State of University Library: Challenges and Solutions for Yemen

Muthanna, Abdulghani; Sang, Guoyuan

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2019.01.010

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“…Lack of visionary leadership is also contributing to poor communication in library professionals (Ashiq, Rehman and Batool, 2018). Negative attitudes among staff regarding technology acceptance (Muthanna and Sang, 2019) coupled with financial challenges posed by the abundance of e-resources (Madge and Robu, 2019) are important issues.…”

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“…by creating infrastructure for open access and research data management. This situation is further exacerbated by budget cuts and staff shortages (Tait, Martzoukou and Reid, 2016; Muthanna and Sang, 2019).…”

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“…The curricula, resources and practices used by graduate students are not being updated by the universities offering LIS education (Ashiq, Batool and Rehman, 2018). Digitization of traditional resources; diversification of resources, tools and media; and access and dissemination of information are the key directions for future work (Madge, 2016; Muthanna and Sang, 2019).…”

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“…Most countries do not have policies for research data management, even though library professionals have shown great adaptability towards introduction of modern services like research data management, digital literacy, and open access (Tait, Martzoukou and Reid, 2016; Perrier and Barnes, 2018). Muthanna and Sang (2019) state that university libraries are in a constant state of chaos because of lack of digitization of library resources, outdated national education strategies and non-current library staff.…”

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“…It has emerged that some of the challenges faced by libraries are universal in nature, and are being faced by all libraries regardless of the current technological innovations. There are challenges which are universal to traditional library management such as outdated resources, poor policies, and insufficient staff, budget and space for libraries (Muthanna and Sang, 2019; Shea and Derry 2019). Many of the challenges being faced by academic libraries today were similar to those highlighted two decades ago by College & Research Libraries News i.e.…”

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Future challenges and emerging role of academic libraries in Pakistan: A phenomenology approach

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Rehman

Mujtaba

2020

Information Development

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This study was carried out to investigate the current and prospective challenges faced by academic libraries in Pakistan and to present possible solutions addressing these challenges. The research design was qualitative, adopting the phenomenology approach. In-depth interviews of 14 senior academic library leaders from public and private sector universities of Pakistan were conducted. Leadership crisis was identified as the top challenge followed by those related to changing user behavior, human resources, financial, technological issues, and changes in higher education. Prospective challenges encompassed issues related to technological modalities, human resources, research data management and library space. While the study participants indicated their readiness to cope with these challenges, they agreed that there was a need of collective effort for human capacity building, initiation of compatible smart services, effective policy making and creation of societal awareness. The support from key players such as the library professionals, library associations, top management, LIS schools, HEC and other funding agencies was deemed to be vital for this purpose.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%