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Status of Technological Competencies: A Case Study of University Librarians
Get PDFTechnological expertise is the combination of knowledge and skill needed to apply technology for efficient and effective performance. This study investigates the technological expertise of eight university librarians using interview as data collection tool. Interview questions were based on technological template (T-template) or technology evaluation list for staff. It has been used by Education, Libraries & Heritage (ELH) Department’s ICT service in UK, California and Alberta public libraries to assess the IT competencies of their staff . The Template has been adopted and customized to meet the local requirements. It was used to measure the degree of professional technological expertise of the participants. The main categories of T-template were computer hardware, word processing, internet, troubleshooting and ILS (integrated library system) expertise. Findings show that participants were proficient enough in basic computer skills and were able to computerize their library collections. Findings also established that computerized acquisition and circulation systems were not very common in practice among professionals. Lack of advanced internet and ILS expertise is reported due to less urge in learning and exploring technology. The technological template adopted and customized in this study can be further utilized to assess the technological expertise of all the library professionals in Pakistan. Results though indicative, but could not be generalized due to its small sample
Job Satisfaction Among Public and Private University/Degree Awarding Institution Librarians of Lahore: A Comparative Study
Get PDFIt i
s a comparative study regarding job satisfaction
among librarians who are serving in public
(government) and private sector universities/degree
awarding institutes in Lahore. Questionnaires were
used to collect data from librarians serving in ten HEC
(High
er Education Commission) recognized public
and private sector universities/institutes in Lahore.
The eight components of job satisfaction were
measures derived through literature: physical
environment & ICT infrastructure, personal growth,
organizational
culture, social prestige, salary, rewards,
promotion and nature of work.
The study observed that librarians serving in public
sector universities were more satisfied as compared to
the librarians working in private sector universities.
While for some aspe
cts, like promotion, private sector
universities provided greater opportunities to
librarians, as there is a lack of promotional
infrastructure in public sector universities of Lahore.
The study suggested that authorities in librarianship
should formulate
policies regarding job satisfaction
such as proper reward system or work incentives,
encouraging working environment particularly in
public sector, and a proper career infrastructure etc
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A Qualitative Case Study of Green Environment: Practices, Attitudes and Future Strategies of Pakistani University Librarians
Get PDFScope: This paper attempts to explicate sustainable practices’ status in university libraries with specific reference to Pakistan. This idea enunciates the potential of university libraries to address the environmental issues through work operations as a social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach: This case study utilized multiple methods for mapping data from different sources, such as face-to-face in-person 27 interviews, observation (participants and the sites), pictures, document review and field notes to explore the existing status of sustainable practices of librarians. Furthermore, a cross case analysis was done to validate the findings. Findings: Status of green work practices is unsatisfactory. Majority of librarians are not familiar, have a limited or different understanding of going green. Consequently, green work practices are highly uneven in absence of framed guidelines. Practical Implications: Overall, there is a dearth of LIS literature in the domain of going green. The current research based on the belief that every small individual green action counts on protecting planet earth across nation and across globe. Originality/Value: This case study is to stimulate a conversation on environmental education and promotion among library professionals. Additionally, the study will also place local librarianship into the latest perspective of “green literature” and increase the value and significance of local librarians’ green efforts in the global context
Teachers’ conceptions about information literacy skills of school children
Get PDFThe paper presents results of a study conducted to measure perceptions of teachers about their
3rd grade
students’ information literacy (IL) skills. The IL standards given by the
California School Library
Association for 2nd graders were provided to 54 teachers from three private schools of Lahore city
of
Pakistan to get their opinion.
Selected through
purposive sampling methods, the respondents perceived
their students to be good or adequate in various IL skills.
The students
were
qualified
in
each of the eight
standards of information literacy.
The study concludes that information literacy activities can be practiced
by schools
by providing
proper learning resources and infrastructure
Are Public Libraries Promoting Social Justice? A Case of Quaid-e-Azam Library of Pakistan
No full textAbstract of a presentation at the conference Information Science Trends 202: Untold Stories in Information Science, 15-17 June 202
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
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
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