Browsing by Author "Rathinasabapathy, G"

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    Biometric Applications in Library and Information Centres: Prospects and Problems
    (Inflibnet center, 2008-02-28) Rathinasabapathy, G; Sundari, T Mohana; Rajendran, Thiru L
    Biometric identification refers to a technology that uses scanned graphical information from many sources for personal identification purposes. The biometric technology helps the libraries to ensure safety and security to its invaluable collections, infrastructure and human resources. It is the duty of the librarian to keep the library buildings, shelves and stacks open and free without losing items to make available or putting individuals at unacceptable risk from the malicious, avaricious or senseless acts of others. Further, the LIS professionals are now handling huge database, provide access to online journals and web-enabled online public access catalogues in the networked digital environment where there are a lot of scope for compute /cyber crimes. In this regard, the biometric technology is a boon for the LIS professionals as it provides a single point of control for administrators to manage access to library resources such as computers, buildings, doors, the Internet, and software applications. In this context, this paper attempts to study the various types of biometric applications available for LIS centres, its prospects and problems as well.
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    Digital Library of Theses and Dessertations
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-02-02) Rathinasabapathy, G
    Building of Digital Library largely depends on the nature of content and quality of digital resources. The digital library resources include electronic journals, electronic books, fulltext CD-ROM databases, etc. In research and academic institutions, theses, dissertations and research reports play a vital role as primary sources of information since they contain information of research value. Therefore, most of the research scholars refer to these documents regularly. To ensure easy and wider access to these documents, a digital library of theses and dissertations has been established in Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and connected with the Intranet of the university. The digital library provides access to the constituent units of the university including remote colleges. This paper discusses in brief about the establishment of the digital library of theses and dissertations.
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    E-Books Through Intranet: A Case Study of the Tamilnadu Veterinary andAnimal Sciences University Library
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2009-02-25) Rathinasabapathy, G; Rajendran, L; Balachandran, C
    ‘Electronic book’, a term coined by Van Dam of Brown University during the 1960s, is very popular today across the globe. The e-publishing phenomenon that began in the 1960s paved the way for the development of electronic versions of printed books which is known as e-Books. E-Book is nothing but a book in electronic form. We can download thousands of free e-Books from the Internet and nowadays, most of the world renowned Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) publishers provide perpetual access to the e-Books published by them under one time subscription basis.
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    Vertical,Topical, Special Search Engines and Vortals to Mine Information on the Internet
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Rathinasabapathy, G
    Abstract A Search Engine is a program designed to find information on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie (1990) was created at McGill University and the first Web search engine Wandex (1993) was developed by Matthew Gray at MIT. Thereafter, many search engines came into use. There are a wide variety of Search Engines across the Internet and help us to find the most accurate and relevant information across the Information Superhighway. This paper attempts to mine, classify and profile the special Search Engines which are also known as Topical or Vertical Search Engines and Vortals.