Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan: A Detailed Retrospective.
Library and information science has been at an infant stage in Pakistan, primarily in resource management, description, discovery, and access. The reasons are many, including the lack of interest and use of modern tools, techniques, and best practices by librarians in Pakistan. Finding a solution to...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 1 - 48 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Sep2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=159462249&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 159462249 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07309295 ITL jtl: Information Technology & Libraries issn: 07309295 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2022 vid: 41 iid: 3 pid: 55 pub: American Library Association place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 159462249 159462249 159462249 10.6017/ital.v41i3.14433 159462249 ppf: 1 ppct: 47 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan: A Detailed Retrospective. aug: au: Ullah, Asim Khusro, Shah Ullah, Irfan affil: Doctoral candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar sug: subj: Libraries Administration World Wide Web Management Methods Library Services Administration Human Pakistan Systematic Review Librarians Semantics Professional Compliance Cataloging Information Technology Utilization Communication Librarianship Information Science Internet Access Conceptual Framework Digital Divide Access to Information Descriptive Statistics User-Computer Interface Data Management Collection Development ab: Library and information science has been at an infant stage in Pakistan, primarily in resource management, description, discovery, and access. The reasons are many, including the lack of interest and use of modern tools, techniques, and best practices by librarians in Pakistan. Finding a solution to these challenges requires a comprehensive study that identifies the current state of libraries in Pakistan. This paper fills this gap in the literature by reviewing the relevant literature published between 2015 and 2021 and selected through a rigorous search and selection methodology. It also analyzes the websites of 82 libraries in Pakistan through a theoretical framework based on various aspects. The findings of this study include: Libraries in Pakistan need a transition from traditional and limited solutions to more advanced information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled, user-friendly, and state-of-the-art systems to produce dynamic, consumable, and sharable knowledge space. They must adopt social semantic cataloging to bring all the stakeholders on a single platform. A libraries consortium should be developed to link users to local, multilingual, and multicultural collections for improved knowledge production, recording, sharing, acquisition, and dissemination. These findings benefit Pakistani libraries, librarians, information science professionals, and researchers in other developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind providing insights into the current state of libraries in Pakistan through the study of their websites using a rigorous theoretical framework and in the light of the latest relevant literature. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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