IFLA Volume 47 Number 2 June 2021 IFLA Contents Editorial Publishing in IFLA Journal: Balancing between the global and the local 117 Steven W. Witt Review Article Knowledge and skills for accessing agricultural information by rural farmers in South-East Nigeria 119 Ugonna B. Fidelugwuowo Original Articles Research methodology practices among postgraduate Information Studies students in Tanzania 129 Esther Ndenje-Sichalwe and Emmanuel Frank Elia TETFund intervention in the provision of library resources in academic libraries in Nigeria 142 Cajetan Onyeneke and Ihunanya Lovelyn Ahaneku Channels used to deliver agricultural information and knowledge to smallholder farmers 153 Tumpe Ndimbwa, Kelefa Mwantimwa and Faraja Ndumbaro Benefits of crowdsourcing for libraries: A case study from Africa 168 Renee Lynch, Jason C. Young, Stanley Boakye-Achampong, Chris Jowaisas, Joel Sam and Bree Norlander Awareness, anchor and adjustment factors in the use of institutional repositories by Nigerian lecturers 182 Alice A. Bamigbola Privacy practices in academic libraries in Ghana: Insight into three top universities 196 Bright K. Avuglah, Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah, Gloria Tachie-Donkor and Eugene B. Yeboah Effects of service quality on satisfaction in Eastern University Library, Bangladesh 209 Md. Jahangir Alam Role of Lebanese public school libraries in the changing information environment 223 Patricia Rahme, Gladys Saade and Nohma Khayrallah Faculty–librarian administrative structure and collaborative activities supporting teaching and research at Vietnamese universities: A qualitative study 236 Thi Lan Nguyen and Kulthida Tuamsuk Collections and services of public libraries in West Bengal, India: An evaluative study against the backdrop of the IFLA guidelines 250 Shamim Aktar Munshi and Mehtab Alam Ansari Abstracts 263 Aims and Scope IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. 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IFLA Editorial International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2021, Vol. 47(2) 117–118 Publishing in IFLA Journal: Balancing ª The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: between the global and the local sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/03400352211020871 journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl Steven W. Witt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Over the past five years, IFLA Journal has grown get published,” which will feature reviewers, authors, significantly regarding the number of submissions and the editor in discussions about the publishing and and impact of its articles. With manuscript submis- review process of the journal. These webinars will be sions in 2020 topping 200 for the first time, we have scheduled with various world time zones in mind and decided to increase the journal’s output by eliminat- feature authors and reviewers from various IFLA ing page limits for each issue. We aim to maintain a regions. Through these webinars, we hope to encour- reasonable acceptance rate and ensure that articles age the IFLA community both to consider submitting reach their worldwide audience quickly. Readers will their work to IFLA Journal and to further develop note that this issue contains 11 articles, making it the skills to increase our overall capacity to generate the largest issue of the journal in recent memory. Output, critical knowledge that our profession needs as it faces however, is not as important as quality. The journal is increasingly globalized challenges, such as those particularly pleased to see an increase in the quality of reflected in the United Nations 2030 Sustainable submissions and a continued diversity of authors and Development Goals. Please visit the IFLA Journal topics. In 2020, the journal advanced to the first website for further details on these workshops.2 quartile within the Scimago journal rankings of IFLA Journal seeks papers in the following general library and information science journals.1 categories, which are described further below: origi- While IFLA Journal continues to grow, the editor nal articles, review articles, case studies, and essays. and editorial committee seek to reflect the values of In some manner, submissions should seek to engage IFLA by viewing our global profession and its prac- the global as it relates to the topic being studied. This tices from within their local contexts as opposed to does not require that manuscripts focus on a top-down implementing a universalizing and normative vision global perspective or include comparative and inter- for library and information sciences. This issue fea- national frames of reference—though these are wel- tures topics that range from agricultural information come. Regardless of methodology, we seek research and food security to privacy practices within aca- and commentary that is able to navigate between the demic libraries. The perspectives are not dominated global and the local to produce research that “revolves by one region and include sub-Saharan Africa, North around traces that suggest relations between local and America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South global frames” (Kahn and Gille, 2020: 235). For Asia. At the same time, these articles fill holes and example, a case study should not simply be bounded add to our mental maps of how globalized phenomena to the local frame of reference, but should help create (intellectual property, privacy, economic develop- routes toward understanding how global phenomena ment, education, health, and food security) impact our within library and information science are repre- profession and intersect with the inherently localized sented, manufactured, reimagined, and adapted in social and governance structures under which we all various ways. Lynch et al.’s (2021) article on crowd- work and live. sourcing for libraries in Africa provides an excellent