Library and Information Sciences

Physical education is one of the mandatory courses for all students during high school and university. It has an important role in the comprehensive development of learners. Physical education not only helps improve health but also life skills training, spirit improvement, stress reduction, and creating a positive learning environment. Therefore, this paper studies and proposes solutions to promote students' positive and proactive learning in physical education courses. Key solutions include raising awareness of the role of physical education, innovating teaching content and methods, ensuring facilities, improving lecturer capacity, and organizing diverse extracurricular activities. Using research methods such as interviews, document analysis and statistics, the results show that these solutions are highly appreciated for their necessity and effectiveness, especially in improving the quality of learning, health, and comprehensive development of students.

The novel coronavirus disease presented unique challenges to all the stakeholders of education system. The sudden and unexpected outbreak of the virus forced the library professionals, to ascertain ways of working in a rapid time frame like shifting to digital platform wherever possible and to provide adequate remote services to the users. Given the extrinsic challenges in providing services during a public health emergency, the purpose of this paper is to find out how technology became a saviour for the premier technological institutions of India during the COVID -19 pandemic. The study explores the type of services provided by libraries of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) based on the contents published on their webpages. The study highlights the significant initiatives taken by the libraries which can be followed by others to meet the post lockdown needs.

Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth’s ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment of renewable energy potential, and for developing climate change mitigation policies such as REDD+, among others. Wall-to-wall mapping of aboveground biomass (AGB) is now possible with satellite remote sensing (RS). However, RS methods require extant, up-to-date, reliable, representative and comparable in situ data for calibration and validation. Here, we present the Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database. AGB and canopy height estimates with their associated uncertainties are derived at a 0.25 ha scale from field measurements made in permanent research plots across the world’s forests. All plot estimates are geolocated and have a size that allows for direct comparison with many ...

A global reference data set on cropland was collected through a crowdsourcing campaign using the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing tool. The campaign lasted three weeks, with over 80 participants from around the world reviewing almost 36,000 sample units, focussing on cropland identification. For quality assessment purposes, two additional data sets are provided. The first is a control set of 1,793 sample locations validated by students trained in satellite image interpretation. This data set was used to assess the quality of the crowd as the campaign progressed. The second data set contains 60 expert validations for additional evaluation of the quality of the contributions. All data sets are split into two parts: the first part shows all areas classified as cropland and the second part shows cropland average per location and user. After further processing, the data presented here might be suitable to validate and compare medium and high resolution cropland maps generated using remote sensing....

The study explored users’ perception of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) in enabling information retrieval in Nnamdi Azikiwe Library (NAL), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Nigeria. The aim is to ascertain how users of the library perceive the OPAC as regards to enabling retrieval of information resources in the library. Three research questions guided the study and descriptive survey research design was used to frame it. The population of the study was 15,483 registered library users, and a total of seven hundred and seventy-four (774) users were sampled from the population. This population cut across all levels and modes of study in the university. The data for the research was gathered through the instrument of a questionnaire which was generated in line with the research specific objectives and distributed among the students. The collected data were analysed using frequency and percentage. From the analysis, the findings revealed that OPAC is easy to navigate, it can search library resources from anywhere with internet connection and the clear search results enhances usability. However, some users feel overwhelmed by the volume of search results displayed with OPAC, a good number of them feel unfamiliar with the language of OPAC and most of them experience technical issues such as slow loading, website downtime, etc. In a similar vein, a good number of users believe that there is lack of awareness of the advantages of OPAC over traditional catalogue system, and there is lack of information search skills that affect the ability to use OPAC. The users were also challenged by limited access to internet network of which without it, OPAC use will not be efficiently utilized. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the library should increase the awareness of OPAC services among the university community. It was also recommended that the library should consistently educate users on the importance of OPAC especially as regards to retrieval of information resources in the library.

Il contributo riporta i contenuti discussi nell’ambito della giornata di studio “Dati nella rete: archivi e biblioteche nel Web semantico”, svoltasi il 4 dicembre 2015 presso la Biblioteca centrale “Caianiello” dell’Universita di Salerno, cui hanno partecipato Marina Mecheri, Isidoro D’Auria, Patrizia De Martino, Andrea Marchitelli, Roberto Raieli, Tiziana Possemato, Antonella Trombone e Valeria Lo Castro. La giornata ha offerto molteplici spunti di riflessione in merito all’evoluzione degli standard catalografici e delle tecnologie adottate dai bibliotecari per aggiornare metodi e pratiche di lavoro in linea con gli sviluppi del Web. Al di la della varieta di soluzioni tecniche a disposizione, emerge l’esigenza di disseminare la conoscenza e accrescere la dimensione sociale del lavoro bibliotecario, che si propone di sintetizzare nella formula linked open libraries .

Il contributo riporta i contenuti discussi nell’ambito del “Convegno AIB CILW 2016” intitolato “La rinascita delle risorse dell’informazione: granularita, interoperabilita e integrazione dei dati”, organizzato dal Gruppo di studio AIB Catalogazione, indicizzazione, linked open data e web semantico, svoltosi il 21 ottobre 2016 presso la Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma. La riflessione corale sugli aspetti teorici e pratici della trasformazione delle modalita di gestione delle risorse informative prodotta dall’adozione del Web semantico e dei linked open data, ha consentito di apprezzare alcune tra le buone pratiche messe in opera dai professionisti del settore culturale e di mettere a fuoco alcune prospettive particolarmente promettenti, quali lo sviluppo di nuovi modelli di visualizzazione dei dati e l’integrazione dei dati prodotti dagli specialisti GLAM con quelli prodotti dalla comunita wikimediana.

A global, unified dataset on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes under perennial crops has not existed till now. We present a global, harmonised database on SOC change resulting from perennial crop cultivation. It contains information about 1605 paired-comparison empirical values (some of which are aggregated data) from 180 different peer-reviewed studies, 709 sites, on 58 different perennial crop types, from 32 countries in temperate, tropical and boreal areas; including species used for food, bioenergy and bio-products. The database also contains information on climate, soil characteristics, management and topography. This is the first such global compilation and will act as a baseline for SOC changes in perennial crops. It will be key to supporting global modelling of land use and carbon cycle feedbacks, and supporting agricultural policy development.

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The relationship between influential tweeters and highly cited articles in the field of information sciences was analysed using Twitter data gathered by Altmetric.com from July 2011 through February 2017. The dataset consists of more than 10,000 tweets, and these mentions, retweets and followers were used to generate a connected, undirected graph. This graph reveals the most influential tweeters by identifying the largest drop in the eigenvalue of adjacency or affinity matrix of a graph when certain nodes are removed; those which, when deleted, cause the greatest drop in the eigenvalue of the graph are considered to be the most influential. The machine-learning model applied in this work utilizes a feature vector containing the accumulated sum of the rank scores of those influential users who tweet a given article, along with known altmetric features such as the user type and post counts for various social media. Finally, the supervised-learning model was trained using Random Forest and Support Vector Machine classifiers with 11 features, including the sum of the ranks of influential users who tweet a given article in our dataset. The results were analysed using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves and Precision Recall (PR) curves, which give the commendable outcomes compared to the baseline model. We found that, for the classification of highly cited articles, Twitter users' score for influence is the most important feature. Finally, we show that our model-which was trained by taking the score for influence into consideration-outperforms the baseline, at 79% for ROC and 90% for PR with the Random Forest Model, effectively identifying the highly cited articles.

This paper attempts a conceptual analysis of relationship between marketing as a strategy, and academic library as an information service provision centre. Marketing has a wider and deeper implication as it is applicable to not only profit making ventures but also not -for -profit social service oriented institutions such as libraries. The main concern or goal of libraries is user satisfaction of their products and services which marketing helps to advance. The paper, therefore, critically views the adoption of marketing techniques as a necessity to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of academic library services by offering products which would be wanted and valued by users so as to attract more and more users. With this, the public image of the academic library as an intellectual centre is likely to be boosted. All the attendant benefits of marketing in library operation especially on cost recovery and revenue generation for academic libraries are explored.

The integration of digital repository systems (DRS) in libraries has reformed information access and management, fostering higher levels of professional engagement among librarians. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Digital Repository System (DRS) and its associated training within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), particularly in relation to librarians' engagement levels. Utilizing a descriptive-correlational research design, 58 librarians from BARMM participated in the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman's Rho correlation analysis. Findings indicated that the DRS was highly rated in functionality, efficiency, reliability, and usefulness, emphasizing its effectiveness in supporting research and document retrieval. The usefulness dimension received the highest rating, highlighting the system's relevance to users' needs. DRS training was also evaluated positively, with participants expressing satisfaction with the quality, relevance, and delivery of the training content. While the training environment was conducive to learning. Librarians demonstrated high levels of cognitive, affective, and behavioral engagement, reflecting their active participation and enthusiasm in utilizing the DRS. A strong correlation was observed between the quality of the DRS and its training and the levels of librarian engagement, particularly in behavioral, affective, and cognitive domains. These findings underscore the critical role of robust systems and well-designed training programs in enhancing professional engagement. Hence, the DRS and its training effectively addressed librarians' professional needs, aligning with global best practices in digital information management. This study emphasizes the importance of leveraging technology and targeted training to empower librarians and ensure that library services remain responsive and innovative in the digital era.

The aim is to provide a pattern for managing the coronavirus crisis in public libraries. This is applied research that tried to find a suitable, conceptual, and comprehensive pattern for public libraries by an exploratory method and by observing the activities of different libraries in the world and reviewing related researches in the field of crisis management Designed and presented. The proposed pattern for crisis management was designed in three phases: pre-crisis, during crisis and after crisis. In the pre-crisis phase, major activities were presented under the headings of forecasting, prevention and preparedness. In the initial phase of the crisis, alerts, and information, operational measures, and continuous evaluation and rapid response to the information needs of clients were discussed and in the post-crisis phase, recovery, reconstruction and learning were considered. Impact of Corona crisis on library services and several months of stagnation in these centers show the importance and value of an applied model that can provide a safe strategy for the activities of public libraries in the country. This research can provide insights and practical solutions to respond to the global crisis of Covid 19 for Iranian public libraries that are facing this crisis is valuable. In all stages of the Covid 19 crisis management pattern presented in this study, the information element plays a first and very important role. With enough information and proper management and flawless implementation of operational plans by IT professionals and librarians, the critical situation can be largely controlled.

In the field of Information Science, an informative element that is considered to be essential to manage information is the figure of the author. Nevertheless, only a few studies in Journalistic Information Science have focused on the journalist as an author and the main responsible part for the information we read in press. In this article we will try to prove the documentary and journalistic importance of the journalist´s signature in the news. To back our arguments, we refer to the data taken out of the study of two local newspapers in Sevilla: El Correo de Andalucía and Diario de Sevilla. /
En el ámbito de la Documentación, un elemento informativo que se considera básico para gestionar la información es la figura del autor. No obstante, y siendo así, son pocos los estudios de Documentación Periodística que se han centrado en el periodista como autor y máximo responsable de la información que leemos en la prensa. En este artículo intentaremos demostrar la importancia documental y periodística que tiene el que el periodista firme sus noticias. Para apoyar nuestros argumentos tomamos como referencia los datos obtenidos del estudio de dos diarios locales de Sevilla: El Correo de Andalucía y Diario de Sevilla.

In the field of library and information science, content analysis is a fundamental task for the efficient retrieval of information by the users of information systems. In this paper, an analysis is conducted on the current state of this task at six major Spanish film libraries by interviewing those responsible for the content analysis of film collections and performing a comparative analysis of the fields related to film content in the most exhaustive document analysis worksheets employed by each one of these six institutions to catalog their film collections. /
En el campo de la documentación, una tarea fundamental para una eficaz recuperación de información por parte de los usuarios de los sistemas de información es el análisis de contenido. En la presente investigación analizamos el estado actual de esa tarea en seis importantes filmotecas españolas. Se ha entrevistado a sus responsables de documentación de fondos fílmicos y se ha hecho un análisis comparativo de los campos relativos al contenido fílmico dentro de las fichas de análisis documental aplicadas por cada una de estas seis instituciones sobre sus fondos fílmicos.

The consideration about film documents has evolutioned during the almost one hundred and twenty years of history of film: from being considerated as a mere merchandise which once used could be thrown out to be considerated part of a documentary, cultural and historical heritage whose preservation will have a vital importance as a memory of humanity for future generations. During this long way, which we will go across on the present research, some people (cinephiles, collectors, film producers and archives professionals) defended that documentary value, working and proposing projects until they achieved the creation of public film archives and of the international federation which coordinates them even today (FIAF), as well as that public organizations officially recognise that value from 1980. Remembering their recognitions, worries and projects, we want to pay a necessary homage with this work to all those people, at an opportune moment characterized by big cutbacks to film archives by governments. We must not allow those efforts fall into a dangerous oblivion which causes a new wave of massive destruction of film heritage, similar to the ones at the beginnings of the twenties, thirthies and fifties of the twentieth century. /
La consideracion que se ha tenido sobre los documentos filmicos ha evolucionado a lo largo de los casi ciento veinte anos de historia del cine, pasando estos de ser considerados mera mercancia que una vez usada podia desecharse a considerarse parte de un patrimonio documental, cultural e historico cuya preservacion tendra una importancia vital como memoria de la Humanidad para las futuras generaciones. En este dificultoso camino, que recorreremos en el presente articulo, algunas personas (cinefilos amantes del cine, coleccionistas, productores y otros profesionales del cine y de los archivos) reivindicaron ese valor documental, trabajando y proponiendo proyectos concretos hasta lograr que se creasen filmotecas publicas y la Federacion Internacional de Archivos Filmicos (FIAF) que aun hoy las coordina, asi como que los organismos publicos reconociesen oficialmente dicho valor a partir de 1980. Recordando sus reivindicaciones, preocupaciones y proyectos, queremos rendir un necesario homenaje con la presente investigacion a todas estas personas, en un momento oportuno de grandes recortes economicos a las filmotecas por parte de los gobiernos, para que aquellos esfuerzos no caigan en un peligroso olvido que nos haga volver a presenciar una nueva oleada de destruccion masiva del patrimonio cinematografico, similar a las sufridas a comienzos de los anos veinte, treinta y cincuenta del siglo XX.

Kütüphanelerin, bilgi kaynaklarının düzenlenmesi, korunması, erişime açılması ve geleceğe aktarılması yönünde önemli bir görevi vardır. Bu görev geçmişten günümüze kadar devam etmiştir. İnsanlığın gelişim süreci boyunca kütüphaneler, bilginin korunmasında ve aktarılmasında önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Eski zamanlarda kütüphaneler, tıpkı günümüzde olduğu gibi eski yazıların, kitapların, haritaların, el yazmalarının ve diğer belgelerin korunmasından sorumluydu. Günümüzde teknolojinin ilerlemesi ile kütüphaneler daha işlevsel hale gelmiş ve artık dijital bilgi kaynaklarını depolamak, düzenlemek ve bunlara erişmek için kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Gelişen teknoloji sayesinde, yapay zekâ teknolojileri, kütüphaneleri daha verimli hale getirmek için kullanılabilecek olası bir araç olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Gelecekte kütüphanelerde yapay zekâ kullanım alanları, bilgi ihtiyacını hızlı ve doğru bir şekilde gidermek, kütüphane kaynaklarını tanımlamak, kaynak arama süresini hızlandırmak olacaktır. Yapay zekâ teknolojileri, yukarıda belirtilen amaçlara ek olarak, kütüphane çalışmalarının verimliliğini artırmak, dermelerin sayısallaştırılmasını kolaylaştırmak, kütüphane hizmetlerini iyileştirmek için kullanılabilecektir. Ayrıca kullanıcı davranışlarını analiz edilebilecek ve kütüphanelerin dijital güvenliğini sağlayabilecektir. Yapay zekâ kullanımı sayesinde kütüphaneler daha güncel ve modern hizmetler sunabilecek ve kullanıcı deneyimi iyileştirebilir hale gelecektir. Bu çalışma, mevcut olan yapay zekâ araçlarının kütüphanelere, kütüphane personellerine ve kütüphane kullanıcılarına hizmet sunmadaki potansiyelini inceler. Bunun yanı sıra dünyada kütüphanelerde kullanılan yapay zekâ teknolojilerinden bahseder.

Identifying trustworthy sources necessitates sound grasp of information and good cognitive skills. This study aimed to examine the relationship between information literacy skills and critical thinking strategies for judging the reliability of internet sources among 500 students selected at random. Using a descriptive correlation design, the study investigated how these abilities and tactics affect students' ability to evaluate the accuracy, relevance, and reliability of online materials. The research is based on the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) framework and UNESCO's Digital Literacy Global Framework, focusing on key aspects of information literacy such as source evaluation, content analysis, and ethical information use, as well as critical thinking strategies that facilitate logical reasoning and evidence-based assessments. Findings reveal that both information literacy skills and critical thinking processes play an important role in evaluating the reliability of online sources. Students who have strong competences in these areas are better able to recognize misinformation, assess biases, and verify the legitimacy of sources. This highlights the importance of incorporating thorough training in information literacy and critical thinking methods into the academic curricula to prepare students to navigate the difficulties of the digital environment. The study can help educators, librarians, and legislators build courses that promote digital literacy and critical thinking by emphasizing the need of preparing students to be knowledgeable digital citizens who can make wise judgments in both academic and real-world settings.

In order to attain competitive superiority as a new administrative direction based on the organization's ability to outperform its competitors by providing superior value to customers, the current research attempts to determine the impact of proactive marketing dimensions as a tool for monitoring, detecting, and identifying variable changes in the business environment before they occur, and working to keep up with them. this research is applied to Greater Cairo's category (A) Egyptian travel agents. The descriptive-analytical method was employed to achieve the research goals. The study sample was selected from employees who worked in marketing, senior management, and tour program design. By applying the Robrt Mason formula, the sample size was calculated to be 382 people, who were chosen by simple random sampling. A survey questionnaire was used to gather data, and 322 fully completed questionnaires' worth of data were analyzed using SPSS 20 to test the study's hypotheses. The lack of a comprehensive understanding of proactive marketing, despite some travel agents applying some of its dimensions, and the statistically significant relationship between applying proactive marketing dimensions and attaining competitive superiority from the viewpoint of Egyptian travel agents' employees are two of the most significant findings of the research. The research also provided several recommendations, including the necessity for management in Egyptian travel agents to focus on developing a comprehensive understanding of proactive marketing and its application strategies, in order to achieve a competitive superiority.

We show the equivalence of two different notions of quantum channel capacity: that which uses the entanglement fidelity as its criterion for success in transmission, and that which uses the minimum fidelity of pure states in a subspace of the input Hilbert space as its criterion. As a corollary, any source with entropy less than the capacity may be transmitted with high entanglement fidelity. We also show that a restricted class of encodings is sufficient to transmit any quantum source which may be transmitted on a given channel. This enables us to simplify a known upper bound for the channel capacity. It also enables us to show that the availability of an auxiliary classical channel from encoder to decoder does not increase the quantum capacity.

A sensitivity study involving a real-virtual object alignment task was performed in a stereoscopic augmented reality environment, in which the known conflict between binocular fusion and object interposition cues was expected to play a major role. The object was to evaluate subjects' sensitivity to visual texture of a real hemisphere surface and to target position at designated probe points on that surface. Consistent with earlier experiments, the results indicate that: a) both surface texture and target position had significant effects both on real-virtual object alignment and on the estimate of surface normal direction; b) fusion breakdown caused by the conflict between occlusion and binocular disparity could have been used as an extra depth cue to detect virtual and real object interactions. In addition, a practical solution to improving remote 3D measurement accuracy is proposed.

With a growing demand for transparency and openness around scientific research and an emphasis on the sharing of scientific workflows and datasets, there is a similarly increasing number in the variety of client and web-based tools required to manage each stage in the lifecycle of individual datasets. Datasets are produced from a variety of instruments and computations; are analyzed and manipulated; are stored and referenced within the context of a research project; and, ideally, are archived, stored, and shared with the rest of the world. Each of these efforts, however, requires a number of user actions involving a growing number of systems and interfaces. In an effort to preserve the flexibility and autonomy of the researchers, but also to minimize the logistical effort involved, we present in this paper a partial solution approach to this problem through the integration of workflow execution, project collaboration, project-based dataset management and versioning, and long-term archiving and dissemination. This example demonstrates the orchestration of a number of existing Microsoft Research projects;

Online submission and publishing is the norm for academic researchers. With the pressure on these authors to submit their work to conferences, journals and Institutional Repositories, this leads to demands on the author to go through multiple web based interfaces, filling in forms with the same information multiple times before they can submit. At the same time, each of these services in turn will have made policy decisions on what types of format they allow and what templates the content has to conform to. The amount of work expected of the author does not adding up to the potential gain, thus most authors will only submit into the repository or publication where they foresee the most benefit. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem that embeds the workflow for multiple submissions into the desktop application of the author, most commonly Microsoft Word. We also propose extending the work done on the Microsoft Word Author Add-in tool to allow two-way negotiation between each repository and the desktop application.

Online submission and publishing is the norm for academic researchers. With the pressure on these authors to submit their work to conferences, journals and Institutional Repositories, this leads to demands on the author to go through multiple web based interfaces, filling in forms with the same information multiple times before they can submit. At the same time, each of these services in turn will have made policy decisions on what types of format they allow and what templates the content has to conform to. The amount of work expected of the author does not adding up to the potential gain, thus most authors will only submit into the repository or publication where they foresee the most benefit. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem that embeds the workflow for multiple submissions into the desktop application of the author, most commonly Microsoft Word. We also propose extending the work done on the Microsoft Word Author Add-in tool to allow two-way negotiation between...

The annual winter meeting aims to provide attendees, continuing professional education, vendor presentations, invited papers, and social events. More than 12,000 registrants attended nearly 800 events and visited more than 500 library vendors whose representation included technology, information materials and services, and an assortment of local fanfare and vendors promoting goods and services. Some preconferences promoted the synergy between adolescence and technology use. How libraries are engaging technology to meet the changing needs of most demographic units, including teenagers, families and scholars was the focus of several sessions. The conference hosted the Eighth Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture with Joe Klein, senior writer for Time and author of several best selling books discussing "Islam, Iraq and the War on Terror". Motivational speaker, Deena Ebbert used FISH! Philosophy as her theme, which build on the four rules of (1) be there, (2) play, (3) make someone's day, and (4) choose your attitude, using the fish metaphor for being near the famous Pike Place Fish Market -a few blocks from where the meeting was held. ALA President, Leslie Burger defined her presidential year as one of "Transformations", Susan Ershler shared some of her experiences having climbed Mount Everest, and Futurist Bob Treadway explored "Transforming the Future: 20/20 Foresight for Librarians and Libraries", concluding that the forecast for technology will be based on competitiveness, globally, locally and institutionally and that five questions will probably guide future technology decisions: (1) Have I seen it or something like it before? (2) What will it do for me? (3) What will I get out of it this? (4) how easy is it to use? (5) how much is it going to cost? This was the 18th year that integrated library system (ILS) Vendor Panel took place. This year, representatives from AutoGraphics, BiblioCommons, ExLibris, MediaLab, Polaris, Serials Solutions, SirsiDynix, TLC, VTLS, and WebFeat participated. A range of issues

The Grey Journal is a flagship journal for the grey literature community. It crosses continents, disciplines, and sectors both public and private. The Grey Journal not only deals with the topic of grey literature but is itself a document type classified as grey literature. It is akin to other grey serial publications, such as conference proceedings, reports, working papers, etc. The Grey Journal is geared to Colleges and Schools of Library and Information Studies, as well as, information professionals, who produce, publish, process, manage, disseminate, and use grey literature e.g. researchers, editors, librarians, documentalists, archivists, journalists, intermediaries, etc. The Grey Literature Network Services was established in order to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organizations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. Its main activities include the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, the creation and maintenance of web-based resources, a moderated Listserv, and The Grey Journal. GreyNet is also engaged in the development of distance learning courses for graduate and post-graduate students, as well as workshops and seminars for practitioners. In 2004, TextRelease entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing, the world's most prolific aggregator of full text journals, magazines and other sources. The full text of articles in The Grey Journal (TGJ) can be found in Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) full-text database.

Cyber Public Relations merupakan kegiatan kehumasan yang dilakukan dengan media internet atau yang sering disebut dunia maya (Cyber Space). Public Relations, dengan melalui media internet suatu bentuk Public Relations yang baru terbentuk. Yuliawati dan Enjang Pera Irawan (2016) dalam Jurnalnya yang berjudul Peran Cyber Public Relations dalam Memberikan Pelayanan Informasi Publik Secara Online Volume 1 Nomor 1 menyebutkan bahwa Cyber Public Relations yaitu Public Relations yang menjalankan berbagai aktivitas kerjanya dibantu dengan menggunakan internet sebagai sarana atau media untuk publisitasnya. Rusdianto (2014: 99) menjelaskan bahwa komunikasi melalui internet dianggap efektif, karena menciptakan hubungan One to One daripada media massa yang One to Many. Public Relations bisa langsung menyampaikan pesanpesan atau informasi tersebut kepada target publiknya, membina hubungan baik dengan media, membangun digital Brand Images hanya dengan melalui internet. Cyber Public Relations sudah semakin dikenal oleh kebanyakan khalayak. Penggunaan internet oleh para praktisi Public Relations merupakan kekuatan tambahan untuk membantu dalam menjalankan tugasnya, karena segala aktivitas Cyber Public Relations dapat dengan mudah diakses oleh para publiknya dimanapun dan kapanpun mereka inginkan. Pemakaian internet sangatlah efektif jika dilihat dari masyarakat pada zaman sekarang yang tidak terlepas dari internet

Perkembangan teknologi dan informasi menghadirkan media online yang dimanfaatkan sebagai alat informasi. Polda Jawa Barat melakukan pengelolaan Cyber Public Relations yang baik di bidang website, Polda Jawa Barat menggunakan media online sebagai sarana untuk penyebaran informasi dan publikasi mengenai aktivitas-aktivitas Kepolisian. Humas Polda Jawa Barat memanfaatkan dengan baik adanya kemajuan teknologi informasi dengan menyebarkan informasi kepada masyarakat melalui website resmi yang bernama tribratanews.jabar.polri.go.id. Terdapat beberapa hal yang menjadi daya tarik bagi peneliti untuk meneliti Pengelolaan Cyber Public Relations dalam meningkatkan Citra pada website tribratanews.jabar.polri.go.id, peneliti pun tertarik akan adanya proses pengelolaan Cyber Public Relations yang dilakukan dengan baik oleh Humas Polda Jawa Barat yang menjadikan Citra Kepolisian lebih baik dimata masyarakat lewat upaya Pengelolaan Cyber Public Relations pada website tribratanews.jabar.polri.go.id....

The authors would like to thank those responsible for the individual collections and archives, who were only too glad to provide information on their facilities, and Dr Christine Bärtsch (Marketing and Communication, ETH-Bibliothek) for her dedication in illustrating this brochure.

This study investigates the awareness and digitization of school libraries in Akwa Ibom State. The main objective of the study was to examine the extent of awareness of librarians on digitization of school library resources in private secondary schools and the software used in digitization and to further examine if the school librarians have the necessary skills for digitization of the library resources in Akwa Ibom State. Out of about 150 private secondary schools in the state, 25 were randomly sampled for the study. This study adopts cognitive flexibility theory. The design for the study was descriptive survey. The data were analysed using percentages and charts. The result of the findings indicated that librarians in Akwa Ibom State school libraries are awareof the digitization technology; but the extent of planning for digitization is low in their libraries. It was noticed that there are inadequate facilities in the libraries for digitization. The study further revealed that the school librarians do not have the skills for the implementation of digitization in the school libraries. Among the recommendations made was that school librarians should be trained and retrained for information skills acquisition.

Objectives: There is an urgent need for the collaboration between health science libraries and medical research institute in various regions of Nigeria, so as not dissipating their meager resources by trying to specialize in every aspect of medicine at the same time. This need is the after effect of years of economic challenges, insufficient manpower development, dilapidated infrastructure, poor information record keeping, inadequate financial support for research , among many others have resulted in the inability of health sciences libraries and medical research institute to meet up, in a timely manner with the information needs of healthcare providers in Nigeria. Methods: Thirty-four librarians of academic and officer cadre of three first generation university medical colleges and on medical research institute were surveyed. Results: Findings from the investigation revealed that Increase in depth of collection development, Increase in service to clients, Cost saving and Sharing of resources were the major reasons for library collaborations. Resources in the form of financial, human and leadership were the greatest facilitators to successful collaboration among medical libraries. The collaborators Need and knowledge of the accruable benefits and ability to was the highest factors that facilitated collaboration among medical libraries in Nigeria. Several resources of the libraries are already used for collaboration among medical libraries. These include coping and duplicating, Professional Issues, Inter library lending/loan services, and computerized searches of online data bases are the highest in ranking. The major barriers to library cooperation were Funding and Financial Issues. Poor power supply, lack of vision, fear of loss of control and Lack of telecommunication facilities also constituted barriers. Conclusion: Collaboration among medical libraries in Nigeria is already in existence and could get better if Library leaders understand their library's areas of strength, identified their Library resources and services that will promote effective collaboration between their health institutes and other medical libraries in support of free access to health information. It is recommended that Library leaders must take advantage of their library's area of strength, New Information and communication Technology, the internet and the world wide web in the inter library collaboration in this digital age

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji perilaku konsumsi konten berita palsu (hoax) di media sosial di kalangan masyarakat Indonesia. Penyebaran hoaks melalui platform seperti Facebook, WhatsApp, dan Instagram telah berdampak signifikan terhadap persepsi publik dan stabilitas sosial, khususnya terkait isu politik, kesehatan, dan SARA. Dengan menggunakan metode survei dan wawancara terhadap 400 responden dari berbagai kelompok usia dan latar belakang sosial, penelitian ini berfokus pada faktor-faktor yang mendorong masyarakat untuk mengonsumsi dan menyebarkan berita palsu. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rendahnya tingkat literasi digital, kepercayaan terhadap sumber informasi yang tidak diverifikasi, serta adanya bias konfirmasi menjadi faktor utama yang menyebabkan tingginya konsumsi berita palsu di kalangan masyarakat. Sebanyak 72% responden mengaku pernah terpapar dan mempercayai berita palsu, dan 45% di antaranya pernah menyebarkan informasi tersebut tanpa memverifikasi kebenarannya. Penelitian ini juga menemukan bahwa pengguna media sosial yang lebih muda lebih sering terpapar hoaks, sementara kelompok usia yang lebih tua cenderung lebih mempercayainya. Temuan ini menunjukkan pentingnya peningkatan literasi digital dan kolaborasi antara pemerintah, masyarakat, dan platform media sosial untuk mengurangi dampak negatif dari penyebaran berita palsu di Indonesia.
Kata kunci: hoax, berita palsu, media sosial, perilaku konsumsi, literasi digital

Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), a project of the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, was initiated in 1998, with the stated aim of the high-resolution digitisation of entire Gaelic manuscripts and of making the digital images freely available on the World Wide Web (www.isos.dias.ie). The growth and development of ISOS has therefore paralleled, and in some cases informed, the evolution of awareness of digital matters in Ireland over the last ten years. This paper describes the history and structure of ISOS, its public reception, its impact on research, and the varying uses that are made of the site. The questions of further potential and future direction are also addressed. Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), ein Projekt der School of Celtic Studies am Dublin Institut for Advanced Studies, war im Jahre 1998 mit dem Ziel initiiert worden, hochauösende Digitalisate der gesamten irischsprachigen handschriften Überlieferung anzufertigen und diese im World Wide Web frei zugänglich zu machen. Das ISOS Projekt hatte dadurch in den vergangenen zehn Jahren maßgeblichen Anteil an einer erstarkenden computergestützten Forschung in Irland. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt Geschichte und Struktur von ISOS, öentliche Wahrnehmung und Auswirkungen auf die Forschung sowie unterschiedliche Nutzungsformen der Website. Darüber hinaus werden Fragen zu dem Entwicklungspotential und den und Zukunftsperspektiven behandelt.

Since the publication of the Agile Manifesto at the beginning of the 2000s, the influence of agile methods in the scientific literature of software development and the industry has grown in a considerable manner. Considering the importance of these approaches in software engineering, the purpose of this work is to provide a bibliometric analysis of the publications on agile methods in Web of Science since the beginning of the millennium. In order to accomplish this, several analyses are performed on the co-citation networks of documents and keyword. In particular, this article provides a list of emerging topics and trends using burst analysis and a list of relevant works in the field of agile software development. These results provide a high-level overview of the main topics in current agile software development research.

Penyebaran hoaks di tengah pandemi di Jakarta Timur meningkatkan risiko kesehatan dan sosial, sehingga memicu kebutuhan akan edukasi yang tepat bagi remaja agar mampu menyaring informasi yang tidak terverifikasi dengan baik. Metode kualitatif digunakan dengan fokus pada penggunaan media sosial X oleh organisasi non pemerintah, penduduk, dan masyarakat umum. Penelitian dilakukan pada bulan Maret hingga Juni 2024 dengan delapan informan dari Jakarta Timur. Teknik pengumpulan data meliputi wawancara dengan informan. Analisis data dilakukan melalui analisis wawancara semi-terstruktur, yaitu pengumpulan data atau informasi yang lebih terbuka dengan memberikan kesempatan kepada informan untuk menyampaikan ide atau pendapat mereka. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media sosial X berhasil dalam menyebarkan informasi kesehatan, meningkatkan kesadaran, dan mempengaruhi perilaku kesehatan masyarakat. Dengan masyarakat yang semakin terbuka terhadap teknologi, pemanfaatan media sosial X sebagai sarana komunikasi kesehatan menjadi relevan dan efisien dalam era digital. Penelitian ini memberikan wawasan penting tentang peran media sosial X dalam meningkatkan kesehatan masyarakat di wilayah perkotaan, khususnya di Jakarta Timur.

The range of articles published per volume is between 14 and 17,. average number of references per article is 22.5; the average length per article is 41.2 pages,. 53 (69. 74%) of the articles are research oriented,' the percentage of multi-authored papers is slightly higher at 52.6% or 40 papers out of a total of 76,. the most prolific author contributed 12 articles,' 36 (45%) of the authors are geographically affiliated to Malaysia,' authors affiliated to library os,chools were well represented (55.2%),' the most productive institution is Faculty of Computer Science _and Information Technology, University of Malaya with 26 out of 80 author's affiliation,' the most popular subject is Scientific and Professional Publishing,. 30 (39.5%) articles contained author's self-citation, while the rate of journal self-citation is found to be 27.6% and most of the articles (67.1 %) contained no formal acknowledgement.

The pervasive use of IT is prominent amongst organizations in developing economies. However, there is growing evidence that these economies fail to capitalize on their IT investment to transform their organizations to be competitive both locally and globally. IT-related benefits are possible with appropriate governance of the IT-related resources, and we need to broaden our understanding on the IT governance mechanics suitable for organizations in the developing economies. In this study, we adopted an initial interpretive design to obtain a deeper understanding of the IT governance (ITG) environment and conceptions of the stakeholders on effective IT governance structures for the developing economies. We found that the presence of an IT Strategic Planning Committee, Multiple level of authority, and a Forum for informal discussions as the crucial components of an ITG structure in developing economies.

Larval fishes are a useful metric of marine ecosystem state and change, as well as species-specific patterns in phenology. The high level of taxonomic expertise required to identify larval fishes to species level, and the considerable effort required to collect samples, make these data very valuable. Here we collate 3178 samples of larval fish assemblages, from 12 research projects from 1983-present, from temperate and subtropical Australian pelagic waters. This forms a benchmark for the larval fish assemblage for the region, and includes recent monitoring of larval fishes at coastal oceanographic reference stations. Comparing larval fishes among projects can be problematic due to differences in taxonomic resolution, and identifying all taxa to species is challenging, so this study reports a standard taxonomic resolution (of 218 taxa) for this region to help guide future research. This larval fish database serves as a data repository for surveys of larval fish assemblages in the reg...

The study surveyed the use of Internet among undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 240 questionnaires were distributed using a stratified sampling method. A total of 190 questionnaires were returned and all were usable. The access point for using Internet among the undergraduates was mostly the computer center of Dhaka University. Findings revealed that a high percentage of the Internet was used among the undergraduates. Some problems they face in their use of the Internet include slow speed of the connection, limited number of PCs and other related issues of using Internet. The study recommends that the university and arts faculty should provide more access points for the students. Departmental computer labs, Internet facilities and incorporating ICT courses in the academic syllabi should be started to those departments where it is needed to overcome the problems. Moreover, modern net connection technologies need to be used and training program needs to be started for the undergraduates.