DSpace Collection:http://elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np/handle/20.500.12902/1062024-03-17T22:16:15Z2024-03-17T22:16:15ZThe changing roles of librariansJha, Puja KumariManandhar, Nirahttp://elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np/handle/20.500.12902/2922023-01-09T21:15:25Z2019-02-08T00:00:00ZTitle: The changing roles of librarians
Authors: Jha, Puja Kumari; Manandhar, Nira
Abstract: This thesis entitled "THE CHANGING ROLES OF LIBRARIANS" aim to find out the
changing roles of librarians at Tribhuvan University Central Library and constituent
college libraries of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu valley. Today, librarians are
confronted with new roles during the execution of their work. The main objectives are
to examine the competencies and skills of librarians in the current information age, to
determine the effects of technology on the roles of librarians, to study the challenges
faced by librarians in their new roles. Academic libraries have not sufficient budget to
include fully automated system, in those libraries there are many more librarians who
worked before 10-15years, they hesitate to adopt and use new technology because they
do not have sufficient skills about uses of ICT (Information Communication
Technology), these libraries provide especially manual system and little more
automated system, and librarians are working in both systems at same time. They feel
more difficult to handle both in same time are the major problems of Tribhuvan
university Central Library and constituent college libraries of T.U. in Kathmandu
valley. The related literature is reviewed from journals, thesis, articles, survey and
internet. Totally eleven (11) literatures are reviewed for this study. The current study
employed quantitative approaches. The study was descriptive in nature. Purposive
sampling was used to select respondents from each of the twenty two(22) libraries. Data
was collected using a questionnaire. A population of twenty seven (27) respondents was
to be surveyed but only twenty four (24) of them responded to the questionnaire from
nineteen (19) colleges. Quantitative data was descriptively analyzed using the MS
Excel.
The study revealed that the role of librarians at the T.U. has not necessarily changed in
terms of duties, responsibilities, functions and processes, but what has changed is the
intensity and manner of conducting the role. The main challenge remains that of re training of staff in the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs).
Therefore the study recommended training of staff in the use of ICTs, acquiring
powerful servers to increase bandwidth connectivity and allocating more funds towards
various activities. Librarians should take the initiative of keeping abreast with the
current information technologies which change with times for them to meet the
changing needs of their users and to also keep a breast with the emerging trends.2019-02-08T00:00:00ZA study on reference services systems of academic libraries in ChitwanK.C, PabitraManandhar, Nirahttp://elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np/handle/20.500.12902/2882022-12-27T21:15:24Z2019-12-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A study on reference services systems of academic libraries in Chitwan
Authors: K.C, Pabitra; Manandhar, Nira
Abstract: This thesis entitled "A Study on Reference Services Systems of Academic
Libraries in Chitwan" has been carried out to fulfill the partial requirements for the
degree of Master in Library and Information science. The main objective of this study
sis to examine and analyze the present existing situation, condition and other services
of library and their management for effective organization,. The required data and
informative have been obtained from the primary sources and secondary sources with
the help of semi structured questionnaire for three campuses libraries were selected in
the Chitwan. The reference service is one of the library’s primary services behind
acquisition, classification, cataloguing and physical planning. This service provides
personalized assistance to library users in accessing and using suitable resources .
In this study, the first chapter describes about introduction of the study under which
all these back ground of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,
scope and limitation of the study, significant of the study, organization of the study
and definition of the terms. The second chapter has dealt with the literature view. The
third chapter has described the research methodology. The forth chapter has
mentioned the analysis and presentation of collected data. The last chapter has dealt
with the summary, conclusion and recommendation of the study. However, this type
of study in the field of library and information science is new research work and it
will help to improve the campus library in future.
According to the findings of the research, most of the respondents view that the
collections of the documents in the library are inadequate. Most of the researcher does
not get documents in time due to insufficient number of books, lack of new edition
books, staff biasness and delayed return of issued books by library members. 38.30%
student visit library for studying reference materials and 32.14% teachers visit library
for studying journals and newspapers.. Among all the students 56% suggested for the
improvement of the reference collection and 44% are not suggested for the
improvement of the reference collection. More than 69% students have knowledge
about catalogue system and 57.78% have responded for the necessity of the catalogue
system. Majority of students (69%) have replied that the library staffs are helpful.
The summary, findings and recommendation have been represented in chapter six.
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They follow the same classification scheme, i.e. DDC. It highlights for the
development of library efficient library, services, professional librarian, sufficient
budget standard-classification scheme and standard-cataloging system, manpower and
user's satisfaction. Modern computerizing and online services are the main problem
for the users without which the users cannot get effective information. Therefore, the
libraries should improved their conditions and need to be carried out positive attitude
of the library users in the existing campus library. It is recommended to provide
library orientation to the new users for searching the library materials2019-12-01T00:00:00ZA STUDY ON E-LIBRARY OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTREChaudhary, Vijay Prakashhttp://elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np/handle/20.500.12902/1512021-11-16T05:48:42Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A STUDY ON E-LIBRARY OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Authors: Chaudhary, Vijay Prakash
Abstract: This thesis entitled "A Study on E-library of Curriculum Development Centre" has been carried out as one of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Library and Information Science, Tribhuvan University. No study has been found on e-library in Curriculum Development Center. So this study has been conducted. The main objectives of the study are to explore the present status and problems of the e-library of Curriculum Development Centre, Bhaktapur. More than fifteen related literatures are reviewed from books, journals, thesis, website etc. This study has been limited to focus only on the e-library development by CDC. This is a descriptive study and purposive sampling technique has been used and questionnaire and interview instrument has been used for data collection. The study focused on the opinion of respondent’s library users (15 library user and 10 staff members of CDC). The study shows that e-library of CDC is very much useful and important for accessing the right information at right time on the right way. Sixty percent respondent stated the searching techniques are not easy. E-library users and e-resources downloaded also increased exponentially. The e-library should be updated on time; all CDC's publications should be uploaded and upgrade on the e-library of CDC and the management of CDC has manage high storage server for the e-library of CDC. Thus this research study recommends that the e-library of CDC should be publicized through different types of media such as TV, Radio, Facebook and Twitter etc. so that number of users of elibrary would increase in coming days. CDC should give priority for the sustainability of e-library. Keywords: E-library, Resources Space, CDC2019-01-01T00:00:00ZUsers' Perception towards Reference Materials Available in E-resources in TUCLGupta, Kumar Shailendrahttp://elibrary.tucdlis.edu.np/handle/20.500.12902/1532021-11-16T05:48:42Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Users' Perception towards Reference Materials Available in E-resources in TUCL
Authors: Gupta, Kumar Shailendra
Abstract: The research entitled '' Users' Perception towards Reference Materials Available in E-resources in TUCL'' has been carried out the main objectives are to find out the information on user's participation of the library, to explore the obstacles to use available E-resources by the TUCL users, to examine the users' satisfaction in using electronic library materials than manual form, to identify the impact of the conversion of manual library materials into E-resources from the users' point of view, to evaluate the usefulness and benefits of electronic library materials in the comparison to manual library materials, to know whether those other library materials are used as reference materials or not. Users are being very passive to search the manual form of library materials and there are being difficulties of getting deep information through keywords, demands of only softcopies of library documents rather than manual, no avaibility of all the library materials as in e-resources are the major problems of TUCL. The related literature is reviewed from books, journals, thesis and internet. The descriptive research design has been followed to reach at the stage of result using structured questionnaire, semi opened and in which 30 questionnaires were distributed and all of them were returned in time. For the questionnaire distribution, purposive sampling method of the whole population in IT section of TUCL had been followed. The data collected from the library users in IT section has been analyzed and presented in tables and in different figures. The major findings of this research are: Most of the users are interested to access those library materials in electronic format as well as in both formats of library materials, there is also very effective role of electronic reference materials in which other library materials such as journal articles, thesis reports etc. are being used by the users as reference materials means they search or locate library materials from those specific materials too except common reference materials, and many of them are interested to access online reference materials etc. Various recommendations were made for the better results and performance such as trainings and awareness programs on library, e-resources update as well as conversion, Inter library relation, friendly environment or infrastructure management, budget maximization, database management and so on.2019-01-01T00:00:00Z