PLANNER 2008

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Open Library And Librarianship
(Inflibnet center, 2008-11-06) Joute, Zomuana
The paper is concerned about defining an open library, its technology, components, what it will have and provide with respect to the case study of www.openlibrary.org. The paper also concern about application of new technologies in the library, which resulted rapid increases and changes in the traditional functions and services of libraries, and the role and nature of works of library profession and the librarianship. The system of information processing, accessing, retrieving, and dissemination had been dramatically changed librarianship. Library had also been transformed into new open source center and open library, virtual library,. In such libraries, the librarianship had also been dramatically changed; qualities and competencies on the part of library management should also be improved. As well the skills and techniques of the library professionals must be update to cope up with new development in Library services.
Open Access to Information and Knowledge : An Initiative of Institutional Repositories and Digital Library in India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Meitei, L Shanta; Devi, Th Purnima
The paper discusses the Open Access Initiatives for global access, repository, preservation, and organized management of networked information services in a distributed environment where both the users and resources are at varied locations. The paper highlights various initiatives of Institutional Repositories and Digital Library in the country. The Paper also discusses the necessity of DSpace Digital Library Software for Digital Library Initiatives and OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) in Open Archives Initiative.
Preservation Of Archives: A Case Study Of Bangladesh National Archives
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Mezbah- ul-Islam, Muhammed; Akter, Rowshon
Now-a-days, while a mature system of preservation and conservation (PAC) technology and methodology exists world wide to achieve the systematic PAC of world’s cultural heritage, the PAC programs of Bangladesh National Archives (the custodian of Bangladesh Government’s records) have excluded the same provisions to sustain the usable life of it’s resources. In this circumstance, this study seeks to articulate the current PAC status of archives in Bangladesh National Archives, and examine the barriers that have hindered the development of fullfledged PAC program for them. Finally some recommendations have been put forward at the consideration of Bangladesh National Archives so that it can employ the minimum technologies for proper care of its resources and become gradually able to adopt latest technologies for the preservation of manual archives together with the development of a national digital repository of archives.
Prospects of Open Source Software in LIS Area of Assam
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Singh, Sanjay Kumar; Deka, Prasanta Kumar
The choice of library management programme is constituted by social, economic and or political factors that result in selection of a system that is not suitable for the library requirements, characteristics and functions. Open Source Software or OSS has revolutionised the modus operandi of library software for library automation. OSS is quickly becoming a solution, owing to the freedom to copy, modify and distribute it and freedom from contracts as well as for greater opportunities for interoperability with other application. The paper mainly discusses about different OSS. It is a relatively new idea for library automation. People often advocate OSS because it is free. Some of the selected OSS is highlighted. OSS is an umbrella term used to refer to a wide range of software products, services and communities.
Edifice of Institutional Repositories in UNISWA Library: A Challenge
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Devi, Thiyam Satyabati
Institutional repositories have largely taken place in universities. Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building these repositories, fulfilling their roles as experts in collecting, describing, preserving, and providing stewardship for documents and digital information. The UNISWA Library has taken a step forward for building up an institutional repository of its own. The purpose of this paper is to document UNISWA Library experiences in developing its Institutional Repository. It will also describes how UNISWA Library planned to set up its institutional repository. The main aim is to create a permanent record of the institution’s scholarly output in digital format, and to make the Repository globally and openly accessible.
Open Courseware: A Unique Opportunity for India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Deoghuria, Swapan; Roy, Satyabrata
The pivotal role of education as an instrument of social change - by altering the human perspective and transforming the traditional mindset of society is well recognized. The universalisation of education has become the top priority, especially for the developing countries. But the extension of quality education to remote and rural regions becomes a Herculean task for a large country like India with multi-lingual and multi-cultural population separated by vast geographical distances, and, in many instances, inaccessible terrain. Open Courseware (OCW) is part of a comparatively new educational movement in the line of Open Access (OA) and leading institutions and universities around the world are capitalizing it for the betterment of the society. OCW provides learners an opportunity to disseminate knowledge beyond the traditional classroom environment. The present study aims to spread the word of OCW and sensitize the teachers and learners about the tremendous potential of OCW in the context of education in India.
Open Archives Initiatives Protocols for Metadata Harvesting & Z39.50 in Library Software: A Model
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Singh, R K Joteen; Devi, Th. Madhuri
The objective of library networking is to promote resource sharing and free flow of information. Rapid technological changes have brought a drastic change in the resource sharing activities, specially Open Archives Initiatives (OAI) model enables the dissemination of research output at international, national and regional levels thus removing the restrictions placed by the traditional scientific model. Z39.50 protocol has provided a common platform which help to develop a Union catalogue. These new developments have made resource sharing more practical. In such a scenario, the best approach is to focus on how software will make it possible for the library to utilize networked resources for the maximum benefit of their users. This paper presents a design of library software, which is interoperability in nature and support networking and exploitation of web resources apart from automating library operations.
Consortium for Medical Libraries in India and Abroad: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Kumar, B Vijaya; Murthy, A Omkar
The advent of Information and Communication Technologies and Impact of Information explosion have brought many changes in diverse field of knowledge, especially in medical sciences which had profound impact on medical professionals, practitioners, students in pursuing their research and patient care. The medical professionals require pinpointed, accurate and speedy information for updating their knowledge. Due to the elasticity of budgets and hike of journals and books prices every year, keeping in view of user needs , libraries are forced to join a consortium.
RSS Feeds and its Implementation at INFLIBNET
(Inflibnet center, 2008-11-06) Kumar, Rajeev
RSS is a Web 2.0 technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favourite websites. In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website visitors had to ‘bookmark’ websites in their browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added. RSS has become a valuable technology for everything from casual web users to webmasters. According to a recent Yahoo survey only 12% of internet users are aware of RSS and a mere 4% have knowingly used RSS. The paper discusses about the different aspects of RSS such as meaning of RSS, evolution of RSS, how to create RSS and how to get / read RSS Feeds including basics of XML, which is the basic language for writing programs for RSS Feeds. At the end of this paper, details of the project about the INFLIBNET’s RSS Reader is also discussed.
Building An Institutional Repository With DSpace
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Thakuria, Juli
Paper deals with open source institutional repository software specially DSpace. After defining the terms, it discusses implementation of DSpace as an institutional repositories. DSpace has developed a model that allows users to use the system, submit and use content, and administrators can organize and configure the system. In order to be more usable to different types of users, the software provides a configurable submission and workflow process that can be fit to any organization’s information needs.
Issues surrounding Institutional Repository
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Chandel, A S; Sumer, F R
Paper discusses the need for developing institutional repositories for bringing visibility to their research put and interoperability. States that the contributions of the institutions and their own researchers remain diffused and scattered in various sources hidden to the potential consumers of the institutions themselves, as well inaccessible to the contributors of the research papers. Paper raises certain issues associated with institutional repositories needing professional attention to resolve them. Suggests as to what contents should fall under the purview of the institutional repositories and with what priority.
Towards Library 2.0: Designing and Implementing the Modern Library Service
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi; Das, Subarna K
Library 2.0 is a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library service that reflects a transitionwithin the library world in the way that services are delivered to users. The focus is on user-centered change and participation in the creation of content and community. The concept of Library 2.0 borrows from that of Business 2.0 and Web 2.0 and follows some of the same underlying philosophies. This includes online services such as the use of OPAC systems and an increased flow of information from the user back to the libraryWith Library 2.0, library services are constantly updated and reevaluated to best serve library users. Library 2.0 also attempts to harness the library user in the design and implementation of library services by encouraging feedback and participation. Proponents of this concept expect that ultimately the Library 2.0 model for service will replace traditional, one-directional service offerings that have characterized libraries for centuries.Present paper highlights the chaning role of library 2.0 in present digital environment.
Union Database of Theses at INFLIBNET Centre: An Overview
(Inflibnet center, 2008-11-06) Chavda, Nilam; Chandrakar, Rajesh
The INFLIBNET Centre, being a nodal agency of the academic sector of the country working in the area of resource sharing among the community, started developing union databases of library resources available in the university sector. In this regard, PhD dissertation being an important vital source of information for the academic research community, the Centre in the initial period of its establishment, started developing the union database of theses with the support of 82 universities having 52000 records. The database has now 2, 20,206 records with support from 238 universities. This article explains about the creation of theses union database at INFLIBNET Centre. It also includes steps involved in creating the database till the making available online for the user community. Further, it gives complete overview about the union database of theses.
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.
Open Access: Types Of Journals Published
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Goswami, Tarini Dev
The Open Access (OA) aims at removing restrictions that exist on the access to article and knowledge to the worldwide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries. Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work due to the lack of access to the network, to their institutional economic difficulties or to the lack of awareness of available Open Access (OA) solutions. One hopes that Open Access (OA) will enhance educational and research opportunities and bring the world together. This paper mainly discusses an overview of the open access and the awareness of the potential of open publishing.
An Initiative for Digital Resources Consortium for University Libraries in Bangladesh.
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Awwal, K M Abdul
The aim of this initiative is to creat a high speed state of-the-art research and education network and a flagship digital library consortium for all public and private universities and research institution of Bangladesh similar in sprit that many other countries have undertaken. The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh would like to invigorate the ICT infrastructure of the universities of Bangladesh befitting to the 21st century and to provide access to the latest ICT tools of education to all students, faculty and researchers in Bangladesh.
Access to E-journals through UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium: A Study of Usage Trends among the Universities of North East India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Chand, Prem; Arora, Jagdish; Naga, Moses M; Pradhan, Dinesh Ranjan
The paper highlights the usage trends of access to e-journals in ten universities of North East India. The preliminary findings from the data of last five years revealed that there is an upward trend. The paper briefly describes open access journals and the measurement tools of e-journals.
Role of Librarians in Institutional Repositories
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Dhanakar, M Arul; Nithyanandam, K; Pandian, R; Rajasekar, V
This paper emphasizes on Institutional Repository which includes online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating — in digital form – the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. For a university, this would include material such as research journal articles, before (pre prints) and after (post prints) undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects. Institutional repositories have become an indispensable component for information and knowledge sharing in the scholar world. This paper discusses the role of Librarians in Institutional Repositories.
An Assessment on Present Situation of Institutional Digital Repositories in India : A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Khan, Bairam; Das, Amit Kumar
This paper highlights the present status of Institutional Repository (IR) in India by its collection type, subject coverage and total number of digital repository collections available to academic community as open sources. For this purpose, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) have been consulted. This paper focuses to develop humanities and social sciences institutional repositories in India. Results have been shown by collection type and subject coverage.
Pilot Study of Institutional Repository For Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded.
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2008-11-06) Satarkar, S P; Dharmapurikar, R G; Kale, R D
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating — in digital form — the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.For a university, this would include materials such as research journal articles, before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects. Present Paper discusses about the outcome of a pilot study of IR at S. R. T. M. University, Nanded.

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