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    The importance of ISBN to the authors and publisher
    (Central Department of Library and Information Science, 2015-07) Giri, Binita; Shrestha, Bhim Dhoj
    The research work entitled “The Importance of ISBN among Author and Publishers" is carried out with the main objectives of examining and analyzing about the ISBN Data program in Nepal. Most of the publisher is still unknown about ISBN. There is no compulsory provision for applying ISBN made by government. The objectives put to solve those problems are to find out the present standard of using ISBN number in book publication, to make aware of ISBN to the publisher & author in Nepal. In research period traditional and web literature are reviewed from different web sites. The research has focused Tribhuvan University Central Library for its study as TUCL is National Centre for ISBN n Nepal. The short questionnaire was distributed to publisher, author, librarian and others who are interested about it. The data collected through direct contact, email, interview with users. The collected data are tabulated and analyzed using Microsoft excel data sheet. The studies are limited within Kathmandu valley, TUCL, publishers, authors, and author publishers. Literature is reviewed. 30 questionnaire were distributed, among all only 23 questionnaires were returned. Among 23,10 respondents are authors, 8 are publishers and 5 publishers. The introducing the system led to simplification of ordering, stock control, accounting and export procedure in many branches of book industry. Our country Nepal is late for introducing the system because of reason like sad information policy of the government: delaying in decision making process, non alliance of the professional in the process of introducing the system Nepal. The researcher has been concluded if there is any sub agency to provide ISBN system may be more effective in Nepal. It is hard to come Kathmandu valley for the purpose of assigning ISBN. On the basis of this study most all of the respondents are familiar about ISBN and using it in their publication. The researcher has concluded that the national agency, TUCL should inform about the ISBN to the each and every corner of the country. As this system is beneficial and new among the users, it is necessary to increase its users
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    Review of the information communication technology content in the masters of library and information science curriculum TU
    (Central Department of Library and Information Science, 2021-10-05) Nyoupane, Bhabana; Nyaichyai, Lila
    The study, entitled "Review of the information communication technology content in the masters of library and information science curriculum TU," has two objectives. i) to compare and contrast of ICT content of MLISc., TU curriculum with the MLISc curriculum of the SAARC countries and ii) to describe the aspects of reviewing ICT components in the MLISc. curriculum of Nepal. To obtain these objectives, this study compares the ICT content of the MLISc. curriculum of TU with five universities in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The universities were selected as per the rank. Focus group discussion was conducted among the working chief librarians. These two sources of data were interpreted categorically. As a result, the comparison clarified that the MLISc curriculum of TU has incorporated similar standards of those selected universities, where fundamentals of ICT, data communication and networking, programming language, library management software, web designing, multimedia, and information retrieval courses are incorporated. In Nepal, the content related to library management software are relatively less. However, to address the gap, TU CDLIS has included a practical class on Koha, ILS for last year's past two years. The focus group discussion found that the curriculum should exclude very basic courses so that the more advanced content, like library automation, digital library making softwares could be incorporated. In addition to those content, there is the need of ICT-focused internship for MLISc graduating students. Nevertheless, an individual's capacity influences how the professional endeavor's help to overcome the ICT related challenges in the real world. Furthermore, the comprehensive package of library automation and digitization services, from operations to system design, is the most demanding from LIS graduates. Keywords: ICT course, Library- Automation, Library education - Curricula, Nepal
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    Use and impact of research4life resources on NHRC library users
    (Central Department of library and information science, 2021-09) Dipika, Kumari; Pandey, Parbati
    Reserch4Life is a major source of online scientific journals, books and databases in Nepal and other low or middle-income countries since 2002. It provides free access to over one hundred thousand academic and professional literatures. This study aimed to explore the use status of Research4life Resources by the Nepal Health Research Council library users and to identify its impact on their study and research work. It is entitled “Uses and Impact of Research4life Resources on NHRC Library Users”. This study was the beginning of a formal study on the accessibility of Research4Life resources for Nepalese researchers and to know its utilization, importance and challenges for NHRC library users and hence for Nepal. It has used the quantitative research method. Different types of literature from journals, books, thesis and websites were discovered, accessed and reviewed systematically. The data and information were collected using the questionnaire survey method. The population of the study was the library users at the NHRC library. A simple random sampling method used to select samples. Out of 50 questionnaires distributed to NHRC library users only 40 returned a completely filled questionnaire. The collected data have been tabulated, analyzed and presented in tables. It has used frequency distribution, listing the number of respondents and respective percentages. This study finds that all respondents knew and have used Research4Life resources. 75% of users depends on guidance from library staff to use it. 97.5% have used it for journals whereas only 50% have used it for books. Users mostly refer to Google Scholar (95%) and PubMed (85%) databases for literature search. Eighty percentage (80%) have accepted that Research4Life have very high or high importance on their scholarly. 75% have no direct access to the required user name and password which has prevented its use from anywhere at their appropriate time. Only 10% have gained formal training. The resources available through Research4Life has helped NHRC library users to gain full-text of costly academic and professional peer-reviewed content very easily. Research4Life resources has enhanced the study and research work of the users. It has helped them in publishing scholarly resources. Various recommendations were made such as to provide the required user name and password, to provide short or long-range formal training, make improvements in content XII portals, improve search functionality, easy access to full-text resources, promotion through different channels, motivating users to increase the use of Scopus abstract and citation database with enriched scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines and Summon search which search for the full-text of Research4Life content for a particular country, and so on. NHRC library has been facilitating well to enhance the utilization of the Research4life resources among its users. It has helped users to access very easily a bundle of valuable resources that has helped users to improve their scholarly works. A few difficulties faced by the users in access to Research4Life resources are recommended to improve.