Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

In higher education, universities play a pivotal role in the development of academic community. In this context, the University Libraries have emerged as the hub of learning for higher education and provide facilities for research and specialization. E-resources are necessary in the present ICT era. In the present study an attempt has been made to describe the status, importance, etc. of e-books in M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.

A user visits a library only when his/her purpose has been solved. Specifically, in Institutional Libraries, the users are students and faculty where the purpose of visit to library varies from one another. An attempt was made to find out the Users’ persistence on visiting an institutional library by analysing separately the faculty members and students for different institutions specifically all R.I.E. libraries of India, a user visits library with multi purposes. So, for assessment of the purposes of use, a 5 - point scale was used for the survey where 5 is for very often to 1 for never. The respondents covering 1577 student users and 378 faculty users from all the R.I.E.s were asked to give their ratings against all the 23 identified purposes. Purposes of visiting to library by student users were found to be for preparing for project/ seminar, reading study books, Xerox of course materials, reading newspapers, magazines etc. and that for faculties are for reading newspapers and magazines, to find information for research, for preparing class notes, preparing for lecture, writing journal article and enhancing knowledge etc.

This research was conducted to measure the citation errors in the research articles published in the Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal, volume 26, issue 2, December, 2016. Sixty two journal citations were verified in details by classifying them into seven elements, viz. Author(s) Name, Article Title, Journal Name, Year, Volume No., Issue No., and Pages (both first and last page) and they were matched with the original articles. Non-journal citations were excluded from the study. Simple percentage analysis was employed by using percentage and frequency. Findings reveal that 63% (39) citations in Libres were inaccurate, while only 37% (23) citations were accurate. In 62 citations, a total of 50 errors were detected, out of which 18 were minor and 32 were major. A healthy mechanism is needed to maintain the reference accuracy as well as quality of the scholarly articles published in the Libres journal.

The study attempts to find out whether the development of the ICT skills has any influence on the informal needs in the digital era, the awareness of library professional activities, educational and their skills in handling the new technologies. Out of 68 Institution, 153 were duly filled Questionnaire were received. The investigator attempted to make a study of the Prospects for continuing professional education for LIS professionals in health science college libraries of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.

The study examines the Scientometric analysis of Nutrigenomicsresearch during the year 1999 to 2018. Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutritional genomics and is the study of the effects of foods and food constituents on gene expression.In order to carry out the research, the related data were downloaded from “Web of Science” database. The Scientometric analysis was applied to investigate and fulfill the objectives. It is found that 1060 records related to Nutrigenomics or Nutritional genomics in “Web of Science’ was appeared during the periods. It is found that the author “Ordovas JM” and the country “United States” have produced the majority of records.

Electronic information resources in libraries have made remarkable change in the users’ perception towards print resources. A survey among 421 respondents in six state universities in Kerala reveals that the use of eresources is considered as an advantage and it benefits the academic community. While analyzing the use of eresources compared to the print resources, the statement ‘E-resources affect the reading habit so it is not be encouraged’ is rejected because it is not an advantage. All the twelve hypothesizes set for ‘Benefits of electronic resources for accessing scholarly information’ are accepted because all the regulatory constructs have significant influence on Benefit of e-resources.

The choice of profession and making the career after college education or technical education is a tough job. It is but natural that there should be some guidelines or the articles which should guide the coming generation in choosing their profession. Employment News regularly publishes career related articles in its various issues for the aspirants. This paper attempts to analyze and present the trends of the professions prevalent in the present days for the aspirants in ascertaining their future.

In the field of Engineering Teaching, the top institutions in India are the Indian Institute of Technology. The National Institute of Technology are deemed universities and enjoys the second priority after IITs. The present paper presents the results of a study conducted on the research output of NITK in the form of publications. Total 2589 publications were contributed in the last ten years. Highest number of publications (503) were contributed in 2016 followed by second highest (479) in 2017. The average number of authors per publication is 3.43. The degree of collaboration in the contributions under study is found to be 0.95. The major area of research output of NITK is Engineering with 48.4% of publication. The second area is computer science with 40.13% publications. The highest foreign collaboration is with United States.