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Ganesan and Gunasekaran presented "Assessment of information literacy skills and knowledge-based competencies in using electronic resources among medical students,” in which they administered a questionnaire to 120 medical students enrolled at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (India) to inquire about their acquisition of information literacy skills, centering on use, purpose for using information, search strategies and the information sources that they used. In another COVID-19 related article, Singh's "Role of National Digital Library of India (NDLI) for facilitating open access resources (OARs): an investigation on COVID-19 research repository,” provides insights about the availability of COVID-19 related information resources and argues about the importance of such digital resources, and specifically of the NDLI repository, to support research and education. Porsche, Suchá and Martinek contributed ‘The potential of Google Analytics for tracking the reading behavior in web books', in which they conducted a pilot quantitative study on 190 web book users regarding their reading behavior, by employing Google Analytics.
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Thematic hubs on COVID-19 have been established by most of the largest publishers, with relatively easy access to research related to the virus, this is also evident in the largest open access and open data repositories;while other portals with support materials for e-learning have also been set. Library and Information Science is no exception and there is already a wealth of publications about our contributions to e-learning, enhancing digital services, and providing alternative strategies and services to serve users remotely. Mbambo-Thata contributed the article "Responding to COVID-19 in an African university: the case of the National University of Lesotho library”, in which she discusses the library broadening of digital services as a response to the pandemic, through a reflective practice exercise conducted with the library team members and to analyze how those services are meeting the needs of the library community and how all stakeholders will experience the new normal.
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During the pandemic, a consortium of libraries in the Milan area (Italy) interviewed the community and applied sentiment analysis to quickly understand the community's feelings toward online services. The model compares both sentiment analysis and topic detection using algorithms that identify sentiments and topics. The results highlight the preference for paper books but the interest in learning more about digital services. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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Especially because of the closure of libraries, during the pandemic, additional efforts have been made to promote digital libraries and their services, as clearly visible and active libraries. [...]traditional libraries or those without many digital services were having the challenge of keeping their services active for their users virtually during this emergency, and librarians have been engaging in new work practices to achieve such objectives from their home offices. The paper presents a solution to provide free remote access to library users during closure on a national level, and it reveals the needs and interests of users via a brief analysis of accessed titles and gives grounds for further changes towards a more open remote access model, which would be possible within the current copyright restrictions. Neatrour, Myntti and Wittmann present “Documenting contemporary regional history: the Utah COVID-19 digital collection”, which provides a case study of a born-digital collection initiative undertaken at the University of Utah in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anisha Tanveer, Rashid Yasir, Zeeshan Shaukat and Imran Sadiq’s paper, “Value co-creation features: an empirical case study of B2B collaboration and interactions in New Zealand,” analyses the “points of value creation” between vendor and client during an ICT systems integration project. The findings highlighted four features of the value co-creation process: motivators, outcomes, disadvantages and management. [...]personal and network aspects of the value co-creation process emerged. Umme Habiba and S.M. Zabed Ahmed, in “Demographics and perceived computer skill levels as predictors of faculty awareness and use of electronic information resources,” examine the role of demographics and self-reported computer skill levels as predictors of e-resources awareness and use by faculty members working at various public and private universities in Bangladesh.
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[...]since the journal was renamed to DLP, we only had one in a guest-edited issue. [...]as citations, altmetrics allows measuring the interest toward a given research product;but the difference is that it is measured much more quickly than citations. [...]to bring further diversity of contents to DLP, in our next issue we will have the first installment of a new regular column, “World Digital Libraries”, which we hope it will start appearing in every issue.