Promoting Library Services in a Digital Environment in Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-296
Author(s):  
Blessing Chiparausha ◽  
Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Survey Monkey

This chapter documents the strategies that are employed by librarians in promoting library and information services in Zimbabwe. The study also sought to ascertain the perceptions of librarians towards promoting library service in Zimbabwe in a digital environment and assess the challenges faced by librarians when promoting library and information services in Zimbabwe in a digital environment. A study was done, and the participants were drawn from academics, the public, schools, and special libraries. An online questionnaire was posted on Survey Monkey and librarians were invited to participate from the Zimbabwe Library Association social media platforms. Data was analysed thematically using the objectives of the study. It was discovered that despite facing a number of challenges when promoting library and information services, participants were using various strategies to promote their services. The authors recommend continuing professional development of librarians to effectively deliver their services in a digital environment.

Promoting Library Services in a Digital Environment in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-385
Author(s):  
Blessing Chiparausha ◽  
Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Survey Monkey

This chapter documents the strategies that are employed by librarians in promoting library and information services in Zimbabwe. The study also sought to ascertain the perceptions of librarians towards promoting library service in Zimbabwe in a digital environment and assess the challenges faced by librarians when promoting library and information services in Zimbabwe in a digital environment. A study was done, and the participants were drawn from academics, the public, schools, and special libraries. An online questionnaire was posted on Survey Monkey and librarians were invited to participate from the Zimbabwe Library Association social media platforms. Data was analysed thematically using the objectives of the study. It was discovered that despite facing a number of challenges when promoting library and information services, participants were using various strategies to promote their services. The authors recommend continuing professional development of librarians to effectively deliver their services in a digital environment.

scholarly journals Library Services to Diverse Communities in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Agustín-Lacruz ◽  
Julia Saurin-Parra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diverse Communities

Public libraries have developed standards to provide reading and information services to diverse populations. This has helped the public library to fulfil an informal educational and social role, particularly in engaging traditionally excluded groups, such as the Roma minority in Spain. However, well-developed library initiatives in Spain are scarce; in addition, culturally sensitive services do not thrive, and research and reflection on this reality from the library standpoint are rare. The overarching goal of this article is to provide librarians with suggestions for improved services for the Roma community in Spain. It is achieved through the critical analysis of public library services to the Roma community that currently exist in the European Union. Based on this analysis, practical suggestions are offered.

Developing a Digital Engagement Strategy for Ghanaian University Libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-139
Author(s):  
Samuel Owusu-Ansah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Digital Library Services ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

This study represents a framework that digital libraries can leverage to increase usage and visibility. The adopted qualitative research aims to examine a digital engagement strategy for the libraries in the University of Ghana (UG). Data is collected from participants (digital librarians) who are key stakeholders of digital library service provision in the University of Ghana Library System (UGLS). The chapter reveals that digital library services included rare collections, e-journal, e-databases, e-books, microfilms, e-theses, e-newspapers, and e-past questions. Additionally, the research revealed that the digital library service patronage could be enhanced through outreach programmes, open access, exhibitions, social media, and conferences. Digital librarians recommend that to optimize digital library services, literacy programmes/instructions, social media platforms, IT equipment, software, and website must be deployed. In conclusion, a DES helps UGLS foster new relationships, connect with new audiences, and establish new or improved brand identity.

scholarly journals Neuropsychiatry Training in Nepal: Experiences of Trainees and Psychiatrists

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Y Rai ◽  
U. Karki ◽  
S Thapaliya ◽  
R Molina
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Psychiatry Training ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Clinical Neuroscience ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Survey Monkey ◽  
One Year ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
Training Practice

 Introduction: Training, practice and continuing professional development in neuropsychiatry and clinical neuroscience vary across different countries. However, little is known about the opinions of the Nepalese psychiatrists about the provision of neuropsychiatry training. This study evaluates the current training in neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences during the postgraduate psychiatry training and reflect on current practice. Material And Method: The participants were psychiatrists (qualified and psychiatry residents). An online questionnaire using Survey Monkey electronic Platform was emailed with a uniform resource locator (URL). Results: Sixty-four out of ninety-five participants responded with response rate of 65.3%. Two-third of the respondents were qualified psychiatrists. The duration of neurology rotation ranged from 1 to 3 months and it was reported to be mandatory. Two-thirds reported that there is no clinical neuropsychiatry training during psychiatry residency. On a ten-point Likert scale (with 10 being the highest possible score), the participants rated their neuropsychiatry training as 5.16±1.84 while they rated the necessity for further training in neuropsychiatry as 7.92±1.96. Two-thirds identified a lack of interest by the specialty society as an obstacle for the implementation of neuropsychiatry training for psychiatrists. More than half viewed that neuropsychiatry training to be incorporated into the existing psychiatry training scheme whereas three-fifths favoured a one-year specific training program in neuropsychiatry after completion of psychiatry training. Conclusion: The current psychiatry training is inadequate to meet substantial neuropsychiatry training opportunities for a high proportion of psychiatrists in Nepal. This finding may be used to improve and standardize neuropsychiatry training in postgraduate psychiatry training.

scholarly journals Barriers Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake among the Public in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Nehad J. Ahmed ◽  
Faisal Z. Alkhawaja ◽  
Abdulrahman S. Alrawili
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Vaccine Safety ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vaccination Uptake ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Potential Vaccine ◽  
Main Barrier ◽  
Online Form

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore barriers that influence COVID-19 vaccination uptake among the public in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This study included an online questionnaire that was prepared using questionnaire of previous study. After that, it was converted using Google® forms to an online form and was disseminated by social media platforms to be completed by the public. Results: Only 13.37% of the respondents believe that COVID-19 is not serious enough to warrant vaccination, about 14.71% agreed that the vaccine does not provide benefit, about 17.64% agreed that the chance of getting COVID-19 disease is low. About 31.37% of them said that they don’t have the time to get vaccinated. About 60.78% of the respondents said that they concerned about the vaccine side effects. Conclusion: The main barrier of COVID-19 vaccination uptake was the vaccine side effects concerns. Health care provider should provide open and transparent information about vaccine safety and the potential vaccine side effects. Health education programs could change people’s thoughts and feelings towards vaccination.

scholarly journals Emotional Branding as an Effort to Improve the Quality of Library Service in Order to Increase the Use of Library

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Neneng Komariah ◽  
Saleha Rodiah ◽  
Encang Saepudin
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
Library Services ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Library Management ◽  
New Information ◽  
Working Performance

This paper is a study of implementation of emotional branding in library services.    Emotional branding is a new paradigm in marketing world. It means create emotional nuance and its objective is to create an emotional nearness between a brand and its consumer. The library as an institution which provide information services may implement emotional branding concept in creating emotional nuance which will build emotional nearness between the library and its users. It is hope that the emotional nearness  will create users’ satisfaction and  loyality, so the use of library will  increase. Emotional branding in library can be created through working performance of librarian who always try to create and maintain good relationships with users. Some strategies could be implemented, those are always ask the user first, ask their name and try to remember it, know information which usually needed, tell them when there is new information which relevant for them, create a situation that librarian always ready to help, show them that the librarian like to discuss with them, be a good listener, the librarian should be wear uniform with name tag, and be a mobile staff and ask the user if they need some helps.  The implementation of emotional branding in library services need a crucial change in mindset of library management in order to provide qualified services which suitable with users’ demand.   

scholarly journals Every Child Ready to Read: Building Bridges to Early Childhood Educators

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Saroj Ghoting ◽  
Pamela Rogers ◽  
Dorothy Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Staff

The more we librarians can be a part of [our partners’] world, the more our partners help us shape library services to be responsive to the community,” says Mary Hastler, CEO of Harford County (MD) Public Library.More than twelve years after its inception, the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library initiative (ECRR) continues to expand in response to our needs. To help library staff strengthen and deepen our connections with our community partners, the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children have enhanced the content in a new downloadable toolkit (https://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11997) targeting early childhood educators.

scholarly journals Library Services to Inmates in the Rural County Jails of Western North Carolina

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian D Ellern ◽  
Karen Mason
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Western North Carolina ◽  
Service Policies ◽  
County Jails

This paper investigates the current statues of library collections and services in the rural jails in western North Carolina. The authors interviewed the sheriffs and jail administrators in 6 of the 7 western most county detention centers.  The benefits of reading and importance of literacy to this underserved population, descriptions the collections and library service policies along with photographs of the actual book collections and the challenges the jails face in maintaining and delivering these services, are presented. This paper advocates that one possible solution to this situation is working towards building partnerships between the public library systems and their local jails and how that can benefits everyone in the community. 

The Main Principle is Scientific Integrity. To the Birth Anniversary of Margarita Yakovlevna Dvorkina

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Yuri N. Stolyarov
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Scientific Integrity ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Status ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Over Time

The article is devoted to the anniversary of the prominent Russian scholar in library science Margarita Yakovlevna Dvorkina, born on April 1, 1936. The author highlights her main positive qualities as a person and scientist. Her exceptional scientific integrity is revealed by the example of M.Y. Dvorkinaʼs clarification over time of the attitude to revolutionary-democratic libraries (the theme of her PhD thesis) and especially to the status of the concept of “library service”. She successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on this topic in 1994. Initially, she confined to the named scope of the concept, then she deemed more correct to consider “information and library services”, and now she inclines to the term “library and information services”. The author assumes that the next round of the scientific spiral should be return on a new basis to the term and to the concept “library service” behind it. The article presents arguments to defend this position.

Social Media as a Driver of Innovative Service Delivery in Academic Libraries

2022 ◽  
pp. 192-200
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Agbo Oche
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Effective Service ◽  
Staff Skills

As technology continues to impact the delivery of library and information services, traditional academic library systems have continued to experience changes. Social media are changing and becoming more sophisticated, and librarians need to adopt them for innovative services to their users. Library staff skills and library services have to shift from book-eccentric to user-eccentric. As the academic library continues to redefine its role in the digital environment, it needs to leverage its strengths and create responsive and convenient services. The chapter discusses how social media can be adopted and utilized for delivering innovative services and the various innovative ways social media can be utilized in effective service delivery, the challenges associated with social media and innovative service delivery, and the strategies to enhance the use of social media for innovative service delivery in academic libraries. The chapter serves as guide to students and practitioners on the various ways to use social media for effective service delivery in academic libraries.

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