CALIBER 2001:Pune

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MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL DIGITAL RESOURCES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Thandavamoorthy, K; Vengan, R
The unique knowledge base for the profession of pharmacy is the body of drug information that the pharmacists use to define, monitor and modify the drug therapy of the patients that he or she serves. Digital resources offer such possibility and possess advantages over traditional sources with respect to access of information. One of the greatest benefit of digital resources is that, users can access the resources themselves. The focus of this paper is on the management of digital resources. Response to specific questions relating to pharmaceutical practices, the growth of pharmaceutical information and the use of Information Technology for managing digital sources are some of the facets dealt in detail. Pharmaceutical Digital Resources in the form of CD-ROMs and Web sites and their contents are detailed for information and use. Finally, an emphasis has been made for acquiring and familiarising Information Technology related techniques for effective use of pharmaceutical information.
DIGITIZATION OF MARG: CREATING A PROTYPE FOR THE WEB
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Sen, Bharati; Gubbi, Smita,
A digital prototype was developed of the journal MARG with the objective of hosting it on the web. The various issues regarding conversion of print to digital format are discussed in this article.
DOCUMENT DELIVERY IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Manna, Sumit Kumar
The increasing advancements in storage media, computers and telecommunications have forced library and information centres to access information more and more in different formats, styles and sizes. Document delivery has always been heart of the services offered by libraries, publishers and other organisations to their users. Document delivery comprises both print and electronic documents. Recently, there is tremendous development in electronic document delivery. There are sizeable number of agents in document delivery. These include library networks and consortia including national libraries, document delivery by CD-ROM, Commercial document delivery services, library suppliers and subscription agents. This paper discusses role of these agents in document delivery, process of document delivery as well as future of electronic document delivery.
Digital Library Management: A Critique
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Varatha Rajan, N; Ravi, B; Ganesan, P
Digital information forms an increasingly large part of our cultural and intellectual heritage and offers significant benefits to users. The use of computer is changing forever the way information is being created, managed and accessed. This paper gives brief description about the digital library and its management; selection and acquisition; indexing, storage and retrievals; services and policies; and more about the problems and challenges in maintaining the digital library.
HOW TO MAKE BEST USE OF THE INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT OF THE COUNTRY? A SIMPLE APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS IN INDIAN UNIVERSITIES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Gobinda G., Chowdhury
While library automation and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) are slowly taking place, digital library research and development activities are at a very preliminary stage in India. Never the less various institutions, especially the universities and other academic institution in the country have rich resources that can be shared and put to optimum use through digital libraries. In this paper the down-to-earth approach to building digital libraries for the Ph.D Theses and Dissertations submitted to the Indian Universities has been proposed, primarily for the benefit of the academic and research community. Author proposes that INFLIBNET is in an excellent position to spearhead in building such digital libraries and the same may be taken up in three stages for which simple guidelines have been discussed and presented.
ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS INTRODUCING USERS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Kumbar, Mallinath; Rao, R V; Nargund, I N
The progress in Information Technology and the emergence of Internet and its WWW has given a new face-lift to the information systems. The library collections with the tradition of its holdings are now added with the electronic information resources in various formats. The popularity and ease in use of WWW has lured most of the reputed publishers to host their products on Web. In this changing information environment, the role of information professionals is becoming crucial and challenging. It is becoming important to introduce users to maximum and optimum utilisation of electronic information resources. In this paper, the authors have highlighted the need and importance of user instruction services and suggested user instruction programmes for better utilisation of electronic information resources.
DIGITAL RESOURCE BUILDING AND ONLINE SERVICES : AN EXPERIENCE AT ELECTRONIC LIBRARY, I.I.T. KHARAGPUR.
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Mohapatra, P K
Digital resource building , Intranet online services and Internet browsing are gaining momentum in technical library services during last few years in order to supplement the modern library services, specifically in the area of research and development activities in different parts of our country, and so is the case with Central Library of Indian Institute Of Technology (I.I.T) at Kharagpur. I.I.T. Kharagpur, being a premier, large and diversified technical institute in the field of science and technology, is always at the fore front of adopting modern practices for providing new kind of services to its community. Annexing Electronic Library (EL) in the year 1995, Central Library , I.I.T. Kharagpur , since then in a continuous process, started acquiring various digitized commercial databases and also applied all other possible means to build up its digitized document collection and services thereof. This paper presents an image of experiences gathered by the ‘Author’ in augmenting digitized resources and making newer services available thereof to meet the changing needs of the users, focusing on computer based literature search services, electronic SDI, and the like. Author, being an experienced library professional, starts this paper with an introduction to a panoramic view of to-day’s library system. He, proceeds further to give a brief account of traditional library services, followed by ,the salient features of the Electronic Library at I.I.T. Kharagpur including collection of digital resources in their stock, unfolding the scope and coverage in each case, such as source of origin, the search and retrieval software, the vendor details, cost of the database and the computer platform used . Further to this ‘Author’ tries to give reference to the in-house digitized information creation by way of Homepage development and its world wide accessibility through Internet ; creation of web documents through MHRD(Ministry of Human Resource Development) project grant (i.e Archives on Technical Education) . Finally ‘Author’ concludes this paper with his optimistic idea of emergence of hybrid library system in coming days to maintain parallel collection of documents both in print media as well as in digitized format to supplement and complement the gap in formation need of the users at large.
DIGITIZATION: AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Parekh, Harsha
Digital resources are a comparatively new category of information materials in Indian libraries.Although in many ways managing digital resources is similar to handling other resources, thereare significant differences. One major difference lies in the fact that libraries are also increasingly getting involved in the very creation of digital resources.Digital resources can broadly be grouped into two categories – those that are originally created and distributed in digital format and those that are originally created in another format and are later converted into a digital format through a process generally referred to as digitization. Several organizations – libraries, governments, research institutions, and commercial organizations - at local, regional, national and international levels are involved on digitization activities. This paper begins with an understanding of digitization - the meaning and the processes – and then seeks to look at the issues involved in the digitization process from the perspective of libraries. As such, the focus is greater on the digitization of printed materials, rather than objects or sound, film or video recordings.
APPROACHES OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Panigrahi, P K
This paper emphasizes on the modern trend of library and informationservices considering that the digitised information is easily accessible than print media. It discusses the mission of digital library, a new library concept in the digital age of information. It emphasizes on two main aspects - multimedia technology and networking specially Internet, which can be treated as two wings of any digital library system. It also highlights that library and information professionals must acquire the knowledge on these two emerging areas and develop their skills for rendering effective and efficient users services. Lastly, it discusses scope of developing digital libraries in India and the role of the INFLIBNET in this regard after its full- fledged implementation.
ARCHIVING ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT ROLE PLAYERS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Gireesh Kumar, P
Electronic Journals have now been recognized as a major link in scholarly communication. They have brought a number of advantages to publishers, libraries and scholarly community. Along with these advantages they address number of issues and challenges. One of the major issues is in respect of archiving of the back issues of a journal. This has been addressed by various players like publishers, consortia, individual libraries and third party aggregators. This paper discusses the role of these players.
DIGITAL LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT: MAJOR ISSUES OF EXTERNALLY PUBLISHED CONTENTS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Vijayakumar, J K; Jeevan, V K J
A library may procure contents in various sources and forms to service their clients. In the predominantly paper based erstwhile environment all these contents were put to similar types of use, and copyright restrictions were imposed based on the quantum of pages copied etc. In the electronic and digital perspective, owners of information are resorting to punitive measures regarding the use and contents in digital form. Some of the constraints faced by our libraries to engage in serious digital initiatives are three fold-that of money, manpower and contents. Most of our libraries, particularly in the higher education and research institutes solely depend on the information providers and publishers in the developed world to satisfy their urge for vital contents that inspire indigenous research. Since contents are a major ingredient in digital library development, the pragmatic and viable way out for libraries is to judiciously judge them as available in electronic forms in optical media or on Web and procure at least some of them for hosting locally. This paper presents some of the major issues involved in such a critical activity with some illustrative examples available like IEE/IEEE Electronic Library, Indian Standards on CD-ROM, Science Direct and Web access of Indian Academy of Sciences journals. The justification for selecting external contents has also been mentioned. A detailed checklist for evaluating contents is presented from various angles, like authenticity of content, user interface, search and display capabilities, documentation and technical support, and Media dependent features.
DIGITISATION OF RESOURCES AT MADRAS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (MUL) USING THE "SOUL"
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Vengan, R.; Ganesan, S
The paper gives a brief account of IT application in Madras University Library. Lists hardwares and softwares used for creation of different databases listed. Discusses in great detail degitisation initiatives taken by Madras University libraries under the RECON project supported by INFLIBNET. Steps followed in execution of the project and use of SOUL for creating database have been presented. At the end future plans are briefly discussed.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Kaliammal, A
This paper broadly describes the developments in the field of Information Technology and its impact on libraries. Changing role of libraries and different services that could be offered using IT are discussed. The importance of Internet in imparting higher education and also in delivery of information is discussed. Author suggests that use of IT is essential to meet the needs of users in the academic world.
HYPERCONVERGENCE USER SERVICES : A SERIOUS CHALLENGE AND WARNING TO LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Majumdar, Kamalendu; Panigrahi, P K
Library service is a busy, user-oriented activity, with a deep-rooted emphasis on means rather than ends, on tactics rather than strategy, on building collections rather than on the roles those collections play. This has been reflected by many renewed critics in their professional literature on practical and technical matters. In this paper the authors try to emphasise major changes that are likely to take place and a need for recognition regarding convergence between library, computing , and telecommunications services; of probable changes in the publishing world, and library management using new tools and techniques.
INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENT FOR DIGITISATION OF MANUSCRIPTS AT BAMUL
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Vaishnav, A A; Sonwane, S S
Digitisation of manuscripts aims to stimulate a responsible approach to the sources from which our historical consciousness grows and to contribute to the general availability of information about our history and culture. The project plan aims to initiate and to support the safeguarding of existing documents not only for this generation but also for the future ones. The present paper seeks to outline some of the issues surrounding digitisation at the moment. It does not attempt to provide complete solutions or recommendations regarding hardware,software, resolutions, etc. Instead it provides recommendations applicable to the strategic planning level, with particular reference to the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Library, Aurangabad.
ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES: A CASE STUDY
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Sirumath, Sangayya S
This paper describes the theoretical and practical explanation of the electronic library and its information retrieval and service, for a special reference to the Management institution library. It also highlights the e-Library, CD-ROM networking, Internet and Web resource services and legal issues.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL ERA: A MILLENNIUM APPROACH
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Rajkumar, P V
The digital library offers users the prospect of access to electronic resources at their convenience temporally and spatially. Users do not have to be concerned with the physical library’s hours of operation, and users do not have to physically go to the library to access resources. Much has been written about the digital library. The focus of most studies, papers, and articles has been on the technology, or on the types of resources offered. Human interaction in the digital library is discussed far less frequently. One would almost get the impression that the service tradition of the physical library will be unnecessary and redundant in the digital library environment. This paper explores the role of the librarian and of the service perspective, in the digital library environment. Focus of the paper is limited to librarian/user collaboration where the librarian and user are not co-located. The author, explores the role of the librarian as outlined in the literature on digital libraries, examines some studies that attempt to put the service perspective in the digital library, surveys existing initiatives in providing library services electronically, and outlines potential service perspectives for the digital library.
DESKTOP LIBRARY VIS-À-VIS VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK EMPOWER THE END USER TO MAP THE INFINITE ETEXTS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Venugopal, S
There has been steady erosion of sole custodial authority of the library on the heritage of human kind ever since the Information Technology brought about a media revolution in the content and access of human knowledge. Metaphorically, the library has triumphantly crossed the physical barriers of time and space. The library automation has reached, but, the first milestone of providing multiple bibliographical-access to the printed documents mostly, but has not penetrated further into the full-texts. The library needs to look beyond automation. Admittedly, the library has to effectively carry on its mission with new stock -in-trade of e-books/e-journals. It has to redefine its services by way of responding constructively and imaginatively to the challenges. Days are not very far off when the library will be brought to the desktop of each user for collaborative virtual reference service. The organization of the Internet resources in inter- and intra disciplinary areas for the prospective community of scholars rests with the library professionals.
METADATA: A TOOL FOR CATALOGUING WEB RESOURCES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Singh, Pramod Kumar
As the Internet became an accepted source of electronic information, a variety of information communities have developed metadata to organize these resources to effectively serve their users. So metadata has taken on a more significant role of knowledge representation and data mining. In today's context, where the web contains the collection of massive heterogeneous objects, which need to be unified and linked in a single resource, we are witnessing both the growth of different metadata standards and the attempts to reconcile the common attributes in the existing overlapping standards. The goal is to access relevant information seamlessly, regardless of its type and location. This article addresses different aspects of metadata, the rationale behind it and gives a general picture of Dublin Core metadata elements.
CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES - A SURVEY OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRES OFTWELVE INSTITUTIONS IN PUNE
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Tarunde, Rewa A
A survey of library and information centres of 12 institutions which include 3 Engineering colleges, 4 Research Centres and 5 Software companies was conducted. While investigating creation and management of digital resources as well as conventional resources, it was observed that engineering colleges have interactive classroom type of learning and therefore the libraries have mainly textbooks/reference books, where as in software companies, information was available in the web based form. It was also observed that software companies were establishing Documentation/Resources centres. In order to interact more effectively to convert information into solutions and useful products via knowledge, it is suggested that libraries/information centres should play an active role in this process. Research institutions and engineering colleges can also follow the learning and skill development process followed by IT companies.

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