Akhilesh K.S. Yadav

Tata Institute of Social Sciences · Centre for Library and Information Management Studies (CLIMS)

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the recent trends and development of LIS education and training in India. It has noted that first decade of 21st century was notable for library and information science education in India. A number of universities and institutions have initiated library and information science education and training prog...

The research study examines the current trends of employment opportunities in LIS profession by analyzing all job advertisements for library professionals published in the newspaper Times of India. The data collected from the newspaper were analyzed to reflect the different aspects of LIS profession such as nature of position, qualification, skills...

The main purpose of this study was to obtain information on how the students use the web tools and technologies and how much it affects their education. This paper aims to present the results of a survey research that investigated post-graduate students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. This survey research is done through a quan...

This paper attempts to study how web 2.0 tools are being used in the field higher education. What are the trends? What are the researches that are being carried out on web 2.0 with respect to higher education? This study is the output of the primary study of the select literature on the web 2.0 technologies in higher education. The attempt is made...

Describes details of the research design, data collection methods, sampling procedures, scope and coverage, population and data analysis involved in this questionnaire based survey research study regarding required employability skills to gain employment in LIS profession. There were two groups to be considered when analysing the employability skil...

Purpose The main purpose of this research study is to identify the essential skills and competencies sought by prospective employers for library and information science (LIS) positions in India. The research study aims to find out various designated positions in job advertisements. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from a major w...

The purpose of this research study is to identify the core, advanced, specialized, and soft skills courses offered as part of the various library and information science programs. The course content of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), offered in 2019–2020, was collected and analyzed from 10 LIS schools in India. Course contents...

Purpose The librarianship profession has gone through many changes over time, more so with the emergence of digital technologies. To thrive in the library and information science (LIS) profession, professionals must have knowledge, skills, competencies and abilities to perform their job duties. The purpose of this paper was to identify essential kn...

The main objective of this research is to study the information-seeking behaviour and need of the Tangkhul Naga community in the Ukhrul district of Manipur state in India. What are the various sources and channels used for seeking information, the purpose of information seeking, problems faced by the Tangkhul Naga community while seeking the inform...

The main objective of this research study is to analyse and visualize Twitter data with tags “#Censorship”. A connection was established with twitter using Twitter API, and receiving the tweets on Google Spreadsheets. Data visualization was performed using various tools such as Voyant Tools, Tableau, Google Spreadsheet and Orange in order to genera...

The main purpose of the study is to explore the pattern and trends of library usage. This study is based on library circulation data. Many tools and applications have been used for the research and data visualization e.g. Tableau, Voyant Tools, MSExcel, Google Ngram Viewer etc. The data set of library transaction was collected from the KOHA (Open S...

The growing implication of information technologies for educational institutions in general and learning in particular has been a subject of discussion. Nowadays, it has become essential for every educational institution to adopt new teaching and learning techniques. E-learning is seen as an option to deliver courses via Internet irrespective of th...

The purpose of this research is to highlight the medical information-seeking behavior of medical students and their teachers, mostly based in teaching hospitals in Kolkata and centered in certain specific domains. This research seeks to understand what sources are considered relevant with regard to the retrieval of crucial information by these medi...

It has become necessary to create the website of individual library to connect directly to their users. It is one of the best options for librarian to attract their user towards the library, increase the usage of library resources, increase the reading habit of users and provide a quick access of library. With this intention in mind we have done an...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pattern of access and use of different conventional and Internet media by senior secondary students. This survey study on access and use of media by students is the first of its kind in Mumbai. The respondents were from 9th grade to 12th grade students of 4 different schools in the city. Results sugge...

Empowering LIS professionals and making them acquainted with the latest technology based services to work competently in modern libraries is discussed in the paper. The paper examines the perceptions of recent Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates about their respective LIS curriculum and seeks suggestions. Participants include LIS profes...

The paper provides a review of recent developments in electronic publishing in BRICS countries, with a focus on Open Access (OA). It describes the status of OA publishing with regard to OA repositories and OA journals by collecting data from ROAR, OpenDOAR and DOAJ. Finally a comparison of the retrieved data of the five BRICS countries is presented...

The primary objective of this chapter is to introduce e-books in an International Baccalaureate (IB) school library and observe the students and staffs from the perspective of usage of e-books. The secondary objective is to study how the whole system works from choosing an e-book platform to exploring different business model (subscription/ buying...

Open access publishing has become an important platform for scholarly communication It has gained huge popularity among academic fraternities for publishing their articles, reports and other research outputs. It is gaining prominence day by day in India. The paper gives an overview of open access journals in India. The present scenario of open acce...

Information seeking behaviour is an essential component in the designing and developing of need based information centres for meeting the information requirements of users. The undertaken study describes the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of post-graduate students and research scholars of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Utt...

Providing access to scholarly journals is a challenge for the library and information centers today. To meet the problem of serial crisis as a result of rise in cost of journals much faster than the rate of inflation, proliferation in number of journals and the paucity of funds available to the libraries, the concept of library consortium has been...

The paper gives the concept of Academic Library and ICT and its advantages. Discusses about the college education system in Assam and the application of ICTs in the college libraries in Assam. The paper broadly analyses the role of INFLIBNET Center in promoting the application of ICT in college libraries of Assam.

This study is based on data collected through questionnaires given to social scientists of Mizoram University, a central university in India. Goals of the research were to investigate the use of formal and informal sources of information by social scientists; to discover the degree to which they make use of various types of information; methods use...

To investigates the use of formal and informal sources of information by social scientists; degree to which make the use of various types of information; methods used to keep in touch and availability of information sources and services in Mizoram University.