Role Of Libraries In Education Research Articles

“Don’t They Know How Important It Is?”

The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant observation study is the second phase of a twophase mixed methods study, which explores the capacity of public libraries in South Africa for information literacy education – in the context of the dire shortage of school libraries. The focus in the second phase is on the connections between public libraries and schools. However, the relations between the two libraries and their staff members are found to impact on these relations - with the study finding that historical context impacts significantly on library programming. The paper concentrates, however, on just two threads of enquiry: the views of teachers and principals in the seven schools of the town on the educational role of libraries as revealed in interviews; and pupils’ use of the two public libraries in seeking information for their school assignments. The study reveals a lack of cognizance of the high level demands of information-seeking in libraries among the teachers. They tend to see the library as a warehouse from which things are “fetched”. The study finds a paradox – a gulf certainly exists between the public libraries and schools but the gulf comes from shared limited conceptions of the educational role of public libraries and of information literacy. The intense gaze of the participant observation contributes a nuanced understanding of the challenges for information literacy education in South Africa.

The Educational Role of Library: Information Literacy, Competence, and Standards

The Educational Role of Library: Information Literacy, Competence, and Standards

Role of libraries in promoting education: a bibliometric analysis (2012-2016)

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the authorship patterns and the relationship between them based on some statistical indices for the role of libraries in promoting education at the global level.Design/methodology/approachThe Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database was searched for the peer-reviewed and full text available journal articles that contained specific words related to either libraries and education or libraries and e-learning in. Data were analysed based on certain statistical calculations to find out the degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, Shannon index, Simpson’s indices, Spearman’s coefficient and co-authorship pattern.FindingsThe criteria were met by 262 publications by 517 authors. The highest number of articles related with the role of libraries in education was published in the year 2013, and the highest numbers of articles were authored by a single author rather than multiple authors. The degree of collaboration was found to be highest in the year 2015 and 2016 with a value of 0.66, whereas the collaborative coefficient was highest in the year 2016 with a value 0.42. The Shannon’s diversity index was found to be 2.73705 with an evenness of 1.24568. The Simpson’s index, Simpson’s index of diversity and Simpson’s reciprocal index were found to be 0.299, 0.701 and 3.3444, respectively. The Spearman’s coefficient was found to be highest with a positive correlation of value 0.95 in the year 2013. Furthermore, six co-occurrences by eight authors were found.Research limitations/implicationsOnly the ERIC database was chosen for the study and only articles published from the year 2012 to 2016 were included in the analysis.Originality/valueThis study will be useful for researchers to get an insight into the collaborative research patterns demonstrated by the authors in understanding the role of libraries in education using different statistical approaches.

Role of libraries in promoting education: A bibliometric analysis (2012-2016)

Purpose The principal objective of this study is to investigate the authorship pattern and the relationship between them based on some statistical indices for the role of libraries in promoting education at the global level. Design/methodology/approach Data were searched for the peer reviewed and full text available journal articles that contained specific words of either libraries and education or libraries and e-learning in ERIC database. The data was analyzed based on certain statistical calculations to find out the degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, Shannon Index, Simpson's Indices, Spearman's coefficient and co-authorship pattern. Findings The criteria were met by 262 publications by 517 authors. The highest number of articles related with the role of libraries in education was published in the year 2013 and the highest numbers of articles were authored by single author rather than multiple authors. The degree of collaboration was found to be highest in the year 2015 and 2016 with a value of 0.66, whereas the collaborative coefficient was highest in the year 2016 with a value 0.42. The Shannon's diversity index was found to be 2.73705 with an evenness of 1.24568. The Simpson's index, Simpson's index of diversity and Simpson's reciprocal index were found to be 0.299, 0.701 and 3.3444 respectively. The Spearman's coefficient was found to be highest with a positive correlation of value 0.95 in the year 2013. Furthermore, 6 co-occurrences were found made by 8 authors. Research limitations/implications Only ERIC database was chosen for the study with the articles published from the year 2012 to 2016. Originality/value This study would be useful to the researchers to get an insight into the collaborative research pattern by the authors in role of libraries in education with different statistical approaches.

The Annual Meeting of the Directors of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of the Russian Federation in 2014

There is presented an overview of the Annual Meeting of the Directors of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of the Russian Federation on the theme "The Year of Culture: Informational and Educational Role of Libraries”, held on October 21-22, 2014. The Forum outlined the current topics of the library community.

School Libraries in Ghana: A State-of-the-Art Report

This article provides a review of the school library development in Ghana against the background of a new educational system that was put in place a decade ago. Although the government and the Ministry of Education have for a long time recognized the role of school libraries in education, little has been done to ensure that facilities are properly put in place for libraries to play this role.