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The article presents some tips for librarians. Librarians need to adopt "future pull" thinking in order to forecast the future in a realistic way, and prepare people and libraries for it. They need to adopt some of the techniques used by futurists to identify problems, focus thinking, and plan future directions. The article presents one simple process for examining future possibilities. It is an exercise designed to encourage lateral and creative thinking, and can be carried out individually or in group brainstorming sessions.

The article argues the need transform the library reference service to meet the 21st century needs of independent student researchers who are shunning the reference desk. Topics covered include the elimination of reference desk and its replacement by course-integrated instruction and research assistance on-demand, the changing user expectations and practices regarding reference services, and the library services expectations of students and millennials.

The article offers information on the digital library projects initiated by a number of libraries and information centers in India. It includes the Digital Library of India (DLI) which seeks to preserve Indian heritage contained in books, manuscripts, art, and music, the National Mission for Manuscript Digitization which aims to facilitate conservation and preservation of manuscripts, and the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) which documents the public domain traditional knowledge.

The article presents a case study which discusses the marketing of information in Goa University Library (GUL) in India. It highlights the methods used by GUL in designing its marketing approach which include product development, physical distribution of information, and pricing. It notes the significant contribution of marketing to the growth of GUL.

The article reports on the emergence of electronic books (e-books) and their integration in academic libraries in the U.S. It highlights the advantages of the said technology and its presence in several libraries such as the Kansas State University (K-State) Libraries. It explores the benefits of electronic reference collections for libraries and the challenges that they can encounter during the deployment process.

The article focuses on the strategy of the faculty of the Division of German Language and Literature in the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Utah to collaborate with librarians to address the gap in information literacy for German language in Utah. It notes the advantage of the initiative since it enables the division to assist graduate students in finding the information they need. The division also provides students with materials to study for their examination.

The article presents a case study on the challenges of acquiring information resources in major university libraries in Pakistan. It explores the factors that caused the difficulty of accessing books and other information resources to university libraries in the nation. Moreover, it recommends steps for the government to implement practical and realistic measures to ensure smooth flow and procedure in acquiring books in university libraries.

The article discusses the importance of booklists in libraries. It outlines the advantage for libraries to develop a universal collection of homogenous materials or booklist since it can help librarians and researchers easily collect materials and access to the needed resources. However, it reminds libraries and their users to avoid over reliance on booklist and must use their own discretion when choosing what is best.

The article presents a study which examines the serials processing in university libraries in Southern Nigeria. A survey was conducted in the study to determine the difference and impediments to effective serials processing activities. Results reveal that serial processing activities differ among libraries while lack of locally published serials catalogue and serials processing tools as well as local serials information are some of the barriers to effective serials processing.

The article focuses on booklists and library development. Information is provided on lists of award-winning books and bestseller lists, which are two examples of a traditional booklist. The purpose of a booklist is to influence a reader on what to read. Particular attention is given to the controversial aspects of booklists. A historical analysis of library policies in regard to book collections in the U.S. is provided. The article also discusses the disagreements which exist in regard to which books belong in booklists.

The objectives of this research is to analyze how often users seek out relevant and current information in the collection of Redeemer's University Library, the relationship the library has with the faculty, the effectiveness of the collection, the weaknesses and strengths of the collection, and the qualitative level of collection support for a specific academic program. Faculty members were from the humanities, management and natural sciences departments and they were the targets of the research because they knew the most about the curricular expectations of the university.

The article focuses on the strengths, problems, and suggestions for library education in Bangladesh. According to this study library education in this country has received little attention and libraries need staff that are well educated and goal-oriented. Library science programs have not done surveys to find out what are the needs of the country's libraries and information centers in order to assess what the staff qualifications should be. Information on the development of library education systems in this country is provided.

The article reports on the study that evaluates the strengths as problems of the library education in Bangladesh. It shows that library education in the country has received little attention, although libraries need dynamic people with the proper education to achieve their goals. It argues that library science programs have not conducted surveys to determine the needs of libraries and information centers, to determine the qualifications needed to staff such institutions.

The article discusses the availability and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in University and special libraries collection management in Nigeria. It emphasizes the importance of internet to global communication which brought awareness and stay connected to people and organization. It also notes that the university libraries in the area have more ICT facilities than special libraries and wherein the availability does not guarantee the library collection management.

The article discusses the impact of electronic library (e-library) to the literacy skills of students at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria. It mentions that most students have not used the e-library resources not because they lack the skills, instead, they were not formally taught with using such resources. It notes the lack of specific information literacy standard by the university for its students. It also emphasizes the level of information policy acquired by the students.

The article assesses the effectiveness of the resources in Nigeria's agricultural research institute libraries based on the satisfaction of users. It notes that the users were not satisfied with the libraries' electronic resources and collections. It mentions that the libraries failed to support research mandate of the institution. It also emphasizes that the ineffectiveness led to gross underfunding of the libraries by the parent institutions.

The article discusses the availability and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in collection management in university and special libraries in the Niger Delta Region in Nigeria. The adequacy and funding of ICTs in the universities and special libraries in the Niger-Delta region are considered. How ICTs were used for collection management and what effect, if any, do they have in university and special libraries in the area are explored. The different hypotheses that were tested and the ex-post-facto descriptive research design are noted. It was found that the university libraries in the region have more ICT facilities than special libraries and that availability doesn't guarantee their use for libraries' collection management.

The article looks at several facilities available in the libraries of Agricultural Research Institutes in Nigeria such as serials collection, library services, and special services that include selective dissemination of information, contents search, and reprography. The research methodology used was a social survey research involving systematic collection of opinion data, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors of people using questionnaire, structured interview, and direct observation. The results of assessments of user satisfaction with several different electronic resources, the library's collection, and overall effectiveness of the library are discussed.

The article discusses how students' information literacy skills affect the use of the electronic library (e-library) at the University of Ilorin at Kwara State, Nigeria. According to the article, the term e-library means the same as digital library, universal library, and virtual library. How the lack of information literacy skills affects the effective use of electronic library resources among the students are examined. The information literacy competency standards of the Association of College and Research Libraries are considered. The study found from questionnaire results that there is a lack of information literacy skills being taught to the students by the school. Several recommendations are made to develop the teaching and assessing of information literacy skills of students.

The article discusses using marketing research as a tool for discovering library users' needs and demands. It is suggested that library services should be based on the marketing concept to achieve user satisfaction and promote a customer service culture to enhance the library's image. Investigating the type, quality, and service quantity required by library users has been the basis of library marketing. Marketing research by the researcher Mittermeyer was used to determine library users' opinions about the University of the Punjab's Department of Library and Information Science in Lahore, Pakistan. Mittermeyer's "Third Party Theory" comprises the customers, the library services provider, and the administration. Several recommendations were made to develop a user-centered marketing plan.

The article presents a study which examines the library collection arrangement and shelving in academic libraries in West Bengal, India. The noise level was measured with the use of a Sound Level meter and responses of library users were gathered with the use of a modified user response checklist. The study shows that shelving in the chosen libraries occupies more than 50% of the total space of the library, lessening the reading and libraries' functional spaces.

The article presents a study that determines the importance of scholarly communications (SCs) in literature. It provides an overview of the definition and different means of SC, which describes the processed involved in a research and how they were communicated and evaluated among peers. It also mentions the significant transformation of SCs from print to electronic journals, as well as the evolution of their publications.

The article presents a citation analysis of doctoral theses from the Department of Animal Science at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria. The usefulness of citation analysis is described, noting that it allows researchers to observe citation practices, determine whether a piece of scholarly writing is competitive or useful compared with other works in its field, and collaborate in an effort to improve the quality of scholarly research. The goals of the study presented in the paper are also described, which include the identification of the sources cited most often in the doctoral theses of the University of Ibadan Department of Animal Science, the discovery of the age of items cited in the doctoral theses, and the discovery of citation patterns in the field of animal science.

The article discusses a study that determined the adequacy of the Kenneth Dike Library collection to support post-graduate research in the Faculty of Science of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Seven basic types of numerical facts are needed, including theses produced within 2000/2001 and 2002/2003, list of citations in each thesis sampled and number of citations in the library. The authors conclude that the library should subscribe to more scientific journals.

The article discusses research on the state of textile engineering college libraries located in Haryana, India in 2010. It talks about the transformation of education for engineering and allied subjects due to the emergence of information and communication technology (ICT). It states that a questionnaire was designed to gather primary data for the study.

The article discusses research on the behavior of visually impaired people in libraries located in Delhi, India in 2010. It states that the effectiveness and efficiency of the utilization of information resulted to the progress and sustainable development of the society. It mentions that Delhi boasts of its library networks, documentation centers, and libraries.

The article discusses research on the retrospective conversion activity that occurred at the central library of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in India in 2010. It talks about the culture of India which is marked by syncretism and cultural pluralism. It offers information on the manuscript collection of the library and the National Museum for Manuscripts (NMM) project that was launched by the Indian Ministry of Culture.

The article discusses a research that investigates the bibliometric characteristics of the biochemistry research in the University of Kerala, India. These include subject wise break-up, bibliographic forms of cited documents, most cited journals and collaboration in authorship. The study focuses on the analysis of biochemistry doctoral theses awarded from the Department of Chemistry of the university from 1966 to 2007.

The article explores resource sharing among law libraries in Nigeria. It examines the benefits of sharing resources for the individual library user, institution library and parent institution, and discusses categories of resource sharing. The article also elaborates on information and communications technology (ICT) as a driving force for sharing resources, highlights the factors mitigating against resource sharing on Nigeria, and recommends promoting cooperative collection development.

The article discusses a study that explored the use of information and communication technology (ICT) and collection management in public libraries of Nigeria. A descriptive study using an ex-post-facto design was adopted. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 147 staff and users of public libraries. The study found that the new ICT has reached only a few libraries in South-South Nigeria. Most respondents said only a few ICT facilities are available.

The article is an essay on the Resource Description and Access rules for revising cataloging practice and the cataloging profession. Cost concerns with the production of bibliographic records are discussed. The view that bibliographic records are an intellectual asset is mentioned. An iterative approach for enhancing cataloging records is also mentioned.

The article focuses on the management of special collections in federal and state university libraries in Nigeria. The discussion topics include the supervisory styles used in Nigerian academic libraries, the researcher's design of a structured questionnaire, and study data from several institutions including Benue State University Library, University of Maiduguri Library, and University of Ibadan Library. Brief information is given about related research on adequate manpower, appropriate facilities for storage, and supervisory leadership.

The article presents research on the reading habits of senior secondary education students in Allahabad City, India, as well as a library use study of their use of their school libraries. A survey of students was conducted on topics including motives for reading, time spent reading on a daily basis and use of reference materials in school libraries. It was found that a large majority of students borrowed books from their school libraries, used reference materials, and read books and periodicals in both the English and Hindi languages.

The article examines the management of information technology, particularly computers and the Internet, in libraries in Nigeria. Efforts by those libraries to close the so-called "digital divide" in which many persons lack access to the Internet and other digital media are discussed. It is noted that the main emphasis of libraries is shifting from the collection and storage of books to offering access to electronic information services. The importance of training Nigerian librarians in digitization and insuring a high level of information literacy among librarians is stressed.

This article presents a study conducted to ascertain the effectiveness of academic libraries in Nigeria at providing patrons reliable access to research information compared to the information that might be accessed at cybercafés. Topics discussed include the changing availability of research information in various electronic and print formats, the evolving role of librarians as gatekeepers to information needs, and a comparison of the authenticity of information from each potential source. The methodology for the survey was a descriptive survey.

The article discusses the implementation and use of library Intranet services, presenting the results of research concerning the use of Intranet services at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. According to the article, users reported that intranet services were accessed most frequently from the computer centre for purposes of research and study. The article suggests that efficient Intranet use would involve staff cooperation, uninterrupted power, and user training. The search behavior of intranet users is mentioned.

The article presents a 2011 study done by the University of Nebraska--Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska which looks at the models of ways that librarians add to a library's collections, focusing on the collection-building models by which the librarian purchases titles to meet current users' needs and anticipate the needs of future users. It looks at the economic impact of building collections, and discusses interlibrary loaning (ILL) and purchase-on-demand (POD) as collection-building vehicles. It also states that POD programs help to build staff morale, lead to greater efficiencies, and improve the public relations of libraries.

The article analyzes the success of the School Resource Centre (SRC) program established by the Malaysian Ministry of Education in 1983 in place of school libraries. The article seeks to examine the relationship between SRC programs and student academic achievement and information literacy by exploring the role of school administrators in the resource centers. Other topics discussed include how often Malaysian high school teachers visit the SRC, the types of materials often found in the SRC, and recommendations for how librarians can ensure that the SRC's collections support their school's curriculum.

The article argues that librarians should incorporate reader response theory and other literary theories into Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate programs in order to help future librarians better connect with and serve library patrons. The author suggests that in teaching students only the technical aspects of library science, it prevents academic librarians and public librarians from helping patrons with relevant questions on reading materials. Other topics discussed include the importance of teaching a history of reading, the use of reader response theory in designing book recommendation websites like Whichbook.net, and how understanding patrons' reading habits can help streamline the acquisition process.

The article presents the results of a study investigating information literacy skills among science students at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, India. The study's goals of quantifying student's information literacy and the extent to which information literacy programs met their needs and methodology of using student questionnaires is examined, and the importance of information and communications technology (ICT) competency for students is commented on. Suggestions for improving informaiton literacy programs are also offered.

The article presents a comparative study in which researchers analyzed the relationship between the level of study conducted by student library users and the extent of use of library resources by these students in Nigerian universities in 2004-2005. Researchers were interested in gathering this information in order to help university libraries manage their facilities and resources. Other topics discussed include the value and scope of the research, the implications of the study on Nigerian university library collections, and the recommendation that libraries promote their available resources to capitalize on their collections.

The article examines the role of information technology (IT) services in academic libraries as technological innovations like the Internet become more prevalent in research. It examines student and staff perceptions of the impact of IT services as well as user expectations and the use of IT in the Institute for International Management and Technology (IIMT) in India. Other topics include a profile of the IIMT Library's technological services, an analysis of the data collected from student users of the library, and recommendations on how IIMT staff can improve their IT services.

A case study is presented on trends in the use of electronic journals (e-journals), with a focus on the PEC University of Technology in Chandigarh, India. Topics include the researchers' preferred methods of accessing e-journals at PEC, the advantages of e-journals over print material, and the infrastructure and facilities provided by the PEC library for accessing e-journals.

A case study is presented regarding the Masood Jhandeer Research Library (MJRL) in Sardarpur Jhandeer, Pakistan, the country's largest private library. Topics include the availability of equipment and facilities for the preservation and conservation of manuscripts and rare materials, MJRL's plans for future development, and the status of the library's collection as of December 2011.

The article presents the results of an analytical study investigating library services, resources, and information technology (IT) infrastructure in medical college libraries in Gujarat, India. The study's goals and mixed case study and questionnaire methodology are described, and the finding that IT infrastructure and library automation are at what the authors describe as an insufficient state of development is commented on. The suggestions that more focus should be given to human resources development is also offered.

The article presents the results of a study investigating the use of electronic resources at the Krishnasamy Collect of Engineering & Technology Library in Cuddalore, India. The study's goals of determining the utilization, satisfaction levels, and opinions of students, faculty, and staff regarding electronic information resources and methodology are described, and the findings that many more students than faculty utilized electronic resources and that many still preferred print versions of resources due to convenience are explored.

The article describes a study of the adoption and usage of university library information technology (IT) resources by graduate students at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in Nigeria. Researchers looked at issues such as student awareness of available IT resources, student IT patterns and preferences, and barriers to the utilization of IT resources. Library IT resources include automated online cataloging and reference, CD-ROMs, and e-mail. The results indicate that most students are aware and use IT resources for their studies, that internet-based IT resources are the most preferred, and that some students require increased assistance from library personnel to optimize their use of these services.