Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences

Usability is a quality metric that measures how easily a user interacts with an interface. It refers to the simplicity with which a product or system may be utilized to attain goals in an effective and efficient manner. The usability of digital libraries is defined by the effectiveness and efficiency of the information access system, the ease of use, the pleasantness of the user interface, user needs, usage patterns, and other aspects.

The objective of this paper is to explore the five characteristics of digital library's usability: learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors, and satisfaction. with regard to methodology, a theoretical approach was used as the research technique for this study which involves doing a review of various publications, research papers, and studies published on this topic, but it focuses more on primary sources of information. The findings of the paper demonstrates that considerable numbers of usability and evaluation studies of digital libraries have been conducted over the last two decades, using a variety of usability study tools and data collection and analysis methods. The study indicates also that research community have developed several models for the use and assessment of digital library's usability. Therefore, digital library developers should consider the five characteristics of usability while creating new digital library projects.

The twenty first century is predominantly driven by digital technologies and the education sector has been hugely influenced by the advent of these technologies. Youtube has become the first classroom for many and the videos are being extensively viewed for the consumption of firsth and information on diverse subjects. In this study, efforts have been made to determine the popularity, quality, and viewer engagement of Youtube videos on NEP-2020 from the analysis of various parameters such as users' subscriptions, views, comments, likes, etc. The study uses the top 100 youtube videos based on the number of view counts. 70% of the videos have a VIQI score of more than 3 (out of 5) which reflects the content quality is high. More than 60% of viewer comments were in favor of NEP-2020.

In the present scenario websites of any organization is the very effective tool for dissemination of information to its user. The effectiveness of any websites depends on the content available on that website. The present study is conducted to evaluate and analyze the content analysis of NAAC accredited ‘A, A+ and A++’library websites in Maharashtra. Study concludes that maximum library websites are enriching with Information About Library, Contact, E-mail, Books, Journals, Thesis, Dissertation, Audio/Video/CD/DVD, OPAC, Reprographic Service, E-Books, E-Journals. In this study, it is found that Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University library website is best library websites among the University libraries in Maharashtra.

E-Resources are a mode of access and play an important role in dissemination of information. The students and faculty members are two important groups of users who are continuously engaged in learning and teaching. A step is made in the presentre search article focuses on the study of electronic information resources in the affiliated colleges to Bangalore University, Bangalore. Its main objectives is to find out the purpose of using the internet, find out awareness and use of e-Resources, identify the purpose and reasons for using the e-Resources, find out searching of e-Resources and to identify satisfaction level on ICT facilities, resources and services. This study is based on primary data collected from students and faculty members using a questionnaire. The study found that all the users were aware about using internet and e-Resources. Majority of respondents 782 (95.37%) are aware and using e-news papers. maximum respondents 735 (89.63%) are using e-Resources to update and learn more about their career, majority of the respondents except statement decreases time spend articles have either disagreed or given no opinion for all the statements on e-journal. The study has recommended that educated the users to use Boolean logic operators, which is one of the best retrieval methods for retrieving relevant information.

Individuals are thought to be the most intelligent animals in the natural world. He works hard to make his life easier by learning new things through various approaches such as observation and experiments. He employs many strategies to make advantage of all available information in this process. Information is a structured sequence of symbols that can be understood as a message, in the strictest technical meaning. This document attempts to define the terms "information," "information use," and "information seeking. "The study examines the trend in the information seeking behaviour legal thought (collaborating, sharing and dissemination) among legal practitioners and seeks to understand it in detail. It also examines as to what is the extent of awareness and use of emergent Internet tools for research collaboration. These will be used by the information community to demonstrate that a number of reasons were contribute for, and accountable to, the various types of digital information service sustainability.

Scientometrics analysis of Indian Journal of Psychiatry from 2015 to 2021 yields quarterly and bimonthly wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern, volume wise productivity, distribution of document in Indian Journal of Psychiatry from 2015 to 2021