2 research outputs found
Use of University’s Library Websites in Pakistan: An Evaluation
Vol. 14 (2013)
PJLIS
PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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Use
o
f
University’s Library Websites i
n Pakistan: An Evaluation
Dr. Muhammad
I
jaz
M
airaj
Librar
i
a
n
, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Email:
[email protected]
This study presents findings from a user
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based
evaluation of the use of Pakistani university’s library
websites. A questionnaire [printed and electronic] was
used to collect the data from 17 universities. A
p
urposive
sample of 60 users from each university
based on their academic role difference [faculty,
researchers, graduates and undergraduates] was
drawn.
The findings of the study show that use of university
library websites in Pakistan was satisfactory. Patrons
wh
o frequently used the Internet and library were
found as frequent users of the library websites.
University websites were found to be vital sources of
awareness about the presence of the library websites
and computers physically available at the university
libraries were the significant places to use the library
websites. Regarding users’ academic role difference,
faculty connected to the library websites from
departments/faculties, while researchers and students
preferred to use them from university librar
ies. The
library websites were mainly used to find course
-
related materials or search in online public access
catalogue (OPAC).
However, on the basis of users’ academic role
difference, faculty used the library websites to search
in Higher Education Commi
ssion (HEC) Digital
Library offering international scholarly literature;
researchers accessed them to search in OPAC, while
students preferred them to find course
-
related
materials. The study recommends creating dynamic
websites in all university libraries
of Pakistan with
useful content and state
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of
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the
-
art services for wider
use
Research Productivity of Journal of Librarianship and Information Science from 1999-2019: A Bibliometric Study
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JoLIS) is a peer-reviewed journal that deals with the fields of Library and Information Science and serving since 1969. The journal publishes various forms of data including articles, book reviews, letters, reviews and editorial material, etc. The study aims at highlighting the research productivity of JoLIS. Bibliometric data of JoLIS have been collected through Core Collection and Web of Science. VOSviewer, Biblishiny, and MS Excel spreadsheet were used to analyze the data. This bibliometric study explores the exact figures of publications, types of documents, year-wise distribution of published documents, frequency distribution of specific productivity, top 10 highly cited articles, bibliographic coupling of organizations, document productions from different countries, and the most used author’s keywords. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the content of JoLIS, and a systematic analysis of its research productivity from 1999 to 2019. Moreover, this study provides a methodological framework for the research productivity of this journal in future