• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2018

This study assesses the psychological aspects which influence job satisfaction among library and information science professionals. The study is based on primary data collected from the library and information science professionals working in the higher education institutions of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In all 264 responses were collected, comprising 44.3% male respondents and 55.7% females. The majority, 74.2% of respondents, are under 45 years of age, while 67.4% of respondents have a master's degree in library and information science. Of the total respondents, 7.6% conceded to being incompetent, while 13.3% viewed their peers as incompetent. The majority, 25% of respondents, replied that the library profession is a thankless job and 70.8% of respondents viewed that they are emotionally attached to their profession, while at the gender level, compared to 75.5% females, 65% of male respondents admitted to being emotionally attached to their profession. The encouraging part is that 26.5% of respondents replied that they love doing their job beyond office hours and 75.8% of respondents replied that they would not seek voluntary retirement, while 41.7% of respondents showed willingness to continue working as library and information science professionals postretirement, if engaged.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.133-156
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 21세기 Information Professional(정보전문직)의 변화된 역할과 관련하여 경쟁정보 교육의 필요성과 문헌정보학과 커리큘럼의 확장으로서의 경쟁정보 교육모듈이 제안된다. 이를 위해서 국내의 Information Professional을 대상으로 설문조사가 실시되었으며, 설문 분석 결과를 토대로 2개의 핵심모듈로 구성된 경쟁정보 커리큘럼 모듈이 개발되었다. 모듈 1은 Information Professional을 위한 기본적인 툴킷, 모듈 2는 경쟁정보의 전반적인 프로세스와 매니지먼트를 다룬다. 이 커리큘럼은 Information Professional의 개인적/직업적 능력 개발에 기여할 것이다.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.287-309
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• 2009

21세기 다원화된 사회에서 도서관의 발전을 위해서는 도서관인 스스로가 많은 노력을 기울여야 할 것이다. 본 연구는 도서관 발전을 위해 많은 도서관인들이 함께 참여 할 수 있는 영역으로 도서관 관련 위원회 활동을 제안한다. 도서관전문가들이 도서관 관련 위원회에 위원으로 활동하면서 다른 위원들을 대상으로 도서관과 사서배치의 중요성과 필요성을 이해시키고 도서관 정책제언을 한다면, 이러한 활동이 개별 도서관과 더 나아가 국가 전체의 도서관 발전으로 이어질 것이다. 본 연구는 도서관전문가들의 공공 및 대학도서관 운영위원회 그리고 학교도서관 운영에 영향을 미치는 학교운영위원회 활동을 통한 도서관 발전 방안에 대해서 살펴보았다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.5-22
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• 2017

This study discusses the library professionals' perception of the ICT Applications in engineering college libraries in Tamil Nadu. The relevant data was collected from the library professionals in the self financing engineering colleges situated in Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu. 625 questionnaires were distributed, 504 replied with a response rate of 80.64%. It was found that the respondents with experience 'Below 5 years'gave 'Lack of infrastructure' as the first priority. 'Lack of interest on the part of users' and 'No support from administration in training library professionals' were the second and third preferences indicated by the respondents. The least preferences were given for 'Fear of ICT application'. Similarly, respondents with experience '6-10 years' indicated 'No support from administration in training library professionals' as the first priority. The least preference was given for 'Inadequate training in ICT applications' by the above respondents. It can be inferred that the professionals accepted and need the training in ICT applications.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.493-516
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• 2009

본 연구는 제7차 교육과정에 따라 변화한 학교도서관 환경변화에 따라 학교도서관 운영전문가의 역할이 무엇인지 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 우선, 학교도서관 사서 배치관련 법규 및 사서교사 배치현황을 분석하고, 비정규직 사서업무에 대한 면담 분석 및 정규직 사서교사, 비정규직 사서, 도서관 담당교사가 실제 수행하고 있는 업무에 관한 인식을 비교 분석하여 바람직한 학교도서관 운영전문가의 역할을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.47-64
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• 2017

Purpose: This study aims to assess the level of job satisfaction among the practicing Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals in India. Some of the key variables studied include salary, work environment, professional position, working hours, location, employee participation in administrative matters, recognition, and advancement. Scope: The study is limited to LIS professionals in India; however, the results of the study show some degree of commonality among LIS professionals across the world. Methodology/Approach: The study has been purely undertaken by analyzing the primary data collected from practicing library and information professionals across India by circulating an online questionnaire, using Google services and by posting the link on various social groups and other social networking sites such as Groups, Facebook, LinkedIn, discussion forums, and e-mails. Findings: Responses were generated across 20 states and union territories of the country, representing 88.15% territory of India. Of the total responses generated, 72.88% are males and 27.12% females. From the data analysis it emerged that every third library professional in India enters in to LIS profession by chance and not by choice, as 35.59% respondents expressed that they landed in the LIS profession by chance and 60.45% by choice. More than 77% respondents have expressed their willingness to change their present employer, if given better opportunity. More than 80% professionals either fully or partly agree that most of the LIS professionals across India are dissatisfied with their employers. All these and many more areas have been explored, which reflect the aspects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among LIS professionals in India.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제12권
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• pp.149-163
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• 1985

This short survey article examines the current curricula for library and information science education in the U. S. in order to implement them for our professional education in the field in Korea so as to produce qualified and competent graduates. Some of the prevailing trends in education and training for information professionals in the U. S. are as follows: 1. Library schools tend to incorporate information science into library school curricula to reflect their emphasis on this area, and attempt to develop close ties with all segments of the information industry; 2. Library schools actively participate in cooperative research with other agencies to explore ways of solving problems; 3. There is a diversity of education and training programs to meet the needs of a wide variety of information professionals, with library school faculty members being drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines; 4. New methods of teaching are being developed to support research and instructional activities; 5. There has been a significant change in the composition of the student body, now given a strong voice in the administration of the library school.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제21권
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• pp.191-223
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• 1991

Needs of our society for information professional have been changed continuously. The purpose of this paper is to study a direction of Library and information Science(LIS) education which can response properly the change. For this purpose, 1) the characteristics of information socitey, the demand to information profession, and the qualification required by the emerging job market of information professionals are examined. 2) the identity of LIS and its educational achievement for information professionals are considered. 3) Information Resources Management (IRM) which in some sense shares the common goal of effective information transfer with LIS is also considered. 4) the similarities and the differences between the two are discussed to seek their interrelationship and cooperation possibiity. While there are differences in focus and practice between LIS and IRM, interdisciplinary partnership between these two can enhance theory and practice of each other's area. Particulary, LIS school can take advantage for their students to penetrate the emerging job market as well-rounded information professionals.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.7-27
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• 2021

This study was carried out to examine the awareness and use of social media tools by library and information professionals (LIPs) in selected academic libraries in South-west, Nigeria and the challenges they face in the use of social media technologies. Descriptive survey was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised 217 library and information professionals from 10 selected academic libraries in south-west, Nigeria. A total enumeration technique was used to cover all the library and information professionals, 136 respondents filled and returned the questionnaire, given a response rate of 62.7%. The questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data collected. The findings show that majority of LIPs possessed a high level of awareness in the use of social media tools. The study also revealed that social network tools were highly used by LIPs in the academic libraries studied and the types of social media used by LIPs was also revealed. The major challenges faced in the use of social media include inadequate power supply, lack of Internet access and time constraints. The paper recommended that to enhance the use of social media by LIPs, there is need for constant awareness of the importance of social media tools to LIPs and libraries in effective service delivery, LIPs should be ready to learn, unlearn and be learned in the use of social media and university libraries should provide enabling environment such as internet connectivity, power supply and policy to guide LIPs in social media usage.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.40-56
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• 2022

This paper aims to implement a topic modeling technique for extracting the topics of online discussions among library professionals in India. Topic modeling is the established text mining technique popularly used for modeling text data from Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, and other social media platforms. The present study modeled the online discussions of Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals posted on Lis Links. The text data of these posts was extracted using a program written in R using the package "rvest." The data was pre-processed to remove blank posts, posts having text in non-English fonts, punctuation, URLs, emails, etc. Topic modeling with the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm was applied to the pre-processed corpus to identify each topic associated with the posts. The frequency analysis of the occurrence of words in the text corpus was calculated. The results found that the most frequent words included: library, information, university, librarian, book, professional, science, research, paper, question, answer, and management. This shows that the LIS professionals actively discussed exams, research, and library operations on the forum of Lis Links. The study categorized the online discussions on Lis Links into ten topics, i.e. "LIS Recruitment," "LIS Issues," "Other Discussion," "LIS Education," "LIS Research," "LIS Exams," "General Information related to Library," "LIS Admission," "Library and Professional Activities," and "Information Communication Technology (ICT)." It was found that the majority of the posts belonged to "LIS Exam," followed by "Other Discussions" and "General Information related to the Library."