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SUCCESSFUL MODELS IN MANAGING PRIVATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
Get PDFThis write-up considered the evolution of libraries in Nigeria which of course cannot be separated from the history and development of universities. The development of libraries in private universities can also not be separated from that of public libraries. Therefore, the Management Models of libraries in private universities may not really be different from that of public libraries, however, the uniqueness in the set -up of private universities has warranted the adoption of unconventional management models in running such university libraries. These models include Management By Groping Along (MBGA) or The Chess Management Model, The Participatory Management Model, and The Intersection Management Model. In this study, a robust suggestion was made to Proprietors (Visitors) of Private Universities on ways of making private universities, and by extension, the Libraries World Class and attracting the respect and recognition of stakeholders in the academic world. It is recommended that experienced candidates should be engaged as University Librarians from the inception of universities to occupy the positions. Equally important are issues bordering on the restructuring of personnel and budget deductions which are abnormally and usually experimented from libraries, this practice is expected to be discontinued
Responsible Information Flow: A Discourse of the Emerging Issues and Options Nexus
Get PDFThe paper looked at the definitions of information as stated by various scholars and the aggregate of it all is that information is a kind of communication in whatever format from a source to a recipient to warrant a change in behaviour. The paper also classified information as soft and hard. Information from radio, television, image laundering, protocol and reporting of current events in magazine and newspapers are classified as soft while hard information is the one provided in libraries and other information related institutions. There are also various sources of information such as print, manuscripts, cartographic and audio-visual. The paper also looked into the ‘why’ of information and a number of these are listed. It also informed that responsible information is that information which is capable of changing a man’s behaviour and should be accredited and the source should own up. For information to be responsible, certain factors must come to play. These are environmental, technical and biological factors. Management and government support, censorship and copyright issues as well as infrastructure all fall under environmental facts while information growth and explosion, information poverty and biblioteca, bibliography and cognitive issues are technical factors. Biological factors examine such issues as noise pollution and misplaced priorities. The paper concludes by suggesting that librarians must adopt proactive measures in addressing all issues discussed in the paper. These include being focused, adapting to continuous training and re-order of priorities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Knowledge of Electronic Databases as Predictors Research Productivity of Academic Staff in Nigerian Private Universities
Get PDFThe quality of teaching, research and community service of lecturers coupled with their publication in any university system depend on the quality of the electronic database they use. This study therefore, investigated the knowledge of electronic databases as predictors of research productivity of academic staff in private universities in South-west, Nigeria.
The descriptive survey research design of the correlational type was adopted. A total of 1656 academic staff in in the 21 private universities were sampled. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 60% academic staff across the ranks in 21 private universities. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Spearman’s rank and multiple regression at 0.05 level of significance.
Knowledge of electronic databases variables were positively and significantly correlated with research productivity of academic staff. The study recommended Specific training/re-training and user education of academic staff on the acquisition of ICT skills in their various disciplines for research
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Mentor the Mentee for Academic Excellence: The Forgetting Value in Nigerian Universities
No full textStudy explored the value of mentorship in Nigerian Universities. Mentorship is an academic norm that sustain value of academic excellence in the University system. Academic mentorship refers to the training, knowledge, skills, orientation, attitude, discipline, and ethic standard acquired by protege from senior academic toward achieving the core value of teaching, research and community service in the university. Academic mentor is senior academic who has obligation to share expertise knowledge of teaching, research and community service experience with junior academics for the purpose of guiding protege on career path, setting goals, developing contact and offer personal support toward attainment of academic excellence. So, he who call for academic mentorship, call for academic excellence. University is a collegial system for building Centre of academic excellence. Meanwhile, a number of factors have been observed as clogs on the wheels of academic progress in the university system which hindered mentorship on teaching and researches for the attainment of academic excellence in Nigeria. Incidentally, some university academic staff suffered with mentorship practices where preferred mentors sometimes decline protégés\u27 requests for mentorships. Today, mentorship programme in Nigerian universities is declining and seems to collapsed the value of academic system because some of the newly employed academic staffwere unconsciously idle to perform their obligation. They avoid classroom teaching, jettisoned academic research and publication, avoiding local and international conferences due to lack of sponsorship, engaged in sexual harassment and examination malpractice in the university. The study concluded that mentorship is an academic value established for attainment of academic excellence and integrity. Therefore, it is recommended among others that university management should implement mentorship policy and programme through seminars, workshops and conferences for training the junior academic towards achieving the academic excellence in teaching, research and community service
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