Librarianship - Quality Methods and Measures

Like other disciplines, organizational and technological innovations have influenced the standard
philosophies of librarianship. These innovations have changed the basics of information retrieval and
delivery in libraries. As a result, library authorities are demanding competency-based job performance.
Nonetheless, there is a scarcity of research on the association between skills (current and needed) and job
performance (job satisfaction and organizational commitment). Further, there is a dearth of research on
the difference in skills of librarians. This research paper proposes a conceptual framework composed of
two major parts. Part one denotes empirical analysis of the relationship of current competencies with JP
aggregated as JS and OC. This relationship section may signify librarians’ perception of task performance;
part two examines the difference between the current and needed competencies. These different sections
explore the levels of deficit and surplus in competencies and job ‘best fit’. The findings of this conceptual
framework may be significant for the implementation of a competency-based management system, in updating
LIS curriculums, for designing librarians’ training programs and for LIS professionals as a whole
to perform more efficiently. Researchers from diverse settings can utilize the proposed model

The following paper will trace the recently established field of Information Ethics through it’s various evolutions, from it’s origins in Librarianship to it’s role as a global player in areas as diverse as technology, media, global humanitarianism, and the philosophy of information. The praxis of the field will be outlined for the uninitiated reader, followed by an intimate history of the founding players and their continued contribution to this ever-evolving field. The current evolutions of Information Ethics will then be explored in the context of their application to the viral global phenomena of Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE), and finally, the paper will conclude with projections towards future evolutions in Information Ethics, as well as an exploration of potential definitions for the field.

Lucrarea îşi propune să ofere o serie de date concrete care completează informaţiile despre starea bibliotecilor şi bibliotecarilor în perioada pandemiei de coronavirus. Comparativ cu alte ţări, în România, există mai puţine date care să servească ca punct de plecare pentru diverse analize sau studii. Deoarece perioada de pandemie este una specială, încă nemaiîntâlnită, este necesar să cunoaştem care au fost provocările, aşteptările şi dificultăţile cu care bibliotecarii publici români s-au confruntat.
Studiul are la bază o cercetare empirică care vizează aspecte legate de influenţele pe care constrângerile aplicate în perioada stării de urgenţă şi alertă le-au avut asupra mediului de lucru şi calităţii activităţii profesionale desfăşurate. Concluziile pot constitui plus valoare care poate fi preluată, utilizată în proiectarea serviciilor noi de bibliotecă, în creşterea competenţelor angajaţilor şi pentru a evita situaţiile care conduc la demotivarea personalului de specialitate şi la scăderea performanţelor în muncă.
Cuvinte cheie: Biblioteci publice româneşti, bibliotecari, pandemie, managementul resurselor umane, servicii de bibliotecă.

The paper aims to provide a series of concrete data that complement the information on the state of libraries and librarians during the coronavirus pandemic. Compared to other countries, in Romania, there is less data to serve as a starting point for various analyzes or studies. Because the pandemic period is a special one, still unheard of, it is necessary to know what were the challenges, expectations and difficulties that Romanian public librarians faced.
The study is based on empirical research that addresses issues related to the influences that the constraints applied during the state of emergency and alert had on the work environment and the quality of professional activity. The conclusions can provide added value that can be taken, used in the design of new library services, in increasing the skills of employees and to avoid situations that lead to demotivation of specialized staff and decreased job performance.
Keywords: Romanian public libraries, librarians, pandemic, Human Resources Management, library services.

Abstrak Film merupakan salah satu media elektronik yang dapat mempengaruhi pandangan penonton atau masyarakat umum pada sesuatu. Hal ini juga berlaku pada bagaimana produser film menampilkan perpustakaan dan pustakawan pada suatu film. Artikel ini menganalisis representasi perpustakaan serta pustakawan pada suatu film yang ada di Indonesia yang berjudul Pupus. Penulis menguraikan beberapa adegan pada film pupus yang ber-setting-kan di perpustakaan, serta bagaimana perpustakaan dan pustakawan direpresentasikan. Pada tulisan ini, penulis menggunakan metode studi literatur dengan menggunakan berbagai sumber referensi ilmiah seperti artikel, jurnal, serta observasi pada beberapa adegan yang ada pada film. Kesimpulan dari analisis ini menunjukkan bahwa representasi perpustakaan beserta pustakawan pada beberapa adegan pada film pupus, sangatlah bertolak belakang dengan stereotipe yang berkembang di masyarakat. Penonton juga di pandang sebagai pengkonsumsi media yang aktif, sehingga repres...

Abstract: In this report, I consider the impact of a new way of musical research in the small world of Italian conservatories. Until a few years ago, not many conservatories activated a course in music bibliography. The dissemination of courses led to a new series of reflections on how the discipline could be taught. In practice, even if not consciously, the introduction to musical research, implied in the bibliography of music objectives, has been transformed in ‘information literacy’. Indeed the aim of Italian bibliography of music courses is to provide a first basic knowledge on Internet or paper music resources, and furthermore how to recognize and choose Urtext and critical music editions etc. Teaching how to evaluate the best digital or print musical editions is one of the priorities of our discipline, together with the choice of the best resources for a qualitative research in music.
Today more than ever, bibliography of music, as a global musicological discipline, makes use of free or commercial digital or digitalized resources on the web. These resources improve and broaden means for those looking for music and writings on music. Undoubtedly, music knowledge benefited in this context, even though today few scholars critically explored the teaching methods in music bibliography: mainly how to select new concepts and hypertexts, and the paths of research particularly (but not only) for musicians, the range of music knowledge is involved in the general information literacy education.
In this paper, after a first examination of international bibliographical repertoires facing the challenge of globalization, I will try to answer the question about the best music data selection strategies, and teaching methodologies of music bibliography that helps student's music research path, keeping in mind that within enormity of access you can get lost.

The attempt to establish a unified taxonomy for the field of Information Ethics is both unattainable and unwarranted. The categorization of Information Ethics as a defined discipline, an applicable practice, a philosophy and a worldview remains constantly in flux due to, what Luciano Floridi terms, ‘philosophical naturalism’. As such, a broadening understanding of the field will only serve to further collapse categorization. The following paper will outline, using a discourse analysis methodology, how the nature of the field of Information Ethics at a foundational level must necessarily defy classification. The assumptions behind the current classifications of the field will be questioned. Beginning with the history of the inception of the field through Librarianship and Cybernetics and questioning the yet unresolved ontological debates between information philosophers such as Rafael Capurro and Floridi, this paper will explicate how any such attempt to develop an agreed upon taxonomy will and should always remain incomplete.

Librarians know that users need these areas of knowledge and skills in addition to knowing about information needs, access, evaluation, use, and social implications. The traditional method of education is not capable hence a new paradigm of education is necessary-lifelong learning the instrument for lifelong learning is information literacy. Information literacy (IL) is becoming an increasingly important component of the higher educational curriculum, with many disciplines incorporating elements of information literacy training within their traditional teaching. This article will highlight on necessity and importance of information literacy in higher education.

The most important role of modern academic libraries is providing services to all types of users´ community including disabled persons. In the world there are approximately one billion people in the world live with some form of disability, according to WHO world report on disability 2014. Thus, this field, services for persons with disabilities, is open for investigation giving researchers opportunities to provide entities with accurate evaluation of their services and, if possible, effective solutions. However, many research papers explore the services presented to the disabled in private and public entities such as Ahmad et al. (2005), Blummer and Kenton (2014) and Church and Marston (2003). These services go beyond physical access. Disabled individuals' demand of obtaining information is a human right that all states commit to protect. Thus, the researcher produces this paper which aims at exploring the availability of special materials of information that are designed for visually impaired in the University of Cairo. The study reflects the characteristics of qualitative-quantitative research described by Goodwin (1996), and Creswell (2003). In the current study the Sequential Explanatory strategy is adapted, which is characterized by gathering and analyzing the quantitative data followed by process of collecting and analyzing of qualitative data. Data collection procedures included the distribution of the benchmark questionnaire and the use of recording interviews. The study concluded that the University of Cairo library needs to promote its collections of special information materials and need to make its online catalogue, databases and website completely accessible in order to present a better quality of information services for the visually impaired and to fulfil its roles satisfactorily depending upon the individuals' changing demands, which means that the libraries have to sustain its services and regularly update their collections.

Abstrak Film merupakan salah satu media elektronik yang dapat mempengaruhi pandangan penonton atau masyarakat umum pada sesuatu. Hal ini juga berlaku pada bagaimana produser film menampilkan perpustakaan dan pustakawan pada suatu film. Artikel ini menganalisis representasi perpustakaan serta pustakawan pada suatu film yang ada di Indonesia yang berjudul Pupus. Penulis menguraikan beberapa adegan pada film pupus yang ber-setting-kan di perpustakaan, serta bagaimana perpustakaan dan pustakawan direpresentasikan. Pada tulisan ini, penulis menggunakan metode studi literatur dengan menggunakan berbagai sumber referensi ilmiah seperti artikel, jurnal, serta observasi pada beberapa adegan yang ada pada film. Kesimpulan dari analisis ini menunjukkan bahwa representasi perpustakaan beserta pustakawan pada beberapa adegan pada film pupus, sangatlah bertolak belakang dengan stereotipe yang berkembang di masyarakat. Penonton juga di pandang sebagai pengkonsumsi media yang aktif, sehingga repres...

One of the major problems that a financial manager faces is the enormous amount of financial data. There is a variety of software systems used to support the process of investment decision making. In this paper, a software system for financial asset management is presented. The system is based on fuzzy logic, operates in real time and differs from existing systems for portfolio management in five key aspects. The system is tested on real data from Bulgarian Stock Exchange.

Information Literacy is an integral part of student learning, and librarians are at the forefront of teaching this critical skill. Librarians at Bristol Community College (BCC) participated in the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Rubric Initiative in order to begin assessing both the information literacy skills of the student body and the traditional one-shot method of library instruction.

The research aims at exploring the status of communication and interactivity among employees and users visually impaired in the library of University of Santiago de Compostela. The study reflects the characteristics of qualitative-quantitative research described by Dey (1993), Goodwin (1996), Patton (1990) and Creswell (2003). In the current study the Sequential Explanatory strategy is adapted, which is characterized by gathering and analyzing the quantitative data followed by process of collecting and analyzing of qualitative data. Data collection procedures included the distribution of the benchmark questionnaire, derived from SERVQUAL model, and the use of interviews method. It is recommended that employees should be trained on how to deploy social applications in their work, because little use of social applications is explored in the study. The neglecting of social applications in providing services is a problem that restricts the library from acclimating rapid technological changes. Moreover, the researcher recommends that there should be training sessions to raise the employees' awareness towards challenges facing visually impaired when they patronize the library, and to enrich their knowledge with skills on how to get these patrons engaged in the library environment with taking into consideration the importance of marketing training session for administrators to make them more aware of its relevancy and importance to their work.

American Psychological Association  Style (APA) 5th and 6th ed.
In-Text Citations and Reference Lists power point presentation  to Pwani University Library Staff during the Commission of University Education Quality Audit and Alignment to Kenya Universities Standards held at the library on 24th -28th July 2017.
Areas covered were application of APA referencing system, identification and coding of core text books and further reading materials, creation of reading lists. Acqiuition of Core texts and core journals.

Knowledge management (KM) aspects has prominent role in corporate sectors since many years. But there is an opportunity in higher education sector i.e. in academia especially to adapt the strategy in libraries to manage intellectual or scholarly assets of an organisation. This book is intended for library professionals, knowledge managers, students and other communities planning to implement the knowledge management aspects in libraries. As academia generates a huge intellectual assets through scholarly publishing, such assets needs to be properly acquired, organised, stored and made accessible in a easily manner including long term preservation for the future generations. The objective of this book is to provide an insight on strategic approach for successful implementation of knowledge management in libraries. Managing Knowledge and Scholarly Assets in Academic Libraries Url: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1845