Showing papers in "Annals of Library and Information Studies in 2012"

Impact of online interactivity dimensions on library website quality

Abstract: The paper seeks to investigate how far the interactivity dimensions - as proposed by Ha and James (1998) and empirically validated by Chen and Yen (2004) using business websites - are applicable to library website. It also attempts to frame an online interactivity model, depicting the effect of interactivity dimensions on library website quality. The analysis revealed the way interactivity dimensions affects quality of website and the study suggests that the four interactivity dimensions - reciprocal communication, connectedness, information collection, and playfulness - have considerable impact on the quality of library website. The online interactivity model deduced from the study will help librarians to determine the relationships of four independent variables (dimensions of interactivity) with the dependent variable (website quality). The findings will help researchers, librarians and web developers alike to measure qualitatively the effect of interactivity dimensions on library website quality which will guide them in developing an interactive library website to attract users towards the library.

Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Library Staff Training: A Comparative Study

Abstract: Through a questionnaire survey, the study identifies and compares the impact of ICT on training of library humanresources in two university libraries each of India and Iran Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse dataThe findings show that though both Indian and Iranian library staff believe that introduction of ICT in libraries has created aneed for training Library staff from Iran have perceived the effect of ICT on their training needs more than their Indiancounterparts The article concludes that university libraries in both countries have to get their library staff trained in ICT

Assessing the use of electronic information resources in DRDO institutes: An analytical study of DRDO e-journals consortium

Abstract: Resource sharing amongst libraries is a good old practice that is aimed at overcoming budgetary constraints. The new millennium saw quite a few number of Library Consortia established in the country, NKRC of CSIR and INDEST being the most successful of them. After taking in to consideration the experiences of these and other Library Consortia that are successfully serving their users, DRDO E-Journals Consortium was established by DESIDOC in the year 2009 with 7 core publishers. This paper briefly discusses the genesis of the DRDO Consortium, its services, budgetary provisions, services offered, and efforts made by DESIDOC to enhance the use of e-resources across the Organisation. An analytical study of the usage of e-resources by the DRDO scientific community was also made and the inferences were listed. Overall the Consortium has been perceived as a major facilitator in providing required information within least possible time.

Indian S&T journals in international indexing and abstracting databases: A study

Abstract: The coverage of Indian science and technology (S&T) periodicals in major international indexing and abstracting (I&A) services has been studied. It is found that about 1200 Indian S&T journals are being covered by at least one of the international I&A services and over 300 S&T journals are openly accessible. However, coverage of Indian S&T journals by major citation databases, Web of Science (WoS) & Scopus is relatively poor. The newly launched Indian Citation Index (ICI) promises to cover more Indian journals.