Sajjad ur Rehman's research while affiliated with Kuwait University and other places
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Publications (44)
Purpose
Knowledge organization (KO) content is central to educational programs of library and information science (LIS) and information and knowledge management (KM) programs. The components of information and KO have similar philosophies, theories, approaches, strategies and tools. LIS education programs have strong traditions of teaching KO. Fre...
This research explores trends in knowledge organization (KO) in library and information science (LIS) curricula in 68 selected schools located in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. The research quantitatively analyzed KO course descriptions in order to identify the modules covered in these LIS programs’ curricula. Information was gathered f...
In academic world, quality assurance has two dimensions in its application; first, it is a holistic assessment of any program and secondly, it has implications for uniformity and shared opportunities for admission, equivalence, and employability of graduates. The first part is critical as no implication is conceivable without a viable evaluation of...
This study reviewed information management practices of corporate sector professionals in Kuwait through a questionnaire survey, focusing on finding and re-finding of information, management of e-documents, communications and contacts; and use of tools and social media for managing information. Results show that knowledge workers in the private sec...
The College of Social Sciences at Kuwait University introduced a 3-credit hour formal course of information and computing literacy as a required course for the undergraduate students. Four years back, the course structure and content were revised and the component of inquiry was added to the same course. This course has been in place for more than...
This study aims at exploring the usefulness of an information literacy course in helping students develop skills and capabilities needed to use information effectively. In an earlier part of this study (Rehman and Al Awadhi 2012), we had found that an information literacy course made a significant difference in the skills and capabilities of studen...
This paper investigates the accreditation possibilities and prospects for the library and information science education programmes located in the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This paper has been based on the findings of a study focused on the evaluation practices of these programmes and the perceptions of the leading academic...
The library and information science (LIS) market is fast changing, and the LIS curriculum needs to be revised in the light of this changing context and needs. An analysis was therefore made of the perceptions and views of a variety of stakeholders in the market about the capabilities needed among LIS graduates in Kuwait. The stakeholders included L...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review the integrated systems applications in Kuwaiti academic libraries with a particular emphasis on their profiles, procurement, implementation, management and service aspects.
Design/methodology/approach
The survey method was employed for the study. Procedures used were as follows: identification of Kuwa...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to measure the level of information literacy skills in Kuwaiti high schools.
Design/methodology/approach
– Survey method was used for this study. The population frame consisted of the female students in the 11th grade of the largest governorate in Kuwait “AL‐Asema” which reflected the conditions and environme...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the situation and evaluation strategies and processes of nine library and information science (LIS) education programs in the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Muscat, and Bahrain. It also aims to explore what...
The paper presents the case of a developing nation-Kuwait-for analyzing its corporate job market for developing and knowledge professionals. The paper is based on the analysis of a body of research that has cumulated over the last 5-6 years. These studies were focused on the status of information management operations in Kuwaiti corporate companies...
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This study aims to analyze the perceptions of the graduates of Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at Kuwait University about coursework, faculty, instructional methods, instructional facilities, fieldwork, comprehensive examination, and research component.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey instrument was used for e...
This paper describes the development of library and information studies/science (LIS) into different phases during the last century. Academic programs and preparation of LIS professionals have witnessed a continuous change. It is realized that unless this process of change of curriculum is clearly envisaged in the future, LIS professional would bec...
This study was conducted with the purpose of assessing the Master's program in Library and Information Science at Kuwait University as well as its further development, based on the insights and perceptions of employers, professionals, academics, and students. Three focus group interviews with 32 participants were conducted during spring 2006. Parti...
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– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the information literacy capabilities of Kuwaiti police officers by focusing on computing and information skills and perceived value of information sources. The study is designed to test the hypothesis that there existed significant differences in information literacy capabilities based on three...
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The objective of this study was to investigate the placement, role, functioning, and human resource aspects of IT departments in Kuwaiti corporate companies in the banking and finance sector.
Design/methodology/approach
The results of this study are based on an interview‐based survey of IT managers in 17 banking, finance and investment com...
The paper discusses competencies for new age information professionals. Emphasis has been on the changes within LIS market during the last 2-3 decades, with a particular emphasis on the new roles LIS professionals have to assume in information and knowledge management positions in the cor- porate world. Management and functional competencies have a...
This paper investigates the perceptions of the heads of 12 LIS schools on KM education. These heads from North America, Europe and the Pacific region had either been offering KM courses or had an apparent interest in such programs. Data about perceptions were gathered on the nature of their KM coursework, KM positions their graduates might target,...
Different theories have been advanced and tested about the choice of communication media/channels. These theories deal with information richness, task orientation and relevance of social and organisational contexts in developed nations. Communication media are distinctly important to knowledge sharing. This study will investigate the effectiveness...
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This paper aims to explore the organizational arrangements and employment policies and practices of 30 Kuwait corporate companies in five selected IT operations of system development, software applications, database management, networking, and web applications.
Design/methodology/approach
For the purpose of data collection, key human resou...
This study explores the human resource development policies, strategies, and opportunities in 30 Kuwait corporate companies for its IT and information professionals. Questions addressed were related to induction and orientation programs; approaches for developing capabilities for change management; in-house training policies, resources, and facilit...
Electronic resources are vital, but extremely expensive and medical librarians are genuinely concerned about their effective use. It is a widely held view that low awareness and poor skills are among the primary reasons for their under-utilization. A questionnaire-based survey of health professionals affiliated with three teaching faculties of Kuwa...
Investigates organizational arrangements and employment policies and practices of 31 Kuwaiti corporate companies in five selected information management operations: information organization and indexing, resource development, searching, information packaging, and competitive intelligence. Key human resource managers were interviewed for data collec...
The purpose of this study was to analyse Internet use and related issues among the health care professionals at the Health Sciences Centre of Kuwait University. A questionnaire was administered to all the 180 faculty members in HSC. The response rate was 76.6 per cent. The extent and patterns of their use of the Internet for 12 applications were an...
A study was conducted to assess the potential of six library and information education programs in preparing manpower for the digital environment. The situation of six schools in the member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council has been analyzed by collecting data from the schools heads and 49 faculty members, focusing on: curricular changes; fac...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the conduct of information operations in Kuwait. One of the top executives or managers from each of the 39 companies, which volunteered to participate in the study, was interviewed. Participant input was sought on a carefully designed questionnaire, containing 19 questions, covering the scatter of informa...
Presents the collective judgments of a group of academics from North America, Southeast Asia and the Arabian Gulf region, as well as leading practitioners from the Arabian Gulf region, about the content of graduate degrees in information studies. The participants generally agreed about the content of the curriculum of information studies. The most...
The study aimed at ascertaining the level of library skills of the freshmen and sophomores in the College of Science at Kuwait University. It further tested whether there existed any significant relationships between the level of command of library skills and personal and academic factors of age, gender, type of high school the students had attende...
This paper describes the situation of library and information education in the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), located in the Middle East. Data were collected through a mailed instrument from six schools located in three countries of the region that offer degree programs. Five of the six programs are essentially undergradu...
This study was conducted to analyze the bio-bibliographic profile of faculty members of six library schools in the six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Arabian Peninsula. Data were collected through a mailed in- strument as well as from the resumes of these faculty mem- bers. Forty-nine out of sixty-five faculty members (75.4%)...
The domain of information studies is expanding rapidly and new areas are emerging in response to the ever-changing character of the information market. Four such areas of the expanding domain were identified that have a common socio-human base and are inter-related in terms of substance, content and applications: social informatics, information pol...
Competencies of the entry-level professionals for the Malaysian public libraries were defined and validated for the next five years. The exercise of competency determination was accomplished by focusing on the peculiarities of the Malaysian context by adopting a number of methodological innovations. Each competency statement was an identifiable and...
A survey of professional leadership of library and information organizations in Malaysia was conducted to gather their perceptions about the trends in the field during the next 10 years, the extent of preparedness of entry-level professionals and the strategies they proposed for an improvement in education and development programmes. A total of 148...
A survey of professional leadership of library and information organizations in Malaysia was conducted to gather their perceptions about the trends in the field during the next 10 years, the extent of preparedness of entry-level professionals and the strategies they proposed for an improvement in education and development programmes. A total of 148...
Changes in the information market, situational peculiarities of the developing nations, and certain methodological considerations prompted this identification and validation of competencies for library and information professionals in Malaysia. Procedures were used to identify sets of knowledge and skill competencies for future entry-level professi...
A study was conducted to identify sets of competencies which could become the basis for the design of information study programs for the two levels of undergraduate and graduate education. A list of 70 competencies was used to gather responses from the middle and top managers of the Gulf libraries about the manpower needs of the profession in the n...
Special libraries are undergoing some fundamental changes which require redefinition of the competencies of information professionals. The contextual variables necessitate identification of competencies in relation to the peculiarities of a situation. Some methodological improvements were also attempted to arrive at a reliable body of knowledge and...
Defines and validates competences for entry-level professionals of academic libraries in Malaysia keeping in view the needs of the next five years. Top and middle managers of all the university libraries and two other academic libraries participated in the study. A scale of perceived importance of each competence was used for validation of competen...
The paper reviews the role of different agencies in the formulation of information policies in developing nations and the outcome of these efforts. In order to evaluate the process of information policy definition and the resulting policy documents, two cases in Malaysia and India were selected. An evaluation framework was developed by delineating...
Kantor's availability analysis method was applied in the academic library setting of the International Islamic University Library, Malaysia, to measure the degree of success or failure of its users in having available the documents they needed at a particular time. It was found that the users had a success rate of 52.83%. The factors having the hig...
Examines the extent of coverage and nature of courses relating to
information policy in the curricula of 48 library and information study
programmes in North America and in three Asian countries (Malaysia,
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia). Reviews the curricula work by defining 11
categories conceived as an information policy framework. Finds that some
c...
Reports results of a study of information needs in a utility
company in Saudi Arabia. Selected technical and administrative staff
were interviewed and the active involvement of the user group in the
study was ensured by enlisting the support of the organization's top
management. The study also served to educate the company staff in the
usefulness o...
Paul Kantor's methodology for availability analysis was applied to measure the degree of success or failure of the users of the General Collection of Punjab University Main Library in getting their needed documents. The availability success rate in this library was found to be 41·3%. Measurement of different performance factors indicated that segme...
Citations
... Algunas teorizaciones (Gorman, 2002;Morgan & Badwen, 2006) e investigaciones realizadas sobre currícula comparada (Al-Ajami & Rehman, 2016;Rehman & Al-Ajami, 2017;Chaudry, 2018;Salaba, 2020), establecen un fundado análisis de las tensiones y los desafíos profesionales en un entorno digital creciente, y se reafirman en la idea de un curriculum organizado en torno a los conceptos clásicos que dan perfil a la profesión, aunque con la posibilidad para integrar herramientas y métodos de otros campos. ...
... Developing knowledge and skills that allow creating high-quality metadata is a priority in the metadata specialists' preparation, as shown by survey findings (e.g., [7,8,16]). Several studies (e.g., [1,4,9,11]) examined course syllabi and found that students learn Dublin Core -the most ubiquitous metadata scheme worldwide -often with practical assignments. Case studies (e.g., [5,8,14,20]) reported how the specific metadata skills are developed through readings, assignments, and other course activities. ...
... esult, the ICT component has become critical in the library and information science (LIS) education programs. ICT skills for information professionals are also considered vital as these skills give them an advantage in the competitive job market. Various studies have heightened the awareness that ICT skills have become central in the LIS education. Rehman (2000) reported that a number of new ICT courses had been introduced in the LIS programs. In a follow-up study, Rehman (2008) noted that the LIS programs have become inter-disciplinary to extend coverage to different areas including ICT-related courses. Importance and role of ICT have also been pointed out by other studies. Several other studi ...
... demic librarians. They divided the list into six operational areas: foundation, cataloging, circulation, information services, collection development, and serials. According to Rehman et al. (1998a), middle and top managers of the large libraries of Malaysia perceived that inadequacy of IT skills was the most deficient area in Malaysian librarians. Rehman et al. (1998b) carried out a survey to see if there were significant differences between competencies accepted at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Senior library managers (50 total respondents; 41 working in academic libraries) in the Arabian Gulf region identified 48 higher level competencies (performance evaluation, policy development, designi ...
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... Libraries are undergoing dramatic transformations as a result of structural and operational changes. As a result, librarians must manage change by developing a new set of capabilities for a rapidly changing work environment (Rehman et al., 2002). In this regard, it is critical to identify and validate the competencies of any professional or occupational group before developing curriculum and training programmes for them. ...
... It is needed to create a three-way relationship of patrons such as university, host organization and student (Espelt et al., 2005). Rehman and Chaudhry (2005) suggest that practical training provides in depth of knowledge about the place of work and as well permit graduates to develop meaningful strategic relations inside the industry still in advance they have accomplished their ceremonial education. These sorts of associations not simply assist their lessons but also enhance job opportunities. ...
... Several consultants in the 1970s and 1980s reported a shortage of library and information professionals in Kuwait (Zehery, 1975;Al-Ansari, 1992 This was the first Masters programme in Information Studies (MISt) (Alqudsi-Ghabra and Al-Ansari, 1998; Alqudsi-ghabra and Al-Muomen, 2012; DISt, 2020), and was taught in English. This programme has undergone continuous evaluation and updating (Marouf and Rehman, 2007;Rehman, 2008Rehman, , 2010. ...
... The course was structured in two equal parts: basic information and computer literacy for undergraduate students. In 2008, this course was redesigned to include three parts: information, computing, and inquiry skills(AlAwadhi, and Rehman, 2012;Rehman and AlAwadhi, 2013). The CBE from the Public Authority of ...
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... The studies on how people manage their personal information carried out a number of years ago were limited to the business and finance environment (Bergman, Beyth-Marom, & Nachmias, 2003;Chaudhry, Rehman, & Al-Sughair, 2015;Erickson, 2006;S. Jones & Thomas, 1997). ...
... percent (Rehman and Alfaresi, 2009;Alqabas, 2017 In spite of offering such courses in higher education and school settings, studies have found that students still lack essential skills of information literacy (Marouf and Rehman, 2007;Rehman and Alfaresi, 2009;Alhumood, 2011;Al-Issa, 2013;Alkhezzi and Hendal, 2018;Hadjisolomou, 2020). ...
