The matched pairs Wilcoxon signed ranks test examined the hypotheses as a directional one tailed test at the 0.05 level of significance. Data generated via the questionnaire method, indicated that roles represent a large proportion of frequency variations in the use of the information channels. Out of six hypotheses, four hypotheses had validation from the generated data with the other two failing to support. The outcomes indicated that two information channels had a greater value on impacting teaching roles with the other channels (4) showing more tilt towards research roles.
Implementation of RFID System in Modern Libraries: A Study on University Libraries of Assam
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Das, Krishna
Invention of new technologies has drastically changed our traditional methods of livelihood, our thinking and even our education system too. And the Libraries are not so far beyond this change. In early decade books are kept in almirah as prestigious symbol; later it becomes the collection centre of books and now libraries are regarded as the store house of knowledge. Day by day new technologies and terminologies have been included in libraries and library science education. As a result services offered by libraries become updated including its security system also. This paper is based on such a topic which is most reliable and most modern technique related to the library security system and that is the Radio Frequency Identification in short RFID. The paper describes the implementation of RFID in the university libraries of Assam along with some basic findings and suggestions.
Enhancing Access to Library Electronic Resources through an E-library Portal: The RCSI Bahrain Library Experience
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) P Nair, Bindhu; Anand, Evelyn
The library portal project aimed to improve accessibility and visibility of the Library’s online resources, simultaneously enhancing the user experience. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the e-library portal on the usage of library electronic resources at RCSI Bahrain. Data was collected from library statistical reports. Usage reports from the portal were collected for the year 2018-19 and from individual vendors for the previous years. The study shows that the e-library portal has increased overall usage of library electronic resources. The recommendations for improving the e-portal service include: Upgraded interfaces and compatibility assessments, continuous collaboration between librarians and faculty in selecting and acquiring the most appropriate format of resources to support the curriculum and research needs of the users, well planned and executed marketing strategies for the resources, Workshops/ training in the use of resources and Assessment of the collection to ensure quality and relevance. The development and launch of the portal was not simply a means of enhancing current services and providing a user-friendly platform to access all resources. The portal changed the image of the library from a physical space to a digital companion in student life. Even though the launch of the portal has increased usage of electronic resources, the research needs to be extended to further years to review the access through portal. The library portal has increased the usage but there might be several other underlying factors adding to this, which need to be considered.
E-learning: Learning Management System for the Next - Generation Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Singh, Rashmi
Nowadays E-learning courses offering more flexibility about the pace, time, and place for making education widely accessible for each and every one. E-learning provides many benefits to the students as well as instructors to develop their skills. Successful implementation of e-learning requires the appropriate application of the Internet to support the delivery of learning, skills and knowledgeable courses, technologies, or infrastructures. The importance of e-learning paths that vary according to the student, the subject material, the level of competence, and corporate or student preferences etc. In the present digital era selecting and purchasing of a learning management system has become a major financial and strategic decision for colleges and universities. So, the educational institutions need to have suitable strategies for successful deployment of the e-learning process. This paper covers different types of LMS, all the major e-learning tools, and standards, basic security issues, benefits and limitations of e-learning.
Case Study on Vidya-Mitra (e-Learning MHRD Initiative): A Quantitative Analysis on Multimedia Content (Video)
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Kumar, Abhishek; Tiwari, Sanjay; Pallavi
The present study reports about the usage of audiovisual resources available under Vidya-Mitra, An integrated e-Content Portal. Vidya-mitra facilitates to host all the content and provides searchbrowse facility for all hosted content wherein a learner can easily access the desired material including audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia enriched materials etc., through a single interface. Resource analysis has been done in different area such as collections, viewership of content, subscribers, outreach in terms of geographical region, gender etc.
Library Consortia and Collaborative Resource Sharing Models for Technical University Libraries in India
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Konnur, P V
The role of Librarian is continuously changing in the digital era. The format of libraries and the user expectations are also changing accordingly. Today we do not need the largely stacked libraries, but we need the libraries with large content base. The enormous growth of knowledge in each if the disciplines can never be owned by any individual library. The Technological University Libraries need to get equipped with a huge collection of content which can meet the diverse needs of engineering teachers, and students. Hence shared and collaborative resource sharing models are need of the day. Hence, this paper attempts to help the Technical Universities to setup their Library E-resource Consortia. The paper also covers other collaborative initiatives that a Technological University Library can initiate among its member Libraries.
Scholarly Communications on Internet of Things
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Iroshini, Ningombam; Singh, Ch. Ibohal
The present generation immensely understands the significance and value of the Internet of Things (IoT) for the development of the society. A sizeable amount of researches are found to be conducted by scientists and academicians around the world related to IoT. Analysis of the scholarly communications of the researchers in the field could provide us many clues on various dimensions in this field of new emerging area of study. In the present study, webometric techniques have been used to investigate scholarly publications in IoT indexed in the Emerald Insight database which are published during the span of 7 years i.e. 2013 to 2019. Data analysis reveals us perspectives on the growth of IoT research, core journals, discipline domain, and top productive countries. As the findings of the study indicates IoT research productivity has grown rapidly with time significantly during the last 4 years i.e. 2016-2019. The articles are mainly based on Social Science discipline, business and management being highest. China amongst other countries tops in research in IoT as the findings show.
The Role of Smart Library and Smart Librarian for E- Library Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Nahak, Brundaban; Padhi, Satyajit
The evolution of libraries happens through three stages –modernization, automation and digitization. A smart library (SL) is an information centre with networks of many libraries and their services in a larger informational ecosystem around the globe. Smartness means that the development of new library e-tools and services are measured on the assessment of real resources and users. Smart is more user-friendly than intelligent. As every new paradigm, smartness bears risks. In today’s era, a library equipped with ‘smart library’ technology is to be allowed freely open to library readers with no library staff. Technology gives facilities for controlling and monitoring of library buildings, including automatic doors, lighting, auto-services pavilions, and any computers. It gives permission to use resources 24X7 hours so that the reader s can use the library at times that that are convenient for them. The ‘smart library’ requires ‘smart librarians which gives service to user centric and user friendly. The role of librarians and libraries is changing in the present era due to the changing demands of its users. The role of SL requires three things i.e. Smart users, SL staff and SL services. Users are excepting more from the libraries especially from the academic libraries not only for their intellectual growth but also for their day today informative demand which will certainly grow day by day. The author describes briefly details on smart library, smart service, smart readers, cloud service developing ‘smart librarians, service visibility, service orientation of smart academic library, advocacy, features, vision of SLs, planning for impact, smart governance, smart library place, smart management, smart library staff, green library building, smart librarians and their e-service in digital era. This paper is purely theory based paper which is described by author pinpointed regarding smart library.
Perceptions and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Academic Libraries: An Overview of Global Trends
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Gujral, Garima; Shivarama, J; Choukimath, Puttaraj A
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as an extension of human intelligence and has taken over various sectors. Application of Artificial Intelligence in libraries has been providing a breakthrough for the information sector. Technological advancements can stimulate many human capabilities such as calculating, reading, speaking, grasping, remembering, making judgments and interactive learning. The adoption of artificial intelligence in virtual reference services is considered to provide a new online service model for libraries. Librarians are always on the cutting edge of technologies to engage and enhance services for their users, some of the valid additions include virtual realities that engages users with libraries and enhance information literacy skills. This paper attempts to trace the application and potential impact of artificial intelligence in academic libraries. The application of artificial intelligence under four domains like educational, informative, assistive and social networking have been captured and explained along with their implications. Conversational agents such as chatbots, AI-based participatory library services, research impact, and information discovery, virtual reality have been described
Library Technology Solutions for Smart Libraries: A Comparative Study of IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay Library System
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahoo, Sambhunath; Panda, K C
Library technology refers to those technologies which are mainly used in libraries for providing smart library services to their users, perhaps keeping in view of the implications of five laws of library science as envisaged by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) recognized as Institute of National Importance, provide higher technical education and research in India. IIT Libraries are using latest technologies to provide smart library solutions to their users.This study used survey method to collect primary data through observation technique and questionnaire tool. The study selected two IITs, i.e. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay who got Institute of Eminence (IoE) status by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India and secured 2nd rank and 3rd rank respectively in NIRF-2019 under engineering category. Their Library plays a pivotal role in making them at the top. The main objectives of the study were to know what kinds of library technology used by IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi Library System. The study found that both the IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi Library used library technology in different areas like library automation, library website, institutional repository, remote access, web-scale discovery system (WSDS), cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. This study suggests appropriate measures for the improvement of existing library system of IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi. Further,it may be useful to those who are doing in-depth research in the field of library technology.
Libraries as Data Repositories for Smart City projects
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Bharanidharan, S; Krishnan, Vijay; Krishnamoorthy, G
Libraries play a key role in the development of their communities. Information available in a library is valuable to the community for its development. Archives and records about a place or geographical community is a repository of the history of developments in that location. These can span various aspects of governance and administration from land use to water supply, from transportation to electricity, and others. From villages to cities, various records are collected and historical data is available. Indian customs and traditions could impact such records. Computerization of records has made them easily accessible. Smart city implementations can involve data collection and analytics for the benefit of their communities. There are privacy concerns around data from IoT and other technology platforms. Libraries have contributed to smart city developments. In places where there is conflict around control or access to such data, libraries can offer data archival, governance and analytical services so that smart city project data can benefit the intended communities.
Internet of Things (IoT) in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) N K, Sheeja; K, Susan Mathew
This paper reviews the literature on the application of Internet of Things (IoT) in libraries and identifies the prospective areas where IoT can be executed effectively. The literatures on IoT applications retrievable by Google Scholar search during 2010 to 2019 were selected. The number of articles available on this area found to be very less. The authors attempted to provide a comprehensive review on the available articles to generate inferences important to the field of library and information science.
Indian Academic Research Data Repository (IARDR) With INFLIBNET: A Futuristic Plan
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Pal, Birender; Singh, Sanjay Kumar
Data and Information are an integral component resulting to form the knowledge. In terms of research information management (e-resource), the Institutional Repository (IR) has played an immense role. Research data is another important asset of research which needs to be properly managed. The situations of research data management in European, American and Australian continents is very much advanced and are having a well research data management platform for their researcher. But when we study the research data management aspect basically in Indian context, then the situation is quite different than the other countries of the world. In Indian universities, a lot of research data has been collected by the researcher which is unutilized after the completion of research. This paper explores that what is the present status of research data management policy in Indian context. It also highlights on how India can have the research data management policy in the field of academics. It further reflects the proposed policy on how INFLIBNET centre can act as a national platform or nodal centre to build the anticipated IARDR. The paper at the end shows the merit and limitation of the proposed IARDR and the role of libraries.
Dynamic Approaches to the Next Generation Librarianship: A Discussion
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahoo, Bedadyuti; Rautaray, Bijaylaxmi
People anticipate major changes in the field of library automation, digitization, and dissemination of resources, better library products and services in the upcoming years. The Upheavals started in real after 20th century because of the demand of the users for research as well as academia. Accordingly, the importance in the field of library systems and services developed for creating better scope through the process of data management, reserving contents in the archives, creating remote access to the electronic resources, and managing library activities technically through the library management software and databases. Simultaneously, the workflow and the efficiency of the staff members also have developed than the decades before might be the change of the wanting of the users’ or supportive mechanisms and impact of the ICT. This paper vividly discuss in details about the present library management systems and services of the library for the benefit of the whole users’ community.
Data Analytics and Visualization in Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Patnaik, Rachna
Libraries play a vital role in supporting research and learning processes. They manage a large store of data about collections to meet the requirements of users. Data in a digital library is growing and data analytics, visualization techniques are trying to make sense of voluminous amount of unstructured data. Space Applications Centre library provides various digital, online services, which generates lot of data in the form of transaction data, metadata and usage data. A large amount of budget is spent in subscription, renewal of e-resources and for accountability; data analytic tools are effective in producing insights from the usage data to understand users and improving library services. This paper attempts toanalyze library transaction data retrieved from KOHA Integrated library management software and usage data of library website and e-resources at the Library of Space Applications Centre,to make decisions inproviding efficient services by understanding and predicting user needs. The operational data is exported into a warehouse, cleaned and analyzed using Python language and its libraries. Matplotlib a data visualization tool is used to visualize the analysis through scatter plot and bar graph and helped us in the renewal of e-resources.

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