College Libraries

The reviewed literature reported on plagiarism in the context of the digital era from the perspective of a broader educational spectrum. The authors of this review ask questions with regard to what constitutes plagiarism, how prevalent plagiarism is in our schools, colleges, and society, what is done to prevent and reduce plagiarism, the attitudes of faculty toward academic dishonesty in general, and individual differences as predictors of academic dishonesty. This article identifies research questions that have not been addressed sufficiently in the literature and suggests specific research areas for further investigation.

Research libraries will continue to be affected by rapid and transformative changes in information technology and the networked environment for the foreseeable future. The pace and direction of these changes will profoundly challenge libraries and their staffs to respond effectively. This paper presents the results of a survey that was designed to discern the perceptions and preferences of future library leaders related to organizational cultures in these times of precipitous change. The study finds that future leaders of academic libraries perceive a significant gap between their current and preferred organizational cultures and that current organizational cultures limit their effectiveness.

This article examines the theoretical models applied to date in library assessment activities. A brief review of the history of library assessment practices and the evolution of their respective approaches is presented. A discussion of the theoretical concepts applied to these assessment activities in library and information science (LIS) as introduced from other fields, such as marketing and management information systems (MIS), follows.The conceptual issues and practical concerns in library assessment are then discussed. Focus is placed on the review of research concepts of service quality, customer/user satisfaction, and their applications in library assessment activities.

The study is focused on challenges of school libraries in the new educational reforms in Ghana. The study was conducted at the Konongo-Odumase Senior High School in the Asante-Akim North District of the Ashanti Region, It is aimed at finding the extent to which the reforms has improved school library service provision. The study revealed that, school library service provision has not seen remarkable change since the inception of the new educational reforms in Ghana. Some of these challenges are poor funding, untrained library staff, poor facilities among others. To meet these challenges, some recommendations have been made. It is hoped that; if the recommendations made in this study are implemented, school libraries in Ghana will live up to
expectation.

This study explored the motivational aspects of information literacy skills instruction delivered by librarians in community college libraries. Librarians and students at seven community colleges were interviewed and observed. Involvement of faculty, use of technology, and students' on-and off-task behaviors also were investigated. Data analyses used Keller's ARCS Model, ACRL standards, and Small and Arnone's Motivation Overlay for Informa tion Skills Instruction. The majority of strategies used were to gain and main tain students' attention. The range of strategies, rather than the number of strategies, appeared to positively affect student motivation.

Competitive pressures, information availability, rising costs, and an in creasingly aware and selective student population mandate that aca demic libraries become more user focused. This calls for a better under standing of the specific needs of library users in order to provide the appropriate type and level of service that meets those needs. This study proposes and tests a five-factor model to explain user satisfaction with academic libraries. Students availing the services of three academic libraries in Erie, Pennsylvania, were surveyed over a period of three semesters. The model explained 64 percent of the variation in the de pendent variable. Strategic implications of the proposed model are dis cussed.

Over a two-year period, the Getty Information Institute (formerly the Getty Art History Information Program) sponsored and carried out a major study of end-user online searching by humanities scholars. Complete logs of the searches and output were captured, and the twentyseven scholars involved were interviewed in depth. An overview of the study and its results is presented, with particular emphasis on matters of interest to academic librarians. Implications are drawn for academic library reference service and collection development, as well as for cataloging in the online and digital environment.

Abstract: This paper discusses the library automation and e-library project of CNCS. It examines the evolution of the University, the planning process and the implementation of library automation and e-library/Internet facilities. The paper looks at different phases to which the project was divided and provides a detailed overview of how each phase was designed and executed which can help librarians make decisions about automation and e-library projects. Few of the challenges encountered are highlighted and solutions proffered.
Keywords: College libraries; library automation; e-library/Internet; software package, information and communication technology (ICT).
Title: Library Automation and an E-Library: College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Gondar
Author: DR.V.RAMA DEVI
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-120X (online), ISSN 2348-1196 (print)
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This theoretical essay uses tacit knowledge, the often-undocumented wis dom of expert practitioners and practitioner communities, to explore fu ture prospects for the academic librarian. Traditional and emerging valua tions of the academic librarian held by higher education stakeholders are identified. The practical implications of these views for university funding and other support are explored using the philosophical stance of cultural pragmatism and by applying the sociological perspective of the "stranger," tacit knowledge gained by the author as a researcher and a faculty mem ber in an LIS program and as chair of a university Committee on the Li brary, and insights from a spectrum of publications. In the process, the March of Dimes, an organization that successfully repositioned itself after accomplishing its primary purpose, is examined as a possible model for enhancing the academic librarian's perceived value.

The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the factors that support or constrain the individual's sharing knowledge in the organization. The current study seeks to explore whether personality (self-efficacy and self-esteem) and situational (cognitive appraisal: threat versus challenge) characteristics influence participants' knowledge sharing in the organization. The research was conducted during the summer semester of the 2009 academic year and encompassed two main groups of Israeli librarians: academic librarians and public librarians. The study used five questionnaires: a personal details questionnaire, perceptions towards knowledge management questionnaire, a cognitive appraisal questionnaire measuring threat versus challenge, a self-efficacy questionnaire, and a self-esteem questionnaire. The results show that personality and situational characteristics influence participants' knowledge sharing in the organization. The findings may have theoretical as well as practical implications.

The paper reports the studies on status and problems of library automation in undergraduate, engineering, and technology, and management colleges in government and private sectors in India. It focuses on the present condition of these libraries about the availability of infrastructure, workforce, use of library software packages and associated problems.

New education models based essentially on competencies and skills are gradually displacing the old systems based on teacher instruction and passive and memory-based learning in students, as these new competencies allow the student to learn actively with better levels of performance. We consider abstracting as a transcendent learning tool to analyze the basic role of information analysis and synthesis skills within the learning processes and their relation to the abstracting processes. Using an action-research methodology, we analyze the abstracting skill of students on the first and final courses of the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Granada (Spain). Based on postulates from information literacy, analysis and synthesis competencies are studied through the students' modus operandi at the different abstracting stages. Similarities and differences between the two groups of students are perceived and displayed, with reference to the relation between the learned subjects and the levels of competence and skill. In the light of these results, meaningful patterns and recommendations for improving students' skill levels are proposed.

Information Communication Technology (ICT's) is applied in all fields, especially in the field of Library and Information Centre's is scabbard ample benefits from ICT's. Well-qualified, skilled and adequate number of Library professionals is a must to provide relevant and effective Information resources and services to users. This study focus on Manpower problem in two categories of College Libraries that is, Government and Aided First Grade College Libraries of Bangalore City; comparatively more than 50% of respondent libraries are lack in fund and infrastructure, the other are lack of trained and skilled staff, College Authorities as take interest to develop their libraries with providing funds, infrastructure, skilled staff and send staff to training regularly to update their knowledge about changes in ICTs.

Librarians and archivists are intimately involved in scholarly communication systems, both as information providers and instructors. However, very little is known regarding their activities as scholars. This study seeks to examine the scholarly communication practices of librarians and archivists, the role that tenure plays in scholarly communication practices, and the degree to which institutional support is provided in librarians' efforts to consume and disseminate research and reports of best practices. A questionnaire was sent to professional librarians and archivists at 91 ARL institutions. The responses demonstrate that ARL librarians and archivists are avid consumers and creators of scholarship, and use emerging technologies to stay up-to-date on the profession's latest research.

The course graduated its first cohort in 2008; its second in 2009; and its third in 2010. Drawing primarily on qualitative data in the form of participants' online contributions and course projects, but complemented by quantitative survey data, this article uses four-level Evaluating Training Programs model as a starting point for assessing the success of the course. It explains how challenges have been addressed over time and outlines limitations that remain.

Objectives: To develop and validate a Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) for mortality based on information collected by the Multidimensional Assessment Schedule (SVaMA), the recommended standard tool for multidimensional assessment of community-dwelling older subjects in seven Italian regions. Design: Prospective cohort study. Participants: Community-dwelling subjects older than 65 years who underwent an SVaMA evaluation from 2004 to 2010 in Padova Health District, Veneto, Italy. Measurements: The MPI-SVaMA was calculated as a weighted (weights were derived from multivariate Cox regressions) linear combination of the following nine domains: age, sex, main diagnosis, and six scores, ie, the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire, the Barthel index (contains two domains: activities of daily living and mobility), the Exton-Smith scale, the Nursing Care Needs, and the Social Network Support by a structured interview. Subjects were followed for a median of 2 years; those who had not died were followed for at least 1 year. The MPI-SVaMA score ranged from 0 to 1 and 3 grades of severity of the MPI-SVaMA were calculated on the basis of estimated cutoffs. Discriminatory power and calibration were further assessed. Results: A total of 12,020 subjects (mean age 81.84 AE 7.97 years) were included. Two random cohorts were selected: (1) a development cohort, ie, 7876 subjects (mean age 81.79 AE 8.05, %females: 63.1) and (2) a validation cohort, ie, 4144 subjects (mean age: 81.95 AE 7.83, %females: 63.7). The discriminatory power for mortality of MPI-SVaMA was 0.828 (95% CI 0.817e0.838) and 0.832 (95% CI 0.818e0.845) at 1 month and 0.791 (95% CI 0.784e0.798) and 0.792 (95% CI 0.783e0.802) at 1 year in development and validation cohorts, respectively. MPI-SVaMA results were well calibrated showing lower than 10% differences between predicted and observed mortality, both in development and validation cohorts. Conclusions: The MPI-SVaMA is an accurate and well-calibrated prognostic tool for mortality in community-dwelling older subjects, and can be used in clinical decision making.

The widespread theft of collection materials, including rare and unique items, continues to be an issue of great concern to libraries of all types. The potential loss of such items threatens not only an institution's operations but, in many cases, global cultural heritage. Despite an increasingly open attitude among institutions regarding sharing information about lost items and suspected perpetrators, little scholarship has examined such thefts quantitatively in an effort to draw conclusions about how such incidents occur and how best to prevent them. This paper describes a project that examines data from over twenty years of reported library theft cases in libraries and special collections to determine how frequently such losses are perpetrated by library insiders.

Interested in connecting users with the latest resources aimed at advancing intellectual inquiry and discovery, researchers from Texas Tech University Libraries decided to embark on a study to explore the practicality of the latest technology, the iPad, within the varying functions of academia. Using an online survey and focus groups, the researchers sought to investigate how students and faculty felt the iPad might be used in teaching and learning, as well as research. This article describes the process the researchers used to obtain iPads for research and how they explored their use in an academic setting.

This study explored the motivational aspects of information literacy skills instruction delivered by librarians in community college libraries. Librarians and students at seven community colleges were interviewed and observed. Involvement of faculty, use of technology, and students' ...

Web 2.0 is a change in the way libraries interact with their users. The
technological developments on the Web have had a major influence on these
changes. The change also places new requirements on librarians’ competencies
and skills.
The Blog being one of the tools of Web 2.0 is very effective for communication
now a days. Blogs can be used to enhance the services provided within the
Libraries. Blogging has been around for about a decade now. Blogs are
immensely popular both for individuals and organizations to get the word out on
topics they believe will be of interest to readers.
This paper basically tries to present an example of the services provided by the
Library of D. T. S. S. College of Commerce, Mumbai through various Blogs. This
paper investigates how Blogging is worth using in the library for knowledge or
information transfer. Blogging becomes immensely helpful in providing latest &
useful information & knowledge to the users of the library.

Research libraries have long invested in approval plan services, which offer an economical way to acquire scholarly and scientific publications. Traditional approval plans have evolved and now enable libraries to expand their e-book offerings to better serve researchers. Publishers offer a myriad of e-book purchasing options. These range from individual titles to comprehensive packages allowing libraries to choose publisher-direct (Springer, etc) or aggregator (Ebrary, etc) access, but a standard access and pricing model is needed to promote systematic acquisition of e-books. In 2010, Texas A&M University Libraries implemented an epreferred approval plan. This article will discuss the evaluation process for research libraries migrating to an e-preferred approval plan.

This study confirms that a single second-order factor is associated with the delivery of high-quality library services in a research university envi ronment. However, a hierarchical factor analysis also demonstrated that research library users simultaneously think about library quality at mul tiple levels. The LibQUAL+ diagnostic tool, a product of the ARL's New Measures Initiative, shows that although a single factor dominates user thinking about library service quality, all of the items used in the survey suffuse this factor. Nevertheless, several first-order factors contribute important unique information to the notion of service quality. As different types of users place varying degrees of importance on the first-order factors, the utility of the hierarchical model is demonstrated.

The authors examined abstracts written by graduate students for their research proposals as a requirement for a course in research methods in a distance learning MLIS program. The students learned under three instructional conditions that involved varying levels of access to worked examples created from abstracts representing research in the LIS field. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) detected significantly higher scores in areas related to fluency in describing the research design and the required elements of a research proposal in the groups with more exposure to worked examples, while the rhetorical skills necessary to compose a succinct abstract and to relate a proposal to implications in the field were not affected.

he concept of "just-in-case" reference (the librarian waits at the desk just in case the patron has a question) is receiving increasing scrutiny by library administrators and reference librarians. 1,2 An entire symposium in the Journal of Academic Librarianship was dedicated to a discussion of the viability of reference services and the pos-sible need for a new model. 3 But this discussion is occurring without information on the value of reference desk services to patrons. The library literature is replete with cost studies, but few studies consider the benefit to patrons of library services. This is particularly true of reference services where librarians have thoroughly studied the cost of reference transactions,

The objective of this qualitative study was to identify and explain challenges encountered by academic librarians when trying to incorporate evidence into their practice. The findings resulted in the identification of five main determinants that act as either obstacles or enablers of evidence use. The identification of these determinants provide librarians with a greater understanding of the complex processes and individual as well as organizational factors that impact decision making processes within academic libraries.

Objectives: To develop and validate a Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) for mortality based on information collected by the Multidimensional Assessment Schedule (SVaMA), the recommended standard tool for multidimensional assessment of community-dwelling older subjects in seven Italian regions. Design: Prospective cohort study. Participants: Community-dwelling subjects older than 65 years who underwent an SVaMA evaluation from 2004 to 2010 in Padova Health District, Veneto, Italy. Measurements: The MPI-SVaMA was calculated as a weighted (weights were derived from multivariate Cox regressions) linear combination of the following nine domains: age, sex, main diagnosis, and six scores, ie, the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire, the Barthel index (contains two domains: activities of daily living and mobility), the Exton-Smith scale, the Nursing Care Needs, and the Social Network Support by a structured interview. Subjects were followed for a median of 2 years; those who had not died were followed for at least 1 year. The MPI-SVaMA score ranged from 0 to 1 and 3 grades of severity of the MPI-SVaMA were calculated on the basis of estimated cutoffs. Discriminatory power and calibration were further assessed. Results: A total of 12,020 subjects (mean age 81.84 AE 7.97 years) were included. Two random cohorts were selected: (1) a development cohort, ie, 7876 subjects (mean age 81.79 AE 8.05, %females: 63.1) and (2) a validation cohort, ie, 4144 subjects (mean age: 81.95 AE 7.83, %females: 63.7). The discriminatory power for mortality of MPI-SVaMA was 0.828 (95% CI 0.817e0.838) and 0.832 (95% CI 0.818e0.845) at 1 month and 0.791 (95% CI 0.784e0.798) and 0.792 (95% CI 0.783e0.802) at 1 year in development and validation cohorts, respectively. MPI-SVaMA results were well calibrated showing lower than 10% differences between predicted and observed mortality, both in development and validation cohorts. Conclusions: The MPI-SVaMA is an accurate and well-calibrated prognostic tool for mortality in community-dwelling older subjects, and can be used in clinical decision making.

This study explored the motivational aspects of information literacy skills instruction delivered by librarians in community college libraries. Librarians and students at seven community colleges were interviewed and observed. Involvement of faculty, use of technology, and students' on-and off-task behaviors also were investigated. Data analyses used Keller's ARCS Model, ACRL standards, and Small and Arnone's Motivation Overlay for Informa tion Skills Instruction. The majority of strategies used were to gain and main tain students' attention. The range of strategies, rather than the number of strategies, appeared to positively affect student motivation.

Just as the study of natural life-forms has benefited from the insights of ecologists, so too our understanding of the university library and its future evolution can be enriched by studying the changing ecology of information flow on campus. The introduction of new technologies for generating, storing, and transmitting information will radically alter the character, magnitude, and direction of information flow on campus in the years to come, just as these things are likely to shift in our society at large. In response to these evolving technologies, major institutional changes can be anticipated. As the group primarily concerned with designing the environments for storing and recalling these new types of information, university librarians need to be attentive to the delicate intellectual life-forms that may well be extinguished by massive or pervasive shifts in the library environment. Their choices need to be wise, kind, and careful.

The increasing price of journal subscriptions and the increasing number of journals available make it difficult for libraries to supply all needed material locally for scholarly research. Bibliographic citation analysis of student research papers is one method of evaluating the use of a journal collection. Journal selection and cancellation may be done on the basis of cost-per-use to maximize the usefulness of materials purchased with the library budget. Theses provide a convenient archival resource of student research. This study used the bibliographic citations found in theses and dissertations of graduate students in the psychology and counseling departments of the university, cost-per-use statistics, and shelving statistics to develop a basis for psychology journal selection in the Academic Library. The library should not rely on one single evaluation technique. It should take advantage of a combination of techniques, which as this study indicates, serve to complement each other.