Pub Date : 2019-01-15DOI: 10.18231/2456-9623.2018.0016
Rajeev Manhas, Shinderpal Kaur
Introduction: Social media is becoming an essential part of today’s life. Even, it is hard to imagine a daily routine without social media. Libraries are the main source of creating; gathering and sharing knowledge and librarians are the information managers, and an important link creator in between a user and library resources. Social media is so powerful tool that it can disseminate a piece of information to any number of users in more secure and reliable way, thus social media can be used for delivery of library services. The present study is an attempt to know the present status awareness, knowledge and attitude of medical librarians about social media and its usage in delivery of library services. Objectives: The main aim of the study is to know the level of awareness, knowledge and use of social media applications among librarians and in libraries of medical colleges of Punjab. Method: A self-structured questionnaire was designed for the librarians to collect the relevant data from the medical colleges’ libraries of Punjab under study. The investigator personally visited all the medical colleges under study for data collection. Results: The results of study revealed that 75% of the librarians are aware of various applications of social media to be used for providing library services. 87.5% of the respondents i.e. librarians admitted that they are or will use social media applications for communication with users, followed by reference services with 75% responses. A majority of the respondents from libraries of medical colleges are not satisfied with the present infrastructure available for access of social media with 75% responses. 50% of the librarians indicated poor infrastructure as one of the major reason for dissatisfaction, followed by lack of training/ skills with 37.5% responses. Keywords: Social media, Medical librarians, Case study, Medical colleges, Punjab, Awareness, Attitude, Knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-15DOI: 10.18231/2456-9623.2018.0006
Sarman
The paper aims to bring out the resources one can required to keep abreast of the latest trends and information within the field of library science. To maintain excellent service delivery, library and information professionals should continue to develop their knowledge and skills in this ever changing and complex information environment. Professional development is universally recognized as an imperative for on-going effectiveness. The present paper encompasses professional development and continuing education programmes and resources run by various library agencies at both national and international level. Keywords: Professional development, Continuing education programmes (CEP), Library professionals, Continuous learning, Training programmes, Career development.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-15DOI: 10.18231/2456-9623.2018.0002
P. Anuradha
The times are changing. With Internet access and electronic reading devices, visiting the library is no longer a necessity for today’s students. The library has changed a great deal over the past decade, due to changing demands from researchers, teachers, and learners and the onset of a digital revolution of library holdings. Digital transformation is powered by disruptive digital technologies, insights, and processes. The key focus of digital transformation is on transforming for the digital age by influencing customer experience, innovation, and efficiency. The big challenge with digital transformation is ‘how fast and how far should organizations go on their digital transformation path’. Digital transformation journey is complicated and involves varied objectives, complexities, and covers a vast area. It requires a coherent and well-organized digital strategy to effectively address technology and process transformation together with supporting governance and delivery models. Keywords: Digital age, Academic libraries, Transformation, Digital transformation.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-15DOI: 10.18231/2456-9623.2018.0010
Sanjay Singh
This paper discusses the new activities, methods and technology used in digitization and formation of digital libraries. It set out some key points involved and the detailed plans required in the process, offers pieces of advice and guidance for the practicing librarians and information scientists. Digital libraries are being created today for diverse communities and in different fields e.g. education, science culture, development, health, governance and so on. With the availability of several free digital Library software packages at the recent time, mainly green stone digital library software is the one of them to creation and sharing of information through the digital library collections has become an attractive and feasible proposition for library and information professionals around the world. Keywords: Digitization, Digital libraries, Librarians, Information scientists, Library software, Green stone digital library, Information professionals.
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Much research has been conducted regarding how reference librarians can evaluate and improve the quality of the answers they provide to users' inquiries. There has been considerably less discussion, however, concerning how to improve the quality of the delivery of those answers, and to upgrade the overall quality of reference services as a whole. Suggestions for improving the quality of service contained within the business literature may be applied to improve library services as well. In this paper the use of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a tool for improving reference services quality is explored and an adapted framework referred to as service quality function deployment is proposed.
{"title":"Using Quality Function Deployment to Improve Reference Services Quality","authors":"P. Chang, P. Hsieh","doi":"10.6182/JLS.1996.11.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6182/JLS.1996.11.063","url":null,"abstract":"Much research has been conducted regarding how reference librarians can evaluate and improve the quality of the answers they provide to users' inquiries. There has been considerably less discussion, however, concerning how to improve the quality of the delivery of those answers, and to upgrade the overall quality of reference services as a whole. Suggestions for improving the quality of service contained within the business literature may be applied to improve library services as well. In this paper the use of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a tool for improving reference services quality is explored and an adapted framework referred to as service quality function deployment is proposed.","PeriodicalId":14558,"journal":{"name":"IP Indian Journal of Library Science and Information Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"63-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86405128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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