Monday, February 17, 2025

Knowledge is extremely diverse; on one good day a politician will rule out another politician in front of a huge cheering crowd, and in another setting the same politician will embrace the same politician in front of the same cheering crowd, and all shall still go back to their same homes in the individual capacities and designs and wake up to call upon God to provide for them, absolve them for any wrongdoing, or bless them for every success, however dubious it may be in the eyes of God, but pleasing in front of wicked men.

When one rightous man dies we all mourn as human beings and praise him profusoly and in the same stride when a murderer , sodomiser, thief, rapist, conman dies, we all shed crocodile tears and praise his good deeds in torentials. 

This is what separates us from the immortal capacities that God possesses versus our short-lived mortal aggrandizement, and that is what we simply refer to as life, but God talks of everlasting life, and that is the difference. 

Praise your spirit while it still lives in your mortal state.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

 

User needs survey of E-resources at Pwani University Library during the covid-19 Pandemic in March 2021 results.

Departments that participated in the survey

Schools that participated and  responses returned

 

Gender balance of interviewees

 

Use Electronic Information resource

 

 

Databases of eresources utilised

 Other eresources utlised

 

Database

1.

Scopus

2.

Springer

3.

Royal Chemistry Society

4.

American Chemistry Society

5.

Psychlnfo

6.

Tourism Book Parlour

7.

Dubmed

8.

IEEE

9.

Science Direct

10

Social Science Abstracts

 

Sufficiency of e-resources

Yes

Fairly, and especially given that most of the marine science manual would’nt be on these platforms

Though I have used them at a very minimal level

No

Not more for Philosophy

Only Wiley seems Okay/sufficient

Depend on subject area

Most useful e-resources

 

E-resources

Frequency

1.

Royal Chemistry Society

1

2.

American Chemistry Society

1

3.

HINARI

7

4.

OARE

4

5.

WILEY

11

6.

Springer

1

7.

Jstor

9

8

AGORA

12

9.

Physch Information

1

10

Sage Journals

11

11.

Ebrary

4

12.

TEEAL

4

13.

Emerald

5

14.

Ebsco host

2

15.

Scopus

1