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Adoption of open source software in library management: an instance with Koha
No full textThis literature and practical knowledge based opinion paper explored Koha software, bringing to limelight its applicability in the library. The various modules contained in the software (Circulation, Patrons, Advanced Search/OPAC, Cataloguing, Serials, Acquisition, Report and Tools) and the various specific services that they can be used to perform were exhaustively discussed. The paper also briefly discussed library software and open source software (OSS) initiative respectively. It explained the various characteristics including the numerous benefits such as; availability of source code, free redistribution, stability, less expensive, etc, associated with the use of OSS. It concluded by stating that the provision of current, timely and easy access to information even, remotely, is a task which libraries and librarians cannot ignore if they want to remain relevant in today’s information environment and therefore recommend that rather than spent futile years waiting for funds to acquire proprietary software, the OSS such as Koha should be embraced as most times, they are more effective and efficient.Keywords: Koha Software, Open Source Software, Library Software, Software Application in Librarie
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
Continuing professional development and innovative information service delivery in Nigerian libraries: Inhibitors and the way out
No full text269-275This study
examined the various forms of continuing professional development (CPD) that
Nigerian academic librarians have participated in during the last five years
with a view to ascertain the various ways in which skills acquired from such
programmes had enabled innovative and creative information service delivery. The survey method of investigation was
adopted for the study. The findings revealed that the librarians participated
in very few forms of CPD programmes and the few skills acquired during
participation in the CPD programmes are minimally utilized in providing
creative and innovative services in the library. The major inhibitors to being
innovative and creative with the acquired skills were identified to be: epileptic
Internet access due to low bandwidth, lack of computing facilities to put the
skills into practice in the library, irregular power supply and, not working in
the section where the skill can be put into use. The study therefore recommends
that librarians should begin to explore other CPD programmes such as
participation in webinars as well as making use of online training sites and
YouTube tutorials. It also recommends that more skills in the areas of
digitization, real-time referencing, teleconferencing, and networking
management should be acquired by the librarians if they want to remain relevant
while the university and library management should provide adequate number of
computers and also upgrade the Internet bandwidth in the libraries to allow for
its effective utilization in services creation and provision by the librarians
Library Publishing as an Essential Function in Today's Information World: Models and Sustainability Plan by Academic Libraries in Nigeria
No full textThe IFLA Special Interest Group on Library Publishing held the Virtual Open Programme on October 15th 2020. The event had been scheduled as part of WLIC 2020 in Dublin which was postponed due to the pandemic. The theme was "Library Publishing: A catalyst for change" and it featured seven 8-minute lightening talks by library publishers from across the world. The event was broken into two parts: Case Studies and Collaborations in Library Publishing
Social Media as Information and Communication Tool for Socio-Economic Empowerment of Undergraduate Students in Nigeria
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of this work is to establish how undergraduate students in the University of Lagos and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, are using social media as information and communication tool for their socioeconomic empowerment including the specific ways in which their adoption has empowered them socioeconomically.Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The exploratory research design was adopted for the study while the simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting undergraduate students who were seen at the lecture rooms during the lecture days. A total number of 400 third and final-year students altogether, were randomly selected from the Departments of Sociology and Mass Communication of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the two universities. A questionnaire, constructed with both open and close-ended questions was used for data collection.Findings: The findings revealed that the social media tools generally known to all the participants are; Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter, while the most popularly utilized ones for their socio-economic empowerment are: WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The specific ways it has empowered them socio-economically include; reduction in their cost of business communication, accessing information that helped their business to blossom, advertising their products and services, and linking them up with new customers.Originality /value: This study shows how undergraduate students in the two universities are using social media as an information and communication tool for their socio-economic empowerment. It offered insight into the specific ways in which their usage has empowered them socio-economically
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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