Education Library Research Articles

Changing Scenario of Information Use Pattern in the Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu

This paper analyses the changing scenario of information use pattern in the academic libraries of Tamilnadu. Libraries play a vital role in higher education and research. In fact, it collects a number of printed documents such as books, journals, magazines, encyclopedia, dictionaries, yearbooks, news papers and non-printed materials like CDs, Microfiche, Microfilms, Databases, e-learning resources related to the courses offered in the college/university in order to meet the various information requirements of users at graduate, post graduate and research levels. The ancient libraries preserved and circulated the information sources in the printed or written forms. But, the development of science and technology have modernized the form of documents and changed the information use pattern of users. It is seen that the present users prefer non-printed materials to printed one. In other words, the demand for non-printed materials is more than the printed one and the time utilized in the information communication technological based information sources and services is more than that in printed documents circulation section. It shows that there is a change in the information use pattern of users in higher educational libraries. Hence an attempt is made to find out the changing scenario of information use pattern and factors motivating it in the higher educational libraries of Tamilnadu.

Organizational Climate Factors in Job Creativity among Public University Librarians in Anambra State

Education is the greatest stimulant for human development and the requisite for socio-economic advancement; the utility of libraries in education especially in tertiary institutions are as important as education itself. In third world countries like Nigeria, there is a great disparity in library utility. This study has therefore envisaged that unless librarians are creative given supportive climate, they may not actualize the potentials of libraries given funding inadequacies. Thus, a survey study was carried out utilizing correlation design Pearson correlation statistics to establish the perception of librarians about their organizational climate and whether this perception correlates their creativity. The participants of the study were 89 librarians sampled purposively from University librarians in Anambra State. The questionnaires used for data collection were simplified adaptation of Coveney (2008) and Organizational Climate Questionnaire (OCQ) by Litwin and Stringer (1968). The result indicated that the perception of organizational climate is low among University librarians in Anambra State although the librarians were moderately high on creativity and innovation. Responsibility, reward and support were dimensions of organizational climate which predicted employee creativity whereas organizational identity though impact employees’ creativity but the impact were not of significance proportion. The finding implies that favorable climate to employees helps to stimulate their creative potentials. It is recommended that stakeholder should improve the working climate in University libraries in order to motivate to employees to perform at the highest level bringing their creativity into the organizational dynamics.

Regional School Library Coordinators’ Visions of Quality School Library Programs and Their Role in Helping to Achieve Them

A school library coordinator is a position of central leadership for district school boards. The visions of six Canadian school library coordinators about aspects of strong school library programs, and how their role helps achieve them are investigated in this qualitative interview-based study. Results showed that coordinators felt their roles of providing professional development and advocating for school libraries help create school library programs that improve student achievement. For the future, they envisioned a greater role for school libraries in education, with greater collaboration between school library, technology, literacy, and public library circles. A need for greater provincial government support for school libraries was identified. This study explored the values and hopes of school library leaders in Canada, and indicated that a coordinator can do much to support districts’ school libraries and media centers.

Transforming library collections in a pandemic: the perspective from Edge Hill University

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on Higher Education (HE) libraries, requiring them to rapidly overhaul their services and accelerating the shift to digital in a short space of time. One of the most significant challenges has been how to provide students and other library users with continued access to resources previously only available in print, when libraries have been closed or are operating with restrictions in place that limit access to the physical library space. This has led many libraries to increase investment in digital content to better support students in the current climate. This article shares the perspective from Edge Hill University in the UK and focuses on work undertaken by the library to implement university-wide e-textbook access for the first time. The article explores some of the barriers the library has faced sourcing textbooks and concludes by reflecting on how 2020 may shape the library’s purchasing strategies in a post-pandemic information landscape.

School Library Management: A Literature Review

This article aims to find out how school libraries is managed based on the literature review from previous research from several countries around the world. This article uses search and review methods, where the review process began with a search engine, Google scholar and IEEE, to search the articles with keywords. The authors found the scope of the reviewed articles was still very limited so it needs to be followed up related to school turnover management research. Result of the review show that libraries can run optimally if they apply good management. The research about this topic is limited and this article is a literature review; so further research needs to be done related to school library management in general and to include other data collection methods including interview and questionnaire. The theoretical benefit of this article is to add knowledge about educational library management and the practical benefit is as an information for further research.

Awareness of Information and Communication Technology-Based Information Resources in Library User Education Programmes in Colleges of Education in Southern Nigeria

The study investigated awareness of information and communication technology-based information resources in library user education programmes in South-South Nigeria. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of 1022 respondents which consist of 62 staff and 960 library users. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire of a four-point rating scale and observation checklist. Tools used for data analysis of research questions were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation; t-test was used to test the null hypothesis at selected probability of 0.05 level significance. The findings revealed that more than half of the listed ICT-based resources were available in the six colleges of education libraries under study. The study also shows that the respondents had high awareness on these items. It was deduced from the findings that the method used to a high extent for awareness of ICT-based resources for user education programmes in colleges of education libraries was conferences. The study recommended among others, that, colleges of education authorities should embark on capacity building programmes in terms of training and re-training of librarians on ICT awareness.
 Keywords: Awareness, Information Resources, User education, ICT

Educational activities of the School Library of the School Teaching Centre of Basic Education of UFMG


 
 
 Working in a school library requires a professional who combines his library science técnias with knowledge of Education. From the premise that the library is no longer an accumulation of space but now a place of dissemination of knowledge, its performance changes, is increased. Thus, in 2013, the School Teaching Centre of Basic Education Library was called to offer one GTD – WGD - Working Group Differential - for students of the second cycle of human development. The GTD is a present discipline in the curriculum of Teaching Centre. The overall objective of GTD "storytelling" was to interest students of the second cycle of human training to become storytellers. The search activity to the dictionary, with a view to enriching the vocabulary, was called "The Word is". The librarian working together with teachers demonstrates the importance of this partnership and the good achieved consequences.
 
 

The coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean academic library: Jamaica's initial interpretation of strengths, biggest impact, lessons and plans

PurposeThis paper examined the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic (known as COVID-19) on Jamaican academic libraries, during the first six months, with an emphasis on revealed library strengths, biggest impact, lessons learned and plans for library business continuity.Design/methodology/approachThe local academic libraries in higher education in Jamaica (also referred to in this paper as university libraries) were surveyed.FindingsThe coronavirus pandemic revealed strengths in the areas of staffing and library modality and had the biggest impact on the latter. Lessons were learned in preparedness, communication, documentation, collaboration, staffing, library modality, and infrastructure/systems, which together shaped plans for library business re-opening/continuity.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper captures the initial response of Jamaican Academic Libraries (JAL) to the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Information on COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, and the preliminary initial response of Jamaica is neither the final nor complete response to the pandemic. As such, a follow-up survey of months 7–12 would be useful. Also, a survey of all English-speaking Caribbean academic libraries would be of value to library evidence and practice.Practical implicationsThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a gap in the literature on library disaster management in general but also specifically on pandemic preparedness and management, and library business continuity during a pandemic. Using JAL' response, this paper proposes: “A Pandemic Preparedness Business Continuity Planning Checklist for Jamaican Academic Libraries”, which can be adopted/adapted in other Caribbean/developing country academic libraries, as well as other library types in Jamaica, which currently look to the understudied university libraries for leadership.Originality/valueThis paper is the first scholarly paper on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university libraries in the Jamaican / English-speaking Caribbean, with a focus on revealed strengths, biggest impact, lessons learned, plans for library business re-opening/continuity. As the scholarly literature on pandemic management in Caribbean academic libraries is non-existent, this paper seeks to fill this gap, albeit incrementally. Additionally, the findings can inform the Latin America and Caribbean section of international library papers on COVID-19 impact on academic libraries globally.

School Library, Keep Exploring

The „sba-Curriculum“ is a loose-leaf edition of educational library objectives for students grades 1 – 10 as well as a collection of full descriptions of activities matching the respective grades and objectives. Here – for the IASL 2009 conference in Abano Terme (Padua, Italy) – reading promotion activities for grades 1 – 6 take centre stage, following a holistic view of reading promotion and covering a multitude of different approaches.

Covid-19 impact on the Caribbean academic library: Jamaica's preliminary response to people, place, product and services

PurposeThis paper examined the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on people, place, product and services in Jamaican academic libraries. It also compares the Jamaican academic library’s COVID-19 experience with US academic library’s COVID-19 preliminary experience.Design/methodology/approachThe local academic libraries in higher education in Jamaica (also referred to in this paper as university libraries) were surveyed.FindingsGovernment mandates, university mandates and the absence of a vaccine influenced academic library response. The measures implemented, though unplanned and developed on-the-go, constituted a behavioural change model (BCM). COVID-19 has had a positive-negative impact on library people, place, product and services and has created a new normal for Jamaican academic libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper captures the preliminary response of Jamaican academic libraries to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on library people, place, product and services. As such, a follow-up survey on changes, challenges, strengths, impact, lessons and plans would be a useful complement to this paper. As COVID-19 information is rapidly evolving, this preliminary response of Jamaica is neither the final nor complete response to the pandemic.Practical implicationsThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a gap in the literature on disaster management generally and pandemic management in particular, and on the management of health disasters in academic libraries; this paper seeks to fill this gap, albeit incrementally, through Jamaica's preliminary response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Originality/valueThis paper gives voice to the Caribbean academic library’s COVID-19 experience, through the voice of Jamaica. It is the first scholarly paper on the impact of COVID-19 on university libraries in the Jamaican / English-speaking Caribbean, and so presents the elements of the BCM implemented by Jamaica, which provides an important guide to Caribbean academic library leaders. The findings can also inform the Latin American and Caribbean section of international library papers on COVID-19 impact on academic libraries globally.

The 2019 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Annual Survey: Mapping results to the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education

The editorial board of the ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey is pleased to announce response rates have improved over the past five years with 51.6% of U.S. libraries responding in 2019 compared to 48.2% in 2015. Thank you to all libraries that contributed fiscal year 2019 data as well as prior years. Increased participation leads to a more comprehensive understanding of what is happening in academic libraries and generates more robust data for benchmarking and impact analysis. Survey participants receive complimentary access to the summary data via the ACRLMetrics platform. Those who wish to dive deeper into the data can subscribe to ACRLMetrics, an online tool providing access to all ACRL survey data from 1998 to present. Additionally, a print edition of the 2019 data is also available for purchase through the ALA Store. This article highlights some of the key findings from the 2019 survey with respect to the principles in the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education to illustrate how the data can be used by institutions to demonstrate impact and influence. ACRLMetrics also offers a rich body of data for researchers investigating trends across the profession.

School Libraries in Pre-service Teacher Education

This paper describes a multi-stage research initiative focused on the place of school libraries in teacher education and how pre-service teachers learn to teach information literacy. Given the multinational agenda of governments and business of the creation for a knowledge-based society and economy, the research is premised on the prime opportunities of school libraries to support development of the skills and abilities essential to fulfilling these agendas by ensuring new teachers are informed and equipped to collaborate with teacher-librarians. Results and implications of one national study are given and the challenges of revising the research instruments for use in other countries are described and examples provided.

Gatherings of an Infovore: Open to the World. Really?

OPEN has become an adjective used with a myriad of terms beginning with access and joined by communications, data, source—and open research/science, which is the focus of this column. What was most interesting as I went about my gatherings was the number of articles about “open (fill in the blank)” that were not accessible without a personal or institutional subscription or the willingness of the reader to pay on demand for a download (a.k.a., pay per view, or PPV). As always, only openly accessible references are included here. Further investigation on the reader’s part using search terms such as “open research” and “open science” will uncover many more articles, but most of those will come at a price. So, it begs the question whether research/science is really open now … or will it ever be? Maintaining trust in academic publishing Groth M. KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. Blog. 2020. https://www.kwglobal.com/blog/2020/12/4/maintaining-trust-in-academic-publishing CHORUS now using GetFTR to support open research compliance for publicly funded research Girard S. 2020. https://www.chorusaccess.org/chorus-now-using-getftr-to-support-open-research-compliance/ Generating codebooks to ensure the independent use of research data: some guidelines Horstmann KG, Arslan RC, Greiff S. Eur J Psychol Assess. 2020;36:721–729. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000620. Open access legislation and regulation in the United States: implications for higher education Chaudhary A, Irwin KM, Khoa DH. J Copyright Education Librarianship. 2020;4:1–28. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v4i1.13637 Science journalism, value judgments, and the open science movement Elliott KC. Front Commun. 2019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00071 Stanford researchers discuss the benefits – and perils – of science without peer review Science moving forward without traditional forms of peer […]

DUKUNGAN PERPUSTAKAAN DALAM IMPLEMENTASI “KAMPUS MERDEKA DAN MERDEKA BELAJAR”

<p>Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dukungan perpustakaan dalam implementasi kebijakan kampus merdeka dan merdeka belajar. Kaitannya dengan program kampus merdeka bahwa perpustakaan menjadi komponen krusial dalam atmosfir akademik kampus. Apalagi orientasinya agar lulusan menjadi kompatibel, semakin adaptif, lebih responsif, serta menjadi kontekstual. Perpustakaan perguruan tinggi melalui pustakawannya bisa turut berkontribusi dalam mensukseskan terselenggaranya implementasi program kampus merdeka dan merdeka belajar. Prosesnya bisa dicapai dengan menggerakkan entitas kampus termasuk perpustakaan dengan cara menekan risiko dan berusaha meraih kesempatan yang lebih baik. Merdeka mengajar bagi dosen dan merdeka belajar bagi mahasiswa menjadi keharusan.</p>

Gender & Kepemimpinan Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Muhammadiyah: Inovasi Layanan di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

ABSTRACT
 Introduction. This article is entitled "Gender & Leadership of Muhammadiyah Higher Education Libraries: Service Innovation during the Covid-19 Pandemic." The purpose of writing is to systematically describe and interpret gender and leadership in bringing new innovations in library services during the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of transformative policies.
 Research Methods. In this article, the author uses descriptive qualitative methods with constructivist and critical interpretive efforts in seeing the phenomena that occur, by formulating several crucial issues which are summarized in the question: Why is genderization of library leadership important to produce new innovations in services in times of crisis? Meanwhile, the data were collected by means of online observation, online interviews and call interviews. The main data is through call interviews and through chat communication media. The informants in this study were the head of the library and librarian / library staff at Muhammadiyah Higher Education including Muhammadiyah Riau University, STIKES Muhammadiyah Gombang, and Muhammadiyah Makassar University.
 Results and Discussion. The results of the research in this article show that the role of gender feminism in library leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis is very urgent in relation to efforts to transform service change as protecting the existence of libraries. The head of the Muhammadiyah College library plays a professional and maternal role in making a policy (democratic and transparent). In crisis conditions, transformation is carried out by utilizing both forms of service, namely conventional (covid-19 protocol) and digital (wa, instagram, zoom, repository, and web library). So, that these efforts are very intersubjective to become novelty for Muhammadiyah Higher Education libraries in an effort to transform services that are more creative, innovative, and relevant from various conditions.
 Conclusions and recommendations. From these results, to bring existence to the Muhammadiyah Higher Education library in various intersubjective conditions requires relevance between effective policies in line with the gender role of the head of the library. This is necessary for the library to consider more carefully the policies to be taken so that it is user-oriented, because it will affect the existence of the library in the future in facing various situations.
 
 Keywords: Gender, Leadership, Transformation, Innovation, Library, PT Muhammadiyah

Survey on onboarding practices in Carnegie research institutions

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe survey findings on onboarding initiatives at the Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries. The findings would be helpful to libraries that are at the beginning of their own onboarding initiatives or that wish to compare ongoing efforts.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey of Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries using Qualtrics, an online survey software. Link to the survey with a short explanation was e-mailed to the 319 identified contacts and 111 responses were received at the end of the survey.FindingsSurvey responses revealed that the most prevalent types of onboarding initiatives are an orientation to campus policies and procedures and meeting with human resources. Half of the respondents introduce new employees to the social/cultural norms of the library informally, with responsibility for onboarding falling on the supervisor. Surprisingly, diversity and inclusion have not been identified as formal components of the onboarding by those who engage in it.Originality/valueSpecific research into the onboarding initiatives of Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries does not exist.

Education in the library: luxury or a citizen’s guaranteed quality of life

The article studies the role of city libraries in school education based on expert interviews carried out with Moscow teachers, librarians, teenagers, and their parents. The study is relevant due to the importance of city libraries in the educational process and their insufficient use in practice. This is the first comprehensive study of standardized interaction between schools and city libraries. The research has demonstrated that ties between these institutions and the process of their interaction have a personal and informal nature. Today, public libraries are information and education resources for school only to a small extent. Most teachers do not see any point in collaborating with libraries since their communication with librarians is not properly regulated. As a rule, successful examples of such interaction are not associated with established rules but rather with a personal interest conditioned by subjective, often random reasons. An essential characteristic of this communication is event-based learning, the use of verbal practices and educational games, as well as a stable educational orientation. Children as participants in the educational process have minimum engagement in this field. It is a rare case that libraries are regarded as a place for independent learning where students work with the necessary sources to conduct scientific research and engage in project activity. In most cases, city libraries attract teachers with their student-oriented events or activities. At the same time, libraries are rarely used in the educational process. Their role does not always involve working with collections or developing children’s need for independent reading. The latter can be satisfied by visiting a local library and addressing reading lists.

Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship

Using the practice of embedded librarianship, a professor from the Graduate School of Education and the Education Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey collaborated to investigate its impact on the inherent transactional distance that exists in an online graduate course. Using Michael G. Moore’s three relational distances existing in the online environment—“teacher-student,” “student-student,” “student-course content”—the authors added two areas—”instructor-librarian” and “student-librarian”—that can close the transactional distance in online courses. Through course activities, structure, and access to the embedded librarian and specific library resources, students had increased opportunities for engagement, thereby reducing transactional distance.

Community outreach and inclusive programmes in library: Stakeholder feedback

The purpose of the study is to assess and analyse the feedback of the stakeholders on their participation in various community outreach and inclusive programmes in library. The study has been confined to the community living in Bishnupur District of Manipur State. The same has also been studied based on the programmes conducted during the National Library Week Celebration, 14–20 November, 2017.The feedback of the stakeholders has been analysed. Department of Library and Information Science, Manipur University, Imphal conducted National Library Week during 14–20 November, 2017 under the theme “Role of Library in Quality Education”. As a part of the week, different library related programmes were carried out at Kumbi College, Bishnupur District, Manipur. Deliberation of keynote address, distribution of resource materials, conduct of extempore speech competitions, interactions with the resource persons by the participants who are stakeholders of the programmes, collection of duly filled in feedback forms from them, etc. were the main events that took place during the programme. The feedback so collected are analysed using simple mathematical techniques and presented through tables, charts, etc for empirical interpretation. Feedback of stakeholders shows that 74.29% of them are familiar with the National Library Week and with 43.8% of them rated the celebration “Very Good”. They considered the resource materials provided to them and contents of the topics also very good and useful. Understanding the significance of the celebration, they also expressed views and other comments for further overall improvement of the programmes which are useful for the service providers in the field. The study is first of such kind in the region. No other scholars have worked on such issue. The findings of the study reveal new vistas in the field of librarianship in the area of community outreach and inclusive programmes.

Handwritten culture through digital native eyes: student participation in the digital fragmentology project Textus invisibilis

Abstract The present paper addresses the issue of how interest-driven learning can enhance an attitude of student-generated inquiry in the learning process so to promote student participation in university research projects. The research question is how wonder as an epistemic emotion may sustain students’ interest-generated questioning, and how the latter may influence the design of a university research project. As a case-study, the paper describes a laboratory on palaeography which took place in Spring 2019 at an Italian State Archive within a University bachelor program in the context of a digital fragmentology project. To design the laboratory and establish qualitative analysis methods for its data, an interdisciplinary educational approach was designed that combines interest-driven learning, emotion theory, value theory, hermeneutics, and User Experience, on the background of Ernst Cassirer’s view of a human being as an animal symbolicum. In the laboratory, the students’ questions and hypotheses arising from their interaction with historical scripts and Medieval handwriting culture are helping redesign some aspects of the research project Textus invisibilis both on the level of the research design and of the team composition, as well as pointing to a novel relevance of state archives and historical libraries in higher education.