Browsing by Author "Mathew K, Susan"

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    Collection and Assets Management: One University Library’s Journey to the Future
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) N K, Sheeja; Mathew K, Susan; Pillai, Sreerekha S; Cherukodan, Surendran
    Academic libraries worldwide have witnessed a number of trends and paradigm shifts over the last decade. It is vital for university libraries to develop a collection of high standards to satisfy academics and researchers for supporting the vision and mission of a university. The area of collection development and management is the most important part of any library. This paper reports on the problems and prospects of collection and asset management of the University Library of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). The insight for the paper comes from the authors’ first-hand experience supported by literature review. Detailed information regarding the purchase of books, serials, policies regarding the acquisition, and changing trends and problems were collected from the official records with the help of a structured data sheet. The study discovers the current trends in collection and asset management in CUSAT and point out the changes likely to be adopted in future.
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    Trends in Research Productivity: An Analysis of the Research Publications of Cochin University of Science and Technology
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2014-09-25) N K, Sheeja; Mathew K, Susan
    The study aims to analyse the research productivity of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) during 2009-2013 on the basis of data from Web of Science (ISI). The most prolific authors of CUSAT community, the preferences of source titles for communication of research publications and citation status of CUSAT scholars are identified. The study found that even though the productivity pattern is not steady, there is 3.7 per cent increase shown from 2009 to 2013. The study also found that CUSAT research community prefers foreign journals rather than Indian journals to communicate their research findings.