Browsing by Author "Maharana, Bulu"

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    A-Lib 2.0: New Avatar Academic Libraries with Web 2.0 Applications
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2008-02-28) Dora, Mallikarjun; Maharana, Bulu
    The web has seen the explosion of social networking tools, which are empowering ordinary people to connect, collaborate and contribute in a global collaboration. These social software applications are now the hottest properties of the Internet users. This article explains the how Web 2.0 tools could be applied in academic libraries to convert them as A-Lib 2.0 or Academic Library 2.0. The paper further includes a few cases from different libraries which have already adopted these new services. One recent survey found that 34.41% of total academic libraries in New York State are using Web 2.0 Services; the major ones include IM, Blogs, RSS, Book marking, Wiki, Social Networks, etc. Library 2.0 has changed the traditional way of thinking about the profession where library only engage in creating the content and services for user shifted to the side of user where librarian will enable user to create them for themselves
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    Faceted Knowledge Organization Approach in Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for Searching and Navigation: A Case Study
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2022-11) Pradhan, Dibya Kishor; Maharana, Bulu
    In addition to the traditional library information retrieval (IR) practices, the modern library has implemented federated search, web discovery, next-generation cataloguing, and other new tools for effective organization and discovery. Facet navigation (facet search, facet navigation, or guided navigation) is applied to many e-commerce sites and dominates the interface paradigm features. The faceted approach to knowledge organization in search and navigation functions of online catalogues helps users find their necessary information effectively and most conveniently. The application of faceted searching and navigation in library OPAC is discussed in this paper. This study aims to present an overview of OPAC's faceted techniques, which play a crucial role in information retrieval. This paper investigates the system or software used to develop the online catalogue and its status in terms of the faceted knowledge organization approach by the top engineering college libraries in Odisha ranked by NIRF. Identifying nine OPACs for this study found that ninety percent of the OPACs are faceted, and fifty percent of the library prefers Koha ILS. This paper also studied OPAC facet sequence and facet type and discussed how the facet theory is still applied to the OPAC.
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    Google Scholar: A Tool to Search Scholarly Information on the Web
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Maharana, Bulu; Mahapatra, Sasmita
    Google Scholar is the scholarly search tool of the world’s largest and most powerful search engine, Google. It enables the users to search for scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Google Scholar gets its information directly from publishers and by crawling the Web for scholarly content. Following a descriptive method of study, the paper provides a detail history and development timeline of Google and Google Scholar. Discusses in detail the features, search strategies, citation indexing values of Google Scholar.
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    Library Mashups: Web 2.0 Tool for Integrating Contents and Services of Libraries
    (Inflibnet center, 2008-11-06) Maharana, Bulu; Sahu, N. K.; Deb, Ms. Arundhati; Bhue, Siba; Majhi, Sabitri
    Mashup is one of the many new phenomena in the Web 2.0 environment. They are largely experimental, but some of them are very useful, well-designed and very popular. Google Maps is the most popular component of Mashups. Amazon, Yahoo! Maps, and photo-sharing site Flickr are also a source for many of the sites. The libraries have been well adapting to the emerging technologies to integrate contents and services in order to provide innovative services to the users. The paper defines Mashup and discusses its various aspects with specific reference to the libraries.
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    Social Bookmarking: Web2.0 Tool for Content Sharing and Learning
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2010-02-18) Maharana, Bulu; Majhi, Sabitri; Bhue, Shiba
    Social bookmarking is one of the many phenomena in the Web2.0 environment. They are largely experimental, but some of them are very popular and very useful. Delicious is one of the most popular social bookmarking tools.The general internet users as well as the teachers and learners have been well adapting to the emerging technologies to integrate the learning process. The paper defines Social bookmarking and discusses its various aspects with specific reference to learning.