CALIBER 2011:Goa

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Science Indicators of Scientists in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada Univeristy, Aurangabad
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Sonwane, Shashank; Adhe, Govind; Vaishnav, A A
A strong and broad-based university research sector is one of the main pillars in an effective domestic R&D system. Not only in terms of leading-edge research and new knowledge relevant to the scientific community and society at large, but also as a source of high-quality human resources that, are well-educated and trained. A pool of talent in science and technology, a sophisticated workforce and effective transfer of knowledge are seen as keys to sustainable successful and competitive innovation culture. The Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwad University sector is the supplier of new knowledge in terms of scientific publications. The paper attempts to find out the science indicators of the scientists in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar MarathwadaUniversity, Aurangabd
Searching Online Resources in New Discovery Environment: A State- of-the-Art Review
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Pradhan, Dinesh R; Trivedi, Kruti; Arora, Jagdish
The universe of libraries has evolved and expanded from repository of books, journals and other non-print materials in physical format to knowledge repositories that contain collections in physical as well as electronic and multimedia format. With this changing environment of collection of library resources, the greatest challenge in front of libraries is to find out the best way to present, promote and make accessible the growing collections of heterogeneous resources. Libraries are required to look for search and discovering tools to provide seamless access to their resources. This article introduces basic philosophy of federated search and discovery tools. It elaborates on technological tools, techniques and protocols that are used for developing federated search and discovery tools. The article narrates disadvantages of federated search solutions and discovery tools as compared to conducting a search directly on the interface of primary database. The Concept of open URL as a technology used for link-resolving and finding “appropriate copy” is discussed briefly. Lastly, the article describes contemporary federated search solutions and discovery tools that are available commercially or as open source solution with their merits, demerits and comparative performance.
Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Research and Development Libraries in Karnataka: A Study
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) G, Maruthi; R, Rajashekara G; M, Nagaraja Shastry G
The advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made a tremendousimprovement and change almost in all walks of life. Especially the magnetic word information technology has been changed in all corners of the global areas. Present paper presents the results of a research study conducted to survey the use of ICT in R & D libraries. It describes about library staff, classification & cataloguing method followed status of digital library,infrastructural facilities and barriers in use of ICT in R & D libraries. From this study it confirms that most of the research and development libraries are automated and most of the libraries having good infrastructure with regards to ICT tools.
Enabling ILAP as Digital Library Software: A case study with KOHA
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) Pandey, Shri Ram; Singh, Pankaj Kumar
Open Source movement has tremendously influenced Information industry in general and digital libraries in particular. Many of the open source digital library software available on the World Wide Web are developed based on highly sophisticated programming language, which needs in depth knowledge and guidance for installing, implementing, customizing and integrating with other open source software. They generally do not cater to the needs of beginners who want to develop software in open source environment. Present paper is an attempt to enable Integrated Library Automation Software (ILAP) Koha, as a digital library especially koha version 3 in the view that koha can support digital library functionality.
Web-Based Information Retrieval Pattern of Medical Students
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) K, Mohamed Haneefa; M, Jina E
The purpose of this study was to assess the web-based information retrieval pattern of the students of Calicut Medical College, Kerala. Structured questionnaires were employed to collect data from a representative sample of 100 MBBS students. The study found that a majority of the students often use the web for communication and to get general information and recent advances in Medicine. A good number of the students use web-mail and social networking sites very frequently. All the students use simple search methods for accessing the web. Google is the most preferred search engine followed by Yahoo. Only a very few of the students use e-journals and databases. Lack of training/orientation, lack of computer infrastructure, lack of fulltext e-journals and low Internet backbone speed are the major reasons of underutilization of web-based information resources. The findings of this study would assist medical institutions in India to develop strategies and policies that could make better use of web-based information resources for medical education and research.
Information Literacy for Teacher Education
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Gandhe, Charudatta Achyut
In the present information society, the world is changing into global village, classrooms are changing into virtual class rooms and libraries are changing to information centers. Students are more technology oriented and so the whole teaching-learning process. The students are expected to learn beyond the syllabus and teachers should play a role of facilitator. This is due to advent of information and communication technology. Every aspect of education is changed. e-learning, e-resources, etc. are the common words. Everyone in the education system is depend upon the information. As a result of it, we are facing new challenges like information overload, information poverty, etc. To face this challenges the librarians and educationist must think collaboratively to impart information literacy among the students so as to survive in this information age. The teachers should be information literate so that they can implement the information literacy programme in their schools. But there is a need to impart the information literacy skills among the teachers during their pre service teacher education. This paper tries to suggest a model and a draft programme with teaching and learning techniques which will be suitable to impart information literacy skills among the teachers during their pre-service teacher education in India. And it demands collaborative efforts of librarians, teachers, educators, educationists and policy makers.
Usage of Electronic Resources Available Under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium by Assam University Library Users
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Sinha, Manoj Kumar; Singha, Gauri; Sinha, Bimal
The traditional functions of libraries had undergone various changes in present century and E-Resources have great importance in libraries and amongst the library users. The present study has been undertaken with an attempt to evaluate the usage pattern of electronic resources made available in the Assam University Library under the UGC- INFONET E-Journals/ Digital Library Consortium of UGC/INFLIBNET amongst the research scholars and teachers of Northeastern Region of India with special reference to Assam University, Silchar. The faculty, research scholars and students are mainly drawn from different parts of North Eastern States and few from other parts of the country which represent truly cosmopolitan population. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted by the investigators, which comprises of administration of questionnaire, Observation of the participants, and interview of some of the participants for knowing the opinion of the respondents in respect of usage of electronic resources (e-journals/e-books/databases) for their academic and research activities. The self designed questionnaire comprising of 15 questions has been distributed amongst the randomly selected samples .The samples comprises of faculty members, research scholars,UG/PG Students and officers / staff. The filled up questionnaires have been collected from the respondents for the data analysis and interpretations. On the basis of filled up questionnaire the data has been analysed and tabulated using SPSS Software. For data analysis percentage technique, has been adopted. Due to paucity of space important results findings have been enumerated in brief. The present work was carried out during July- December 2009. Therefore the present investigation is delimited to the randomly selected population of Assam University Library Users who are regularly visiting Assam University Library and using the Internet for accessing to the e-resources available under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortia of INFLIBNET/ UGC. The questionnaire was distributed to 350 samples, out of which 319 respondents have responded. The same study may be carried out on the larger section of population covering other universities of North Eastern Region of India to get more generalized and authentic findings. The findings of the present study may be taken as the preliminary findings from a pilot study. The paper highlights the important survey findings in respect of Internet Awareness, Internet Use Pattern and attitude of library users towards the electronic resources, which have been made available to them under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Besides this, some faced by the respondents have also been discussed and few suggestions and recommendations have also been enumerated in brief..
Federated Search and Discovery Tools
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) Vastrad, Gayatri; Bharathy, Jaya; Kumar, P Dharani
The article describes how federated search helps the users to find resources across library collections. Federated search is essen-tially an umbrella search often utilizing, as far as possible, the search facilities already offered by each library resource. Federated searching, also known as meta searching, broadcast searching, cross searching, and a variety of other names, is the ability to search multiple information resources from a single interface and return an integrated set of results. These targets include the library’s collection of books, software, databases and online public access catalogs.
Publication Productivity of Social Scientists in the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram: A Bibliometric Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Sudhier, K G; S, Abhila I
The study analysed the research productivity of social scientists at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, during 19998-2008. The paper gives a summary and review of the various research evaluation studies of institutions and disciplines. There were 599 research articles published by the CDS researchers, including 38.23% journal articles, 23.54% chapters in books and 15.03% working papers. The highest number of publications was in the year 2008.Kerala’s developmental issues (32%) and industry, technology & development (26%) were the leading areas of research during the period of study. Authorship pattern revealed that majority of the contributions were singe- authored (56.59%) and the remaining were multi author contributions (43.41%). The degree of authorship collaboration is found to be 0.43. More than 66% of journal articles published are in Indian journals and 33.19% are published in foreign journals. Economic and Political Weekly, contributes the highest number of articles, 79 (34.50%) followed by Indian journal of Labour Economics with 7 (3.06%). The journal distribution pattern of the CDS publications does not fit the Bradford’s distribution pattern.
Return on Investment (ROI) from Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Kumar, H Anil
The paper looks at the concept of ROI (Return On Investment) in the context of libraries. In light of the dynamic environment, challenging financial pressures and increasing need for accountability have in all forced libraries to prove their worth in terms of outcomes, impact and returns. The paper draws upon various studies and approaches in dealing with this relevant and important topical theme. The paper focuses on academic libraries and concludes that ROI of each library will be different depending on the settings in which it exists. It is important to study the settings and then clearly envisage the measures of returnes of each library.
Developing A Database on Contribution of Maulana Azad to the Pluralistic India Using Greenstone Digital Library Software
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) M, Naushad Ali P; Iqbal, Jafar
Digital Databases are very popular in the modern age as many of institutions and organizations are developing their own digital databases for preservation and better utilization of their valuable information. The major objective of the project were to preserve literature on Maulana Azad digitally for the future generation by designing and developing digital databases of bibliographical information of works written by/on Maulana Azad, using Greenstone Digital Library Software and to develop a user-friendly interface for searching the databases. In this project four databaseswere created: i) Maulana Azad: English Database ii) Maulana Azad: Urdu Database iii) Articles on Maulana Azad iv) Quotations.These digital databases will definitely provide a central location for accessing information on Books and Articles written by/on Maulana Azad and Quotationsabout/by him.
Role of a Corporate Library in Enhancing the Information Literacy of its Users
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Jayalakshmi, M; Jyothi, B
Wikipedia says information literacy is “A set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and actively in that society”. This definition is apt for the Information Technology industry, where all employees are informed citizens of an information society. Assessing their information literacy is imperative in the knowledge environment. It aids them to realize their potential and promote their sustainable development in their organization. This paper explores how a corporate library is assisting the employees of the organization in enhancing their information literacy through its customized products and services. To understand the library’s reach among the employees at various roles in the organization, a survey covering 111 employees of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai was conducted and the outcome of the survey is discussed
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(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Gaddagimath, R B; Jange, Suresh
The libraries have been posed with a serious challenge to present evidence justifying the value of the services they offer, as well as for planning and decision-making about the future for its cost effectiveness. Attempts have been made to present the issues that can affect the success with which librarians can extend virtual reference services in an academic environment. Virtual reference services is no more complex than the other types of library and information services, may be at the beginning it may take time to use this sort of e-services but in due course of time this would yield fruitful result
Effectiveness of UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium on Users: A Case Study of Users of Social Science Faculty, Goa University, Goa
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) Raghuram, K; Vatnal, R M
The academic and research community in the country is largely depends on the access to information resources. This study presents the evaluation of UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium by the users of Social Science faculty, Goa University, Goa. This study highlights the UGC –INFONET consortium usefulness, finding and suggestions.
Designing and Development of Biochemistry Subject Portal using Bluevoda Web Building Software: A Practical Approach
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Kumar, P Dharani; N, Gayathri K
The portals are considered as the advanced tools of information retrieval where the information can be personalize, customize and integrate in a web based environment for the user’s individual preference. The present study focuses the issues related to designing of subject portal for biochemistry subject. Study outlines the guidelines for creating a web page and an attempt has been made to design a subject portal with having qualitative information with all the ease of learning. This paper also discusses the issues related to how to get free web space and hosting of subject portal and submission of portals to search engines. The URL of model Biochemistry subject portal in www.biochem-ku.webs.com.
Digital Libraries: The Infrastructure and the Training Needed
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Hopkinson, Alan
In many developing countries there has always been a problem in acquiring and storing printed materials because delivery was expensive and storage difficult in a humid climate. In the digital era these problems are solvable and avoidable. However do not imagine that you can throw away all the bibliographical standards that a physical library needs. Digital libraries need a good index and need quality catalogue records and good classification to supplement full text indexing which on its own can make retrieval of relevant materials difficult. Standards like MARC and classification schemes are indispensible as are standards necessary to create the information retrieval structure. Additionally librarians must work together in teams and provide good information literacy training.
Information Search and Retrieval System in Libraries
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) Naik, N Rupsing; Rao, A Madhava
A digital library comprises diverse collections of digital objects representing text, sound, maps, videos, photos, etc. and a working environment, technology and services. The main objective of any Digital Library (DL) is to fulfil the needs of its users. A general problem for a user is information search and retrieval in the Internet world. This paper discusses the information search and retrieval system its models and uses in digital libraries.
Information Literacy Models: Correlation and Conceptual Model for Higher Education
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Bilawar, Prakash B; Pujar, S M
In today’s highly networked environment getting information is easy but getting the right and authentic information is difficult. The present paper focuses on correlation between the models of information literacy and suggests a framework of conceptual information literacy model“SERVICE Model” for higher education system.
A Prototype Design for Digital Right Management of Digital Library in E-Education : A UML Based Approach
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) Singh, Ajit Kumar; Mukhopadhyay, Sripati; Midda, Abdul Momin
Digital Library is the essential component of e-education system , which is based on digitizeddata. The security of digital data is very much essential. In this paper we proposed a wellstructured prototype model of Digital Right Management (DRM) for Digital Library. Here we useUML, an efficient Object Oriented Software engineering tools, to represent different component of this system.
Citation Analysis of Journal of Oilseed Research
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Kumar, Surendra; Kumar, S
The paper analyses 8093 citations given in the Journal of Oilseed Research (JOR) published during 1993 to 2004 (V.10-21). Out of 8093 citations 5642 are given in main articles and 2551 in short communications of the JOR. It also analyses types of documents cited and identifies core journals. The paper also covers the analyses of authorship patterns of citations along with calculation of collaboration coefficient. Geographical distribution of cited references has also been analyzed. The paper concludes that only 20 core periodicals can cover more than 50% references and also indicates that collaborative

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