Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

The prisons which are considered as the correctional centers must have the libraries so that those prisoners who are interested can pursue their studies using books from there. Others, also may have some entertainment material from these libraries. But it is seen
prison library system in India is not so well established, and so is the case with Uttarakhand State. This paper discusses the state of art of prison library system and what the prisoners want to have in their libraries. The findings of this study may be useful for the prison authorities to develop prison libraries in the state.

This study investigates the postgraduate students’ expectations
and perceptions about quality of service provision using the three (3) dimensions of LibQUAL model. These are the use of information resources, library facilities, and services. Using the three dimensions, the researchers evaluates and reports the situation of the university libraries with regard to postgraduate students of the Federal universities in Northwestern Nigeria. Quantitative research methodology was used, using survey research design. Four hundred and ten (410) copies of questionnaire were administered to the postgraduate students in the four (4) Federal Universities in Northwestern Nigeria. Three hundred and sixty-seven (367) questionnaire were completed, returned and found usable which represents 89.6%. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive analysis through the use of frequency and percentages. Inferential statistics through the use of Pearson Correlation was used to test the hypotheses using SPSS version 20.0. In conducting the test, 0.05 was used as the level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that postgraduate students expect the university libraries to provide them with quality service delivery that meet their research needs. It also found that postgraduate students perceived the quality of services provided as satisfactory. It also identified some challenges associated with quality of service provision in the university libraries. However, the study recommends that there is a need for improvement on various aspects of quality service delivery in order to meet customers’ needs and expectations in the libraries of Federal Universities Northwestern Nigeria.
 

Library was able to demonstrate its impact on student learning outcomes. This study investigated the relationship between academic
performance and library resources usage among engineering students. The samples consist of 360 engineering students in Trichy district of Tamil Nadu. Library undertook an experimental project, which intended to establish a mathematical correlation of 2016–2019 batches between student library resources usage and their academic performance was university result secured marks.

The Emergence of digital thesis system and tracking procedures are much in practice globally since last two decades, though the early
initiatives have shown their presence around end of last millennium. Few organizations in Europe, and America reflected the early developments in Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs) which are now the path-leaders along with the developments taken place in the libraries of other countries. The present paper highlights the ETD development and Thesis tracking system journey embarked in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Library.

The present study examines the availability and recovery of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in scholarly Library and Information Science journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A total of 4966 articles were downloaded and 208506 references were extracted. A PHP script was used to check 28108 URLs and extract the lexical features like path depth, character length and top-level domain. The research findings indicated that out of 28108 URL references, 15746 references contained URLs, DOIs were found in 11881 references and 481 references contained arXiv identifier/WOS article identifier. It was found that 25178 URLs were accessible and the remaining 2930 URL references were missing. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.92%
of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers and editorial staff to ensure that the URLs will be accessible in future.