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- Public Libraries and Community Information Services: An Experience in Blocks of Sundarban Region, South 24 Parganas
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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 56, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 32-35Abstract
Public libraries are called people’s university. The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between public library and Community Information Services (CIS) in various blocks of Sundarban region, of South 24 Parganas district. Community Information Services is one through which a public library provides community information to members of the community it serves. This paper also discusses Community Library cum Information Centres (CLICs). Examining the librarians’ as well as users’ perspectives, an effort has been made to offer some suggestions.Keywords
Community Information Service, Community Library cum Information Centres (CLICs), Public Libraries, West Bengal.
References
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- Library Association (1980). Community Information: What libraries can Do: A Consultative Document. London: The Library Association. Working Party on Community Information, The University of Michigan; 135p. ISBN: 0853658722, 9780853658726. https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Community_Information.html?id=MN-7gAAAAMAAJ& redir_esc=y.
- Majumder, K.P. (2016). Community information services through public libraries and information centres: An experience in West Bengal, India. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 5:797-804, Retrieved from www.qqml.net/papers/...2016.../544QQML_Journal_2016_Majumder_797-804.pdf
- Ramaiah, L.S. and Sankara Reddy, M. (2010). Position and status of public libraries in India: A critical study. In: L.S. Ramaiah et al. (Eds.), National conference on public libraries in the knowledge societies, Vijayawada: APLA: p. 9-19.
- Social Cataloguing Sites:Features and Comparison in Relation to ISBD
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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 56, No 5 (2019), Pagination: 257-260Abstract
In the past few years, the number of social site related applications has increased; and also, these are playing an important role in the collection and sharing of knowledge. These types of application give users the freedom to create vocabulary, which helps to describe and categorize online resources. The social cataloguing applications are a type of web application that helps users to catalogue various items. These social cataloguing sites help users to catalogue their personal book collections, and make the collection known to all users with similar tastes. This study analyzed and evaluated the bibliographic and social features of some selected popular social cataloguing sites and also compared with the data elements prescribed in the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).Keywords
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), Online Resources, Social Cataloguing.References
- Cavanaugh, T.W. (2007). Online Personal Book Cataloging. Florida Reading Quarterly, 44(2), Retrieved from http:// www.flreads.org/Publications/quarterly/samples/online_book_catalog.htm.
- Farrell, S. & Lau, T. (2006). Fringe Contacts: People-Tagging for the Enterprise. Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22, 2006. Retrieved from http://tlau.org/research/papers/www06-tagging-fc.pdf.
- Giustini, D., Hooker, D. & Cho, A. (2009). Social cataloguing: An overview for health librarians. JCHLA/JABSC, 30, 133-38. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/19693267/Social_cataloguing_an_overview_for_health_librarians, https://doi.org/10.5596/c09-039.
- Spiteri, L.F. (2009). Social cataloguing sites: Features and implications for cataloguing practice and the public library catalogue. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 47(1), 52-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639370802451991.
- Spiteri, L.F. & Laurel T. (2011). The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries. 2010 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Report Published Electronically by OCLC Research. Retrieved from http://www.oclc.org/research/grants/reports/2010/spiteri2010.pdf.
- Social Tags Versus Controlled Vocabularies: A Comparative Metadata Analysis
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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata - 700032, West Bengal, IN
1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata - 700032, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 57, No 5 (2020), Pagination: 259-264Abstract
With the advent of technology, the tagging has gained popularity. Many researchers believe that social tags, #hashtag may increase the use of library collections. The present study examines the similarities and differences between the Library of Congress’s Subject Headings (LCSH) descriptors and social tags. The study also sought to know whether social tags can be implemented in the library’s database or not. This paper focuses on the comparison between social tags collected from social cataloguing site Library Thing and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) descriptors collected from Library of Congress online catalogue. For this study more than a hundred book titles in the domain of philosophy were collected from the two selected databases. The results suggest that if the social tags are more subjects oriented, it could improve the subject access to books in libraries; but it cannot substitute the controlled vocabulary like Library of Congress Subject Headings.Keywords
Controlled Vocabulary, Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), Library Thing, Social Tagging, Social Tags, Spearman’s Correlation.References
- Bogers, T. and Petras, V. (2017). Supporting book search: A comprehensive comparison of tags vs. controlled vocabulary metadata. Data and Information Management, 1(1): 17–34.
- Chowdhury, G. G. and Chowdhury, S. (2003). Introduction to digital libraries. London: Facet Publishing.
- Lee, D. H. and Schleyer, T. (2010). A Comparison of MeSH Terms and CiteULike Social Tags as Metadata for the Same Items. In: IHI ‘10: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium. ACM, New York, NY, USA; p. 445-48.
- Library of Congress (2020). Library of Congress. Retrieved April 26, 2020. https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ searchKeyword?editSearchId=33598.
- Library Thing (2020). Library Thing. Retrieved April 24, 2020. https://www.librarything.com/.
- Lu, C., Park, J.-R. and Hu, X. (2010). User tags versus expert assigned subject terms: A comparison of Library Thing Tags and Library of Congress Subject Headings. Journal of Information Science, 36(6): 763-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510386173.
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- Samanta, K. S. and Rath, D. S. (2019). Social tags versus LCSH descriptors: A comparative metadata analysis in the Field of Economics. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 34(4): 145-51.
- Stephanie (2016). Statistics How To. Retrieved April 29, 2020. https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/jaccard-index/.
- Use of Social Media for Effective Library and Information Services among University Students: A Study
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Arijit Das
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Arindam Sarkar
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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700054, West Bengal, IN
1 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700054, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 58, No 2 (2021), Pagination: 101-107Abstract
Information communication technology (ICT) plays a key role in the transmission of information between each other. Social networking sites are good examples of a network of communication and it is a good social structural way that allows the user to interact and work with other users. WhatsApp and Facebook are two very popular social media that very much help users to interact each other via text, image, audio, video messaging. This paper was based on a survey that measured the usability of Facebook and WhatsApp for service delivery to the library. An online questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents. The findings indicated that respondents showed a positive attitude towards the services of library through Facebook and WhatsApp.Keywords
Facebook, Information Communication Technology, Library Services, Social Networking Sites, WhatsAppReferences
- Ansari, M. S. and Tripathi, A. (2017). Use of WhatsApp for effective delivery of library and information services. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information, 37(5), 360-365. https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.37.5.11090.
- Dadzie, P. S. (2007). Information literacy: Assessing the readiness of Ghanaian Universities. Information Development, 23(4), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666907084762.
- Facebook (2019). Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook.
- Lifewire (2019). Retrieved from: https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-facebook-3486391.
- Smart phones (n.d.). Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone.
- WhatsApp (2019). Retrieved from: https://www.whatsapp.com/about/.
- MeSH versus BibSonomy: A Comparative Study of Index Terms and Social Tags in Nursing Literature
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1 Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences, Kolkata – 700150, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
1 Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences, Kolkata – 700150, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 58, No 6 (2021), Pagination: 377-384Abstract
Present study attempts to examine similarities and differences between the expert generated subject headings and social tags. The study focuses on the comparing BibSonomy social tags and MeSH terms. For this purpose hundred articles in the domain of nursing were collected from BibSonomy as well as PuMed. The results show that 92.72% MeSH terms are not available in social tag vocabulary and almost 15% social tags are likely to be accepted by MeSH terms i.e., experts. Jaccard similarity coefficient shows that users and experts use variant terminology. Users use mostly title-based keywords while experts have used mostly topic-based terminologies. It is suggested that while social tags could improve document retrieval. They cannot substitute controlled vocabulary. OPACs must allow users to describe library documents through user-generated social tags along with expert (librarian) generated terms.Keywords
BibSonomy, Controlled Vocabulary, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Social Tag, Spearman's Correlation.References
- BibSonomy (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.bibsonomy.org/.
- Chowdhury, G. G. and Chowdhury, S. (2003). Introduction to Digital Libraries. London: Facet Publishing; p. 182-183.
- Lee, D. H. (2015). Comparative analysis of index terms and social tags: Medical subject headings vs. BibSonomy and Delicious. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 49(2): 291-311. https://doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2015.49.2.291.
- Lee, D. H. and Schleyer, T. (2010) A Comparison of MeSH Terms and CiteULike Social Tags as Metadata for the same Items. In: IHI ‘10: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium. New York, NY, USA; p. 445-448.
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- Sarkar, A. and Bhattacharya, U. (2020). Social tags versus controlled vocabularies: A comparative metadata analysis. SRELS Journal of Information Management, 57(5): 259-264.