Self-Sustainability in Academic Libraries in the Digital Era

2013 ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Kalpana ◽  
S. Gopalakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Chronic Health ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Health Disorders

Libraries are storehouses of knowledge and act as disseminating agents for the knowledge producer because knowledge accrued from library is invariably implemented in creating new knowledge. The libraries are agents for knowledge collection, utilization, and dissemination. In all these processes, finance plays a major role. Shrinking budgets (Anna, 1994) and increases in available resources pressure collection development and the disseminating process. The strategies discussed in this chapter can to some extent help in sorting out this financial crisis depending on suitability and implementing standards. Library and information service is a noble service sector. It is not enough to concentrate on issues inside the library, but one needs to widen the service and address issues outside as well, factors like global warming, chronic health disorders, power shortage, diminishing funds, pollution, up to date literature collection, obsolete technologies, and so on.

scholarly journals Aeronautical Information Service–General Aviation Pilots interface in digital era

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (18) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Roman Matyáš ◽  
Andrej Novák
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Service ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Communication Interface ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Aviation Pilots ◽  
Modern Technologies

Modern technologies and portable devices are part of our everyday lives almost two decades. This article describes how Aeronautical Information Service providers in Central Europe utilize modern technologies in the communication interface with general aviation pilots.

scholarly journals Leadership Styles, Promotion Opportunities, and Salary as Correlates of Turnover Intentions among Librarians in Nigerian University Libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Afebuameh James Aiyebelehin ◽  
Rosemary Odiachi ◽  
Blessing Omoregie
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Information Service ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Major Implication ◽  
Nigerian University

The study investigated leadership styles, promotion opportunities, and salary as correlates of turnover intention among librarians in Nigerian academic libraries. It applied the correlational survey design, and data was gathered with a questionnaire. The entire 115 librarians in three (3) universities in South-South, Nigeria formed the population of this study. The data was analyzed with mean and Pearson Moment Correlation (2-tailed). The findings show that the turnover intention of the librarians was high; leadership, promotion opportunities, and salary positively correlate with the turnover intention. The major implication of the findings of the study is that the issue of leadership style, promotion, and salary should be carefully planned by the management of the library, otherwise, the librarians will leave the library whenever the opportunity shows up. These findings provide new data for planning the management of library staff to achieve effective information service in the library.

scholarly journals Open access resources in the academic libraries’ collection development (The experience of RAS SB State Public Scientific and Technological Library)

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Lakizo ◽  
Natalya Podkorytova ◽  
Larisa Bosina
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
Strategic Element ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Systematic Collection ◽  
Technological Model

The authors discuss the study findings and the Library’s experience in integrating open access resources into the resource base of the information support offered to Siberian researchers and scholars. The dynamic technology of resources organization and use calls for continuous monitoring of the open access resources. Using the open access resources as an object of collection development improves the effectiveness of user services and preservation of socially significant content which impacts the libraries’ importance within the system of scientific communications. The library collection as a library’s strategic element is transforming with widening the formats, generic and specific limitations, and integrating traditional collections with the open access resources. This results in the sophisticating organizational and technological model of collection development. The efficiency of integrated open access library services demonstrate the users’ interest to and demand for them. The open access resources have been being increasingly included into the relevant collection development at the academic libraries. The systematic collection of open access resources can operate as a compensational technological system against other expensive resources. Integrating the open access resources into the collections of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch proves to be naturally determined and impacts the prospects for collection development.

scholarly journals A Survey of Weeding Practices in New Zealand  Academic Libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Angus Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Academic Curriculum ◽  
The Future

<p>Weeding is the removal and disposal of materials from a library’s collection that meet criteria set out in the collection development policy. Weeding the print collection of an academic library should be viewed as a means of continuously improving the quality of the collection, reflecting changes in the university’s academic curriculum and meeting patrons’ research needs (Dubicki, 2008). Weeding is often neglected however because of time constraints, a desire to maintain the size of a collection, and the belief that a book may be needed some time in the future ...</p>

scholarly journals A Survey of Weeding Practices in New Zealand  Academic Libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Angus Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Academic Curriculum ◽  
The Future

<p>Weeding is the removal and disposal of materials from a library’s collection that meet criteria set out in the collection development policy. Weeding the print collection of an academic library should be viewed as a means of continuously improving the quality of the collection, reflecting changes in the university’s academic curriculum and meeting patrons’ research needs (Dubicki, 2008). Weeding is often neglected however because of time constraints, a desire to maintain the size of a collection, and the belief that a book may be needed some time in the future ...</p>

Empowering LIS Professionals and Academic Library Users in a Networked and Digital Environment

2013 ◽  
pp. 251-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
End Users ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
User Education

The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of the modernisation of academic libraries in the ICT era, changing format of the library resources and types of computer-based services being offered by the academic libraries. In view of this, the present chapter discusses various aspects of LIS training and user education, emphasising the need to empower our LIS professionals and library users so that they benefit from the new technologies by using new ICTs for exploring the world of knowledge for their academic pursuit and excellence in higher education and research. The first part of the chapter discusses the recent development in the areas of application of ICT in academic libraries, availability, and usage of electronic resources by the library users, new services provided by the academic libraries to their end users. The second part of the chapter highlights the need for empowering LIS professionals working in academic libraries and their end users in electronic / digital era, enumerates the role of various agencies that are engaged in making library users aware of printed as well as e-resources, and explains the role of Web 2.0/Library 2.0 in making library users more interactive and well informed about the resources, products, and services of the academic libraries to their clientele. The third part of the chapter discusses the user education programme/user awareness programme being organised and offered to the students and research scholars by the Assam University Library (Rabindra Library, Silchar) as a case study. While concluding the chapter, some suggestions and recommendations are also discussed in brief.

Teachers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 336-359
Author(s):  
Daniel Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pedagogical Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Personal Learning Network

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

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