Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

The study canvassed the concept of digital marketing of library products and services among librarians in selected engineering colleges of Karnataka. This study investigated the existence of the concept of digital marketing in selected engineering college libraries as well as the benefits derived from the digital marketing of library products and services. The study was administered to 100 librarians in four engineering colleges of Karnataka, out of which 65 librarians responded. An item-by-item analysis of the result was carried out by means of a table and a simple percentage of respondents' scores. The result indicated that the majority of the 65 librarians who completed and returned the questionnaire had a positive attitude towards digital marketing/pricing of the library, information, and knowledge products and services and are also aware of the numerous benefits of digital marketing in the digital age. Based on the
result of the survey, it was concluded that certain information products and services can be marketed/priced and that the age-long practice of giving all manner of library, information
and knowledge services free of charge should be reconsidered.
 

A digital library is a league of textual, identical, scrutinize photos, graphics, sound, and video recordings that like consumers to conveniently regain instruction from a digital group. Recent advancements in data processor abundance and CPU, association technologies, e-products,
networking, and internet interest have inference in an original distribution in the road libraries and their avail works. Current muse scatters a sine crowd of textbooks, dogma, newspapers, and audiovisual aid resort stored and ordered in a library for anyone to go or hostage. Information and Communications Technology has had an important reputation in libraries, and it has agitated the traditional library impression in which print and newspaper materials are the original components of the system. Libraries are transfigurated into digital libraries in mandate to effectuate the weighty instruction blast and ascending query for intelligence. Due to the
digitization of library materials and the sharp progression of technology, an unspent troop of libraries has emerged: the potential library. Most of us are often nonplussed by library gibberish. In this embroidery, we effort to dead the phraseology usefulness in these libraries in a business fashion. Such libraries will lengthen the effectiveness of culture in the approach eras.

 

Reading habits are calculated as how much a person reads, how often they read when they read and what do they read. Reading can be summarized as a habit that involves books,
printed articles, and electronic materials. It varies differently how each material can affect their reading habits. This paper aims to look in-depth and compare the reading materials of
secondary and tertiary school students in a few countries including Malaysia, the United States of America, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria. Their preference in terms of the types of books they read will differ throughout the whole article. While approaching the reading materials that they are interested in, the authors look deeply into their reading attitudes and the students’ environment on how they perceive reading. The reading habit gives a possibility to determine the relationship between their reading attitudes and how the surroundings might affect them, especially in schools and universities. In order to find out the students’ reading habits, it is essential to understand their attitudes towards reading, the environment, and the reading materials that they prefer.
 

The advent of information technology has had a significant and pervasive impact on almost all areas of library services. The library environment has changed rapidly, resulting in a new
generation of libraries focused on electronic resources. As the popularity of electronic resources increases, librarians and staff are also concerned about electronic resources, their methods,
access, evaluation, selection, organization, etc. In this study, the existing situation of electronic resources in some academic libraries in first-class state colleges of the Kolar district has been revealed. The study also shows the advantages of using electronic resources, the problems faced by users in accessing electronic resources, and the perceived impact of electronic resources on academic library users. Today, electronic resources have transformed the entire library systems
and services. Whereas a decade ago most online information searches took place in libraries and information centers and were primarily related to scientific and technical bibliographic
databases, today they are much more common in the workplace and at home, and literally, anyone can sit down at a computer.
 

This study aims to explore the development of the impact of e-books in academic libraries of the Bellari district. A survey was conducted to collect primary data from respondents through
a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire contains both types of questions closed-ended and open-ended. It was personally distributed to 100 Under Graduate students and
the 71 answered questionnaires were received back. It is found that respondents are using e-books for learning, preparing assignments, and updating subject knowledge. It is also viewed that students are facing difficulty in access to e-books a limited number of computers and a lack of training, etc. The common benefits of e-resources are easy to search, up-to-date, easy to share, and link to other resources.
 

Quality Improvement without Best Practices and Accreditation can't be viable in today`s Academic Realm; Best practices are recognized through inspecting empirical proof of success. At gift, there are numerous Best Practices observed in Academic Libraries to enhance first-rate offerings and professionalism. This paper describes numerous meanings given through numerous dictionaries and council such Online Dictionary of Library and Information Centre and Information Science, Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, and National Accreditation
and Assessment Council after which discusses the Best Practices It additionally examines the Best Practices with their Goal of the Practice, The Process, Impact of the Practice, Resources required, and Remarks. This paper specializes in guidelines for Best practices in Library and
Information Centre concerning NAAC.
 

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and provide a comprehensive view of open-access e-journals available in DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. DOAJ is an effective source of information
for the present day. This paper is an effort as a reference tool to guide the scholarly community, students, researchers, and scholars about open access to the full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals available in DOAJ in the disciplines of Medical Sciences, Basic Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences, etc.
 

The purpose of this study was to systematically collect and review the English language studies that provided empirical evidence for the existence of a relationship between knowledge sharing (KS) and job satisfaction (JS) and their impact on each other.
 

Society's advancement and growth are entirely dependent on ongoing research. Citation analysis is a widely used research method for assessing the quality of research in any field. A
bibliometric study would be beneficial to all LIS members. The study's objectives were met by the use of citation analysis techniques. The data comes from the Shodhganga repository, an online repository of Indian theses. According to current research, the LIS field needs to promote collaborative research and improve the quality of articles published in Indian research journals, and Indian academics should pay more attention to peer-reviewed journals for publication so that their research is visible to readers.
 

The research paper deals with the citation analysis of doctoral theses of library and information science submitted to the South Region Universities with the special reference to
Shodhganga website. This study is based on 968 total citations in the 10 doctoral theses. The purpose of this study was to identify the most cited sources of Information, rank list of core
journals, and country-wise publications in library and information science. The study revealed that 77.59% of total citations are cited by journals followed by web-based sources with
11.69% followed by book citations at 4.02% citations. The library philosophy and practice has ranked first with 54 citations with 22.31% of total citations and 16.11% of citations of
Scientometrics was ranked second. The results of citation analysis can be used to evaluate the importance and relevance of a publication, determine the impact of a researcher or researcher group, and identify key authors and research areas in a field. It is commonly used in the field of academic research, but can also be applied to other areas such as patent analysis and media analysis.
 

Citation analysis is one of the popular techniques of bibliometric study that aids scholars in the identification of core journals in their respective domains. The present study is based on
1399 citations used in the 10 doctoral theses of the library and information science department of the University of Calcutta, Mangalore University, Manipur University, Mizoram University, and Gauhati University that are deposited to Shodhganga from 2020. The purpose of this study is to determine the most favored information source, and year-wise distribution of citations as well
as to prepare a ranking list of core Journals in the library and information science based on the citation frequency of that journal. Data were gathered and analyzed based on pre-determined criteria.
Finally, the conclusion has been drawn from the data analyzed.
 

This paper attempts to highlight the quantitative assessment of the status of the Journal by way of analyzing the various features of Journal by way of analyzing the various features of the Journal of Solar Physics. During 2014-2018 a total of 1061 Articles were published in the Journal of Solar Physics by researchers in various countries.
 

The bibliometric study of a Journal reveals various characteristics relating to the articles published, references, authorship pattern, geographical affiliations of authors, author productivity, etc. in terms of quantity over a period of time and helps to determine the productivity of a journal. A peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal “Religion and Law Review” was taken as a source journal for this bibliometric study for the period 2015-2020. The study reveals the potential of the journal to flourish by increasing the visibility of scholarly contributions made to this journal through adopting a technology platform to increase its reach worldwide.