Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1177/09610006231200896
Grace E. P. Msoffe, Hector J. Mongi, Obadia S. Buhomoli
The advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the way information resources are accessed, evaluated, and used. The changes have necessitated new capabilities to utilise information resources effectively. Information Literacy (IL) programmes facilitate the acquisition of the necessary skills for accessing, evaluating, and using information resources in the digital era. Most of the studies on IL in Tanzania have focused on traditional practices with little or no consideration of contributing factors to the IL training outcomes in the digital era. This study assessed the IL training of postgraduate students at the University of Dodoma (UDOM) from an input-process-output perspective to ascertain the factors contributing to IL training outcomes. The study employed quantitative and qualitative approaches within input-process-output perspectives. Primary data (Qualitative) were collected using key informants’ interviews with postgraduate IL training organisers and facilitators working at UDOM. Secondary data (Quantitative) were collected from IL training reports from 2018 to 2022. The study findings show that most of the aspects of IL training from an input-process-output perspective were considered. The participants viewed the training input and processes as effective enough to transform their IL practices. However, the findings indicated that there were aspects that needed improvement. These included the training schedule and time allocation. The study recommends continuous review of the IL training programmes to ensure the necessary components of IL are considered for successful training outcomes. It is essential to consider the stakeholders’ needs in planning, organising, and conducting the IL training programmes for effective learning.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1177/09610006231201409
Muhammad Asif Ali, Muhammad Rafiq, Alia Arshad
This investigation aimed to assess the perceived level of interpersonal competencies possessed by academic librarians working in public and private sector universities across Pakistan. The study also examined differences in perceived interpersonal competencies of academic librarians based on demographic characteristics. A quantitative survey method was opted to collect data from 276 academic librarians selected through proportionate stratified simple random sampling technique. A total of 257 (92.4%) responses were received back that were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS-23). The findings showed that academic librarians’ perceived collaboration, communication, customer service, ethics & values, leadership, and learning & innovation were at very skilled level. On the basis of age and professional experience, there were no significant differences in respondents’ opinions; however academic librarians from private universities were found to be more skillful about interpersonal competencies than those from public universities. Female respondents thought they were more adept at interpersonal skills than male respondents. Further, the respondents having MS/MPhil degrees were more interpersonal competent than those having BS (Hons.)/MLIS/MA degrees. Strong interpersonal abilities enable university librarians to play a significant role that support social and political well-being of the university. In local scenario, they could organize lectures and training sessions to help other academic librarians develop their skills. They could join statutory groups that develop laws to advance the field of librarianship. Moreover, the present study suggested the development a comprehensive instrument in assessing the interpersonal competencies of academic librarians based on the competency index for the library field prepared by OCLC web junction in 2014.
本调查旨在评估在巴基斯坦公立和私立大学工作的学术图书馆员所拥有的人际交往能力的感知水平。该研究还根据人口统计学特征考察了学术图书馆员人际交往能力的感知差异。采用比例分层简单随机抽样的方法，对276名高校图书馆员进行了定量调查。共收到回复257份(92.4%)，使用社会科学统计软件包(SPSS-23)进行分析。研究结果表明，高校图书馆员对合作、沟通、客户服务、道德和职业操守的感知程度较高;价值观、领导力和学习能力我们的创新水平非常高。在年龄和职业经验的基础上，被调查者的意见没有显著差异;然而，私立大学的学术图书馆员在人际交往能力方面比公立大学的图书馆员更有技巧。女性受访者认为她们比男性受访者更擅长人际交往技巧。此外，拥有硕士/硕士学位的受访者比拥有学士(荣誉)/硕士/硕士学位的受访者更有人际交往能力。良好的人际交往能力使大学图书馆员能够在支持大学社会和政治福祉方面发挥重要作用。在当地的情况下，他们可以组织讲座和培训课程，帮助其他学术图书馆员提高他们的技能。他们可以加入制定法律的法定团体，推动图书馆事业的发展。此外，本研究建议在OCLC web junction于2014年编制的图书馆领域胜任力指数的基础上，开发一种综合性的学术馆员人际胜任力评估工具。
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In recent times, computer systems have acquired the capacity to gather, process and analyze massive quantities of data, as well as techniques for distributing, transmitting, and computing estimates. Therefore, the study is conducted with an objective to ascertain the performance-based assessment of LIS professionals toward digital data sets management DDSM in university libraries. A six-factor measurement model was tested based on the 28-valid items obtained from the literature. The hypothesized research model was validated through the application of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. LIS professionals in research-oriented organizations possess the necessary data analytical skills and technical expertise to extract insights from the data. The findings indicated that analytical skills have a significant positive impact on PEOU (β =246, SE = 0.54, p < 0.000). Perceived usefulness (PU) of digital data management practices is significantly influenced by analytical skills (AS) (β =0.443, SE = 0.077, p ⩽ 0.000), PEOU significantly influence the attitude of LIS professionals toward digital data management practices (β =0.215, SE = 0.214, p ⩽ 0.000), and attitude of LIS professionals has a positive impact on their performance in managing digital data sets in university libraries (β =0.584, SE = 0.178, p ⩽ 0.005). The study reports primary data gathered through survey on constructs given in technology acceptance (TAM) model. The study provides a valuable insight for organizational leaders, stakeholders, and planners to enhance and refine DDSM practices and methodologies in academic libraries. This will enable them to effectively utilize library resources and services through the implementation of DDSM techniques.
近来，计算机系统已经获得了收集、处理和分析大量数据的能力，以及分发、传输和计算估计的技术。因此，本研究的目的是确定LIS专业人员对大学图书馆数字数据集管理DDSM的绩效评估。基于文献中28个有效条目，对六因素测量模型进行检验。通过验证性因子分析(CFA)和结构方程建模(SEM)技术对假设的研究模型进行了验证。研究型组织的美国专业人员拥有必要的数据分析技能和技术专长，可以从数据中提取见解。结果表明，分析技能对PEOU有显著的正向影响(β =246, SE = 0.54, p <0.000)。数据管理实践的感知有用性(PU)受分析技能(AS)的显著影响(β =0.443, SE = 0.077, p≤0.000)，数据分析能力(PEOU)显著影响信息科技专业人员对数字数据管理实践的态度(β =0.215, SE = 0.214, p≤0.000)，信息科技专业人员的态度对他们管理大学图书馆数字数据集的绩效有积极影响(β =0.584, SE = 0.178, p≤0.005)。本研究报告了通过对技术接受(TAM)模型中给定结构的调查收集到的原始数据。该研究为组织领导者、利益相关者和规划人员提供了有价值的见解，以加强和完善学术图书馆的DDSM实践和方法。这将使他们能够通过DDSM技术的实施有效地利用图书馆资源和服务。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09610006231200897
Magnus Lindén, Catharina Isberg, Ulrika Westrup, Alina Lidén
This article describes, discusses, and evaluates an educational program aimed at building resilience in public libraries. The program focuses on personal and organizational resilience and builds upon four themes: trust, stress and uncertainty, group identity, and character strenghts. Eighty-seven Swedish public library professionals participated in it. A mixed-method approach was used to study how the program supported employees in discussing and reflecting on resilience, as well as how they experienced what the program had given them in terms of knowledge and insights. Two main results are addressed; (i) the value of an educational program lies both in its power to make employees jointly discuss and reflect on their own roles and situations and in library-management using this information to change the organization, and (ii) staff gaining new insight and knowledge from the program experienced improvements in a number of outcomes related to the content of the program. Overall, this study implies that locally designed educational programs facilitate both personal and organizational resilience at public libraries.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196596
Ubaid Ullah Shah, Sumeer Gul, Suhail Ahmad Bhat
The study aims to ascertain the gender differences in the research productivity, research impact, collaboration pattern, funding, and self-citations of male and female authors belonging to the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The top twenty-four (24) journals belonging to the LIS field ranked as per impact factors in Journal Citation Report (JCR) offered by Clarivate Analytics were analyzed. Only those journals that provided author biographies at the end of each article were selected. To ascertain the information regarding the gender of an author, biographical sketches provided at the end of each article were examined. Google Scholar was consulted to collect data on citations. For self-citations, references of each paper were thoroughly checked, and self-citation, if found, were tabulated for analysis. Collaboration pattern in terms of gender preference was studied under national and international categories. If collaborating authors belonged to the same country, the collaboration pattern was deemed national, and if the collaborating authors belonged to different countries, the pattern was deemed international. The acknowledgment section of each article was thoroughly checked to collect information on funding characteristics. Countries of origin belonging to authors were ascertained and were classified into three regions i.e. European, Non-European and Cross-Cultural. Then the relationship between the region and author productivity under various authorship patterns was studied. Later, Descriptive Statistics, ANOVA, T-test, and Chi-Square tests were applied to ascertain the significance of the results. Males and females on average are almost equally productive in the field of LIS. Males receive more citations for their manuscripts, creating more research impact than their female counterparts. It is further found that males and females prefer to collaborate with authors of the same gender. Moreover, males are more active and visible on the international collaboration side, while females are more active on the national side of collaboration. Regarding the research papers reporting on funding, it is found that the female gender has more likelihood of receiving funds for their research. Further, it is found that male authors are more involved in self-citations than females. Moreover, it is also revealed that female researchers are more research productive in Non-European countries while in European and Cross-Cultural regions men are still dominant in terms of research productivity. The study considers 24 prominent journals in the LIS. Since the journals are novel in the field, these provide a clearer view of the existence or absence of gender bias in the field. Only 24 prominent journals belonging to the LIS are considered, and the scope is limited to 5 years only. If more journals are considered and the study’s period is expanded, the results may vary from the present study’s findings. The study will let the stakeholders know whether t
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196604
Qiong Xu
Guided by a conceptual framework based on the baseline data literacy competencies (DLCs) mapped to the ACRL information literacy framework and the extended technology acceptance model, this study uses an online survey to investigate the factors related to student users’ potential acceptance of library data services supporting DLCs in a master’s college environment. With quantitative and qualitative data analyses, the study builds three conceptual models to demonstrate how students’ study-related data engagement and backgrounds may influence their attitudes toward multi-aspect library data services, including general data services, an institutional data repository, if available, as a data resource, and institutional data repository-based services. The study’s findings support library data services’ cross-disciplinary, multidimensional, and multilevel nature, addressing the value of institutional data repositories and repository-based data services in comprehensively promoting data literacy competencies of all groups in all disciplines. The contribution of this study, beyond being among the first to look at library data services from a holistic perspective to support college students’ DLCs, includes a call for further explorations of student data engagement practice and verifying and generalizing the current study findings by investigating more students’ data services need in more college communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196891
Peng-Hui Lyu, Lu-Xuan Guo, Li-Na Zhu
Both in theory and in practice, Library and Information Science (LIS) are exhibiting a high trend of development. In this work, the growth and aging of literature are applied to make a historical and comprehensive statistical analysis of LIS. A total of 138,658 records spanning 122 years were taken from the SSCI database. The growth and aging curves of LIS have been drawn, supplementing with the driving forces of countries, institutions, and authors to explore the current production situation in the LIS field. According to the findings of this study, Price’s exponential development curve is followed by the increase of literature in LIS. The second phase mentioned by Price, constant exponential growth, is where LIS is right now. It is possible to forecast that LIS will continue to grow exponentially and will eventually become more mature. Based on the Price Index in the LIS discipline, which was roughly 0.348 in 2022, researchers frequently cite new literature. Since LIS is rapidly aging, knowledge updates happen more frequently, which is consistent with the development stage of the LIS discipline. Countries, institutions and authors all exhibit strong power-law distributions in terms of the driving forces. In the field of LIS, the United States is unquestionably the leader. Despite having a relatively late start, China has made rapid progress in the field of LIS, with Wuhan University gaining prominence in the last 3 years, which deserves attention.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196345
Jonathan Daniel Gómez-Zapata, Maria Alejandra Herrera-Moreno, Luis César Herrero-Prieto
Libraries are one of the most representative institutions of cultural heritage in that they are charged with safeguarding information, fostering knowledge and activating memory. Over the years, they have widened the scope of their functions to also become cultural centres geared towards dissemination and cultural creation, in addition to playing an ever more important role in terms of social interaction and inclusion. This paper seeks to estimate the economic and social value that people assign to public libraries in the city of Medellin (Colombia) which, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, were forced to temporarily halt their onsite services. The contingent valuation method was used, based on a virtual questionnaire aimed at users and non-users in order to estimate the potential value of the direct and passive use of libraries during the pandemic. In addition, certainty analysis was applied to evaluate the trend of stated contributions as reporting reliability increases. Relevant and significant positive willingness to pay was found, and was seen to be greater amongst users who were most sure of their valuations, whilst payments remained stable in the certainty range of non-users. The results highlight the key role played by libraries as local public goods, even during a pandemic and therefore, their function as a basic cultural service as well as of drivers of inclusion and urban change.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196336
Dehui Du, Jingda Ding, Yifan Chen, Chao Liu
This paper aims to unveil the comprehensive research landscape and gain insights into the evolving trend of primary research content within the scholarly communication domain. Leveraging various literature visualization tools, the study delves into the key research themes and their progression in scholarly communication from articles retrieved in Web of Science spanning the years 1996–2021. Moreover, the investigation delves into the historical roots and seminal works in the field. Notably, recent years have witnessed a remarkable focus from scholars on information dissemination, scientific assessment, emerging evaluation frameworks rooted in modern social media, open access, and social networking. The identified classic works indicate that scientific comprehension, citation behavior, communication, and online collaboration have garnered sustained research interest within the scholarly communication realm. In summary, the prevailing research content has transitioned from a closed, publication-centric model to an open network characterized by globalization and diversity. Concurrently, the transformation of scholarly communication is advancing toward digitalization, openness, socialization, networking, and enhanced accessibility.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1177/09610006231196344
Kalervo Järvelin, Yu-Wei Chang, Pertti Vakkari
The paper analyzes the citation impact of Library and Information Science (LIS) research articles published in 31 leading international LIS journals in 2015. The main research question is: to what degree do authors’ disciplinary composition in association with topic, methodology, and type of contribution affect their citation impact? The impact is analyzed in terms of the number of citations received and their authority, using outlier normalization and subfield normalization. Quantitative content analysis is used to analyze article characteristics including topic, methodology, type of contribution, and the disciplinary composition of their author teams. The citations received by the articles are traced from 2015 to May 2021. Citing document authority is measured by the citations they had received up to May 2021. The overall finding was that authors’ disciplinary composition is significantly associated with citation scores. The differences in citation scores between disciplinary compositions appeared typically within information retrieval and scientific communication. In both topics LIS and computer science jointly received significantly higher citation scores than many disciplines like LIS alone or humanities in information retrieval; or natural sciences, medicine, or social sciences alone in scientific communication. The paper is original in reporting a joint analysis of content characteristics, authorship composition, and impact.
本文分析了2015年31种国际图书馆情报学(Library and Information Science, LIS)期刊上发表的文献引文影响。主要的研究问题是:作者的学科构成与主题、方法和贡献类型的关联在多大程度上影响其被引影响?使用离群归一化和子场归一化，根据收到的引文数量及其权威分析了影响。定量内容分析是用来分析文章的特点，包括主题、方法、贡献类型和作者团队的学科组成。文章被引用的时间追溯至2015年至2021年5月。引用文件权威是根据他们在2021年5月之前收到的引用来衡量的。总体发现是，作者的学科构成与引用分数显著相关。学科论文被引分数的差异主要出现在信息检索和科学传播领域。在信息检索方面，LIS和计算机科学联合获得的引文分数明显高于许多学科，如单独的LIS或人文学科;或自然科学，医学，或社会科学在科学传播中。该论文在报道内容特征，作者组成和影响的联合分析方面是原创的。
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