International Journal of
Library and Information Science

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Lib. Inf. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2537
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJLIS
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 246

Table of Content: September 2014; 6(3)

September 2014

A reference analysis of doctoral theses in the field “Education”: An interesting issue for librarians as well as scientometricians or bibliometricians

The 3195 citations analyzed were cited in 35 doctoral theses of Education awarded to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra from the period 1995-2008. The bibliographic formwise distribution of citations accounted for 1380 (43.20%) periodical publications followed by Books 672 (21.04%). More than two third contributions (56.23%) were produced under single authorship. Largest of total cited periodicals were of Indian origin...

Author(s): Suresh K. Kagra and Sanjeev Sharma

September 2014

A study of availability and utilization of library electronic resources by undergraduate students in private universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

The degree of availability and utilization of e-resources in any university library may influence the information services provision to students. The main objective of the study was to investigate the availability and utilization of e-resources by undergraduate in selected private university libraries in Ogun State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted and the study population consisted of 9700 undergraduates...

Author(s): Ganiyu Oluwaseyi Quadri, Airen Edale Adetimirin and Oluwafemi Adebayo Idowu

September 2014

Use of periodicals in Engineering College Libraries under North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon

Engineering college libraries attempt to meet the need of a diverse and complex group of users, who have wide ranging interest and complex sets of demands.  Over the course of the last decade, very valuable resources of information have become available through the Internet and other electronic database, and libraries are currently playing role very different from that of before.  Periodical serials are the...

Author(s): Prashant S. Bhat