Browsing by Author "Chakraborty, Nirmali"

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    Activities and Reasons for Using Social Networking Sites by Research Scholars in NEHU: A Study on Facebook and ResearchGate
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Chakraborty, Nirmali
    The paper has made an attempt to study the activities and reasons for using Social Networking Sites (SNS) by the research scholars of North Eastern Hill University (NEHU). For that the study has covered two social networking sites namely Facebook and ResearchGate based on popularity and widely used by research scholars. a self administered questionnaire was distributed among the research scholars of NEHU. And the primary data gathered through questionnaire were analyzed and discussed in accordance with the objective of the study. Here it is found that most of the scholars from social science background use SNS from education and research point of view; on the contrary scholars from pure science think that SNS has no role on research and education. They use SNS just for entertainment. The paper concludes with some suggestions given by the respondents for making SNS better research tool.
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    Institutional Repository of North-Eastern Hill University: An Evaluative Study
    (2011-03-02) Chakraborty, Nirmali; Ngurtinkhuma, R K
    The paper has made an attempt to evaluate the impact of institutional repository of North Eastern Hill University on its academic fraternities. It also includes strengths and weaknesses of this particular repository pointed out by the faculties and research scholars of NEHU. The paper is concluding with some suggestions drawn on the basis of the findings.
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    Knowledge Management through Academic Portal: A Case study of IIT Madras
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2014-09-25) Chakraborty, Nirmali
    The study aims to investigate students’ perceptions of using academic portal as knowledge management tool at IIT Madras. A self administered questionnaire was distributed among randomly selected 100 students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Moreover, a scheduled interview was conducted with the senior library professionals of the concerned institute. This research paper introduces the relationship between academic portal and knowledge management practices. The study shows that all the respondents are very much interested to use the academic portals of their institute and quite a good number of respondents are participating in those portals. Of course, the awareness level of the respondents regarding the utilization of academic portals as knowledge management tool is low. Therefore, the institution should create awareness among the users by conducting programmes, such as orientation programs, demonstrations, workshops, conferences, seminars and through notices regarding the complete potential of the academic portals and their use as knowledge management tool. Moreover, faculties should also motivate their students to create, share, store and utilize knowledge on the academic portals.