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Decolonising Information Literacy: Diversity Integration for Empowering Minority Groups
Get PDFFor a long time, library guides (LibGuides) have been essential resources for linking students with information related to faculty, specific subjects, and coursework. However, the scope of LibGuides has expanded significantly in contemporary library practices. They now include a wide variety of resources, such as guides on particular library products, platforms, resources, instructional materials, and \u27how-to\u27 guides. These enhanced features demonstrate the changing requirements of library users as they navigate a more complicated academic environment. In 2016, the University of Johannesburg launched an online course on information literacy using the SpringShare LibGuide platform, which was highly successful. Originally created in English, the university\u27s primary language of instruction, the course garnered considerable interest. Subsequently, due to its effectiveness, eight faculty departments within the university mandated the course for their students, underscoring its importance and widespread adoption across various academic disciplines. A 2022 study on the university\u27s student demographic found that, in addition to English, isiZulu and Sepedi were the second and third most frequently spoken home languages among students, respectively (Division for Institutional Planning, Evaluation and Monitoring, 2022) (Dipem). The library therefore saw a need to translate the English online information literacy course, using the SpringShare LibGuide platform into isiZulu and Sepedi. In a world where AI prevails, it is crucial to integrate diversity into libraries and library guides for various reasons. Making library resources available in indigenous languages increases accessibility for a broader audience, including those who may lack proficiency in English. This guarantees that all students, no matter their language background, can completely make use of library resources and services. Providing resources in indigenous languages recognises and honours the cultural diversity present among the student body (Thorpe & Galassi, 2014). It fosters a feeling of belonging and inclusion for students who might feel marginalised or underrepresented in academic environments that are predominantly composed of English-language resources(Thorpe & Galassi, 2014). In addition, language may hinder educational equity (Chugani Molina, 2022). By actively integrating various languages into library services, libraries foster a more equitable learning atmosphere where all students possess equal chances to thrive, irrespective of their linguistic heritage. This research explored case studies, research results, and literature reviews to examine the importance of incorporating diversity within library services, while also improving students\u27 information literacy skills in their first languages. Research findings indicate that recognising the conventional Western academic methods of producing and sharing knowledge can further marginalise individuals who are already disadvantaged. As a result, the study examined strategies for implementing a decolonising approach to help students effectively navigate information literacy
Personal influence in information-seeking behaviour of art students
Get PDFAbstract: This article investigated personal influence in the information-seeking behaviour of art students. A qualitative approach was followed, and the data were collected by means of interviews with 11 art students of The Open Window School of Visual Communication, located in Pretoria, South Africa. The Open Window offers degrees and postgraduate honours degrees in Visual Communication. The key findings revealed that the personal dimension in information-seeking behaviour has a significant influence on art students’ information needs and is prevalent in their personal interests and preferences and their motivation to seek information. The findings provided insight into how the art students’ information-seeking behaviour might influence the library as an information service
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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