Readiness of Arab Unified Standard of Universities’ Libraries for Application in the digital environment: Evolution and experimental study on the university libraries of Sultanate of Oman | ||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||
| Article 2, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 40-74 PDF (579.95 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2019.64130 | ||
| Author | ||
| Salwa AlSaeed Abdul Karim Ahmed* | ||
| قسم المکتبات والوثائق جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Arab Federation of Library and Information science issued the first unified standards of the university libraries (2013). An integrated team of academicians and professionals has been devoted for this pioneering work. We found it might be useful to discuss this important work and examine its ability to evaluate the performance of the Arab university libraries. The present investigation come in two separate parts; the first part is devoted to describe and analyze the unified Arab standards for the university libraries, and the second one is a assigned for the application of the newly developed approach on the university libraries of sultanate of Oman. Five university libraries were examined including state and private universities; they differed in size, acquisitions and staff. Qualitative approach has been adopted to collect and analyze the required data. Result of this work may be help in the prospective use of the newly developed unified standards in evaluating the performance of the university Arab libraries. Careful reading of the unified Arab standards of the university libraries revealed that all characteristics of the university libraries were covered. However, some critical abbreviations should be reported as follow: 1. the introductory review of literature should be summarized to be more concise and informative. 2. the standards should be systematically listed and arranged in a way to be ready for application 3. equal attention should be paid to the of all measures, because some aspects appear to be carefully examined while others were not. 4. more attention should be paid to the applied aspects than the theoretical ones. 5. lack of the quantitative measures that essential to evaluate some important characteristics. 6. some measures were carefully formulated but the others were not | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Arab Unified Standard; digital environment; Sultanate of Oman | ||
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