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This study examines international standard bibliographic description (ISBD) as standard for quality book publishing in Nigeria. It discusses ISBD as it affects quality book publishing. Three Universities in the South-South region and 250 publishers sampled from six states of the federation were used for the study. The instruments used were validated questionnaire and standardized checklist of the book. One null hypothesis was formulated and tested. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentages and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC). The finding of the study shows that there is a significant relationship between ISBD and the quality of books published in Nigeria with regard to authorship, title, place of publication, year of publication, publisher’s name, ISBN, copyright, bibliography and index. The study concluded that ISBD adds quality to published books.

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While defining the information audit is a tool that can be used to not only identifying strategically significant information resources, but also to identify those tasks and activities that create knowledge and those that rely on the transfer of knowledge from the other area of the organization. This article firstly describes the relationship between the information audit process and knowledge management. Secondly, introduces the seven stage information audit models. It discusses each stage of the model in terms of its contribution to the process and the desired outcomes. Concludes by examining the potential benefits of using the information audit as a foundation that can be built on as the knowledge management strategy is developed.

This paper discusses the visibility of African scholars in the literature of Bibliometrics, as it appears in the Library and Information Science Abstract (LISA) from 1982-2010. Analysis was conducted on a list of 75 papers generated from the Abstract. The year-wise growth of the literature shows that single authorship dominates the literature, scoring 52% and the average number of publication per year was found to be 2.7. On the productivity of authors, Lotka’s formulation of inverse square law of scientific productivity was applied and found to be in harmony with the literature. Bradford-zipf Law for distribution of papers was also applied and found to be in conformity with the literature of Bibliometrics. Prolific authors were found to be 6 in number and their contributions falls between 3-16 papers within the 28 years period of the study. English language was found to be the dominant language with 91.3% score, and then followed by French with 8.7% score.

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Study of data collected from 56 users by the administrating questionnaires among their attitudes towards reading habits and purpose of the visiting of libraries at Delhi Public Library, New Delhi, indicate that the, purpose of reading, preference of language, form of library collection, assistance from the library staff in the use of resources and services is necessary to help users meet their information requirements. Finds that people are unable to visit the library regularly due to lack or shortage of time and literature being mostly read by the users are magazines and newspapers.

E-Learning is as an approach to instruction and learning that utilize Information and communication technologies to communicate and collaborate in an educational milieu. This includes technological expertise that supplements traditional classroom training with web-based components and learning environments where the educational process is experienced online. This paper reflects the importance of e-learning in higher education with its extent and growth in Indian LIS education. Some of the major Indian initiatives and the target segments covered by the online education have also been detailed in this article. Emphasizes the importance of perception in relation of information technologies and communication, so that futures leaders will be better prepared regarding these technologies. The paper presents future perspective in relation to e-learning in India, where demand within higher education is no different from that seen in developed countries. The e-learning was being considered useful only for distance learning programs. But no one can deny the fact that e-learning is the most innovative application of the Internet and it has done wonders globally and currently is achieving education classroom as well.

This study examines the Scientometrics appraisal of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) for eight years from 2003-2010. This paper analyses the year wise distribution of articles and citations, authorship pattern, the degree of collaboration, the subjects covered and the length of the articles in the journal. The results indicate that the average number of contribution per issue is 6.46, the maximum number of contribution of article is by single author and patents as subject is covered with more number of articles. The maximum length of an article goes to 13.59 with the minimum of 6.75 pages. It is found that this is an important journal in the field of IPR, which every organization should procure and make it available to the users.

This paper examined censorship issue in Librarianship. It analyzed the different conflicting positions, the stakeholders and what they have at stake. The author also discussed the way forward.

The dramatic advances in technologies, particularly in Internet technologies have changed the way individuals seek and obtain information. The emerging of new programming languages for the web has promised new transformation for more dynamic web applications. This shift in web technologies is commonly under a sobriquet for several of online activities known currently by Web 2.0. There is little research that focuses on the impact and applications of web 2.0 in the libraries. The current study was undertaken to explore the impact and use of web 2.0 in libraries. The authors confined the study to twelve National Libraries of developed countries.

This research contributes to the understanding of what Information Science is and how it is evolving by verifying the disciplines Information Science interacts with at the present time, as well as the breadth and intensity of these relationships. The research uses two bibliometric studies of the scientific journals utilized by researchers in the field. In the first study, citation analysis assessed 433 journals cited in the bibliographies of 18 theses and 39 dissertations from the Graduate Program of Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. These were first examined to determine their distribution in nine categories representative of large areas of knowledge. Next, subareas to which each journal pertained were also identified. In the second study, 316 journals from the field of Information Science, which the CAPES Portal of Scientific Journals subscribed to, were identified and analyzed in terms of the other areas of knowledge to which they were also designated by the Portal. The results of the citation analysis revealed that 31.8% of 433 journals cited were interdisciplinary, 49.7% pertained to other areas of knowledge while 18.50% were classified solely as Information Science. The analysis of the data from second study revealed that 57% of the journals were classified solely as Information Science and 43% were classified simultaneously in more than one area. Results stemming from both studies show that computer science, administration and education are the disciplines most closely related to Information Science. The areas of knowledge to which Information Science most broadly relates are applied social sciences, human sciences and linguistics, literature and the arts.

Abstract The economic recession witnessed globally between 2008 and 2009 affected almost every sectors of the economy. The library was not left out. In order to survive and to remain relevant in the system, following the reduction in the financial allocation of the libraries, libraries opted for a way out. This calls for the introduction of outsourcing in the library system. This study reviews some of the library services that are been outsourced in order to save cost and improve operational efficiency. It went further to investigate on the reasons why libraries outsourced their services thus allows the library to refocus upon its core businesses or services and re-engineering its business processes. The researchers went further to x-ray the shortfalls associated with outsourcing of library services.

The literature review of the term ‘information’, starting from a terminological approach, has the aiming to identify traces which help in a better delimitation of the Information Science field. The comprehension of the identity characteristics of the Information Science is a conjectural need, observed in the context of the post- modernity on which the field tries to ‘consolidate itself’. The use of the guidance of the Terminology Communicative Theory, which considers the pragmatic and social aspect of the terms, was an important resource to stress out how the different perspectives of the term ‘information’ corroborate the construction of a thematic view of the Information Science area.

The purpose of this paper is to examine information seeking pattern of science and art research scholars and for this the data was gathered using questionnaire survey of 139 (one hundred and thirty-nine) randomly selected, PhD scholars of science and arts departments of Asia’s largest residential university Banaras Hindu University, India. It has been found that both the groups of researchers have some similarities and some dissimilarity in information seeking. Even in this electronic era some research scholars of art discipline depend on print form of publications for their information needs.

Van Gogh used widely letters as communication medium. However, in spite of their contents value, the letters are not usually considered in social researches. Considering the personal mails importance as research sources in the information current context, we aim to analyze Van Gogh´s letters to his brother Théo, from 1888 to 1890 as biographical information source. For this analysis, we used the letters 534; 557; 558; 565; 566; 567; 568; 573; 576 as research sources (they were used as samples). Van Gogh´s personal letters to Théo are analyzed and presented as biographical information medium spread. As a methodology, we use the matter study to research the issue. The conclusion of the analysis allows us to notice that personal letters clarify Van Gogh´s life important events and circumstances that may be used in researches as biographical information source.

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The scientific knowledge at UFMA justifies the organization process in the Programa Institucional de Bolsas para Iniciação Científica (PIBIC) archive that aims to let produced scientific documents available so the Institutional Repository can use them. It uses the description research methodology in data collection. It deals with document as information holder and representation. It shows meanings, objectives, archive function and emphasizes the necessity of letting documents available and its virtual ease. It describes the collection, analyzes its composition and describes the archive organization process of PIBIC at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA). It defines institutional memory based on some authors, emphasizing the importance of preservation of the Institution documents. It clears the Institutional Repository as scientific production medium and concludes by indicating that the UFMA Institutional Repository is an effective tool to make the PIBIC scientific production archives.

The study examines the barriers related to Library and Information Science. A structured questionnaire was designed and directly administered to the LIS Research Scholars who are currently involved in the Research in the Universities/Colleges of Tamil Nadu (India). A total of 124 questionnaires were distributed and 109 respondents have replied. The majority of common barriers faced by the respondents are ‘High Expenditure’, ‘Lack of Statistical Skills’, and ‘Inadequate of infrastructures’ and ‘Poor response in data collection’. The study is also recommended that the Universities/Colleges offered the research programmes should consider to reduce the expenditure in terms of fee structures for the research and also the schools/departments which offer the research programme should redesign the syllabus to include the skills required to carry out the research. Further, it is emphasized that the LIS professionals should encourage and support the research scholars by means of providing the required data for the research.

Publishing has transited from traditional to Electronic format making information resources available to users without much subscription. E-publishing is engendered by the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT), this development has brought about increase in the number of scholarly communication in circulation. The awareness and rate of e-publishing differs among faculties, it based on this that this study was carried out to survey the situation of e-publishing and open access of librarians in three federal universities in Southern Nigeria, five research questions were formulated to guide the study. The methodology adopted is descriptive survey, questionnaire was given to a total population of 64 librarians consisting of librarians from the institutions understudy, the data collected from the study shows that though librarians are aware of e-publishing but they have not being publishing as should have been expected in University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) out of the 95% that aware of electronic publishing only 30% have published there articles electronically, in University of Lagos (UNILAG) 100% indicated that they have published electronically while in University of Benin (UNIBEN) 45.4% percent indicated yes while 54.5% said they have not published their articles electronically. On availability of open access it was discovered that they have access as a total of 84% from UNN responded Yes, UNILAG 100% said Yes while in UNIBEN 90.9%. The following problems based on their scoring militating against e-publishing and open access in Nigeria. Inadequate power supply; inadequate computer terminals; inadequate funding for subscription payment.

This paper has been examined the faculty members and research scholars visit the library for accessing e-journals from UGC-Infonet consortium. It has been analyzed the information usage pattern and needs of the respective users a survey was conducted among faculty and research scholars in Alagappa University. The population included in the study comprised one hundred twenty respondents from Arts, Science, Management and Education departments and of that, faculty is forty five and fifty eight are research scholars. This study reveals that most of faculty members are access to e-journals at weekly 24 (44%). The faculty member and research scholars aware about UGC@Infonet accounted 103 (85.99%) and 17 (14.16) respondents are not aware this programme. The study observed that the faculty members who responded to the study, 70 (59.1%) learned through guidance from their teachers/guide 28 (56%). It is provide the highest proportion of faculty members 21 (42%) use their department for accessing the information, while research scholars 28 (40%) they were accessing their e-journals in their department itself.