University Library Collections Research Articles

STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN KOLEKSI PERPUSTAKAAN STIE SBI YOGYAKARTA DALAM MENDUKUNG KEBUTUHAN PENDIDIKAN DAN PENELITIAN

Collection development is responsible for organizing and expanding collections in libraries. The main purpose of developing collections in university libraries is to meet the information needs of the academic community in higher education. This allowed the library to develop its collection in a planned manner. STIE SBI Yogyakarta Library, as a private university library, acts as an information institution to support the implementation of Tri Dharma of Higher Education. To meet the information needs of users, the library must conduct collection development and formulate policies related to collection development. This research explores the stages of the collection development process at the STIE SBI Library and provides suggestions regarding collection development policies. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. Data were collected through observations, interviews, and literature review. The results showed that the stages in the collection development process at the STIE SBI Yogyakarta Library are simple and have not been supported by a written collection development policy. In addition, other obstacles faced by the library include the limited number of librarians and budget. This condition is an obstacle in the implementation of collection development activities.

Historical Transformations of the Russian Literary Canon in Russia and the United Kingdom

The article aims to reveal the changes in studies of Russian literature in Russia and the United Kingdom in the last three decades. The authors use the concept of the Russian literary canon to highlight the differences in the content and focus of the study of Russian literature. The empirical base of the research is Russian official documents, school textbooks, syllabi of university courses in Russian literature, and the collections of university libraries in the UK. Russian literary canon has changed to bridge the ideological break in Russian literature of the twentieth century. In Russia, the main channel for transmitting the canon is school education. The study of literature is supposed to ensure the formation of national identity, patriotism, humanistic values, and understanding of the exclusivity of Russian literature. The national canon understood as “compulsory reading”, performs socializing, educational, and stabilizing functions. The study of Russian literature in the UK began in the late 19th century at universities, where course content reflected the changing political context. Library collections and university curricula demonstrate the wide range of authors and research topics studied. The study of Russian literature in the UK could not be defined through the Russian literature canon as there is no mandatory reading, and it is studied mainly in translation. Thus, there is no connection between language and literature. The stable interest in the UK towards Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries confirms that it belongs to the world’s cultural heritage beyond national borders.

An assessment of Archives and Record Assortment in selected University Libraries of Bangladesh: a Study

It was intended to analyze and assess the current state of archives and records management in some selected university libraries of Bangladesh as well as to evaluate present status of implementation of IR in these selected libraries. To draw inferences and make recommendations, a survey was conducted in selected public and private university libraries of Bangladesh. The universities were selected for this study on the basis of their position within 10th in the 2020 Uni Rank list published in Bangladesh. The primary data were collected through questionnaire, interview and observation methods and secondary data were derived from literature search. The findings of the study show that 50% public university library use digital repository as archives whereas 90% private university libraries preserve the archives digitally as well as manually. The study also reveals that maximum (90%) private university libraries use archival repository though the number of repositories are increasing slowly. On the other hand, 50% public university libraries use the repository but the number of manual collection of these university library are much higher than others libraries. The study also clearly indicates that public libraries are ahead of private university libraries in preserving the number of manual collection. The findings of the study show that fifty percent public university libraries use digital repository as archives whereas near almost all private university libraries preserve the archives digitally along with manual system. The study revealed that the difference between manual collection of public and private university libraries was significant(p=0.0384), on contrast, the difference between public and private university library collection regarding IR collection is not significant (p=0.9937). The study clearly indicates that public libraries are ahead of private university libraries in preserving the number of manual collection whereas private university is ahead of public university in the implementation of IR system and its collections.

Use of Video Streaming and Video Hosting by US University Libraries to Support Educational and Research Activities

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities and identify the current problems of using video streaming and video hosting within the framework of the American university libraries aimed to support the educational and scientific activities of students and faculty at the modern stage. The research methodology is based on the application of general scientific and special methods of cognition, in particular, terminological, systematic approach, analysis, synthesis, and logical method. The theory of active systems and theoretical approaches to the formation and functioning of the information and educational environment of the university are also used. The scientific novelty of the article lies in expanding the concept of the university library as a technological system and its contribution to the formation of the information and educational environment of a higher educational institution through such web tools as video streaming and video hosting. Conclusions. In the twenty-first century, university libraries are becoming catalysts of innovation and key structural units of higher educational institutions and “active systems” that increase the efficiency of educational and research activities of faculty and students by creating physical and virtual centres for the consumption and production of knowledge. Based on the analysis of the activities of American universities and colleges at the present stage, it is found that they are actively mastering video streaming and video hosting to support research, teaching and sharing their video collections. The American experience has revealed many progressive steps in the use of video streaming and video hosting by university libraries, as well as current problems related to copyright protection, licensing terms and costs, availability of streaming formats, and image quality. Video streaming and video hosting will continue to play an increasingly important role in the development of video collections of university libraries. Key words: the USA, university library, video streaming, video hosting, library services, video content.

Literature Survey and Analysis of Digital Humanities and Libraries in Recent Years

The term “Digital Humanities (DH)” suggests a sub-field of the humanities that makes the ideal utilisation of digital media, as well as the practices and instructions that are naturally associated with it, to explore a broad spectrum of topics. This sub-field is fast developing an increasingly significant sphere of academic research. The conversion to digital has brought about a considerable transformation to several underlying library services, and one of the most fundamental examples of a field where a basic foundation of digital skills can be used to promote the development of an emerging discipline is the field of digital humanities. In the past, only a few studies on digital humanities were conducted. There was a disparity in the amount of research done on the role of librarians concerning digital humanities libraries. This article presents a comprehensive review of previous literature on “Digital Humanities and Libraries,” which included contributions from a diverse range of authors. These factors include the origins and history of DH and libraries, as well as the current state of DH and libraries. The theory and concepts of digital humanities as a field of study are examined, as well as the potential mapping of these theories and concepts to traditional university library collections and services. The research concluded that effective cultural heritage digital initiatives are best carried out through the formation of constructive partnerships between DH scholars and community groups.

Research on the Service of Special Collections of University Libraries Empowered by Intelligent Media

Research on the Service of Special Collections of University Libraries Empowered by Intelligent Media

What’s Missing? Evaluating a University Library Collection for Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Using WorldCat

The areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become increasingly important in recent years within businesses, colleges, and libraries. In response to this development, this article reports on an assessment of the workplace DEI coverage in an academic library monograph collection. A sample of books on the topic, retrieved through a WorldCat search, was analyzed and compared with the library’s holdings. The authors discovered gaps in the library’s workplace DEI coverage and identified contributing factors. The authors selected and reviewed great books on DEI in the workplace to add to the library’s collection and recommend to students and faculty.

Accessing special collections during the COVID-19 pandemic in university libraries in Nigeria

The accessibility of special collections during the COVID-19 pandemic was a matter of concern for libraries and their users due to the specific nature of special collections compared to other information sources in libraries. This study therefore investigated the accessibility of special collections in university libraries in the South South zone of Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic. The population of the study included 233 librarians in federal, state and private universities in the zone. The study adopted an online questionnaire and there was a total of 197 respondents. The findings show that special collections were accessible to library users through library websites, institutional repositories, CD-ROMs and flash drives during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The study reveals some of the challenges affecting the accessibility of special collections during the COVID-19 pandemic in university libraries in Nigeria and recommends ways of enhancing the accessibility of special collections during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Abstract Princeton University’s collection of Islamic manuscripts is by far the largest collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere and one of the most valuable collections in the world. It consists of some 13,500 manuscripts with diverse origins in public and private libraries from the Western to the Eastern Islamic lands. The collection is not only notable for its size and diversity, but also its quality, containing a large number of autograph and otherwise unique manuscripts. Despite its importance, its histories and provenances have not been the subject of an in-depth study. This paper begins to fill this lacuna. Drawing on a number of previously unstudied archival and documentary sources, including personal correspondence and paratextual manuscript notes, the article traces the development of the sub-collections, studies the collectors who built them, their methods and sources, and tells the stories of their collections’ journeys to Princeton.

Using University Library Collections in Teaching

Abstract: One way scholars research advertising’s history and place in society and culture is through the study of archival materials. Some universities and organizations have preserved documents and objects for scholars and students to use in their research and learning about advertising. This Advertising in the Classroom article discusses how Duke University’s John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History makes its archival collections available for teaching. Joshua Larkin Rowley, one of the Hartman Center’s reference archivists, talks about how he works with faculty to make library collections a central part of students’ learning experience. He shares more about how he uses university library collections to facilitate classes and research workshops. He also gives advice on how instructors can work closely with librarians and archivists to inspire students to be excited about conducting archival research in person.

Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Building a Narrative of the Latter-day Saints in Brazil

Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Building a Narrative of the Latter-day Saints in Brazil

Quality of university libraries: the case of the Universidad de Granada

Objective: To present the analysis of the bibliographic collection of the Universidad de Granada (UGR) taking as a reference the teaching guides of the Degree in Psychology during the academic year 2019/2020. Method: An analysis of the bibliographic collection of the teaching guides of the Degree in Psychology of the UGR was carried out. Documents were analysed by title, year, document categorisation, document type and subject data. Information on availability and the possibility of consulting the document online was also included. The search was carried out in the automated online catalogue of the UGR Library. Results: A total of 1,775 bibliographic references were contained in the teaching guides of the 49 subjects (distributed among six departments). A total of 76.8% were considered complementary by the teachers and 89.2% of the proposed documents were books. The UGR libraries had 81.8% of the references, while the Psychology library had 65.8% of the material. 24.4% of the references had a more up-to-date edition in the library. Contribution: The analysis of the bibliographic collection provides information on the adequacy of the teaching guides and the availability of the university library collection. This is an indicator of the quality of teaching and of the university library system.

Influence of the Turkish Empire on Malaya in the Malay Manuscript of the Leiden University Library Collection

When researching the catalogues about Malay manuscripts at the library of Leiden University, Netherlands, there was a list of records about Turkey and Malaya’s relations in various manuscript collections in the library. This is important to be highlight to see how far the two empires’ relationship are in Malay manuscripts. Thus, this writing will analyze the Turkish Empire’s influence towards the Malay government in various aspects. The analyze will using the selected Malay manuscripts through the Leiden University Library collection. Qualitative content analysis methods will use to examine the topics. The expectation of writing shows that there are significant influences towards the Malay government, especially about lineage and politics. This writing will directly contribute to the studies on international relations between the Turkish Empire and Malay government and highlight the way the government practiced by the Islamic government in maintaining the relationship as stated in the Malay manuscript.

The Collection and Service Optimization of China's Academic Library ILL Based on Bipartite Matching

The interlibrary loan (ILL) service is essential to a multi-campus university library. This article builds a dynamic collection optimization model based on readers' needs using ILL data. This article first examined the status quo and methods of ILL. Then, refers to some existing algorithms of bipartite matching and recommendation such as network-based inference (NBI). Based on the above analysis, this article builds a model to optimize university library collection. With the loaning data of Soochow Academic Library from 2013 as the training data, an optimizing case was performed. The 2469 interlibrary loan records including readers and book they borrow from other library in 2014 was used for testing the effects of the model. The model is able to identify potential ILL demands and improve the efficiency of book circulation.

The role of the Scientific Library of the State University of Management in organizing the University’s information educational space

The availability of an informational and educational space is considered as a necessary requirement to the functioning of a modern university. The importance of the university’s library in creating such informational and educational space is described. The qualitative shift in libraries activities is emphasized by a library’s ability to communicate with other objects in an informational and educational space of a university. The integrative function of the university library, which provides the informational and educational space organizational process, is pointed out to be understudied. The objects of the informational and educational space in the State University of Management are defined. The brief information about the features of the university library collection is given. The activities of the scientific library of the State University of Management in organizing the informational and educational space of the university and providing it with informational and educational materials are characterized. The specificity of the library work is illustrated by different examples, such as interaction with e-library systems, the development of scientific and educational activities by using both traditional and e-learning resources, the creating of various bibliographic reference services, web indexing of publications of the professors and other university workers in scientometrical systems. The integrity of the scientific library of the State University of Management into different stages of creating educational resources in the informational and educational space of the university. It is emphasized that the implementation of the library integrative function contributes to the development of the unified informational and educational space of the university. The article can be relevant to university libraries specialists and the researchers of this type of libraries.

Radical Holdings? Student Newspaper Collections in Australian University Libraries and Archives

ABSTRACT University student newspapers have a long history across Australian university campuses of engaging with contemporary social and political issues, often reflecting a sentiment not represented in mainstream media publications. Student newspapers have a demonstrated engagement with radical thinking, dissent and political activism and are an important published record of historical discourses, contributing to a critically informed understanding of the society that produced them. This paper reports on a pilot survey of Australian university holdings of their student newspapers. Findings inform current and future student newspaper collection practices by university libraries and archives, including building ongoing relationships with editorial teams, and recommended improvements for access to this primary source material for future researchers.

Implementing a just-in-time collection development model in an academic library

This article describes the development of a system for changing a university library's collection development strategy from the traditional “just in case” model to a “just in time” approach. The reasons for such a change included a desire to be more responsive to user requirements, a need to be more flexible in acquiring interdisciplinary resources and new formats, and a substantial cut in the library's budget. The Collection Development librarians envisioned the collections as a service, using a simpler and more versatile accounting structure. The Access-Based Collection Development (ABCD) model emphasizes making materials available at the point of need rather than having them on hand in anticipation of use. ABCD has four overarching themes: to be sustainable, to be holistic and inclusive, to be flexible and scalable, and to use evidence for decision-making. The authors provide details of the implementation, outcomes, evaluation, and future of the model.

The university library collections in the 21st century: Main trends and factors of efficient collection development

The necessity for studies and sharing the experience of Russian academic university libraries in collection development is substantiated. The main trends for the collection development in the 21-st century are revealed and examined as the case study of Novosibirsk State University Library.NovosibirskUniversityis among the nation’s leading research universities. The authors specify the trends of modernization, globalization, collection development with digital publications, and the increasing share of the latter in the Library’s acquisitions and, correspondingly, in the collection, on the whole. They also emphasize the relations and mutual dependence of these and other trends within the collection development process. The factors of successful collection development at the Library are recommended to be implemented by other libraries. High professional competences of collection development specialists and other librarians, the wide range of the collection development sources and their stability, and university administration’s special care of the library collections are specified among these factors. The authors conclude that Novosibirsk State University Library has accumulated great experience in collection development in the circumstances of information society, advance of information technologies, expanding globalization, university integration into the global education, science and research environment. This experience can be shared with many other university libraries.

Beg, borrow, and steal: Formal and informal access to the scholarly literature at U.S. master's universities

This study investigates the methods by which faculty obtain scholarly articles, books, and chapters. It focuses on full-text retrieval rather than discovery, drawing on a survey of 529 full-time faculty at U.S. colleges and universities in the Carnegie master's—large and master's—medium categories. When seeking articles, faculty rely mainly on their home-institution library collections, freely accessible online resources, and interlibrary loan. The situation is different for books, however; faculty most often purchase the books they need. Despite the continuing importance of formal access mechanisms (home-institution library collections and interlibrary loan), faculty rely on other sources of full text—informal access mechanisms—for 50% of the articles and 66% of the books they use. Nearly 25% get more articles from the open web than from any other source, and substantial minorities report heavy reliance on other sources. In particular, faculty sometimes use other libraries, often relying on current or past affiliations (e.g., part-time teaching) or on the user accounts of family, friends, and colleagues. Many are critical of their university library collections, but most are satisfied with freely accessible online resources and interlibrary loan.

Exploring the Reasons Why University Students Prefer Print over Digital Texts: An Australian Perspective

ABSTRACTThis paper presents findings from an Australian survey that provides an analysis of the reasons why university students prefer to read print or digital course materials. This survey was undertaken as part of the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), which is investigating print versus digital reading preferences in 31 countries (Mizrachi et al., 2018). A total of 582 students completed the survey with 471 students providing comments. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the comments from the survey. The comments provided in this survey provide rich data on the reasons why students prefer reading in print or electronic formats, an area of importance due to the increasing prevalence of digital only collections in university libraries. Based on comments, students preferred print due to reasons such as accessibility, eyestrain, tactile features, better focus and ability to highlight and take notes. Although students prefer print, they acknowledge the convenience and cheaper costs of e-texts. Students who were e-preferring were influenced by issues such as cost, environment and convenience. In light of library collections prioritising digital content, tertiary institutions and libraries should carefully consider the role that print textbooks and collections, as well as printing services, may play in supporting student learning.