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World Digital Libraries: An International Journal, 2020

Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science

The present study aims to explore the currents trends of open access e-books available through th... more The present study aims to explore the currents trends of open access e-books available through the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) in the subject field of Islam. The DOAB was selected as a source for data collection during July 2020. The findings reveal that 263 e-books are available on Islam, which contributes only (0.94 percent) of the total share of e-books (27,697) available in DOAB. The results reveal that the maximum number of e-books is available on Religion (111), History (42), Sociology (34), and Political Science (27). The publishing trends show that majority of these e-books were published by Transcript Verlag (28), followed by Pressess de I'ifpo (23) and Brill (18), respectively. The licensing authority reveals that the highest number of e-books (105) on Islam is available through Open Education License for Books.The linguistic assessment shows that (44.86 percent) of e-books have been published in the English language followed by French (38.78 percent) and Ger...

In recent years the growing concern with environmental issues and their impact on general awarene... more In recent years the growing concern with environmental issues and their impact on general awareness is one of the most noticeable phenomena throughout the world. A major threat to the existence of humanity today is environmental degradation. Islamic jurisprudence contains regulations concerning the conservation and allocation of scarce water resources; it has rules for the conservation of land with special zones of graded use; it has special rules for the establishment of rangelands, wetlands, green belts and also wildlife protection and conservation. The main causes of environmental degradation, a major threat to the existence of humanity today are rapid industrialization, unplanned development and unprecedented growth in population with its accompanying poverty and deprivation. To raise environmental literacy level among female students, Environmental Education is taught in Kashmir valley using both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. The aim of our present study w...

The Information and communication technology has witnessed a rapid growth and has changed the old... more The Information and communication technology has witnessed a rapid growth and has changed the old idea of libraries from traditional form to digital form. Information Technology has connected the world including students with well known great scholars of the world with each other disregarding time, place and distance. In today's world the most popular source of information is the Internet and electronic resources. In the present study, we examine the availability and use of library and web resources by Urdu scholars and P.G. students of Kashmir valley. The extent of satisfaction, impediment and impact of internet and Urdu web resources were analyzed. The results obtained from our study reveal that there is a lack of knowledge among scholars and P.G. students of Kashmir valley about the use of web resources. It is concluded that, it is important to build awareness among the Urdu students towards use of Urdu web resources by training them in browsing internet as well as searching ...

Jammu and Kashmir state is divided into 22 districts. Kashmir and Jammu division consists of 10 d... more Jammu and Kashmir state is divided into 22 districts. Kashmir and Jammu division consists of 10 districts each whereas Ladakh division consists of 2 districts. Bandipora district located on the banks of Wular Lake was chosen for the study. Plants have been traditionally used for hundreds of years throughout world as a source of medicine. Forest resources have played the most significant role in the economy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In this paper, we examine the attitude of people towards the use of medicinal plants in district Bandipora of Kashmir valley using a well designed and validated questionnaire to collect the information from a sample of 400 people selected with the help of stratified random sampling technique. The results obtained from our study using standard statistical tools reveals that people under study show positive attitude towards the use of medicinal plants. Further, it is noticed that due to less expenditure and lack of medical facility they are encoura...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the Google Arts and Culture platform in terms of parameters ... more Purpose – This paper aims to explore the Google Arts and Culture platform in terms of parameters used for categorizing the digital collections by it; the total number of items and their types; top contributing artists; top ten historical events and figures; and the top ten countries havingmaximum artworks. Design/methodology/approach – An online method was used to collect the relevant data for achieving the objectives of the study. Data were harvested from the official website of Google Arts and Culture (https:// artsandculture.google.com/) during the period of 15 May to 31 May 2018, and the same was tabulated in MS Excel for analysis and interpretation. Findings – The findings revealed that Google Arts and Culture includes a total of 6,272 artists, 228 media and 121 art movements. Moreover, there are a total of 641 historical movements; 6,250 historical figures; 9,692 places; 3,226 museum views; 1,702 zoom views; 39,607 featured videos; and 5,528 featured stories; 122 items organiz...

In contemporary knowledge-based society the novel developments mainly triggered by the advancemen... more In contemporary knowledge-based society the novel developments mainly triggered by the advancement in information and communication technologies, intensely influenced the way of accessing, preserving, conserving and information, and thereby paved innovative way of archiving information resources through digital platform. In this milieu, current study attempts to analyse the collection archived by Library of Congress to highlight its varied features based on chosen parameters. The analysis evidently divulges that Library of Congress attempts to archive a wide variety of information resources ranging from Books collection to Software/E-resource covering wide range of time-periods. Moreover, items in library of Congress covers wide range of subjects which vary from one collection format to another, indicating that each collection format has its unique range of subjects. However, the geographical distribution of collection reveals that United States emerges as predominant location with ...

The sector of Education has over the last few years seen rapid advancements, with the inclusion o... more The sector of Education has over the last few years seen rapid advancements, with the inclusion of more technological methods. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have newly gained popularity and momentum as a modern method of learning due to its great progress in the academic community today. The great advancements in Information and Communication Technology ICT and internet, the increasing number of MOOC providers and the popularity of the fast emerging learning options have greatly impacted the gaining popularity of MOOC platforms in the present era. This study provides an insight into SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), the first major Indian MOOC platform. This study reveals that highest number of courses available through SWAYAM platform is in the field of Engineering with 654 courses, followed by Arts and Recreation with 127 courses and Science with 93 courses. Regarding the collaborating institutions, IIT Madras is the leading provider with 205 c...

Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2020

The recent developments in Information and Communication Technology ICT, particularly the World W... more The recent developments in Information and Communication Technology ICT, particularly the World Wide Web (WWW), have changed the scenario of accessing information beyond the concrete walls of traditional libraries, which in turn paved the way for the novel concept of digital libraries. Accordingly, this phenomenon led to the creation of an increasing number of digital library projects globally which is designed to bring a paradigm shift in the ways information is created, retrieved, disseminated and used worldwide. Consequently, present study attempts to evaluate the World Digital Library (WDL) to explore its varied characteristics in terms of no. and range of collection formats, geographical distribution, language diversity, and type of contributing institutions. The evaluation apparently reveals that WDL has emerged to be a vital cultural asset that has duly transformed the traditional concept of library and information system through assimilation of technological advancements and...

The present study was carried out with the purpose to examine the association between spiritualit... more The present study was carried out with the purpose to examine the association between spirituality and stress on one hand; and also stress and job satisfaction on the other hand among workers in central Kashmir of Kashmir valley. The study used a non-experimental research design, over interviewing a total of 400 workers chosen according to convenience of ability to answer the questionnaire in academic institutions of central Kashmir of Kashmir valley. We use five-point Likert scale to measure spirituality, stress and job satisfaction of the respondents. Data collected was analyzed using standard statistical tools like correlation, Mann-Whitney Utest etc. The results of our study revealed that stress was not related to spirituality because spiritual people did not protest when congested with work increasing stress levels of the spiritual. Further, it was observed that stress is negatively linked to job satisfaction. The workers having different levels of spirituality have not the sam...

The interference of information and communication technology in the field of education has entire... more The interference of information and communication technology in the field of education has entirely changed the traditional concept of dissemination of knowledge. It has revolutionised the age old methods of teaching and learning. The methods of teaching have changed from one to unlimited persons at the same point of time being a matter of just a single click. The virtual learning or e-learning has overcome the barrier of money, geographical border and many others that existed in physical environment of learning. The birth of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) like Alison, Coursera, Swayam etc. has changed the regime of distant learning in an e-environment providing the suitable habitat for satisfying the thirst of knowledge. The present study is an attempt to evaluate edX. The main aim of edX is to provide education without walls to everybody. The present study explored that about 2000 courses are present across the globe with 195 participating nations and more than 14 million use...

International journal of social sciences, 2018

The present study was carried out in district Srinagar, the world famous place and summer capital... more The present study was carried out in district Srinagar, the world famous place and summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir State with the purpose to understand consumerâs behavior and constraints faced by fish consumers in district Srinagar of Kashmir valley. Fish is one of the most important sources of animal protein, vitamins, minerals and has been widely accepted as a good source of protein and other elements for the maintenance of healthy body. It is an extremely perishable commodity and quality losses can occur very rapidly after catch. Data for the present study was collected from 400 respondents during 2017-18 using a well-designed validated questionnaire. Â The results obtained from our study revealed that 21.75% of the consumers bought fish occasionally, 33.75% once a month, 12.25% twice a month, 4.25% twice a week, 8.25% once a week and 19.75% once a year. It was observed that 87.5% respondents consume fish for taste, 71.5% for freshness, 52.5% for nutrition purpose, 49.5% f...

Public libraries are a living force for education, culture, information and development of the co... more Public libraries are a living force for education, culture, information and development of the common people living in a society. These libraries are spread all over the country, which consist of state central libraries at state level while district, urban public libraries and rural public libraries at the village level. In this milieu, owing to immense importance of public libraries, the main aim of the present study is to ascertain the perception of library users towards the use of Sri Pratap Singh (SPS) public Library, Srinagar. The major findings of the study reveal that maximum (75%) respondents of the study are males. It emerges that the majority of the respondents (65.6%) visit library daily, followed by 21.9% once in a week and 6.3% once in a month with majority of users opining that the library is holding very good collection covering all the major subjects/disciplines. Furthermore, the most common purpose of users for visiting the public library emerges out to be education...

The developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and their subsequent absorpt... more The developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and their subsequent absorption in library and information science (LIS) have forced information professionals to change the way they are functioning at present. Because of their popularity with the users, an overwhelming attention is being given to the web-based information services in libraries .The web 2.0 technologies have rapidly gained huge popularity and as such, the university libraries, being the heart of the highest seats of learning, need to equip themselves with all the possible web based, i.e. web 2.0 and allied services. The present study made an endeavour to study the various web 2.0 and allied web based services offered by select university libraries of BRICS nations. This study shows that the web based services in the university libraries of BRICS nations are quite better. The findings show that India and china universities are far behind as compared to Brazil, Russia and South Africa in employabil...

World Digital Libraries: An International Journal, 2020

Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science

Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2020

International journal of social sciences, 2018