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Luthfiyah Eka Yani, Danang Dwijo Kangko, Indah Kurnianingsih et al.

Background: Information literacy plays a vital role in supporting education, research, and informed decision-making in the digital era. In the context of ASEAN countries, the development and dissemination of research on information literacy contribute to regional knowledge-sharing and capacity building. However, comprehensive mapping of scholarly output on this subject in ASEAN remains limited, especially those indexed in global academic databases. Objective: This research aims to map and analyze scientific publications on the subject of information literacy in ASEAN countries indexed by the Lens database. The analysis focuses on co-occurrence and co-authorship networks using VOSviewer, as well as determining author productivity, publication trends, and institutional and national contributions to the development of information literacy scholarship. Methods: A bibliometric analysis approach was applied using data extracted from the Lens database. Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software were utilized to clean the data and generate visualizations. Co-occurrence analysis was used to identify thematic trends, while co-authorship analysis revealed collaboration networks. The study also examined publication growth by country and institutional affiliation from 1998 to 2023. Results: A total of 504 articles related to information literacy were initially retrieved from the Lens database. After data cleaning, 469 relevant articles remained. Among the 10 ASEAN countries, only 6—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—have publications on this subject indexed in the Lens database. Key emerging topics in recent years include data collection techniques, information needs, documentation, public observation, communication, and human resources. Shaheen Majid emerged as both the most productive author and the one with the strongest collaboration network. The study shows a general upward trend in publication numbers over the 1998–2023 period. Conclusion: Scientific publications on information literacy in ASEAN countries have shown significant growth over the past two decades. Collaborative research networks among authors play an important role in enhancing productivity. These findings highlight the need for greater collaboration and capacity building across ASEAN member states to strengthen regional contributions to the field of information literacy.

Miha Kovač, Mojca Kovač Šebart, Jasna Mažgon

The article explores the reading habits of Slovenian university students in teacher education and library science programs, comparing data from two cohorts (2017/18 versus 2024/25). Despite being future educators, around 16% of these students reported not having read a single book in the past year. While a slight increase in reading frequency and English-language reading was observed over the seven-year period, the shift toward less demanding genre fiction raises concerns. Students now predominantly read lighter, popular titles, with significantly fewer individuals engaging in complex literary texts. This shift has cognitive implications: studies indicate that the reading of complex literature enhances abstract thinking and attributional complexity, which are traits of high importance for educators. The rise in English-language reading – though intellectually beneficial – may also reduce exposure to syntactically complex Slovenian texts, potentially weakening native language competence. The findings suggest a troubling disconnection between the reading behaviours expected of educators and their actual practices. As reading complexity strongly correlates with critical thinking, the lack of engagement with demanding texts may hinder the cognitive development of students and their future pedagogical effectiveness. The article concludes by emphasizing the need for higher academic standards and stronger encouragement of deep reading within teacher education programs.

Takuro Ishida, Tetsuo Furukawa

This paper proposes an embedding method for co-occurrence data aimed at visual information exploration. We consider cases where co-occurrence probabilities are measured between pairs of elements from heterogeneous domains. The proposed method maps these heterogeneous elements into corresponding two-dimensional latent spaces, enabling visualization of asymmetric relationships between the domains. The key idea is to embed the elements in a way that maximizes their mutual information, thereby preserving the original dependency structure as much as possible. This approach can be naturally extended to cases involving three or more domains, using a generalization of mutual information known as total correlation. For inter-domain analysis, we also propose a visualization method that assigns colors to the latent spaces based on conditional probabilities, allowing users to explore asymmetric relationships interactively. We demonstrate the utility of the method through applications to an adjective-noun dataset, the NeurIPS dataset, and a subject-verb-object dataset, showcasing both intra- and inter-domain analysis.

Krishna Chaitanya Sunkara, Krishnaiah Narukulla

The conventional resource search in cloud infrastructure relies on keyword-based searches or GUIDs, which demand exact matches and significant user effort to locate resources. These conventional search approaches often fail to interpret the intent behind natural language queries, making resource discovery inefficient and inaccessible to users. Though there exists some form of NLP based search engines, they are limited and focused more on analyzing the NLP query itself and extracting identifiers to find the resources. But they fail to search resources based on their behavior or operations or their capabilities or relationships or features or business relevance or the dynamic changing state or the knowledge these resources have. The search criteria has been changing with the inundation of AI based services which involved discovering not just the requested resources and identifiers but seeking insights. The real intent of a search has never been to just to list the resources but with some actual context such as to understand causes of some behavior in the system, compliance checks, capacity estimations, network constraints, or troubleshooting or business insights. This paper proposes an advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) enhanced by ontology-based semantics to enable intuitive, human-readable queries which allows users to actually discover the intent-of-search itself. By constructing an ontology of cloud resources, their interactions, and behaviors, the proposed framework enables dynamic intent extraction and relevance ranking using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and AI models. It introduces an automated pipeline which integrates ontology extraction by AI powered data crawlers, building a semantic knowledge base for context aware resource discovery.

Tucker Taylor, Kimber Thomas

In this interview, Dr. Thomas discusses the relationship between race and copyright. This conversation with Tucker Taylor of the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship covers Dr. Thomas’s path to copyright education as well as her work at Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) at the Library of Congress.  Dr. Thomas details the interaction of race and copyright, and how it relates to librarianship and education.  She also details ideas for librarians and educators to help improve our current situation.

Nishat Raihan, Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Joanna C. S. Santos et al.

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly better at a wide range of Natural Language Processing tasks (NLP), such as text generation and understanding. Recently, these models have extended their capabilities to coding tasks, bridging the gap between natural languages (NL) and programming languages (PL). Foundational models such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) and LLaMA series have set strong baseline performances in various NL and PL tasks. Additionally, several models have been fine-tuned specifically for code generation, showing significant improvements in code-related applications. Both foundational and fine-tuned models are increasingly used in education, helping students write, debug, and understand code. We present a comprehensive systematic literature review to examine the impact of LLMs in computer science and computer engineering education. We analyze their effectiveness in enhancing the learning experience, supporting personalized education, and aiding educators in curriculum development. We address five research questions to uncover insights into how LLMs contribute to educational outcomes, identify challenges, and suggest directions for future research.

Marwah Alaofi, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles L. A. Clarke et al.

In this chapter, we consider generative information retrieval evaluation from two distinct but interrelated perspectives. First, large language models (LLMs) themselves are rapidly becoming tools for evaluation, with current research indicating that LLMs may be superior to crowdsource workers and other paid assessors on basic relevance judgement tasks. We review past and ongoing related research, including speculation on the future of shared task initiatives, such as TREC, and a discussion on the continuing need for human assessments. Second, we consider the evaluation of emerging LLM-based generative information retrieval (GenIR) systems, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. We consider approaches that focus both on the end-to-end evaluation of GenIR systems and on the evaluation of a retrieval component as an element in a RAG system. Going forward, we expect the evaluation of GenIR systems to be at least partially based on LLM-based assessment, creating an apparent circularity, with a system seemingly evaluating its own output. We resolve this apparent circularity in two ways: 1) by viewing LLM-based assessment as a form of "slow search", where a slower IR system is used for evaluation and training of a faster production IR system; and 2) by recognizing a continuing need to ground evaluation in human assessment, even if the characteristics of that human assessment must change.

Володимир Варенко

Мета статті – виявити роль моделювання в інформаційних процесах із погляду розкриття латентної (прихованої) інформації та її вплив на прийняття ефективних рішень в аналітиці. Методи дослідження. Методологія дослідження базується на загальнонаукових принципах системності, комплексності, усебічності пізнання, єдності теорії і практики. Досягненню поставленої мети сприяло використання загальнонаукових (оглядово- аналітичного, аналізу, синтезу, моделювання, системного підходу, узагальнення) та спеціальних (бібліографічного, інформаційної діагностики (експрес-аналізу)) методів на теоретичному та емпіричному рівнях дослідження. Наукова новизна дослідження полягає в систематизації та узагальненні відомих (про моделі та моделювання) і нових знань (про розкриття за допомогою моделювання латентної інформації в аналітиці) з погляду сьогодення та перспектив їх розвитку в межах одного дослідження. Основні висновки. Відповідно до основного підходу в інформаційно-аналітичній діяльності, побудова концептуальних моделей інформаційних об’єктів, процесів і явищ дозволяє швидко і системно розкрити латентну інформацію щодо прихованих ідей, сенсів, зовнішніх і внутрішніх факторів, що впливають на ситуацію, тенденцій, закономірностей розвитку ситуації, причинно-наслідкових зв’язків, цілей дій суб’єктів, ризиків, загроз, проблем, зв’язків (залежностей), центрів сил, сфер їх інтересів та інших факторів, що є надто важливими в процесі прийняття виважених і ефективних рішень. Спрощена модель певного інформаційного процесу (проблеми) для аналітика/експерта передусім є ідеальним варіантом пізнання, економією сил і ресурсів (насамперед часу), а також запобіжником прийняття упереджених висновків і помилкових (неефективних) пропозицій і рекомендацій особам, які приймають рішення. Наголошено, що існуюча розгалужена видова різноманітність інформаційних моделей дозволяє аналітику/експерту ефективно застосовувати їх на будь-якому етапі дослідження. Особливе місце по праву належить моделюванню в проєктуванні бізнес-процесів. Отже, моделювання інформаційних процесів є універсальною методикою в роботі аналітика і потужним засобом досягнення ефективності в будь-якій діяльності.

Harun Bayraktar, Ali Charara, David Clark et al.

We present the NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK, a state-of-the-art library of composable primitives for GPU-accelerated quantum circuit simulations. As the size of quantum devices continues to increase, making their classical simulation progressively more difficult, the availability of fast and scalable quantum circuit simulators becomes vital for quantum algorithm developers, as well as quantum hardware engineers focused on the validation and optimization of quantum devices. The cuQuantum SDK was created to accelerate and scale up quantum circuit simulators developed by the quantum information science community by enabling them to utilize efficient scalable software building blocks optimized for NVIDIA GPU platforms. The functional building blocks provided cover the needs of both state vector- and tensor network- based simulators, including approximate tensor network simulation methods based on matrix product state, projected entangled pair state, and other factorized tensor representations. By leveraging the enormous computing power of the latest NVIDIA GPU architectures, quantum circuit simulators that have adopted the cuQuantum SDK demonstrate significant acceleration, compared to CPU-only execution, for both the state vector and tensor network simulation methods. Furthermore, by utilizing the parallel primitives available in the cuQuantum SDK, one can easily transition to distributed GPU-accelerated platforms, including those furnished by cloud service providers and high-performance computing systems deployed by supercomputing centers, extending the scale of possible quantum circuit simulations. The rich capabilities provided by the SDK are conveniently made available via both Python and C application programming interfaces, where the former is directly targeting a broad Python quantum community and the latter allows tight integration with simulators written in any programming language.

Elisa C. Baek, Ryan Hyon, Karina López et al.

It has been proposed that information sharing, which is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior, plays a critical role in cultivating and maintaining a sense of shared reality. Across three studies, we tested this theory by investigating whether or not people are especially likely to share information that they believe will be interpreted similarly by others in their social circles. Using neuroimaging while members of the same community viewed brief film clips, we found that more similar neural responding of participants was associated with a greater likelihood to share content. We then tested this relationship using two behavioral studies and found (1) that people were particularly likely to share content that they believed others in their social circles would interpret similarly and (2) that perceived similarity with others leads to increased sharing likelihood. In concert, our findings support the idea that people are driven to share information to create and reinforce shared understanding, which is critical to social connection.

A. A. Yudin, M. G. Kozhevnikov

The article investigates insufficiently researched issues related to A. I. Klibanov’s book collection. The review of the detected autographs, exlibris and ownership stamps provides an opportunity to determine custodial history of books from both state libraries and personal collections, as well as to reveal unique information about relationships and cooperation between medieval scholars in the second half of the 20th century. The dedicatory inscriptions on the books differ in their length and originality; therefore, their significance as a source is directly proportional to how close a sender and a receiver were. Identification and description of bookplates and stamps in the study of the “Klibanovskaya” collection, still unknown from available reference books, will help in the study of other memorial book collections where such provenance marks can be found. The article also details the features of the formation of the foreign part of the A. I. Klibanov’s book collection. The foreign part of the memorial book collection, which is relatively small compared with the entire collection, can be divided into several thematic blocks: books with autographs donated by researchers dealing with similar scientific problems as the owner of the collection; multi-temporal books on historical and religious subjects, acquired by the owner; instances not related to the previous two blocks. The article identifies, systematizes and describes the inscriptions and ownership marks on the books of the collection of A. I. Klibanov.

Hermann Kroll, Florian Plötzky, Jan Pirklbauer et al.

Knowledge bases allow effective access paths in digital libraries. Here users can specify their information need as graph patterns for precise searches and structured overviews (by allowing variables in queries). But especially when considering textual sources that contain narrative information, i.e., short stories of interest, harvesting statements from them to construct knowledge bases may be a serious threat to the statements' validity. A piece of information, originally stated in a coherent line of arguments, could be used in a knowledge base query processing without considering its vital context conditions. And this can lead to invalid results. That is why we argue to move towards narrative information access by considering contexts in the query processing step. In this way digital libraries can allow users to query for narrative information and supply them with valid answers. In this paper we define narrative information access, demonstrate its benefits for Covid 19 related questions, and argue on the generalizability for other domains such as political sciences.

Fariba Jalili, Fariborz Doroudi, Ali Akbar Famil rouhani

This research aims to study the dimensions of implementation of data governance strategies in planning in order to provide information services of libraries of Islamic Azad University. The research is an analytical-survey study. The statistical population includes central libraries of Islamic Azad University’s branches in provincial centers (35 branches), their managers and librarians (155 individuals). The research findings revealed that librarians’ attitude toward seven components of providing information services in central libraries of Islamic Azad University including data quality, data usage, data standard, data security and data modeling do not have significant relationship with their educational level, academic major, and work experience while the component of data usage and data standard in educational level showed a significant relationship. Results of the study also showed that average feasibility for implementation of data governance strategies in providing information services was higher than that of average population. In addition, librarians evaluate feasibility for implementation of data governance strategies in data organization in central libraries of Islamic Azad University to be desirable which is higher than average level. Accordingly, the highest to lowest scores for the components include data usage, data process, data quality, data integrity, data security, data modeling and standard in service delivery. The results also show that libraries can largely implement these strategies. The impact of data governance on the organization of information resources leads to proper planning in academic libraries.

Agus Sriyono, Lilis Sulistyaningsih, Hardian Putri Nuryana Putri Nuryana

Libraries have a role to foster and develop a literacy culture. The library is one of the information centers because it provides many books and knowledge needed as scientific references. The existence of the Sebelas Maret University (UNS) campus is inseparable from the surrounding community. So it is hoped that there will be a symbiotic mutualism (mutual benefit) between the academic community of the UNS campus, especially the UPT Library of UNS Surakarta and the surrounding community. This study aims to examine the role of UPT Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta Library in empowering the literacy of the community around the campus. Libraries have an important role as a center for knowledge resources, to support the process of education, research and community service, including the role of libraries to participate in developing the literacy of the community around campus. This research was conducted in June 2021 using quantitative and qualitative research methods with purposive sampling as the source of information. The sample population in this study were people directly adjacent to the UNS campus, namely Jebres, Pucangsawit and Mojosongo Villages, Jebres District, Surakarta City, Central Java, where the population sample of each village was taken intentionally (purposive sampling) as many as 15 people from each village, so there were as many as 15 people from each village. 45 respondents. From this research, it can be seen that the role of UPT Sebelas Maret University Library (UNS) Surakarta in empowering the literacy of the community around the campus is still quite low. It is proven by the data that only 35.6% of the total respondents have felt their role. The role of the UPT for the UNS library still needs to be improved so that it can touch the layers of society around the UNS campus. With a higher role for the community, it is hoped that it can foster interest and reading culture for the community. In addition, the community also hopes that the role of the UNS Library UPT can increase knowledge and community literacy.

Megan Craig, Madeleine Davison

Legal access to death certificates varies widely from state to state. Because death records are crucial to in-depth journalistic reporting, we examined laws related to data access across the United States to determine how possible such reporting would be in each state under current laws. In addition to conducting a survey of state legislation on death certificates, we also conducted a meta-analysis of state legislative history related to these records, sought stories that have relied on death records, and interviewed the reporters who wrote some of those stories. We found that state laws could be categorized in three ways: open access, partial access and closed or very limited access. Only 12 of 50 states were found to have laws that could be considered “open.” We propose solutions and call for actions from key stakeholders to change these laws.

Sandra Milena ROA-MARTÍNEZ, Silvana Aparecida Borsetti Gregorio VIDOTTI

Resumen Considerando la tecnología eye tracking como método de colecta de datos originados por el registro del seguimiento visual de las personas, se propone como objetivo de este trabajo orientar conceptual y metodológicamente el desarrollo de futuras investigaciones que pretendan usar esta tecnología para la evaluación de la usabilidad en ambientes digitales informacionales. Fue usado un enfoque metodológico descriptivo y prospectivo para el desarrollo de este trabajo, a partir de un levantamiento bibliográfico, análisis de literatura y experiencias en trabajos previos. Como resultado, se obtuvo un conjunto de pasos que constituyen una propuesta de procedimiento para evaluación de aspectos de usabilidad usando la tecnología eye tracking. Se destaca que se encuentra un amplio panorama y configuraciones para evaluar usabilidad usando eye tracking. El procedimiento propuesto pretende guiar futuras investigaciones relacionadas; además se presenta un consolidado de métricas con un significado en términos de evaluación de aspectos de usabilidad. Concluyendo, entre los principales aspectos de usabilidad medidos durante la evaluación por métricas de eye tracking están: eficiencia en la búsqueda, interfaz y visibilidad y que el procedimiento propuesto, además de guía, garantizará que los objetivos propuestos en este tipo de investigaciones sean claramente formulados y cumplidos al igual que la validez de sus resultados.

Marianna Banacka

Artykuł zawiera analizę Pamiętników księdza kanonika gnieźnieńskiego Baltazara Pstrokońskiego herbu Poraj (1713 -1796) Po nakreśleniu jego biografii Autorka zajmuje się memuarami księdza kładąc nacisk na język jakiego pamiętnikarz używał oraz na jego interpretację świata, który w Pamiętnikach opisywał. W podsumowaniu Autorka stwierdza, że język Pstrokońskiego jest charakterystyczny dla duchowieństwa tamtych czasów, stanowi wynik systemu kształcenia i oddziaływania środowiska, w którym żył pamiętnikarz. Charakter wspomnień księdza wynikał z jego osobowości, ale też był skutkiem oddziaływania zbiorowości kulturowej, do której należał.

Т. С. Опришко, Г. В. Тимофєєва

According to publications of foreign library science specialists, the strategy of internationalization is the most successful experience of library and information service modernization today. In Ukrainian scientific discourse, the strategy of internationalization in librarianship is not separated and is not examined, while in other educational spheres it is described in detail. The goal of the article is the statement and foundation of main tasks and directions of internationalization of academic libraries and their correlation with the traditional functions of academic libraries. It is demonstrated that directions of library internationalization have to: a) support and help with solving tasks set by a higher educational institution during the process of internationalization; b) solve specific tasks connected with the development of library services and international library initiatives. The content of “internationalization” aspects of work, determined within the framework of set tasks, is disclosed by: 1) the development of library services; 2) the participation in international library initiatives, especially that are in regard to providing equal access to the information and ideas; 3) the providing of information requirements of foreign students and researchers; 4) the integration of scientific publications to the international scientific area. In conclusions it is stated that such approach to the library role understanding would allow to make them peculiar informational centers of the higher educational institution, where are concentrated not only outgoing, but also ingoing information flows, the intensity of which can be measured with the help of certain indicators – absolute, relative and quality indicators. On the ground of these indicators we can draw the conclusion about the internationalization of the higher educational institutions and convert the strategic targets into their quantitative dimension. Certain groups of indicators that are connected with strategy directions described in the article are distinguished. There are some of them: the number of languages of library resources; statistical measures of library website traffic; qualitative measures of implementation of international library standards into the work of the library; the number of open access journals in the university collection and on the library site; the number of information databases of scientific and technical information the university library provides the access to; the number of subscribers of the library resources; the representation of publications of scientists and scientific journals of the university, rating system indexes etc.

Lei Yu, Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this correspondence, we correct an erroneous result on the achievability part of the Rényi common information with order $1+s\in(1,2]$ in [1]. The new achievability result (upper bound) of the Rényi common information no longer coincides with Wyner's common information. We also provide a new converse result (lower bound) in this correspondence for the Rényi common information with order $1+s\in(1,\infty]$. Numerical results show that for doubly symmetric binary sources, the new upper and lower bounds coincide for the order $1+s\in(1,2]$ and they are both strictly larger than Wyner's common information for this case.

Joanne Marie Muellenbach

A Review of: Miller, F., Partridge, H., Bruce, C., Yates, C., & Howlett, A. (2017). How academic librarians experience evidence-based practice: A grounded theory model. Library & Information Science Research, 39(2), 124-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2017.04.003 Abstract Objective – To explore and enhance the understanding of how Australian library and information science (LIS) practitioners experience or understand evidence based practice (EBP) within the context of their day-to-day professional work. Design – Constructivist grounded theory methodology. Setting – University libraries in Queensland, Australia. Subjects – 13 academic librarians. Methods – Researchers contacted academic librarians by email and invited each participant to take part in a 30-60 minute, semi-structured interview. They designed interview questions to allow participants to explain their process and experience of EBP. Main results – This study identified six categories of experience of EBP using a constructivist grounded theory analysis process. The categories are: Empowering; Intuiting; Affirming; Connecting; Noticing; and Impacting. Briefly, empowering includes being empowered, or empowering clients, colleagues, and institutions through improved practice or performance. Intuiting includes being intuitive, or using one’s own intuition, wisdom, and understanding, of colleagues and clients’ behaviours to solve problems and redesign services. Affirming includes being affirmed through sharing feedback and using affirmation to strengthen support for action. Connecting includes being connected, and building connections, with clients, colleagues, and institutions. Noticing includes being actively aware of, observing, and reflecting on clients, colleagues, and literature within and outside of one’s own university, and noticing patterns in data to inform decision-making. Impacting includes being impactful, or having a visible impact, on clients, colleagues, and institutions. Together, these categories represent a model that explains the nature of academic librarians’ experiences of EBP. The theory describes academic librarians' experiences as complex and highly contextualized phenomena. There is no clear relationship between these categories, as data analysis did not generate a specific hierarchy of categories. Conclusion – Based on the research findings the authors hypothesize that their study is one of a growing number of studies that has begun to establish an empirical basis for EBP in the LIS profession.