RBU_JR_LIS_V23_2021-FULL_TEXT-E-Copy

RBU Journal of Library & Information Science
Volume 23, 2021
UGC – CARE enlisted Journal w.e.f. 14.6.2019
Previously it was under UGC List of Journals No. 45237, Sl. No. 2023
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Editorial
Covid-19 pandemic not yet wash out from our country.
We are struggling with the third wave of Covid-19. As per
data reported by WHO as on 22 nd September 2021, 08:36
pm GMT+5:30 the 26 964 are the confirmed New cases
and 445 768 have died due to covid-19 in India. As per
report of Govt. of India available at
https://www.mygov.in/covid-19 , as on : 23 rd Sep 2021,
08:00 IST (GMT+5:30) the number of active cases are
3,01,640 (0.90%) and the death cases are 4,46,050
(1.33%), however the total 83,39,90,049 people have
been vaccinated. As on today morning (23/09/2021) the
statistics of the Sate of West Bengal is quite
satisfactory as the number of confirmed cases are
15,63,393, the active cases are 7,724, the total death cases
are 18,691 and total 5,29,46,740 people have been
vaccinated in this State. As per GO No. 753/IX –ISS/2M-
22/2020 dated 15/9/2021 of Govt. of West Bengal,
restrictions and relaxation already in force stand extended
upto 30 th September 2021. Unfortunately total education
sector of this state is still fully under restrictions. No
physical appearances are allowed to the university,
colleges and schools. Official works have started in a
restricted manner. With all these compulsions and
obligations we are happy to announce that we have
received the print copy of RBU Journal of Library &
Information Science, Volume 22, 2020 in due course.
We got approval from Hon’ble Vice Chancellor to start
started processing to be published of RBU Journal of
Library & Information Science, Volume 23, 2021 on 1 st
June 2021. After making primary planning we made
public notification through our website
https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lis and direct
global mail to few hundred available email ids, and
various social media and forum etc on 10 th June 2021. The
Last date of receiving Manuscript was announced as 30 th
August 2021. We have strictly followed the time dead
line. Immediately after publishing the notification we
have received huge responses. As a continuous workflow
all the manuscript primarily reviewed by our internal
editorial team consisting of all the faculty members of the
department. Any updating, editing, doubt clearing have
communicated to the authors repeatedly when required.
However, due to lots of burden and compulsion we can
neither increase the issue number nor incorporate the
number of articles beyond the capacity of the Volume.
Therefore it is painful to us to discard many of the quality
papers.
We have received 130 manuscripts within restricted time
period for the RBU Journal of Library & Information
Science Volume 23, 2021. Among them the maximum
number of papers are received from West Bengal (40)
followed by Tamilnadu (14) and Karnatak (13). The paper
received from different states can be viewed a bar diagram
given below-
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