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The aim of the present study is to explore the current status of engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha, India. A questionnaire based survey has been conducted in the selected engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha and tried to assess the current status of staff, collection, services, Information Technology infrastructure, etc. The copies of well structured questionnaire have been distributed among the ten engineering college libraries in Bhubaneswar in the month of March 2019, out of which, six college libraries have been responded positively. It was found that all the responded engineering college libraries were providing Internet and Wi-Fi services and have adopted open access system to its collection. The library of ITER has the highest number of books (1,25,000) in its collection, whereas, the library of CVRCOE has 65,874 and the SIOT has 60,800 books. Further, The library of CVRCOE has 1,19,526 e-books and 778 e-journals, whereas, the library of ITER has 1,00,000 e-books and the library of HCOE has 5,000 e-books in its collection. It is also found that all the libraries under study were automated their activities and services with the implementation of professional library management software, as well as offering open access to its collection. Based on the findings, the researchers were also suggested that all the libraries under study must be concentrate on service quality and for that, libraries should regularly take the feedback from the users so that necessary improvement can be done as per the actual prerequisite of the users'. Keywords: Engineering colleges, Engineering libraries, ICT, Internet, Information services, Staff, Collection, Budget, Library status, Assessment, Introduction In this era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the world is turned over in a global village. Every walk of human life has drastically changed due to wide [...]

Due to impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and changing needs of users, libraries have to force to shift from manual to automated environment. Users now want quality services within shortest possible time. Libraries have to assess its services from the user's point of view. It is the user, who can judge the services better provided by the concerned library. In this paper, it is try to review the available literature on assessment of service quality of libraries worldwide. The present study would be beneficial for library professionals, research scholars and the teachers of library and information science, who want to do further research work on the aspect of service quality of libraries. Keywords: Service quality, LibQUAL+[R], ServQUAL, Agricultural libraries, Medical libraries, Assessment, Introduction The present era is of digital era and it is assume that every type of information should be available in digital form. Due to rapidly innovations in science and [...]

Education will play an important role in everyone's life. Education made the life disciplined in students and develops ethics among them to become an informed and civilized human being. In every education system, students, teachers and contents are playing very important role equally. If students are the main factor in education system then teachers are the backbone of the system that will shape the future of aspirant students. Before making the students aware and educated, teachers must be well versed in his concerned field of specialization. Teachers should be updating their knowledge by the means of various ways such as refresher courses, orientations, inductions, training programme and seminars, etc. The present study, reported the result of survey conducted among the fraternity of agricultural and allied sciences about the relevance and quality of the Refresher Course in Educational Technology conducted by the Academy of Agricultural Research & Education Management, Directorate of Human Resource Management, CCS HAU, Hisar (India). The participants in the said interdisciplinary refresher course come from agricultural sciences, veterinary sciences, extension management and library science. Some of the valuable feedback is given by the respondents about the program as well as rated their satisfaction regarding the said program. Keywords: Refresher Course, Educational Technology, Heterogeneous, Evaluation, Relevance, Impact, Introduction The knowledge dissemination and the skill orientation must be responsive to fast changing needs of the present global education scenario. The nature of teaching job has been changing constantly [...]

The purpose of this article was to explore the pattern of publications, using bibliometric analysis, of Journal of Documentation for the period of 2005 to 2018. The results of the study shows that a total of 687 articles were published in the 14 years period from 2005 to 2018, with 71 (10.3%) articles being published the highest total in the year 2018. The study confirmed that the maximum number of articles i.e. 304 (43.9%), were published by single authors, out of which, a large number were on research articles. Out of total number of articles published 228 (33.1%) were 16-20 pages in length. Volume number 74 in 2018 had the highest number of citations with a total of 91 (13.6%). In addition, the study confirmed that the highest number of articles were research articles with a total of 493 (71.7), while others were case studies, conceptual studies, literature reviews, viewpoints and technical papers and short communications, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is based on the bibliometric analysis of 161 articles published in 09 volumes (24-32) of 18 issues of Indian Journal of Agricultural Library and Information Services (IJALIS) for the period of nine years (2008-2016). This article brings out the results of a bibliometric study carried on all the issues of the source journal (IJALIS) on various parameters such as authorship pattern, gender wise distribution of papers, length of papers, average number of references, volume & issue wise average papers, geographical distribution of articles, range of reference cited and most prolific authors of the journal. The study finds that on an average, 18 research articles were published per volume in a year during the period of study, whereas, maximum number (39.75%) of articles was two authored followed by single authored (32.36%). Karnataka begged the top rank among all the 20 contributed states of India from where maximum number of contribution in the journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of public library or any type of library is to satisfy as many users as possible by utilizing resources optimally. Libraries, especially public libraries are often considered an essential part of having an educated and literate population and generally offering resources for entertainment, leisure purposes and for educational purposes as well. The present study discusses the current state of the Public Library System in Chandigarh. T.S. Central State Library, Sector-17 is older than Divisional Library (South), Sector-34. Both of the libraries are automated using LibSys Library management software. CSL has 2, 40, 270 volumes of books whereas DL (S) has above 1, 10,000. Registered member in the CSL is more than 40,772 and in DL (S) membership are more than 10900. Both of the libraries served the needs of the tricity (Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali) and the users of outside from the Tricity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the results of a study on the status of College of Education libraries in Punjab, India, revealing the insufficiency of library staff strength and the inadequacy of library computers.