World Digital Libraries - An international journal - Volume 12, issue 2

Authors: Seadle, Michael

Article Type: Editorial

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. v-vi, 2019

Authors: Gond, S. | Sonker, S. K. | Malik, F. A.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in India have established new records in the agriculture sector. In 2016–17 food grain production was estimated at record 275.68 million tonnes. In comparison to 2013–14, it was 4% higher. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has played a pivotal role in technological development and its demonstration in the country. The National Agricultural Research System (NARS) has taken a number of initiatives through KVKs such as farm technologies besides refinement, demonstration, and other development programmes. ICAR on its 89th Foundation Day launched National Level Programme in Higher Education in Agriculture (NAHEP) to strengthen agriculture. Majority …of the remarkable work in India in agriculture is facilitated by KVK libraries. Primary objective of the current study is to analyse KVK libraries, in terms of their training programme implementations in India and awareness on the part of farmers about KVK libraries. Simple descriptive statistics has been used for carrying out analysis. There are two major findings of the study: (i) KVKs are still facing challenges at the programme implementation and (ii) there is a huge gap in the awareness amongst farmers about KVK libraries. Show more

Keywords: Farmers, Visitors, Management programmes, Awareness

DOI: 10.18329/09757597/2019/12206

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1-14, 2019

Authors: Muthee, D. W. | Masinde, J. M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This article discusses the salient features of a case study carried out among postgraduate students at Kenyatta University Post-modern Library. The study was primarily focused at recognizing cognitive factors, responsible for influencing library users’ information-seeking behaviour. In order to develop the variables, Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of motivation was used. A descriptive survey method was utilized to study a sample size of 384 students spread across four main schools: (i) Education, (ii) Business Studies, (iii) Humanities and Social Sciences, and (iv) Science and Technology. Results confirmed that expectancy theory can be utilized to explain students’ information-seeking behaviour. Three different groups—some with …strong, others with medium, and rest with weak influences—were found. Interaction service quality, driven by students’ perception of service quality was found to be the most critical. Information needs satisfaction (outcomes) together with student users’ perception of service quality amongst others informed their level of satisfaction with the overall service. The findings support the idea that understanding cognitive information behaviour can help university libraries to plan more appropriate services. The implication of this study is that there are particular key cognitive drivers that trigger users’ information-seeking behaviour in academic libraries. Show more

Keywords: Cognitive factors, Information seeking, Expectancy theory, Motivation, Postgraduate students

DOI: 10.18329/09757597/2019/12207

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 15-44, 2019

Authors: Gupta, B. M. | Dhawan, S. M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This article analyses virtual reality research output (91,429) published and indexed in Scopus database during 1996–2017, on a series of aspects, such as the growth rate, global share, citation impact, share of international collaborative publications, distribution of publications by broad subjects, productivity and citation profile of top organizations and authors, preferred media of communication and bibliographic characteristics of highly-cited publications. Virtual reality annual research output registered a 10.94% average growth rate. The top 16 countries contributed global publication share ranging from 1.68% to 24.19%. The USA is the global leader in virtual reality research with highest 24.19% global publication share, …followed by China (14.33%), Germany (7.59%), UK (7.34%), and Japan (6.63%). During 1996–2017, the top 16 countries together contributed nearly 92.55% global publications. Computer science, among 10 subjects, contributed the highest publication share (61.48%), followed by engineering (37.71%), mathematics (15.13%), medicine (11.27%), social sciences (8.11%), and physics and astronomy (5.07%). The top 15 most productive global organizations and authors were analysed on a series of indicators such as publication output, citations received, citations per publication, share of international collaborative publications and relative citation index. The top 15 most productive journals together reported 10.66% global publication share in virtual reality research output. The study also analysed 1,333 highly-cited publications in the subject of virtual reality. Show more

Keywords: Virtual reality, Global publications, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics

DOI: 10.18329/09757597/2019/12208

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 45-58, 2019

Authors: Alam, M. N. | Mukhopadhyay, P.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to develop a prototype virtual union catalogue—SpaceCat—based on physical and virtual model that provides single-window real-time search system designed to display an up-to-date information of collections from the participating Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) libraries, geographically distributed in India. To understand the working of a union catalogue, the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) functionalities it offers, a feasibility study of the already existing OPACs of union catalogues worldwide was undertaken. This study showed that only a few union catalogues have functions of real-time item-level status of availability; placing holds, single sign-on, personal reading history, late …fee calculation, and so on. The global giants in the domain of union catalogue such as WorldCat, Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues (COPAC) are not providing desired OPAC functionalities in the end-user interfaces. This paper aims to solve this issue by using Integrated Library System–Discovery Interface (ILS–DI) as a standard protocol to interlink front-end search interface that library users interact with, and is often referred to as the ‘Online Public Access Catalogue’ or OPAC of a union catalogue with back-end of the Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) that is specifically for staff use. The prototype SpaceCat has been developed on the basis of Open Standards and Open Source (OSS) Software. The framework includes Koha ILS as data provider, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as data harvesting protocol, VuFind as discovery layer, and ILS–DI-based multi-backend driver for generating OPAC functionalities in end-user interface including single sign-on option. The study suggests that the product can act as an information discovery and retrieval system to help end-users of entire ISRO community to quickly access the holdings’ information from different geographically distributed ISRO institutes in a pin-pointed, an exhaustive, and an expeditious manner. Show more

Keywords: SpaceCat, Union Catalogue, ISRO, VuFind, Koha, India, ILS–DI

DOI: 10.18329/09757597/2019/12209

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 59-70, 2019

Authors: Sankar, T. P. | Deepa, N. | Bhattacharya, P. K. | Ganguly, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The competitive strength of a nation’s economy depends upon the availability and access to research infrastructure which includes both hardware (that is, equipment) and software, largely catering to the scientific fraternity in the country. Scientific equipment is a vital element in research infrastructure; its access and availability enables scientists to efficiently carry out research and development. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to recognize the significance of scientific equipment in research and development infrastructure. It is significant to recognize that scientific equipment and research infrastructure are intimately associated with policy frameworks that facilitate and enable procurement, maintenance, and disposal of …scientific equipment, and management systems for providing information on accessibility, sharing of equipment, and trained manpower. The present article highlights the creation and operation of a web-based database that catalogues scientific equipment located at various academic and research institutions across the country. Such inventorization of institutional record of scientific equipment is necessary for facilitation of access and resource sharing which will result in optimum utilization of equipment. It is hoped that the findings of the study contained in this article would be of immense use to the government, researchers, and academicians including industry, leading to policy actions, appropriate incentive structures for strengthening and fostering the innovation ecosystem in the country. Show more

DOI: 10.18329/09757597/2019/12210

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 71-84, 2019

Article Type: Other

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 85-88, 2019

Article Type: Book Review

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 89-92, 2019

Article Type: News

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93-96, 2019

Article Type: Meeting Report

Citation: World Digital Libraries - An international journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 97-98, 2019