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“Impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) on Professional Development of Library Professional in the Universities of Nepal”
(2016) Poudel, Sandhaya; Pro.Dr.Mohan Raj Pradhan
The thesis entitled "Impact of Information communication Technology in the libraries of three universities of Nepal"; Tribhuwan University (TU), Kathmandu University (KU) and Pokhara University (PU). As we know that there are not much study conducted to measure the effect of information communication technologies (ICT) on the professional activities of library professionals in the universities. Hence this study was assigned majorly for; i) depth assessments of universities by examining capacity of university Libraries and ii) to examine the professionals growth of librarian and library professional. During this study primary data was collected, studied, analyzed to draw the findings. Primary data were collected by questionnaires which was processed using Microsoft Excel. The results from analysis show that TU has sufficient professional staffs as compared to KU and PU. The library members in TU were 10000, 2800 in KU and 3195 in PU. Different variety of books were found in library of TU including international journals (15000) meanwhile variety of books and journals are less in KU and PU. KOHA, D SPACE software are used in TU. Soul has been used by KU and Libra has been practiced at PU. Regarding ICT based service electronic and database have been used by all university libraries. Regarding the skill of professionals, most of professionals were aware with all new technologies such as internet, bar code scanner, and multimedia, however few of them found poor in web. Though the curriculum of library science seems satisfactory to most of the professionals, few of them recommend revising the curriculum by adding new software and data base for efficient service. Finally, it is recommended that new applications and findings of research based on ICT should be disseminated by TU conducting workshop and seminars so that all library professionals and students would have opportunity to learn new findings and to continue research.
Rural Public Library as Place in Far-Western Region
(2016) Bist, Kumari Gita; Pro.Dr.Mohan Raj Pradhan
The thesis entitled case study on “Rural Public Library as Place in FarWestern Region” of Nepal is focuses on the public libraries and its services in general. The thesis discusses on the study of two public libraries with five main objectives. One was to investigate types of users of public library. The second was to find out the perceptions of the users, regarding library services and amenities. Third was to identify the library layout and furnishing. The fourth objectives was to identify the role of public libraries in their communities. The last objective was to identify the building structure. The study relies on quantitative and qualitative data collected via surveys and interviews of library users, interviews of library public service staff members, structured observations of the people using the libraries, and analysis of selected documents. The two sets of questioners are distributed to library users and staffs in the research. The study finds that the libraries serve their communities as informational places and as familiarized localities, and that the libraries support the generation of social capital for their users. Data were collected from two populations: public library users and staffs of two public library in Far-western Region through questionnaire and face to face interview. The period of data collection was February 1 to April 30, 2016. 19 questionnaires were distributed to the population (14 were users and 5 were staffs). The PSPP (free version of the SPSS) program was used to analyze the data for the research questions collected through questionnaire. The research showed the public library concepts, services, impacts and its influence on the society of the far-western region. It was also studied the perceptions and thoughts of public library users and staffs to investigated their familiarity with library uses. The library users were of different age groups having different academic qualification. Most of the library users have done Intermediate levels (57.14%) and bachelor’s degree (14.29%) in SMPL and 100% users were bachelors in KJ. Only 28.57% users were Masters in SMPL. Regarding the language of the library users, most of the adult library users (85.71%) speak Nepali and the rest of them (14.29%) speak their own mother tongues.
“Usability of Open Source Software, WordPress for Creating Websites”,
(2016) Lamichhane, Prajana; Pro.Dr.Mohan Raj Pradhan
The thesis entitled Usability of Open Source Software in creating Website is to know the usability of WordPress for creating websites. The specific objective of this thesis is to identify the common understanding and attitude of WordPress,to identify use and adoption of OSS WordPress, and to know the technical configuration to be used in creating website. The purpose of this thesis is to study, investigate open source cms ‘WordPress’. The research is divided into two complementary parts: theoretical part and analytical part. The theoretical part mainly describes open source software, content management systems, WordPress, usability and the evaluation methods. The analytical part is to compare and analyze the results found from the empirical research. Heuristic evaluation method was used to measure usability problems in the interfaces. The study is fairly limited in scope; eight tasks were designed and implemented in each interface for discovering defects in the interfaces. Usability problems were rated. Time it took by each task, level of problem’s severity and type of heuristics violated were recorded, analyzed and compared. The results of this study indicate that the comparing systems provide usable interfaces. System usefulness, Information quality and overall usefulness of the system is measured and found WordPress as the most usable system for the professional staff lacking programming skill. The results of this study indicate that, there are some areas that contain barriers to learn Wordpress. Therefore, tools are needed to assist the learning process. Two potential tools are a user’s guide and the other is curriculum. A user’s guide or manual would be an effective way to encompass an extremely comprehensive set of instructions.

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