Browsing by Author "Lihitkar, Shalini"

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    Need of Virtual Learning Environment for Educating Library & Information Science
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) Arora, Dipti; Lihitkar, Shalini
    We learn things when we study but understood them when we do it practically. Slowly education system understood this need and many of the areas are revamped and new student centric and project based learning are introduced in the existing curriculum. With regard to the other fields, Library and information science (LIS) profession, its curriculum and learning approach should be transformed to new Information and communication technology (ICT) based style of teaching and learning. Virtual learning environment (VLE) is one of the best solutions to get quality out of the education and to produce more gen ready information specialist and not merely librarians. This paper endeavours to discuss the need of VLE in the present LIS education, its pros and cons and also some issues that one will face while implementing it for university, college, or any educational institute.
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    Web Link Analysis and Web Impact Factors of Space Science Libraries’ Websites
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) Prabakaran, R; Lihitkar, Shalini
    The purpose of the library website is to provide service and disseminate information to the intended users. The paper aims to analysis the space science libraries’ websites in the world and their web link analysis, web impact factor and its ranking. The study has been carried out on 17 space science libraries’ websites. For the analysis, the data collected on number of web pages, external links, in-links, self-links, total links of the websites. Various web impact factors were calculated on the basis of the web links and ranked the websites.