Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

The security of library collections has many facets, all linked to the physical conservation of the holdings. Librarians focus their, attention on stabilizing the library environment and properly handling the materials, balancing current collections for future use. The most pervasive problem concerning the collection security, however, remains the theft of library collections i.e. Books, Conference papers, Research articles, Project reports, Journals etc. Most academic libraries need electronic security systems to deter theft from circulating the collections and policies to control access to the rare and valuable materials among their holding.

Keywords: Library Security Systems; RFID; Electronic Security; Security Systems in Libraries. 

The consequences of the findings from the concerned literature on reference accuracy, citation error and other related sub-topics for the use of reference accuracy in scientific studies are discussed. Worse, this literature is highly scattered outside the library and information science field. Unquestionably, the list of references appended at the end of a scholarly article is a most important part of a publication. Referencing correctly according to a given citation style guide is a prime responsibility of authors, since it protects them from charges of academic theft and plagiarism as well as it enhance the quality and maintain the credibility of both authors and journals. Various burning issues of the citation errors, a decades-long problem in scholarly communication, are discussed.

Keywords: Reference Accuracy; Citation Errors; Reference Lists; Scholarly Communication. 

The law profession and its challenges are pervasively known to professionals of other disciplines as well as people in society. The Libraries have been playing a great role in supporting the Law profession by providing the legal information resources and services at great precision and speed. The paper explores the literature for the current practices applied in various libraries in different parts of world as well as discusses the collection building in law information services. The paper also highlights the capacity building at libraries through various services and collection building at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) library in context of serving the academic users in the field of Law and Governance. The in-depth literature review provides a wide spectrum of legal information scenario.

Keywords: Law; Collection Building; Legal Information Services; India. 

Today availability of e-resources in a university library is very common. But their proper and maximum use is a matter for discussion. The Library environment has current undergone drastic change in terms of collection and services. The proliferation of resources has a significant impact on the academic community the library users to a great extent. Accordingly; these resources have occupied a significant place in the collection and budget of almost all libraries. Student’s attitudes seem to be very positive towards resources for their study and research and the role of libraries as gateway to provide assistance in accessing these resources. The college library should play a pivotal role in facilitating the students and teachers alike in the use of the resources and other library and information services. The college library should organize awareness and training programmes and seminars to educate the users on seeking information from resources and to maximize the use of library resources and services. The scope of the study is confined to the users of NREC College regarding the effective use of resources.

Keywords: Electronic Resources; Electronic Services; E–journals. 

Librarianship has traditionally been considered to be a generalised service profession which involves the job of information management in a supporting role. The advancement of ICT mediated information processing has transformed librarianship as a highly specialised career opportunity. The paper carried out a study to find out the students perception toward librarianship as a profession for marital choices. 200 postgraduate students from both the gender have been surveyed and the result finds that boys are more inclined towards librarianship as a marital choice. The general perception of the students towards librarians is quite positive.

Keywords: Librarianship; Professional Status; Social Status-Librarianship; Marital Choices. 

Library has always enjoyed the status of being the heart of Institution. But due to Information & communication impact position of Library and librarian is diminishing. ICT especially Internet has great impact on libraries and librarians. To stay in the picture as Knowledge manager Librarians has to cope up with the technological barriers and try their best to attract the users towards library by providing smart services and help them to quench their thirst of knowledge. Library professionals must give result in growth in specific field resulting in national growth and then contributing in global growth. So librarians must use smart tools for developing users’ awareness. This paper focuses on the use of ICT in private technical colleges of Indore, position of libraries, infrastructure and professionals.

Keywords: ICT; ICT Product. 

Sustainability and adaptability are two important aspects of the life for all species to survive in this world. Adaptability is the quality of being able to make changes in response to the environment. Survival of libraries is possible only through sustainability and adaptability. A system is sustainable when its operation does not break it down over time– in other words, when resources consumed in the system are replenished. As a public places libraries consume lot of energy and resources to provide services to their patrons. Hence, to understands social responsibility towards environment as a person and as library professional is important. This will show the path for greening the libraries. With this intention, the study on waste management in Indian university libraries was conducted. To cope up with the geographical area Morgan table was used to decide the sample size which turned out to be 254. Present paper reported the study which explored the facts about waste management in Indian University libraries. It also throws light on the status of audit regarding the waste management. The study followed descriptive research design and survey method. This exploratory study adopted qualitative and quantitative approach for the investigation of problem. Collected data were analyzed by using Microsoft Excel application. The concept of greening the libraries is in infancy stage in India. Awareness is gaining momentum slowly. It was found that these libraries are keener on waste management of paper, more than waste management of books, e-waste and other waste material as libraries are keen on holding all the collection as it can be required any time by the user, taking into account the research objective of university libraries.

Keywords: Waste Management; Greening Libraries; Library Sustainability; Green Libraries; University Libraries; E-Waste. 

This paper reports the results of a study aimed at finding out whether the relationship between faculty and librarians improved, deteriorated or did not change with time, and also whether it could be improved further, and how it could be improved. Data was collected from 50 management institutes in Mumbai using survey method. Questionnaires to faculty and Librarians were administered and content analysis of suggestions given by them to improve the relationship was carried out. The findings of the study indicated that a majority of librarians are optimistic about their relationship with faculty. Also, the general trend of faculty suggestions is positive. Improved communication, interaction, collaboration, library services, infrastructure, use of ICTs, organization structure, personal qualities of librarians, mutual respect and trust were the factors investigated out of the suggestions analyzed. More efforts from librarians, faculty and institute authorities are needed to improve the relationship between the two groups. Librarians will have to take the initiative for improving the relationship. However, faculty and management of the institutions also need to cooperate and initiate changes to achieve this goal. Training librarians in relationship building skills and well planned relationship building programs will lead to improved relationship between the two groups.

Keywords: Faculty-Librarian Relationship; Librarian-Faculty Relationship; Faculty-Librarian Interaction; Librarian-Faculty Interaction; Management Institutes. 

Due to rapid change in modern technology from traditional to the digital library system. The present paper studies the existence of various changes in the digital world. Digital takeover of recent years has stunned librarianship. Digital environment has become a significant movement in the world of traditional libraries, and increasingly, in the digital library arena. The purpose of this study is to examine the Information Seeking Behavior of students of Physiotherapy colleges in Karnataka. The study shows that the student’s positive side of seeking information in there course related information.

Keywords: Information Seeking Behaviour; E-Books; E-Journals; E-Database; E-Thesis; Subject Portals/ Gateways. 

This study tries to explore the information needs of distance Learners of Bangladesh Open University. It examines the reasons that are involved behind arising from distance learners various information needs. It tries to specify the sources that the distance learners use to meet their different information needs. The study finds that distance learners need various information for pursuing education as well as the learners of formal educational institutions. It also finds that distance learners information needs are arise always maintaining the theory provides by Robert S. Taylor, N.J. Belkin, R.N. Oddy, H.M. Brooks, B. Dervin, Nilan and C.C. Kuhlthau. Finally the study traces out the problems that the distance learners faced for getting their required information.

Keywords: Bangladesh Open University; Distance Education; Information Needs; Library Services.

The present study deals with the bibliometric analysis of the journal Indian Historical Review for the period of 1999-2016. The study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of Indian Historical Review, such as Authorship Pattern, number of articles published per volume, state wise distribution of articles, length of articles and authors contribution per volume. Results indicate that highest number of papers have been written by single author. The major contribution in this journal is from India. The maximum number of articles were published in volume 34 (68) during the year 2007.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Authorship Pattern; Geographical Distribution; Historical Review. 

Changes in the role and influence of the Internet development occur very quickly and the usage of the Internet has been changed with a rapid growth all over the world. A number of studies have pointed that there is huge correlation between successful nations and web use in those nations. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the importance of utilizing the Internet these days and to highlight its significant role in establishing an information-based society. It intended to concentrate on the present condition of use of the Internet in African countries and discuss its potency and influence on enhancing the competitiveness and productivity that needs to be improved in order to foster the total economy of African countries. The design of this paper is based on theoretical approach. Various tools have been used and applied to accomplish the objective of this paper such as personal readings of intellectual production, literature review, experience, and the insights of other researchers and specialists in the extent of Internet utilize.

Keywords: Internet Usage in African Countries; Internet Penetration in Africa; ICT Infrastructure in Africa.

There are several reasons for automating the library activities especially computerizing library activities. On account of Information & knowledge explosion it has become essential for librarians to provide a master key to this repository of knowledge in the service, the librarian started mechanizing activities of libraries and research institution through various gadget. The main of Library is to provide access to proper information explosion, due to growing demands of the user and shrinking of financial resources, library cannot able to maintain all the reading materials on demand the only way to overcome from these problem is sharing resources through consortia, and Internet. This study is a fact finding approach related to the present status of automation services among A.K. (PG) college library users library services in library question were framed about information requirement of the users retrieve, manage and use information, what are the factors affecting the automation services of the users. The user of A.K. (PG) College Khurja was selected to study the various automation library and analyses the utility and effectiveness in provision of information services.

Keywords: Automation; Library Automation; Job Satisfaction; Library Automation; Information Communication Technology; Areas of Automation; Software for Library Automation. 

This study is based on the Bibliometric analysis of 189 research papers published in five volumes of 30 issues of The British Journal of Psychology published during 2012 to 2016. The paper discusses the authorship pattern of the contributors, number of articles published in each issue. Geographical distribution of authors and length of each paper in five volumes has also been discussed. The study also covers the number of articles published in each issue during the period 2012 to 2016.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; British Journal of Psychology; Authorship Pattern; Geographical Distribution. 

The research is one of the prime purpose of any university / Institute of higher learning. The journals are the primary source of information for any academic research and results thusreportedin journals become the ingredient for further research. These information resources have become more valuable with the emergence of electronic journals and quality research without electronic journals hardly has any existence. The INFLIBNET under its e-ShodhSindhu project has provided the access of electronic resources from 19 publishers to Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology (GJUST) Hisar. The present study is carried out with the objective to know and compare the month-wise usage of American Chemical Society database during the period of 2011 to 2016. The study reports that the yearlyhighest and lowest use whereas month-wise highest and lowest use of database is also reported. Study reveals that ´ Journal of Medicinal Chemistry’ is most used Journal of the database and its usage stands 1st in all the years except 2016. Study highlights all such journals out of which more than 100 articles have been retrieved annually. Some suggestions have been reported to enhance the use of electronic journals.

Keywords: Electronic Journals; eShodhSindhu; American Chemical Society. 

Copyright is that form of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) that impacts researchers/scholars. Researchers struggle to get expert guidance on questions of ownership of intellectual property in all forms of electronic and print media. In the era of digital publishing, the issue of copyright has gained prominence. The present study aims at finding out the awareness of the concept of ‘author rights’ among the researchers. It also tries to find the methods used by researchers to retain their rights to scholarly works. The study also intended to know the factors that prevent researchers from modifying the standard publication contracts of the authors. A survey of faculty members and researchers at research institutes in Mumbai was conducted. A structured questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended questions was used for the study. A stratified random sample was selected from the sampling frame of twenty-seven research institutes in Mumbai. Further, librarians of the institutes were also asked about their involvement in copyright issues. Descriptive Analysis was carried out using SPSS 20.0. The study revealed that the awareness of researchers in the area of author rights is low. The researchers were less concerned about transferring copyright and the ability to do certain actions with their scholarly work. The need to publish was one of the most important factors that prevent the researchers from modifying standard copyright contract. Due to low awareness, the researchers sign the publishers’ copyright contract as it is and lose all their rights to their own scholarly writing. This paper also highlights the role librarians play to assist researchers and faculty in understanding and retaining their rights to the scholarly work created.

Keywords: Author Rights; Copyright; Author Addendum; Scholarly Publishing. 

The citation represents a relationship between the cited and citing documents. The paper discusses the citation analysis of Ph.D. theses in International Studies submitted to JNU, New Delhi. Study the principle form of literature used by the researchers, distribution of citations according to time period and identify the leading journals in citations. Also prepare a list of core journals in International studies and study the authorship pattern of cited references.

Keywords: Citation Analysis; Bibliometrics; International Studies; Authorship Pattern.

Academic libraries, particularly the university libraries are doing well in the era of information and communication technology. They are making use of it not only for in-house services comprising of issue – return of the documents, controlling over the serials and providing current awareness services etc. but also providing 24x7 access of electronic resources. However, college libraries are lagging behind in this regard though various initiatives have been made to automate their library services and for providing access to electronic resources but the efforts are not quite satisfactory. Thus, keeping in view the use of ICTs in college libraries, this study was conducted for women colleges of north campus of Delhi University College Library System. This provides an insight for the status library automation activities and also about the ICT use in providing internet access and access to the e-resources.

Keywords: ICT; Library Automation; Delhi University College Libraries and Electronic Journal Listing Service (EJLS).