Librarianship in the South

Open access repositories in Asia : from SAARC to Asian tigers

Roy, Bijan Kumar and Biswas, Subal Chandra and Muhopadhyay, Parthasarathi | 2012
  • Author(s): Roy, Bijan Kumar and Biswas, Subal Chandra and Muhopadhyay, Parthasarathi
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska. Lincoln libraries
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: library resources, data bases, information sources, asia
This paper provides an overview of Open Access Repository (OAR) initiatives taken in Asia with special reference to countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region.

Accessing electronic information : a study of Pakistan’s digital library

Said, Amina | cop. 2006
  • Author(s): Said, Amina
  • Publisher: International network for the availability of scientific publications (INASP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: copyright, publishing, intellectual property, libraries
Providing affordable access to scientific and technical research information is recognised worldwide as being an essential element in promoting national development. This case study, commissioned from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, documents how the setting up of a centralised national

Academic status and the doctoral degree requirement for promotion of librarians in Nigerian university libraries

Salaam, M.O. and Onifade, F.N. | 2009
  • Author(s): Salaam, M.O. and Onifade, F.N.
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska. Lincoln libraries]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: librarians, university and college libraries, career development, nigeria
This article presents the results of a survey that was conducted to collect information on whether or not Nigerian university libraries have introduced the PhD as a requirement for the promotion of academic librarians and to discover reaction of academic librarians to the issue.

Guide to institutions supporting librarianship in developing countries

Sandell, Birgitta | 1996
  • Author(s): Sandell, Birgitta
  • Publisher: Uppsala university library
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: library science, library associations, directories, management, marketing, reference services
The primary objective of this guide is to provide all IFLA bodies and other organizations working in this field with information about where to look for funding for projects concerning librarianship, information provision and reading promotion, and to give them an idea of what to do and how.

User's behaviour inside a digital library

Scarnٍ, Marco | 2010]
  • Author(s): Scarnٍ, Marco
  • Publisher: E-prints in library and information science (E-LIS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: library resources, use studies
Using several Web Mining and Data Mining techniques it is discovered that there is a gradual and dynamic change in the way how articles are accessed; in particular there is evidence of a Journal browsing increase in comparison to the searching mode.
 

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