Browsing by Author "Kumar, P V Raj"

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    Boundaries for The Boundless: Modernising Digital Libraries – Anna University Initiatives
    (INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Kumar, P V Raj
    “All that glitters is not gold” goes the saying. This paper deals lucidly with the efforts and other associated hardship and difficulties encounted in the making of a digital library at Anna University. The author has highlighted in the preamble about the geneses of the University with an introduction about the University library. All the concepts, the design components, services and uses of the established Digital library initiatives have all been discussed in detail. The difficulties faced in the making of the digital library have also been dealt with in the paper. Last but not the least, a few valuable suggestions to make the digital library more pervasive and usable by all the users have also been well suggested for the posterity. In a nutshell, this paper illustrates the” digital experience” of the University library.
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    Knowledge Management : An Untold need of Tomorrow’s World
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Kumar, P V Raj
    This paper describes about the subjects that are relevant to the organization in the field of Knowledge Management, interacting with key users of a University Library. This paper highlights the concept and practice of Knowledge Management without jargons in context to the role of a digital librarian. This article gives a broad and rudimentary Knowledge Management framework, the processes and the benefits. It emphasizes the fact that the Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adoption, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings. Further this article ploughs through the phenomenon of the fundamentality of Knowledge Management as to what this mean to library and information service professional.