Community Engagement Through Extension and Outreach Activities

Extension and outreach services of libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) are to be essentially considered as an important aspect of social and ethical responsibility of an institution towards the society. An academic library, especially a college library, has immense scope for engagement of the community constituting the stakeholders of the institution for participation, involvement, skill development, and enrichment as well as the individuals outside the institution, ultimately towards inclusion, empathy, and compassion for the society at large. Exemplary evidences of the opportunities and accomplishments of a college library with special reference to the extension and outreach activities of Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata, West Bengal, India are provided. Innovation, collaboration, communication, creativity, and effective employment of ICT tools are the keys to successful execution.

PENGARUH KOMUNIKASI PEMASARAN YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH DOSEN TERHADAP MINAT BACA MAHASISWA PADA PERPUSTAKAAN PERGURUAN TINGGI NEGERI DI JAKARTA SELATAN

The College Library was established to support academic needs both for the internal public and the external public of the college itself. However, the development of communication technology has made the interest in reading students in college libraries decrease. Therefore college libraries must implement the right strategies to increase students' reading interest in the library. Through this study, researchers found the influence of marketing communication strategies carried out by lecturers (variable x) on students' reading interest (variable y) by 72%. This shows that lecturers should also provide socialization and direction to students related to the importance of reading reference sources from campus libraries by telling interesting things so that students' reading interest in college libraries increases librarians in college libraries can make lecturers as co-workers in carrying out lecturer marketing communication strategies considering are individuals whose daily life is more interact with students so that lecturers have an important role in carrying out library marketing communication to students.

Drawings of Roman Mosaics in the Topham Collection, Eton College Library

This fully-illustrated study brings together over 70 prints and drawings from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham (1671-1730). Some are the only records of mosaics that no longer survive, and many are published here for the first time. The book includes a biographical chapter on Topham himself.

Knowledge Management and Improvement in Library Services at Fourah Bay College Library: a Statistical Approach

The purpose of the paper is to statistically examine the way knowledge management is done at Fourah Bay College in the improvement of library services with the aims of identifying the types of knowledge managed, facilities, equipment, and supplies; policies used to manage the knowledge; knowledge management acquisition skills; relevancy and challenges to managing knowledge at FBC library. The study was informed by the triangulation of the Staff and knowledge Continuum Theories which tend to fill the gap of Robertson and Brun(2021) who considered computer as explicit knowledge. But that gap was filled to indicate knowledge resided in computer as an implicit knowledge in this research. Data used for analysis were drawn from thirty-three(33) participants from six section with the use of questionnaires, personal interview and personal observations. A total of 33 questionnaires were returned in their complete forms and used for the analysis. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were performed by using SPSS version(16.0) to ascertain the relevance of managing knowledge at FBC library in enhancing efficient and effective service delivery. For inferential statistics both ANOVA and Chi-square hypothesis testing were used to test the variables. The key findings of the research revealed that FBC manages the different types of knowledge but the policies governing the management of knowledge are not popularized to staff to understand about the relevance of the management of knowledge at FBC library. For the ANOVA hypothesis testing, it revealed that the mean of the variables are not statistically different while the chi-square revealed that there is a statistical variance between the means of the variables. However, provision is made for further research to be done in order to complement this current research.

The Existence Of The University Of Muhammadiyah Malang Library During The Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 virus has caused a pandemic in Indonesia in 2020. This virus is classified as an infectious disease that results in policies such as physical distancing, social restrictions both small and large scale and lockdown. The impact of the Covid-19 virus has been felt in various sectors, including the college sector under which there are library units. The college library as an information center, of course, will provide information services to meet the needs of academic community. UPT UMM Library is one of the universities that still exists despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose in this writing analyzes how the existence of UPT UMM Library during the pandemic. The study method used by descriptive study type with qualitative approach and data analysis technique using descriptive qualitative analysis model owned by John W Cresswell. Innovations made by UPT UMM Library during the Covid-19 pandemic to remain in existence, namely to innovate library services including creating myUMM Library, changing the concept of information literacy services into digital (online) and more actively providing library services through social media. In addition, librarians during the Covid-19 pandemic can still exist and develop by attending various online seminars and actively writing various scientific works to gain several champions.Keywords: Covid-19, Existence, Higher Education Library Services, Librarian, UMM LibraryABSTRAKVirus Covid-19 telah mengakibatkan terjadinya pandemi di Indonesia pada tahun 2020. Virus ini tergolong dalam penyakit menular yang mengakibatkan adanya kebijakan seperti physical distancing, pembatasan sosial baik berskala kecil ataupun besar dan lockdown. Dampak dari virus Covid-19 telah dirasakan berbagai sektor salah satunya sektor perguruan tinggi yang di bawah naungannya terdapat unit perpustakaan. Perpustakaan perguruan tinggi sebagai pusat informasi, tentunya akan memberikan layanan informasi guna memenuhi kebutuhan civitas akademika. UPT Perpustakaan UMM merupakan salah satu perpustakaan perguruan tinggi yang tetap eksis meskipun adanya pandemi Covid-19. Tujuan dalam penulisan ini menganalisis seberapa eksistensi UPT Perpustakaan UMM pada masa pandemi. Metode kajian yang digunakan adalah kajian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan teknik analisis data menggunakan model analisis kualitatif deskriptif milik John W Cresswell. Inovasiinovasi yang dilakukan UPT Perpustakaan UMM pada masa pandemi Covid-19 agar tetap eksis yaitu melakukan inovasi layanan perpustakaan diantaranya menciptakan myUMM Library, merubah konsep layanan literasi informasi ke dalam bentuk digital (online) serta lebih aktif memberikan layanan perpustakaan melalui media sosial. Selain itu, pustakawan di masa pandemi Covid-19 tetap bisa eksis dan berkembang dengan mengikuti berbagai seminar online dan aktif menulis berbagai karya ilmiah hingga mendapatkan beberapa juara.

Librarian Creativity to Improve Library Services and Librarian Performance

Background of the study: The college library is the heart of higher education. In the era of information technology today the needs and desires of the settlers vary and change. Librarians are required to be creative and have competence when managing libraries and serving the users. Librarians must develop better performance by paying attention to the quality of service to users. Purpose: The research aims to determine creativity to improve the service and performance of the librarian. Method: This research uses qualitative method. Findings: The results of this research are the efforts of the librarian in increasing the creativity of the librarian's performance, which can be seen from the skills and abilities gained by the librarians through a formal education of the libraries D3, S1 and S2. In addition to increasing the knowledge and insight of librarians write scientific works. Librarians also participate in and hold training, workshops, socialization and book reviews. Conclusion: The organizational environment encourages creativity such as awards given to librarians that can be seen in the performance and aspects of librarian behavior used to calculate incentives. In addition, the support of the leadership and the good team work also affects the creativity of the librarians.

Smart Design of Portable Indoor Shading Device for Visual Comfort—A Case Study of a College Library

With the development of architectural technology, the use of floor-to-ceiling windows has emerged widely. The ensuing problem is that more and more students and office workers are suffering from direct sunlight while working in specific areas. Based on the pain points of the working process, this study designed a portable product for improving visual comfort through field research and environment simulation. It provided a new personalized design for blocking direct sunlight from the working area using a portable and liftable sunshade curtain, allowing the users to control the height and angle of the sunshade curtain through a mobile phone application. It can also adjust itself according to environmental parameters collected by sensors, so as to block sunlight in certain areas. A simulation based on the design features and the light environment of a library is run, proving the model effective in improving these aspects. The study aimed to provide solutions for indoor visual comfort and suggestions for future indoor household designs.

Analysis on the Training Strategies of University Library Service Talents under the Concept of "Three-all Education" in the New Era

Embracing the challenge and mission of the new era, colleges and universities, as an important battle filed for cultivation of talents, should be guided by the educational concept of "Three-all Education", to train and transport outstanding talents for the country. Based on the concept of "Three-all Education" and centering on the innovative ability of college library service personnel training, this paper utilizes big data technology and means to realize the idea of "all-process education, all-staff education and all-round education", and explores the cultivation strategies for college library service personnel, which not only meets the urgent needs of college reform and development. It is also of great practical significance to cultivate young talents in the new era.

Applications of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Academic Libraries: An Overview of Turkana University College Library

Information is considered as need of human in the recent undertakings. In this paper the study has been done to research on application of Information communication Technology (ICT) and uses of ICT tools in Academic Libraries, with a focus on Turkana University College Library, to find out the application of ICT skills in Library Information Science professionals and to modernize the libraries. The study has been done in the School of Science and Technology and School of Education and Social Sciences, with the aims: (1) how students in these schools apply ICT in the library, and (2) how ICT tools are applied to provide innovative services to the users. This paper shows that the application of ICT tools is increasing in academic libraries especially from the two schools of Turkana University College, due to the development of technologies and according to the respondent ranking mobile phone is making it inevitable, due to easy access at any time anywhere.