Library Media Research Articles

＜共読ライブラリー＞が創る「人」「本」「学び」の未来 ～帝京大学メディアライブラリーセンターにおける学修支援～

いま，大学図書館では学生の主体的学修のための環境整備と教育的支援が求められている。帝京大学メディアライブラリーセンターでは「共読」をキーコンセプトに，＜共読ライブラリー＞という学修支援を目的とした読書推進プロジェクトを実施している。これは，「MONDO書架」「読書術コースウェア」「共読空間構築」「広報ツール制作とイベント」の4つのメニューを統合的に実施し「共読」をすすめ＜共読ライブラリー＞によるブランド強化を目指すものだ。この報告では2012年度から4年計画で始まったプロジェクトの初年度の中間報告と今後の展望を述べる。

Use of Social Media for Consumer Health Outreach in a Solo Hospital Library

ABSTRACTUsing social media in hospital libraries is an excellent tool for reaching and engaging existing or potential users. However, small or solo hospital librarians do not always have enough staff or time to incorporate these resources into their menu of services. Hospital librarians should consider the potential benefits of using the library as a trusted social media resource for the community and can customize outreach without sacrificing staff time, straining the budget, or battling the firewall. Having the hospital library offer health information to the community through social media has many potential benefits for improving health knowledge and health literacy.

Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning: A Course for Teacher Practitioners

Teachers are faced not only with standards-based instructional design daily, but with the shortage of certified school library media specialists within their districts. Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning, a graduate level course, was created, in part, to empower teachers with the knowledge, skills and abilities to embed information literacy within classroom learning experiences. In addition, the skills mastered and activities explored in this course logically transfer to research projects assigned in future graduate courses.

Determinants of Television Media Libraries’ Use, Collections, and Services among the Television Media Professionals in Bengaluru

The purpose of this study is to examine the utilisation of television media libraries use, resources and services among the media professional working in various television channels at Bengaluru. Based on this background, a survey method has been adopted and well-structured questionnaire was distributed to collect relevant data about usage behaviour by the media professionals. The study covers media professional working at various television media in Bengaluru. Data was collected from 1132 media professionals and final results indicate that minimum usage of the television media libraries is observed in respondents. The overall statistics shows that usage, collections and services of television media libraries as somehow satisfactory. It is found that primary purpose of the media library is archival and not for referral. An effort has been made by the authors to study the ways to accomplish the demands of television media professionals in television media of Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Wykorzystanie oferty edukacyjnej biblioteki szkolnej przez nauczycieli przedmiotowych — wyniki sondażu

USE OF EDUCATIONAL RES OURCES OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES BY TEACHERS OF VARIOUS SUBJECTS — RESULTS OF A SURVEYThe author of the paper discusses cooperation between teachers of various subjects and school librarians. She stresses that from the point of view of developing information literacy, such cooperation translates into development of the pupils’ skills. She points to the recommendations of American librarian societies in this respect Information Power. Guidelines for School Library Media Programs and Information Power. Building partnerships for learning as well as Polish ministerial recommendations annex to Rozporządzenie Ministra Edukacji Narodowej z 27 sierpnia 2012 r. w sprawie podstawy programowej wychowania przedszkolnego oraz kształcenia ogólnego w poszczególnych typach szkół [Regulation of the Minister of National Education of 27 August 2012 on the core curriculum for kindergartens and general education in various types of schools]. At the same time the author’s analysis of the curricula for various subjects in Poland in the second half of the 20th century demonstrates that the problem was marginalised with the exception of Polish language curricula. The aim of the author’s study was to establish whether teachers of selected subjects used the potential of school libraries in line with the ministerial recommendations. In addition, the author was looking for a link between the type of the subject taught at school and use of educational resources of the school library. The author discusses the results of her diagnostic survey N=244. The statistical conclusions are based on the results of chisquared tests. The results show unequivocally that teachers of Polish are statistically more likely, than teachers of other subjects included in the study, to use the educational resources of the school library, to suggest that they should be expanded and to collaborate with the librarian.

Social Impact of Digital Media: Growth Pattern of Facebook in the Arab World

An online survey is reported that was carried out with more than 385 social media users aged 18 and over and extracted from nine Arab countries; Bahrain, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan and Yemen. This research focuses on the use of Facebook by a selected group called Open Media Library (OML) which have interests in social media use. The aim of this research is to understand how and why users utilise Facebook and what their attitudes and perceptions are towards the purposes of Facebook. It examines how OML users utilise information and knowledge posted on Facebook, their preferred topics and motivations and the gratifications they obtained. As stated in the literature, this research confirms that Facebook can be used/defined as communication, collaboration and resource-sharing, as well as for intercultural communication and intercultural relationships. Curiosity and escapism, communication and experience, friendship and entertainment and identification of news and events are the main motivations for using Facebook. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the future of social media and its impacts on intercultural communication, media use and intercultural relationships.

Improving student achievement with smart sheets Media in islamic cultural history lesson at the Elevent grade students of mtsn tarusan

To be able to learn something well, we need to hear, see, ask questions about it, and discuss it with others. Not only that, teachers need to "do", which describe something in their own way, showing for example, tried to practice skills and tasks that require p What Knowledge they have earned. Problems to be studied in this research are: a) How improve learning outcomes Islamic cultural history through smart method in class XI sheets MTsN Tarusan in July 2016? b) The steps made in improving the learning outcomes of students of Islamic cultural history? This research is a Class Action Research (PTK), as for the steps to be performed in this PTK model developed by Kurt Lewin as mentioned in Dikdasmen (2003: 18) that the stages or so-called cycle (round) consists of four components which cover : (A) planning, (b) action / acting, (c) observation, (d) reflection. Based on The results of learning activities that have been conducted during the study, and based on all the discussion and analysis that has been done can be summed up as follows: Learning with smart method sheets in Islamic cultural history lesson positively in improving student achievement that is marked by a mastery learning students in learning, namely (97.29%). Application of the method school library media on learning history of Islam have a positive effect, which can increase students' motivation is indicated by an average of 8 0 and from interviews stating that students are interested and interested deng a n cooperative methods Learning the history of Islamic culture so that they become motivated to learn.

The Evolution of Inquiry: Controlled, Guided, Modeled, and Free. By Daniel Callison. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015. Pp. xii+249. $45.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-61069-386-8.

<i>The Evolution of Inquiry: Controlled, Guided, Modeled, and Free</i>. By Daniel Callison. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015. Pp. xii+249. $45.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-61069-386-8.

Digital Resource Management Strategies: Study on Selected All India Radio Media Libraries of Karnataka

The present century has been earmarked by various revolutionary and innovative developments such as information revolution, Information and Communication Technology revolution, globalization and privatization. With the continuous development of internet technology and mobile communication network and the popularizing hardware equipment, the new network technology made accessing of information resources become easy and quickly by digitalization. So, the tasks of housekeeping operations of library are redefining in a new way like digitalization, preservation, indexing, distribution, authenticating, indexing etc., with the transformation of traditional library into digital library. However, digital resources made enormous advantages over traditional collection to meet library user’s demand. On the other hand librarian is in a state of facing challenges to management of the digital resources. The systematic approach towards digital resources management strategies with reference to the selected, All India Radio media libraries of Karnataka State, has been made in this paper.

A survey of WeChat application in Chinese public libraries

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current characteristics and status of WeChat application in Chinese public libraries. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 46 sub-provincial and provincial public libraries in China, this study collected data from their WeChat official accounts. Statistical analysis and content analysis were employed for data analysis. Findings The results show that 82.6 percent of the 46 libraries had applied for WeChat accounts and offered services, of which the earliest created time was March 20, 2013. Differences were found among history information regarding their numbers, types and contents. Moreover, as for service mode, 84.2 percent of the libraries present custom menus, and 68.4 percent provide self-inquiry information. In addition, three types of reference services are revealed: real-time services (28.9 percent), services via telephones or e-mails (36.8 percent) and menu services (7.9 percent). Originality/value This study illustrates an overall picture of WeChat application in Chinese public libraries. Extant research has mainly focused on Web 2.0 applications in university libraries, and less attention has been paid to the application of mobile social media in public libraries. This study attempts to fill this research gap.

Do Scaffolding Tools Improve Reflective Writing in Professional Portfolios? A Content Analysis of Reflective Writing in an Advanced Preparation Program

ABSTRACTReflective practice is an important skill that teachers must develop to be able to assess the effectiveness of their teaching and modify their instructional behavior. In many education programs reflective narratives, which are often part of teaching portfolios, are intended to assess students’ abilities in these areas. Research on reflectivity in writing indicates that students often need assistance to develop truly reflective narratives. This study explores the portfolio narratives of students in an advanced preparation program in Library Media Education over 3 years to determine the nature and quality of their reflective writing. Results of a content analysis indicate that the level of student reflectivity improved when a reflective writing scaffolding tool was used to assist students with their reflective writing tasks.

Scholarly research, then and now

In this article, the author looks back at his years of research about early cinema and related media in libraries and archives worldwide, and examines the great number of changes that have taken place since about the 1980s in the organisation of such institutions and in research methods. Aspects that are covered include significant transformations in cataloguing, bibliographic software and digitisation of texts. The author discusses how changes in these and related areas have affected himself and other scholars, citing concrete examples. He concludes that, while much research can now be done remotely via the web, research libraries will continue to be essential resources for research in (media) history and other fields.

Library 2.0: The effectiveness of social media as a marketing tool for libraries in educational institutions

In an attempt to market their services and connect with potential users, and particularly young people, many libraries are opening accounts on social media platforms. Research suggests a contradiction between the advice relating to marketing and that regarding the use of social media in libraries, with the former emphasising the importance of the user at the centre of all considerations and the latter placing library staff as central to decisions. In this work we attempt to re-address this imbalance by surveying the current state of library activity on Twitter and, by means of questionnaires, investigate the experiences and motivations of librarians ( n=58) in using social media and whether students ( n=498) are willing to engage with the library in this manner and why. Our findings confirm that libraries in the sector are indeed struggling to foster interest in their social media activities and go some way to understanding why this is so, leading to a number of conclusions and recommendations for practitioners.

#Donate: the role of social media in academic library fundraising

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which academic libraries are using social media to fundraise, what tactics they are using to fundraise on social media and how academic libraries’ social networks are responding to their fund-raising efforts.Design/methodology/approachThis research is a content analysis of 276 posts from 2015 on the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts of 16 academic libraries.FindingsThis study found that academic libraries are just beginning to use social media for fund-raising with many adopting non-profit best practices that brought significantly more likes and shares/retweets to their accounts.Originality/valueThis research is one of the few systematic examinations of how libraries use social media to discuss fund-raising, and the findings suggest tactics for libraries to adopt in their fund-raising posts to generate more likes and shares/retweets.

Content based Video Retrieval using Text Annotation and Low Level Features Technique

The information retrieval processes are playing essential role in the computer based database exploration or finding the essential contents from the databases. Now in these days a number of search techniques and retrieval models are exist by using which the users can find the data. According to the different data formats the information retrieval processes are also varying therefore different data format based retrieval process are works in different manner. In this presented work the content based video retrieval model is presented. In the content based video retrieval model the work is initiated from the segmentation of the videos into the set of frames. The segmentation of video is performed using the FFMPEG media library that works on the basis of two parameters first the video clip and second the time slot duration by which the frames are extracted. After segmentation to enable the text based query the text annotation concept is used and the individual frames of video is tagged with the user defined text. On the other hand to enable the query by example the low level features of individual frames are also computed. To compute the low level descriptors shape, color and texture analysis is performed. Thus the canny edge detection, local binary pattern and the color movement analysis techniques are used. Finally for classifying the relevant videos according to the user query the KNN classifier is implemented. That classifier accepts the user text query or the example query for classifying the similar video objects from the database. The implementation of the presented methodology is performed using JAVA technology. Additionally for finding the performance precision, recall, and f-measures are computed, according to the computed values the example based techniques provides more accurate outcomes as compared to text based query. In addition of that the resource consumption of the proposed technique is also computed in terms of time and space, according to the results the example based query processing consumes additional resources as compared to text based methods. Thus the proposed work is accomplished with the satisfactory performance.

How Do Low Achieving Students in an Urban High School Learn with Information?: An Exploratory Study

This study investigates how high school students with low academic achievement seek and use information. Participants were seven US students in an American Literature and Composition course of the 11th grade Remedial Education Program who completed a class project that required comprehensive information seeking and use. Data were collected through comprehensive observation and individual interviews with each student, the teacher, and two library media specialists. Additionally, we gathered and analyzed the instructions the teacher and the two library media specialists provided and all documents each student produced to complete the class project. The process of data analysis was supported by QSR NVivo. The findings of the study implied that students experienced cognitive and affective challenges for their information seeking and use required for the tasks and suggested that technological and individual conferencing would motivate the students to continue their information seeking and use. We then conclude the study with some important implications that can be used as a basis for designing information literacy instructions for students with low academic achievement.

The Future of Medical Journal Publishing: The Journal Editor's Perspective: Looking Back, Looking Forward.

> After the birth of printing, books became widespread…men quickly learned [about] so many topics….[E]specially since 1563, the number of [publications] in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years….I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed [intellectually] stimulating. > > —Johannes Kepler, De Stella Nova in Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke , vol 1. 1937, pp 330 to 332 Scientific information is of no value without dissemination. Before the advent of the printing press, new scientific knowledge was shared by word-of-mouth, by hand-written correspondence, or by the assiduous efforts of scribes who copied information on semipermanent media in libraries of papyrus scrolls. These methods of communication all suffered from limited reader access. With the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, mass production of printed materials became possible. The practical limitations of earlier methods of information sharing were immediately eliminated, with the resulting explosive growth in the publication of books of all sorts. The sciences, in particular, benefitted greatly from mechanical printing. The scientific method and the progress of science require that new observations are shared with the scientific community, both to encourage their replication and to advance the discipline. Each new scientific observation adds to the corpus of scientific knowledge, and the more rapidly the observation can be shared, the more rapidly the field progresses. To this end, the first scientific journals were established in 1665: the French Le Journal des Scavans (January 1665) and the English Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (March 1665). These journals presented reports on topics across the spectrum of science (natural philosophy), without emphasis on any particular branch of the discipline. The first biomedical journal was Acta Medica et Philosophica Hafniensia (1673). This journal was edited by Thomas Bartholin, physician and professor of anatomy …

Tomatis® Method comparative efficacy in promoting self-regulation in tertiary students: A systematic review

This systematic review sought to determine the evidence on how the Tomatis® Method, a sound stimulation intervention for improving listening, compares to other self-regulation interventions with tertiary students. We searched studies from the following data bases ‘Academic FileOne, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Communication & Mass Media Complete, eBook (EBSCOHost), HeinOnline, OAPEN Library, PsychARTICLES, PsychINFO, SocINDEX, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar; and the North-West University repository’ and for the period spanning 2003 to 2013. Studies included for the analysis met these criteria: Published between 2003 and 2013; published and written in English, student participant samples from tertiary institutions such as a universities or colleges; programmes or interventions developed and implemented with a positive effect on well-being or self-regulation; application of the Tomatis® Method in a student population, irrespective of an experimental design. A total of 35 articles met the inclusion criteria. The evidence was thematically analysed using narrative analysis. Findings suggest the Tomatis® Method to be superior to alternative self-regulation approaches in decreasing psychosocial and emotional stressors, as well as enhancing well-being of students. The Tomatis® Method was as effective as alternative approaches in promoting self-awareness and self-monitoring. Alternative methods were more effective than the Tomatis® Method in aspects of critical thinking. The Tomatis® Method appears to compare well with other interventions for the promotion of self-regulation among tertiary students.

디지털 시대의 학습과 정보 - 학습 코먼스로서 학교도서관 -

Although people seriously worry that paradox is a quiet crisis to our society as a whole and threatens our future generation, we need to reconsider how we utilize digital media for effective learning as we understand its characteristics and compare the differences among all formats of media that used for learning. The purpose of this study is to suggest and analyze school library media programs as Learning Commons by applying the relevant theories on information, learning, learning with media, and meaningful learning. The study assumes the importance of the school library media programs that manage rich Information in various formats in an educational system. The study provides theoretical grounds and insights to practitioners and researchers in the relevant field as they face the challenges in putting an emphasis of today`s school library media programs for student learning in digital age.

Gesamtkomposition and the digital opera: A Sentimental Journey

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the concept of Gesamtkomposition as a means with which to consider the mutual affection of sensorial media and its operational significance at the point of composition. It analyses and reflects upon the nature of such a concept, and evaluates its application through a major practice-based research project. This central work – A Sentimental Journey [Vear, C. 2010–2011. Composition] – was created for a mixed ensemble of technologies, live musicians, autonomous laptops embedded with generative algorithms accessing fixed media libraries, and was performed to remote audiences located across the planet. The composer, as author of this article, analyses the intermedial relationships within this digital opera, using Elleström's [2010. “The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations.” In Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality, edited by L. Elleström. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan] model of multimodality in order to articulate the complexity within the mutual affection of this polymedia composition and as a way of defining Gesamtkomposition. The final section presents an overview of select phenomenologies that contribute to a deeper understanding of the experience of Gesamtkomposition.