The present age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has ushered in a tremendous transformation in almost every sphere of the lives of human beings in all the sectors including Library and Information Centers. Through the application of ICTs in libraries, it has derived the proficiency of providing optimal, efficient and effective services to the users, which in turn fulfills the fourth law of library science which is to save the precious time of the user. In a c

This study pursues to contribute to evidence-based improvements in the field of Library Services and Resources, making certain that the library continues to lend support towards academic excellence and innovation effectively. This study further assesses the satisfaction level of the user satisfaction with library services, resources and the user perception of staff at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Library. One of the most prominent and internationally renowned premie

This study is directed towards highlighting the research output produced in India between 2015 to 2025 in the sphere of social sciences and humanities (SSH) discipline. The study is centred on the data extracted from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), which forms a fundamental part of the Web of Science (WoS), a bibliographic database from Clarivate. The study considered 32182 publications in the area of social science research. The Vos Viewer and R software have been

Digital e-resources have emerged as a novel and potent tool for academic libraries, providing value added advantages in the field of teaching, learning, and research. The digital foundation that has emanated across the globe has radically transformed the academic libraries, which include both college and university libraries. The objective of this paper is to examine the level of awareness, availability, and the serviceability of the digital infrastructure and resources among

The current study tries to explore the position of job satisfaction in developing knowledge sharing behavior among library employees working in educational institutions with reference to our country, India. An enumerative cross-sectional survey was conducted among three hundred library staff members who worked in diverse educational institutions in India. The study called for gender balance by using quota sampling in selecting an equal number of male and female participants,

This study takes into consideration the dissemination and use arrangements of information among the Munda tribe of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, thereby bringing in to the limelight the interplay between conventional knowledge systems and emerging digital platforms. The study further implements interspersed-procedures method. This technique combines surveys along with interviews and focus on group discussions, as well as field observations for investigating information dissemination pr

The current study is centered on the bibliometric insights from the publications of the “Library Herald” journal during the last three years. The study has taken into consideration the years from 2022 2024 and examined the publications for the period to identify and analyze the publication patterns including document types, year-wise publication, most prolific authors, and the highly viewed documents. The observations unraveled a steady publication rate for the years under co

This study investigates the altmetrics analysis of 100 extremely cited research articles in top-ranked library and information science journals that have been indexed in Scopus and reviews the correlation between altmetrics indicators and Scopus citation counts. These articles were selected from the top ten LIS journals as ranked by Scopus CiteScore. The bibliographic data for the research articles were accumulated from the Scopus database. The altmetrics consideration was ob