Browsing by Author "Dabas, K C"

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    Automation Scenario In University Libraries: A Study of Some Selected Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2003-02) Dabas, K C; Singh, Sewa
    The paper attempts to review and audit the present scenario of library automation in nine university libraries in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh in the background of yesteryears and expected future. Paper points out that today complete library automation and modernization means digitisation of the every bit of information contents. Discusses the scope, objectives, and methodology adopted for collection, presentation, and analysis of data for this paper. Highlights the meaning, need, main considerations, rationale, main components, and domain of library automation in the context of university libraries. Throws light on the availability of hardware and software in respective libraries and examines types and forms of library collection. Gives a brief overview of library automation in historical perspectives in the selected libraries and focuses on house
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    Reengineering University Libraries as the Gateway of Local and Global Information
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2002-02) Dabas, K C
    The paper attempts to measure the level and status of best library practices and services of university library systems amidst drastic and dramatic changes in the global information environment. Describes that dynamic changes in the environment upset the static balances in the users, provides services, products and consultations. The library paradigm is shifting from storehouse model of information provision to “access” or “Gateway” model. Emphasizes that some sort of intervention is needed to put the same in order and bring equilibrium between the users and providers. Also describes that TQM is an intervention to bring radical changes in the system. With that aim in mind this paper examines and ausits the strengths and weaknesses of nine university libraries through TQM. Conceptualises the term TQM and reengineering in the context of library and information services. Points out that the aim of TQM and reengineering in the context of university libraries is to provide local and global information as a unified transaction from the same terminal. The induction of IT in all spheres of human activities have forced the university libraries to attain require competencies and information infrastructure to interface the problems, challenges opportunities and impending threats. Information management of this sort is nothing but application of information technology (IT) in all house keeping, networking, resource sharing and other advanced information handling activities. To cope with the changing needs of information the forms of information resources are also changing at a fast pace that is clearly visible from the long journey from ‘shruti’in vedic age to the Internet and digital resources. Library literature also reveals that convergence of print and digital technology is necessary condition for qualitative library services. To that end an attempt is made to measure that level of IT application with regard to forms of reading material, forms of periodicals, hardware and software facilities initiation of computerisation, status of housekeeping operations, retrieval services, application in library administration and management (MIS), size of in-house databases, and access to major networks and their services, particularly the use of Internet based services in all the nine university libraries under study. This is a sort of auditing of the existing scenario. Also suggests measures to reengineer the library management, structure, organisation, services, information infrastructure, and competencies to cope with the situation.
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    Role of Data Mining and Data Warehousing for Future Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Gill, Nasib S; Dabas, K C
    Libraries generate, accumulate, and disseminate information to its readers and users in the desired format and at the desired location. The process of using library data more effectively begins by discovering ways to connect the sources of data created by Libraries. The concept of data warehousing and data mining can assist library management in making decisions and setting policies, and can assist the library’s parent organization or community in understanding the information needs of its members. Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. Data mining provides knowledge by uncovering valuable information that can be used for various purposes in different areas of applications. Using various techniques of data mining such as association rules, decision trees, and cross tabulation can help discover this unused information. The scope of this paper is to discuss the role and importance of data warehousing and data mining in making the libraries of the future. This paper first discusses the concept of data warehousing, its characteristics, and its uses. Further, the paper also discusses the concept of data mining and its use in library and information services.