The Contribution of Effective Library and Information Services to Academic Achievements at Some Selected Universities in Ghana

Cobblah, Mac-Anthony; Walt, Thomas van der

doi:10.1515/libri-2016-0035

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“…While they are undoubtedly interested in library collections (especially online information resources), the services like the librarians' expertise need marketing actions -the researcher are often unaware of this kind of possible support (Nel & Fourie, 2016). It is obvious that the situation may be different in a developing country like Ghana, thus in the opinion of faculty and students traditional services like Internet services, provision of study space and literature searches were services that contributed most to academic achievements (Cobblah & van der Walt, 2016). Ko, Shim, and Pyo (2016) considered the willingness of Korean scholars and students to pay for library services with a not very surprising conclusion that neither respondents from private nor public universities were interested in such a solution.…”

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“…A cademic libraries are institutions whose mission consists of supporting the academic community, among others, scholars both in research and teaching activities. According to Cobblah and van der Walt (2016) "the library is the physical manifestation of the core values and activities of academic life and the library's central role in the academic community is unquestionable." However, is that really true?…”

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The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

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2019

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The wide expansion of digital technologies has influenced research in all fields of science as well as educational activities. Scientific objective: The purpose of this article is to examine critical areas of academic library activity, in a significant or requiring far-reaching changes in all aspects, in the context of needs of the scientific community. Research methods: It was decided that the method that will allow to outline the situation in this area will be qualitative content analysis texts from leading journals. For this purpose, the main databases of Web of Science articles have been searched: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), using the instruction TS = (“academic library” OR “academic libraries” OR “university library” OR “university libraries”) AND TS = (scholars or scientists or faculty or researchers or academics). The query limited to the last five years yielded gave as results 170 articles, of which 51 were deemed relevant to the issues discussed. Results and conclusions: In the light of qualitative content analysis of those texts, it is possible to distinguish following areas as important: general approach of scholars and librarians to cooperation, practices of research support, access to information resources adapted to scholars’ needs, data curation support, publication strategies support. On this basis, conclusions have been drawn about the role and type of support that academic libraries may provide in the process of scholarly communication. Cognitive value: This study has contributed to the research into the evaluation of academic library’s support services in the process of scholarly communication.

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The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

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2019

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“…In a study of seven universities in the USA and Australia in 2004 to 2006, it was discovered that half of the scholarly article readings were for research purpose. Furthermore, Cobblah and Van Der Walt (2016), Dunne et al (2013) and Botha et al (2009) demonstrated explicit value of libraries by assessing user satisfaction of library services, resources and expertise. A survey conducted by the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina reported that 92% of users think that library improves the overall quality of life and 73% feels that the library enhances personal fulfilment (Jaeger et al, 2011).…”

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“…Furthermore, printing and photocopying facilities were found to have significant impact on user satisfaction in the Sur University College Library, Sultanate of Oman (Sriram and Rajev, 2014). Also, Cobblah and Van Der Walt (2016) investigated the contribution of effective library and information services to academic achievements at universities in Ghana and concluded that there was a correlation between effective library and information services, and academic achievements at the universities in Ghana. The study also established that library users were generally satisfied with the services provided.…”

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Library value through user satisfaction: The case of academic libraries in Ghana

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Nyantakyi-Baah²

2019

Int. J. Lib. Inf. Sci.

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The study is an investigative survey of library users' satisfaction of library services, resources, staff conduct and impact of the library on the academic achievements of users. Qualitative data was collected from College students, faculty and library staff of two academic libraries in Ghana using questionnaires and interview instruments. The survey established that library services, information resources and the physical library environment have value because users have shown high satisfaction of them. Material lending, photocopying, library space and staff conduct recorded higher level of satisfaction. It is however recommended that academic libraries in Ghana should be equipped with online resources, adequate and knowledgeable staff, and computer systems with high broadband. Also, libraries should endeavor to market library services and resources in order to demonstrate value among stakeholders.

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“…Researchers from Australia described a way to expand a library's offer through providing the students with technical support in their use of information and communication technologies (Renner et al, 2014). Cobblah and van der Walt (2016) established that Internet services were the library services that contributed most to academic achievements of students at the universities in Ghana. In China a study was carried out among students and scientists regarding their need for support from the librarians in relation to management and storage of data gathered during the process of conducting research (Liu & Ding, 2016).…”

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Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

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2018

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Thesis/objective – The topic of this article is the influence of digital technologies on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of their users’ needs. Users’ information behaviors have changed significantly through the influence of these technologies, what can be identified in particular in students’ behaviors. Do far-reaching changes in the way in which users, in case of this article - students, interact with information cause transformations in the functioning and mission of academic libraries? On the basis of literature containing the results of researches conducted around the world an attempt was made to present the way academic libraries react to these changes and how they modify their services and resources. Research method – The first step in responding to the actual needs of users is to conduct research in this area. For this reason, the subject of the analysis in this article were publications presenting research on the users’ (students) needs in the context of using academic libraries. The next stage was to identify the texts in which the use of digital technology was discussed. The analyzed literature was selected from leading journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), and included articles which were published within the last 5 years (2013-2018) – a period in which digital technologies in most academic libraries in the world were most widely used, making changes caused by them possible to be diagnosed, and which corresponds to the information query. The results of the query contained 328 articles, 80 of them have been analyzed in detail, because they were deemed to contain the results of research on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of the needs and expectations of the students. Results/conclusions – On the basis of the analysis it can be concluded that the widespread use of digital technologies has changed functioning of academic libraries to a large extent, but these changes are not revolutionary. The way of implementing library tasks has changed, but the tasks themselves as well as the mission of an academic library have remained similar. One of the most important postulates for the future is the necessity of far-reaching personalization of the services being offered. The conducted analysis is based on the research presented in the literature, the next planned stage is verification of these conclusions in empirical research.

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The Contribution of Effective Library and Information Services to Academic Achievements at Some Selected Universities in Ghana

Cited by 7 publications

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The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

Library value through user satisfaction: The case of academic libraries in Ghana

Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

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