Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

An ideal reference list is made up of reliable references, which are used and consulted during the research study, and is an inseparable part of a scholarly communication. Omissions and mistakenly transcriptions of various elements of citation in reference lists, viz. names of author(s) and/or editor(s), book title, journal title, article’s name, volume number, year, pagination etc. can cause serious bibliographical problems, and such errors often exists in published reports, indexing and abstracting sources for a long time. The paper highlights the challenging key issues related to citation errors, peer review process and impact of peer review on citation errors. Possible solutions are also provided for maintaining the top level accuracy in citations.

There has been the major change in concepts and practices of using library services since last decade. The combination is made of different ideas and services to energize the user. The libraries are well being adapting the emerging technologies for the integration of contents and to provide best advance services. Thirst for knowledge is the inspiring feature of human beings which is fulfilled by library. If proper nourishment is not provided to mind, it gets diverted towards negative, destructive and violent activities. Thus libraries are axis point of wisdom world and have their own identity. It is the strongest medium for transforming education and developing awareness in human beings. Especially in academic Organizations it is the center of attraction for all knowledge gainers as well as knowledge imparters or creators. Social Networking is like a blanket of atmosphere, which has covered the human beings in its pressure and has affected their life style. With the use of ICT tools like Social Networking, librarians have reached out globally and providing services 24 by 7 a day. Librarians are now information facilitator’s intersection between the new Technologies, Users and Services. Web tools can be explained in terms of three F’s Fast, Find and Friendlyused for three E’s Effective, Evaluate and Engage. Web 3.0 is third generation of web design that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web using RSS, Tags, Bookmarks, wikis etc. While third generation tools i.e. web 3.0 are intelligent and mobile. Social networking sites and Web 3.0 tools have found to be very useful to professionals in the Library development. Library and Information Professionals (LIP’s) and other professionals are embracing these tools for professional and personal development. Social networking and web 3.0 tools fulfill all the five laws of Library Science. This article reports on research that attempted to find out how the web 3.0 tools have contributed to enhance library services.

 Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a worldwide network of information exchange and business transactions. Therefore, support in the exchange of data, information, and knowledge is becoming the key issue in computer technology today. Ontologies provide a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and across application systems. Ontologies will play a major role in supporting information exchange processes in various areas. To build Ontologies, ontology editors play an important role. Ontology editors are software tools that allow the creation and maintenance of ontologies through a graphical user interface. The paper describes comparative analysis of open source ontology editors.

 In ODL system of learning the teacher will be remote from his students by both space and time. Distance learning has become more popular in recent times as an alternative to the traditional form of education. Distance students’ characteristics are different from students of traditional universities. Here the students are mainly adult learners, employed, housewives, rural students, and the students who don’t have access to higher education in formal ways. ODL students will have higher motivation and are willing to take responsibility for their own education and often experience a feeling of isolation and remoteness from other students. However, distance learning demand much use of library resources, audio-visual media and information and communication technology. Within this distance learning environment, the mode of teaching, as well as learning, has been shifted from physical to virtual environment. In the present digital environment, learning is possible through web-based library services as a medium and digital library as a gateway with the help of integrate library management system. This paper discusses the web-based library services/practices employed in distance librarianship and the issues and challenges related.

The present study highlights the hardware and software facilities in agricultural university libraries in south India. It is evident from the study that all five agricultural universities are having computer facilities and one has developed their own library software and other universities are having commercial software. It also highlights access of networks, information services and barriers to information technology applications. The impact of information technology is also assessed in the study.

This paper discusses about the digital preservation – planning, process and approaches. It also deals with the major part process, issues and technologies involved in preservation of digital materials, explains the overview of technological approaches and strategies to digital preservation and challenges,focuses on operational digital preservation systems specifically in information resource centre (IRC).It considers the wide range of digital objects of interest to IRC, including e-journals, technical reports, e-records, project documents, scientific data, etc. The paper also discusses archiving based on format types – text, data, audio, video, etc. Design, methodology, approach. And also find out that the Digital preservation of documents restores it from loss, theft and decay.

Bibliometric analysis of 194 articles published in the Indian Journal of Library and Information Science, Volumes 6 to 10 during the year 2012-2016 has been undertaken for the study. It has been carried out to observe the distribution of contributions, authorship pattern, distribution of contribution, and number of pages used in each volume. Results indicate that the number of contributions is increasing in successive volumes. The highest number of papers have been written by joint authors. The growth and popularity of this journal is found to be showing an upward trend.

In this article the author has studied the authorship pattern and collaboration trends in Indian Journal of Medical Research. The Single Vs. Multiple author contributions, Degree of collaboration is also studied.

Now day’s Social networking sites are very popular among the youth. The paper highlights how and what extend the user of State Library Odisha are use social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+).There are 83 no of response received from the user. It has found that Facebook (95.2%) is most popular social networking site among user of state library Odisha. The user of State library Odisha spent hours in Social networking sites. It is also found that, the users are well aware about Social Networking Sites.The users of the State library Odisha useSocial Networking Sites via Mobile 69(83.1%) rather than other devices like Laptop, Tablet, desktop etc.

As colleges of education train next generation teachers, B.Ed. students are expected to be the catalysts in developing the student community. Hence, cognizing their own information needs and vocalizing them will help them in playing their path showing role as teachers. With this intention, the study on assessment of awareness of information needs and use of library resources and services of student-teachers in Mumbai was conducted. Since awareness of library resources and services helps in fulfilling information needs by the users themselves, the first step in this study was finding out awareness of library resources and services. Further awareness of library services and use was tested through Pearson correlation coefficient.Total 353 sample of student-teachers and 11 librarians from 11 aided B.Ed. colleges of Mumbai were included in the study.It was found that the most predominant information need of the participants was academic preparation. Regarding e-resources like e-journals and e-books there was not much awareness among student-teachers. In addition participants were not able to distinguish between search engines, websites and online databases. The present paper reports the study which explored and assessed the awareness regarding information needs, use of library resources and services among the B.Ed. students in the Education Colleges of Mumbai.

The present study mainly explores the usage of Web 2.0-based websites among female students of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. The study revealed that the term web 2.0 has popularity among 73 respondents (97.33%). The majority of respondents i.e.70.67% have used web 2.0-based websites whereas 29.33% of respondents don’t use web 2.0-based websites. The present study also finds that 32.07% of respondents think that web 2.0-based applications are important, and 26.41% of respondents are fully satisfied with web 2.0-based websites. It has been found that 41.51% of respondents always visited websites for social networking information whereas 39.62 % of respondents never visited websites for the same purpose.

The purpose of this paper is to assess and determine the information literacy skills among the postgraduate students of Tumkur University, Karnataka. The present study has made an attempt to study the skills and the competencies required in locating, searching, evaluating and in the ethical use of information among the postgraduate students of Tumkur University. Structured questionnaires were randomly distributed among the students of postgraduate departments which are located in the Tumkur University Campus, Tumakuru. The postgraduate students of the academic year 2015-2016 were considered for the study. 300 filled questionnaires were received and same has been recorded in MS Excel for data analysis. The paper reveals that, very less number of postgraduate students are looking information to be familiar with the current developments in their subject and Searching techniques and search approaches are exists among them. But the study has evidenced the poor level of skills and competency in locating, evaluating and in the ethical use of information among the postgraduate students of Tumkur University. The paper suggested to practicing library and information professionals of Tumkur University to strengthen their efforts to educate the postgraduate students on the skills required for them to locate, search, evaluate and use information ethically, which is essential for their academic activities.

This paper analyses the influence of social-demographic features in accessing and using agricultural information services among small-scale crop farmers in Tanzania. The survey approach was adopted. The study involved 150 small-scale crop farmers from Rukwa region. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods was used. Data was systematically collected. Questionnaires were used to collect data supplemented by interview and observation. Chi-square analysis was used to determine the significant factors affecting access to and use of agricultural information services. The results were crosstabulated against social-demographic features of respondents. The findings show that social- demographic characteristics of respondents such as age, gender, education level and average income per year have an influence on agricultural information access and use. The study recommended that the existing agricultural information systems and services should be reviewed. A centralized agricultural database management system should be established to collect, organize, and disseminate agricultural information to small-scale crop farmers focusing on their social-demographic differences.

 Social network is a platform for people share their ideas, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites (SNSs) offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. They include MySpace, Facebook, Skype, twitter, Hi, LinkedIn, etc. and allow people to create their own profile and to construct and display an online network of contacts, often called ‘friends’. Users of these sites can communicate via their profile both with their ‘friends’ and with people outside their list of contacts. With SNS it is easy to communicate with classmates, discuss class assignment and even submit project to lecturer, watch videos, make comment on friend’s pages etc. This study is focused on the effect of SNS on student academic performance, using Jimma University, Information Science students’ as a case study. It is to study the SNS sites used by students and for the purpose of using and to find out whether they affect their studies or help them to learn easily. This research discusses the history of SNS, development and the users of SNS especially Information Science students in communicating with their friends as well. A detailed questionnaire has been designed to assess the effect of SNS on the Students’ academic performance and administered to 50 students’ selected using a Stratified Sampling Method. The collected data has been analyzed by tables, charts and graphical representation with description. From 50 respondents, Facebook is seen mostly used by the students. They spent more than three hours on SNSs and most of them are using more than three SNSs. 84% of the students are influenced by SNSs on their academic lifestyle so that SNSs affect their academic negatively. 

This study attempts to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and job satisfaction among university library professionals in Delhi. It is observed from this study that the experienced library professionals were more satisfied than less experienced. Library professional with higher qualification was more satisfied with job than with less qualification and permanent library professionals were more satisfied with their jobs comparatively management library professionals. Aims to assess job satisfaction among library professionals in terms of status, service conditions, promotional policy and interpersonal relations. To conduct the study 93 questionnaires were sent to the professional’s of 7 university libraries of Delhi that are known to have been actively involved in using ICT and received duly filled-in questionnaires from 63(68%) respondents. The result shows that Library professionals like their jobs and they have fine relation as well as understanding between colleagues and supervisor. But they are dissatisfied with monetary benefits and promotional policy o f the university.

 The Digital Era has revolutionized the methods for the organisation and automated handling of information Thinking deeply changing academic environment, Libraries should plan ahead and take their services to plan ahead and take their services to where users require most rather than becoming too limited or denying users the chance to learn in modern environment using Viral reference service.The search Engine Technology degraded overtime by the rapid increase of web pages and the retrieval strategies has yielded poor results.This article describes a conceptual model of resource access of academic & public Libraries in Developing countries and discuss about the nature of libraries in this digital age,and mainly the impact of Green IT in Library Digitisation.

Scientometric analysis of human DNA research output of the USA has been studied from 7264 research papers published during 1984-2012 that indexed in Scopus. The study reveals that the highest number of 337 papers or 4.64% published in 1996, followed by 314 (4.32%) papers in 1999. According to the Relative Growth Rate and Doubling Time of the publications value measured from 0.03 in 2010 and 2011 to 0.087 in 1985; from 0.80 in 1985 to 23.10 in 2010 and 2011 respectively found in this study. Among the document types, journal articles were the highest numbers with 7210 papers or 99.26%. From this study, it is observed that the Journal of Biological Chemistry has published with 529 research papers and find top position which is accounted for 7.28% of the total articles. Among 128 institutions, the National Cancer Institute has published 322 papers or 4.43% during the study period. It is found that the degree of Collaboration of authors from 0.99 in 2003 to 0.66 in 2010 to which is to be fluctuating trend appears during the study period. Overall, there is an increasing trend has been identified on multi authored papers in human DNA research by the US during the period. In this study, it is found that 29% papers are internationally, collaborating and UK is the major collaborator with the USA in 270 papers. 

The present study examined availability and use of internet search among B.Ed. students of Karnataka College of Education. Today internet has become a world wide data communication system. The data were collected from the students of KCE the statistical tool used to analyze the data were simple percentage. A good number of respondents are female and common of the users were using and foremost preference to Google search engine followed by Yahoo, Bing and Ask.

District library is an apex body of the district generally located in the district center. It functioning as a leading and reference library for the district, books and other reading materials are purchased, technically processed and distributed to all public libraries in a district by the district library authority. The administration, inspection and monitoring of various public libraries located in district are carried out by the district library authority. This study is limited to the Librarians/ Library In-charge working in Government District Libraries of Uttar Pradesh. The study illustrates that out of 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, 70 districts are providing a facility of government district libraries. It was also examined by the study that only 41 Librarian are working in 68 district libraries of U.P. In the context to know the status of Satisfaction towards the ICT facility only Unnao district library of Uttar Pradesh was satisfied with their ICT facility out of 68 libraries. The overall satisfaction rate about the library budgets received by the Librarian/ Library incharge was shown that 91.17% respondents of government district libraries were not satisfied with their library budgets. This study has a great importance, interest and great significance, not only for the scholars and professionals associated with government district libraries of Uttar Pradesh, but also to the policy makers, planners, state library authorities and the State Government. On the behalf of this study the State Government can take a positive decision for the betterment of the government district libraries.

Education plays a vital role in every individual’s life. The responsibility of imparting education lies on the shoulders of educational institutions. The role of various educational institutions differ according to the level of education they impart. Universities in India have been assigned the responsibility of higher education. In addition to teaching, universities also carry out research. The results of these are published in the form of research contributions. The present study is aimed to analyse the research contributions of KUK and MDU from the bibliometric point of view. It is found that 4255 research contributions have been contributed during the last ten years by these two universities. The degree of collaboration is 0.95. Foreign research collaboration has also been noticed. More than seventy five percent of the contributions are in the form of research articles.