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Librarians Disseminating Information Relevant for Fellow Librarians: A Review of a Voluntary e-forum (JayaCAS) S.K. Illangarathne Main Library, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka [email protected] Preethi Liyanage The Library, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies [email protected] 6/26/2013 1:02 AM
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This paper analytically describes contents of the voluntary e-mail message service (JayaCAS) initiated by retired Librarian and resource person of the Library and Information Science since few decades, Mr. J.A. Amaraweera. The main objective of the study was to analyze the contents of email alerts in JayaCAS. Other objectives were encourage young librarians with the potential to become proactive LIS professionals and develop a proper michanisum of archve outcome of such service. The original attempt was to do an informal survey to see how JayaCAS users have benefited, and what their opinions are. A survey questionnaire was emailed to the same users. A Facebook feedback form was also used. Electronic discussion lists and Facebook groups were used to request participation in the survey. Despite the various awareness campaigns carried out. 100 messages of Sample was selected for analyzing. Five attributes of each email sent were recorded on a spreadsheet. Date, heading, attachments or external links, nature of the message and the relevance of the information for LIS professionals were these attributes. Relevance was a preferential vote assigned by the authors on a scale of five, from one to five being most relevant to least relevant respectively. MS Excel was used to create charts and display results. It was noted that JayaCAS is most important current awareness service of LIS. Finally, It was concluded that his information service via email has covered a vital range of LIS as well as most popular among the simile . Finally, it is suggested that a proper archiving and repository building mechanism has to be developed with using standard data-mining tools.
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Librarians Disseminating Information Relevant for Fellow Librarians: A Review of a Voluntary e-forum
(JayaCAS)
S.K. IllangarathneMain Library, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Preethi LiyanageThe Library, Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
6/26/2013 1:02 AM
6/26/2013 1:02 AM
What is a Current Awareness Service (CAS)?
Makes available Knowledge of what is being done in specific fields of endeavor through documents (such as notes, abstracts, clippings,...
www.quantum3.co.za/CI Glossary.htm
What is JayaCAS?
A voluntary current awareness service done via e-mails + e-clippings
initiated by Mr. J. A. Amaraweera; a well known LIS professional in
Sri Lanka
Who can be benefited JayaCAS?Members of Sri Lanka libraryfrends network, LIS professionals, LIS
Students and similar professionalshttp://www.libraryfriends.net/yahoo-group-posts/
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A brief about Mr. Amaraweera
1944 - Born in polwatta, Pannipitiya1957 - Passed grade 8 scholarship examination1958 - Attended to Thurston College1963 - Attended to Vidyodaya University as science UG1966 - Graduated BSc. & become a teacher1972 - Librarian RRISL1978 - Librarian CPC1979 - Asst. Librarian USJ1998 - Librarian BPU2006 - Lecturer in LIS UOK2009 - Retired from the Librarian post2010 - Lecturer NU - Maldives2013 June - SAL (contact basis) USJ
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Objectives and significance of the study
Methodology
• To analyze the contents of JayaCAS.• To identify importance of the service and popular it among LIS Pro.• To encourage young librarians with the potential to become
proactive LIS professionals.
• Informal survey • survey questionnaire • Electronic discussion lists and Facebook groups • E-mail content analysis
Tool usedOpen form, spreadsheet,
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Major Findings
English96%
Sinhala4%
composed
65%
Forwarded
35%
Attachments 45%
External Links41%
Body14%
DOC41%
XLS2%
JPEG4%
GIF4%
PDF38%
PPT11% You Tube
Vedio29%
ppt on Slideshare
3%
Facebook2%Open
Document5%
External Web Site
56%
Other5%
29%
2% 3%10%
4% 7% 5% 6% 6%3%
6% 5% 4% 2% 2%6%
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
56%
18% 9% 15% 2%0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%
Direct LIS
37%
Indirect LIS63%
Relavence to LIS
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Conclusions and recommendationsConclusions
• It is revealed that JayaCAS is regular, international language oriented service and proper involving CAS system in LIS
Recommendations
• Invite LIS prof. To be a member of the service
• Instruct sender to use receiver friendly way when attach docs.
• Build up a proper archiving system for repository purposes
• Mortivate LIS prof. to establish a similar capacity services
• Sharing, Integration, collaboration tools such as
WEB 2.0, FB, Google+, Twitter, Linkdln and etc. using for promotion
of JayaCAS
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Conclusions and recommendations
Good Luck JayaCAS and Thank you !
