University Library Website Research Articles

LIBRARIES OF UKRAINE IN INFORMATION AND ANALYTICAL PROVISION OF USERS

The article highlights general trends and prospects for further development of information and analytical activities of libraries of higher education institutions. Some indicators of the work of University libraries are analyzed on the basis of annual statistical and written reports. Emphasis is made on integration projects of University libraries, which provide an opportunity to supplement information for their users, creating so-called cooperative projects both at the regional, national and international levels. The results of this activity are displayed on websites of University libraries, which have ease of navigation, efficiency of updating and filling with information resources. The work of the library community has also undergone transformations making the emphasis on readers with remote access (over the past events, namely quarantine restrictions and war). Filling the institute repositories, consisting of qualifying and dissertation works as well as articles, monographs, textbooks, etc. is progress; The popularization of own funds is also transferred to the virtual forms (exhibition activity, exhibiting results of activities to public, that is indexes, various databases, monographs, etc.). All these changes are reflected in the news both on own webpages of University libraries and social networks, as well as by sending information to all departments of the University. The results of the article can be useful to the heads of libraries and departments for further planning of their activities, distinguishing between strengths and weaknesses of their logistics and the ability to provide quality information services. Thus, the library is a constantly updating structure of the University, which keeps pace with the times, adapts to different needs of scientific community, whose staff not only does not lose their professionalism, but also constantly improves it by participating in various activities.

Revitalizing the library through usability features of the university library websites

This study examined a relational analysis of the usability features of university library websites in Nigeria. Through a survey design, a sample of 187 undergraduate students enrolled in a course on Web Design and Management participated in the study. The findings revealed that the usability of a university library website is premised on factors such as navigation, interface design, page layout, information architecture, graphics, typography, color attractiveness, and interactivity. Eight variables explained 52.3% of the variance in the usability features of university library websites. Navigation contributed mostly to the prediction of usability perception of the library website, followed by interface design, page layout, information architecture, graphics, typography, color attraction, and interactivity.

Research Data Management: A review of UAE academic library experience

Abstract Purpose: This paper is a review of the status of Research Data Management (RDM) efforts in UAE public university libraries. Approach: The investigation is through examining available literature about the topic using region-specific articles when available, librarian comments, and the information provided by UAE university library websites. Existing lessons and policy documents are sought, and plans suggested for local solutions, suggesting avenues for progress. Findings: Though not a new concept, findings indicate that local RDM activities are emerging, but knowledge of their importance of exists. Research limitations: This review is limited to public university libraries though the results and experiences could be generally relevant to more research establishments. Practical implications: Taking advantage of the existing awareness to organize tangible RDM efforts can facilitate retrieval and availability of data relevant to the region. Value: An intricate range of activities involved in the organization of RDM services is revealed.

Web content analysis and design trends of Agricultural Universities’ Library Website in Gujarat State, India: A study

The library is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the field of the modern education system. The advancement of information technology leads libraries and resources center to adopt the IT environment to reach and build the targeted users. The content is widely used in our day-to-day life, now in the digital era, web content is widely spread over the website. The Library field also transforms its content into web content. The present study is to assess the web content and design trend of agricultural university library websites in the state of Gujarat. A checklist was designed for the data collection and for evaluating library websites based on referred literature. The study tries to evaluate the content of the agricultural university library of Gujarat state in response to basic information, physical and electronic resources, E-learning platform, Services, Value-based services, and web 2.0 services. The library web pages/websites must be maintained regularly and updated. This will make the demand for the library web pages among the users.

Content Analysis of Library Websites of Central Universities of West Zone India

The present paper is the study of content available in Central University Library websites of the west zone. The study shows that 100 Percent of central university library websites provided information About the library, Library Hours, membership, Library Staff, E-Resources, Quick Link, and about 80% of central universities provided information about Services, OPAC/WebOPAC, and Plagiarism check, it is found that 100 Percent of central university libraries provide books, periodical, and e-databases, X2 Value (13.49238, P=0.998321) and 80 Percent of central universities Provided Facebook, Twitter and YouTube facilities.

Use of content management system in academic libraries: An analysis of Central University library websites in India

This website provides information about the library's activities and services. The creation and maintenance of an interactive library website, however, requires technical knowledge, money, and time. Traditionally, even library staffi with technical skills have difficulty maintaining the library website. With the Content Management System (CMS), library professionals can now take up the design, development, and management of library websites without much dependence on their organization's information technology department. CMSs providefree and paid ready-to-use themes and plugins for library -websites to be designed and developed. A study of the web technologies used by central university library websites is presented in this paper. The study revealed that out of 39 central university library -websites in India, 17 use content management systems (CMS). Among the most used CMS are Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla. For identification of web technology used in library websites, WAAPPALYZER API is used. Drupal is the most popular.

Relevancy of Academic Library Website in Research Support for Researchers: A Quantitative Analysis of Central University Library Websites in North India

Academic libraries have been impacted by online learning environments in every aspect of their services. Both oncampus and distance learners have benefited from academic libraries’ use of information technology for providing access to resources and services on libraries websites. The importance of research support cannot be undermined in the journey of research. Researchers need a ladder in the form of research help to reach the completion of their research easily. University libraries do provide research support in the form of resources to their researchers but, the role of library websites cannot be challenged. It has an ample potential in this area to help researchers in making them aware of resources available for research support. Many academic library websites have dedicated section for research help and research support. This study intends to explore and quantitatively analyses research support available on the academic library website in India. Result of this study has shown that there was good visibility of research support on central university library websites in providing research support to researchers on library websites in North India. It was found that the library website at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) provides good research support for researchers. All central university library websites are providing online resources and services to their research community markedly.

Knowledge Organization Affordances in a Faceted Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

ABSTRACT Faceted navigation is already a standard feature of contemporary Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). The article aims to indicate practices in this area and new affordances that faceted navigation provides. The content of 55 Polish university library websites and their OPACs using faceted navigation was analyzed. After selecting the subject facets, the source of the terms constituting their content was analyzed using the MARC 21 bibliographic record format structure. During the transfer of traditional KOS affordances to those of faceted navigation, the former knowledge organization (KO) structures were deconstructed, which may require the creation of a new kind of KOS.

Content analysis of library websites of central universities of North East India

Library websites play an essential role in collecting and sharing information or sources for users. Today it is a common platform to interact with users without their behavior. A website survey certainly helps us to identify and analyse available content to obtain rich and suitable information by evaluating the current website's improvement. The present study evaluates the contents of the nine central university library websites of the North East India. A checklist has been developed to collect library facilities, library collections, university webpage accessibility, link searches, and the retrieval interface. The purpose of this article is to help website developers, and administrators better understand the current state of these university websites so that they may provide more informative, up-to-date information, authentic information, user-friendly, and dynamic methods to users based on their needs. Keywords: Content analysis, Central University, Library websites, North East India.

Esplorasi website Perpustakaan Universitas Harvard, Universitas Gadjah Mada dan Universitas Telkom

Introduction. This article evaluates library websites of world class universities in Indonesia from several aspects including features, responsibility, and speed. One library website overseas is explored as a reference: Harvard University. 
 Data Collection Method. This is a literature study exploring features on library websites of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and Telkom University.
 Data analysis. The study used Harvard University library website as a reference. The results were presented into tables to discuss library websites of UGM and Telkom University.
 Results and Discussion. Harvard University library webiste has 21 features except gallery, UGM has 11 features and Telkom University has 12 features similar to Harvard University library webiste. Our result showed that Library website of UGM and Telkom University still need to be improved as required to be a world class university. All three websites has an adjustable display depending on devices in accessing websites. Those three websites were considered as responsive websites. Based on PageSpeed Insight, they showed good performance.
 Conclusion. Information on the websites are well-managed, informative, efficient, and accessible. Universities in Indonesia may use several overseas university library websites as a reference.

Library Websites During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to impact the business environment in different ways. The current paper presents how the university and research library websites in Tanzania responded to the changes in the working environment and style following the outbreak of COVID-19. This study employed a content analysis method to collect and analyse data from academic and research library websites in Tanzania. This study focuses on how library websites in Tanzania were used to update and connect library users with relevant information resources and services during the outbreak of the COVID-19. The findings show that 12 of the 24 library websites had the opening and closing hours, two university library websites had information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 and 12 had no information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19. This study has an important practical implication for the academic and research librarians on the effective use of library websites for information sharing and communication.

USABILITY EVALUATION OF LIBRARY WEBSITES THROUGH CONTENT AND AESTHETIC QUALITIES IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA

The library website is a task-oriented webpage(s) that requires regular evaluation. However, analyzing the content and aesthetic qualities of a library website is an essential ingredient for its usability testing. Hence, this study evaluated the content qualities and aesthetic features of university library websites in Southwest Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The unit of analysis comprises undergraduate students from the six selected universities in southwest Nigeria, and their population stood at 99, 939. The study used a simple random sampling technique to select its samples and the sample size for the study is 398. A checklist and questionnaire were used as instruments for data collection. Collected data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM-SPSS) version 21. The result of findings indicated that premium is placed more on aesthetic features than content quality and none of the understudy library websites has features for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), list of the new arrivals and space for advert placement. Based on the study analysis, the Kenneth Dike Library website of the University of Ibadan and Covenant University Resource Centre is better in terms of content quality than other university library websites in Southwest Nigeria. Library websites were found to be useful and yet not optimally utilized by the users due to the absence of some content and aesthetic features that tend to improve the usability of the library website. Consequently, the university library needs to prioritize its presence online and as well add features that will engage and elicit feedback from users. They also need to publicize among the users the use of library websites as veritable sources of scholarly information and communication.

Library websites of Universities in West Bengal: An evaluative study

The paper is mainly web content survey based on library web pages of state-aided universities established up to the year 2008 in West Bengal, during study period October 2020 to January 2021. During this process sixteen state-aided university websites or webpage were appeared under this investigation. But three sate-aided universities did not have library webpage or not available content information from their university websites which were not selected for the study. Hence the study covered thirteen state-aided university library websites in West Bengal. The library websites of studied universities were identifed from Google, Wikipedia, and other E-Resources. Jadavpur University (JU) furnished the greatest number of information in their library website obtained 22 points score which is the highest points among the thirteen state aided universities in West Bengal, followed by Alia University (AU) with 21 points as 2nd highest and Vidyasagar University (VU) with 20 points as 3rd highest. Out of thirteen university libraries, none of the university library website obtained ‘Excellent’ and ‘Very Good/Above Average’ ranked of content analysis on library websites. Seven university libraries are ranked with ‘Poor/Below Average’. The university library websites of two universities are ranked with ‘Very Poor/Need Improvement’. The principal aim of the study is to lead the Library & Information Science Professionals in improving their existing library websites.

Use of web 2.0 applications on Indian University library websites

The main objective of this research work is to examine the adaption of the Web 2.0 application in the libraries of Indian university. The study mainly emphasises the various Web 2.0 tools and their purpose and features on the select library websites. In terms of a quantitative technique, content analysis was conducted. For data collection, a checklist was created based on prior checklists and questionnaires from similar studies, as well as synthesised concepts from the reviewed literature. Then all selected university libraries websites were accessed by the researcher for data collection. The research result shows that Eight Indian university libraries used at least one or more Web 2.0 tools, and five Web 2.0 tools (SNS, RSS, Blogs, Wikis, and Vodcast) were utilised for specific purposes with characteristics. The selected university Web 2.0 application indexes have been observed low.

Content analysis of select university library websites of Delhi: An Indian scenario during Covid-19 pandemic

The digitization of information has brought a new concept altogether and has marked the beginning of 'information era ’which nonetheless left libraries behind to reach their users in the present digital world through their websites as a linkage without physical presence. At this time of pandemic websites are serving at its most for online teaching and learning as well. Considering the importance of information resources available on the library websites the study is conducted to analyse the contents of University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Ambedkar University Delhi, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology and National Law University by preparing checklist based on general information, collection, facilities, services, best practices and application of web 2.0 technologies provided on the websites. Analysis reveals that all the libraries under study are providing substantial resources and information on their websites which includes e-books, e-journals, e-databases, link to institutional repositories, consortia resources and digital libraries, open access resources as well as password access resources for their registered users, study also provides suggestive measures. Further, it is anticipated that the present study will be useful not only for said universities but for other universities also to update their library websites to serve their patrons during this pandemic and thereafter.

Interactivity, usability and aesthetic as predictors of undergraduates’ preference for university library websites

The study examined interactivity, usability and aesthetics as predictors of undergraduates’ preference for university library websites. A total of 134 final year undergraduates registered for a course in Web Design and Management from two departments in two different universities represented the sample for the study. A researcher-designed questionnaire was used to gather data from the respondents which were analysed to test the three developed hypotheses. The results suggest that all three factors correlate with preference for university library websites. The students’ perceptions and ratings of interactivity versus usability and interactivity with aesthetics were low. The three independent variables (interactivity, usability and aesthetics) jointly explained 51% of the variations in the preference for university library websites. Each of the features makes significant contributions to the prediction of university website preference. All the factors are significant to the prediction of preference for university library websites. The results call for the improvement of interactivity in order to have high correlation with usability and aesthetics and thereby increasing the preference by users for university library websites.

Comparative Contents Analysis of Selected Nigerian University Libraries’ Websites

The study underscored the need to periodically conduct contents analysis of Nigerian university library websites. This is because the content of websites is supposed to be dynamic and episodic analysis assists in overcoming their weaknesses and challenges which ensure improved quality that meets web ranking metrics. Therefore, employing qualitative research approach and case study methodology, 42 (25%) Nigerian university library websites were purposely and proportionately selected for the study using stratified sampling technique. Using a modified checklist of Mehta and Trivedi (2015) prepared from quality models and WCAG, data was collected directly from the websites. The data collected was analyzed using ATLAS for Window and Mac Qualitative Data Analysis Software. The result of the data analysis shows a significant number of the selected Nigerian university library websites are well structured and possessed basic information, there are still many features and information that are absent in many of the websites. Also many of the websites are small and limited in scope, with most consisting of a single webpage or two to four interlinked pages, presenting their messages up-front instead of encouraging navigation through the sites. The research recommends among others the need for Nigerian university libraries, while improving their websites, to significant make the website more develop and complex by introducing index page on their websites

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EVALUASI KETERGUNAAN WEBSITE PERPUSTAKAAN UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA MENGGUNAKAN SYSTEM USABILITY SCALE

The University of Indonesia (UI) Library has a website that is accessed by students to meet their information needs. Evaluation of usability on the university library website is important so that users remain loyal to visit it and the results can be used as a basis for further development. This study aims to evaluate the usability on the University Indonesia Library website between the batch of 2016 and 2019 and compare its results. The method used in this study is descriptive quantitative using a questionnaire based on the System Usability Scale. Questionnaires are distributed online through instant messaging applications and social media. The research data were analyzed using the System Usability Scale score calculation technique, then the results were compared between the two batches. The results of the analysis showed that the batch of 2016 had a better website usability value than the batch of 2019. The two batches also have good user experience based on the five components of Nielsen's usability, namely learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors, and satisfaction. The usability of the Indonesian Library's website has not been well accepted by students of batch 2016 and 2019, although there are differences in scores between the two batches. Because the SUS score is below average and below acceptable, further research can be conducted using different method or instrument to identify the existing problems.

Representation of History of Russian Science on the Pages of Electronic Calendars of Significant and Memorable Dates

In view of approaching the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in connection with the relevance of the topic, the authors have prepared review of the resources devoted to the history of Russian science. The key moments of history, events from the lives of prominent people are reflected on the pages of calendars of significant and memorable dates. The uniqueness of these publications lies in the fact that they bring together diverse facts, while the materials are systematized in accordance with the chronology and upcoming anniversaries. Attracting a large amount of factual information makes calendars an indispensable tool for planning communication and organizational mass activities of various institutions.The purpose of this work is to identify information products of chronological nature, to study the specifics of providing information in them about Russian science, as well as structural, format and technological features of implementation of selected resources. In the course of monitoring the web space, we found about thirty narrowly theme-based electronic resources. Further, we carefully analysed each resource in accordance with the evaluation criteria on content, structure and implementation technology. We selected about half of the identified resources for more detailed study. Due to the fact that electronic calendars of significant and memorable dates are formed by various organizations — academic and University libraries, archives, research institutes, etc., the authors decided to group resources according to the type of institutions that prepared them, and to describe them in accordance with this principle. The largest number of electronic calendars was found on the websites of research institutions and University libraries. As for the personnel of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the most complete and voluminous resource in its content is formed by the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Analysis of the content of calendars indicates that their content may be limited to the history of particular institution, research centre or regional branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The exception is the resource “Anniversaries of the Members of RAS” by the RAS Archive, which gives the idea of the Academy’s personnel potential throughout its history.It is obvious that the work on the formation and promotion of resources in the electronic environment that highlight significant events in the history of the Russian Academy of Sciences contributes to the dissemination of knowledge about scientists, scientific achievements and developments of research institutes and is effective means of popularizing science.