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STRATEGIES FOR PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS: AN OVERVIEW
No full textLibraries are .facing a challenge to manage 'digital horn documents and one of the activities of libraries/archives is to maintain them for posterity. The paper reviews briefly different strategies jbr preservation of digital documents by way of migration, refreshing, backup. data archeology, technological up gradation etc and pinpoints their limitations by referring to literature
Islamic Sharia Court (Law) Libraries in Nigeria: A Proposal for Networking
No full textEmergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their subsequent integration in the field of Library and Information services offer opportunities to organizations in Nigeria especially to Sharia Court Law libraries. Today organizatoins can’t prosper and deliver its services effectively and efficiently without embracing these technologies (ICTs). In this backdrop, the paper attempts to propose a networking model for Sharia Court libraries, to assist them in the provision of adequate services. It also relates the rationale for networking among libraries particularly in the present economic predicament of the country like rising cost and decreasing trend in budgetary allocation for libraries. Besides, structure for effective networking schemes is elaborated and problems, prospects and solutions outlined.KEYWORDS : Law Libraries – Networking; Sharia Libraries; Library Networking – NigeriaPAPER TYPE : Conceptua
Oriental Collection in the Punjab University Library A Case Study
No full textThe study eAplores the status of oriental collection of the Punjab University Library (Lahore) having the largest and precious manuscript and rare resources. Different data collection tools like interview observation and document analysis were used, besides getting opinions of the users and staff The data collected is analyzed about collection, acquisition, technical process, automation, environment, preservation and conservation and other conveniences and also put forth sugge.stions for strengthening the facilities and services.KEYWORDS : Oriental Collection. Preservation & Conservation, Manuscripts, oriental resources-Pakistan
ICT Students, Stress and Coping Strategies: English Perspective A Case Study of Midsize Middle Eastern University
No full textThis study evaluates the perceptions of stress among Information and Communications Technologry (ICT) students and their coping strategies in dealing with English as the medium of instruction during their university studies. A semi-structured administered survey was conducted using a sample of 267 male students of a Computer Science college from a midsize Middle Eastern university The study also used a phenomenological approach with semi-structured interviews carried out with ten students in order to clarify some qfthefindings qfthis study. Since the research topic is based on student's stress perceptions, the phenomenological analysis of transcribed student's interviews was also an appropriate tool for this study. Phenomenology enables participants to express their feelings about a particular situation or incident in their own point afvieiv which may not be easy to express on a survey. All students who took part in this study thought that they had been stressed at one time or another due to having English as the medium of instruction without a Preparatory Year English Program (PYEP) befbre entering ICT courses. 62% of the students maintained that they have had episodeS of stress due to the English language during their studies at one time or another. The students use different mechanisms to cope up with stress outside the university by engaging themselves in sports, surfing the web, Meditation, hanging out with, friends, sleeping or going in to isolation. The students demand interactive' English language courses, more leisure time activities on campus, proper guidance in English language courses to ease their ICT course-studies. advisory services and peer counsel ling on campus to reduce their stress.PAPER TYPE: Research PaperKEYWORDS: Information Communication Technology (ICT); ICT students; English Language; Stress and Coping strategies; User Behaviour; Survey
Computer Mediated Communication: Mailing List as Modern Meeting Place
No full textPurpose: The paper uses as case study a discussion mailing list created in April 1998 (and still exists) by a group of the Somali diaspora. The mailing list, known as Puntland/lubbaland mailing list, was formed to give its members an interactive online. The purpose of Puntland & Jubbaland mailing list is to, but not limited to, facilitate privately the discussion of Northeastern and Lower Juba social, economic and political affairs and to solidifj, the views of Puntland Somalis in the Somali Diaspora. The interaction of the group is meant to create a feeling similar to the intimacy characteristic of primary groups. Since social ties deepen in time, primary groups are relatively permanent, as relationships involve an identity of ends. In primary groups, the relationship is in itself an end and only secondarily or incidentally a means to an end.Design/Methodology/Approach: Members in the Puntland/Jubbaland mailing list organised themselves into helping and contributing to home development, helping the newly elected Puntland administration, pooling skills of professionals, and promoting the interests of Puntland and Jubbaland regions. The list had its ups and downs. At its height ofexistence, it created and helped many useful projects for the people of Puntland (an autonomous region of Somalia).Findings: The results of the research shows that despite mailing list technology can be used as modern meeting place and tools to enable people to work for a purpose. Nevertheless, the mailing medium has also environment become the arena where the Somali factional Diaspora has been taking place enabling the groups to organise and communicate. In a way it has facilitated the some groups to take the home conflict outside the country. On the other hand, it is also where groups aiming as the supra-national level to meet and get together to help their JOlks at home. Whatever the objectives of the mailing groups, what influenced their discussions are mainly events at home.Originality/Value: The paper illustrates how mailing technology enable members of one Diaspora community to use it as the modern meeting place and at the same time keep in touch with a political situation at home that is exceptional, and to involve themselves in its development and its controversies, should they wish to do so. It also shows how the discussion technology has facilitated the groups in a new dimension to traditional methods ofmeeting.PAPER TYPE: Research PaperKEYWORDS : Computer-Mediated Communication; Mailing Lists; Discussion Group; Politics; Somalia: Social Development; Diaspora
Curriculum of Graduate Courses in Library and Information Science Schools of Northern India: An Analysis
No full textPurpose: The aim of the study is to investigate the course structure in the curriculum of Library and Information Science (LIS) schools in Northern part of India at graduate level.Design/methodology/approach: Questionnaire was designed to get the data from the institutions. When response rate was low, curriculum prevailing in the institutions was either downloaded from their respective websites or a hardcopy was collected from the departments personally. Thirteen institutions are included in this study.Findings: Data collected from the selected LIS departments when analyzed, reveals that there is disparity existing in the curriculum adopted by these schools. Same papers taught in these schools have different nomenclatures.Research limitations/implications: The research restricted to a limited number of institutions presents the pattern of Library and Information Science education in Northern India only.Originality/value: The research, leads to the fact that instead of heterogeneity, homogeneity in curriculum is the demand of the day in order to impart qualitative education in the field of LIS.Keywords: Library Science; Information Science; Curriculum; LIS Schools; Library Professionals; Information Professionals; Northern India; IndiaPaper type: Research pape
