PLANNER 2006

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Iinformation Handling in this E-Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Pal, Rakesh Kumar
We are living in an information world. This has come because of the unbelievable scientific and technological progress. So much information is being generated that we are confronted with information explosion, information pollution and exponential growth of information. This is causing a concern for the communication, distribution, availability, access and exploitation fronts of information, particularly so in science and technology. Management of information is thus drawing greater attention. Information is recognized as both national and international resource and it should be utilized for the socio-economic, scientific and technological progress of mankind as a whole. Information is the basic need of the human beings. The crucial role that information plays can be gauged from the vast areas of human activities in which it finds application that includes: growth of knowledge and wisdom, decision-making and management, research and development, manufacture and industry, education and training and academic writing. No one can deny the fact that information is a vital input in research, education and training etc more so in the current digital environment.
Preservation of Digitized Information: New Challenges in the 21st Century
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Sur, Subrata
Digital information preservation is always the thinking of library and information society. Transition from print format to electronic format has given rise to various issues in preserving the digital form. Preservation problem is complicated by the rapid obsolescence of the hardware and software required to interpret and present digital documents. This paper highlights the necessity of preserving the digital form, strategies related to preservation, technologies and UNESCO guidelines for digital preservation of library documents.
Versatile World of Libraries in Digital Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Singh, A P; Khan, M T M; Chauhan, Suresh K
Innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been changing all spheres of lives. Libraries are tremendously changed with the impact of ICT on its day-to-day routines. Through this paper an attempt is being made to highlight the growth of libraries from private or personal library to digital and virtual library. We are in era of digital library but in true sense presently, hybrid libraries are dominating structure of libraries. Increasing information demands of the user insisting library professionals to keep virtual library as their target library, which is fixed to be complete with the development of ICT.
Networked Information Society: A window to Library Profession in 21st Century
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Kumar, Mritunjay
The paper is an attempt to understand the basics of the information society and their application to enhance the library profession. For convenience, the paper has been divided into two parts; the part one discusses the basic features of the networked society. This society has influenced our life in many ways. Starting from personal life to business establishment and the government organizations, in the recent years, Information communication technology (ICTs) is of great help.The part two, however, discusses their application to upgrade the library profession, which could possibly change our orientation towards the profession and also to a large extent help the users. The application of ICTs in the libraries, in my opinion, will not only help in shedding the traditional mind-set, but also help to reduce the gap between nations. Use of Internet, online sources, and several such trends would help to overcome the digital divide and bring the knowledge to our doors. The part two discusses all these concepts and their possible application in our libraries and knowledge centres.
A consortium for College Libraries in Meghalaya : A Proposal
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Thabah, Jacqueline Jeane; Sumer, Firstborn Roy
Paper discusses the present scenario of affiliated College Libraries in Meghalaya and found that some of the libraries have computerized their collection. Moreover all the libraries have similar resources as they follow the same syllabi and also subscribe to some important journals. Due to financial constraints most of the libraries’ procurement is limited. This proposal may be considered as a pilot project which could be extended to a greater dimension. It could be a role model which could be implemented initially in the libraries situated in the Capital and extended to other libraries of the State and North-East region as a whole. The proposal follows the same concept as the UGCINFONET e-journals consortium, but intended for affiliated college libraries.
Awareness About and Use of Internet Search Engines Amongst Social Science Researchers in North East India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Laloo, Bikika; Lahkar, Narendra
Discusses findings of a study conducted on Social Science researchers in two Universities in North East India. Findings show that Social Science researchers in North East India are having the same issues regarding Internet search engines as researchers in other parts of the world. Concludes that better presentation of web sites would help them get indexed by search engines and make them more accessible. Also, improvement in search strategies would help researchers find more relevant information, faster.
Digital Preservation and Management: An Overview
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Arora, Jagdish
Digital preservation is not a new concept for libraries. The libraries have been migrating and refreshing their OPAC records as well as their databases developed in-house ever since automation in libraries started in mid 1980s. With availability of products and services in digital forms, libraries are committing larger portions of their budgetary allocation for either procuring or accessing digital contents. Preservation and archiving of digital contents has become a serious concern of libraries for collection either acquired through subscription, purchased in digital media or converted in-house. The article deliberates upon need, relevance and major challenges of digital preservation. It enumerates on dimensions and manifestation of digital preservation and describes traditional preservation tenets as applicable to the digital preservation. The article describes various digital preservation strategies with a caution that appropriate strategies may be adopted depending upon data types, situations, or institutions. The article touches upon digital preservation metadata as a subset of metadata that describes attributes of digital resources essential for its long-term accessibility and describes OAIS Reference Model as well as other major preservation metadata initiatives taken up by the OCLC and ARL. Considering the fact that short life of storage media, is one of the major crucial threat to digital preservation, the article briefly describes storage management as applicable to digital preservation repositories. Lastly, the article touches upon microfilming and digitization as hybrid solution for reliable preservation.
Institutional Rrepositories: A Gateway for Knowledge Revolution
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Suleta, Thoudam; Sangeeta, Keisham
The emergence of computer communication technology has accelerated and offers great opportunities to fast, cost effective and efficient electronic communication. In addition, universities and other institutions across the globe are building up their own institutional repository center. Therefore, librarians and library professionals should take initiative and come up with institutional repositories so that researchers and the scholars can access the scholarly publishing materials. The present article highlights the overview of the institutional repositories. It also highlights the development of institutional repositories and its role.
Status of Libraries in Nagaland: A Profile
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Lendina; Ngullie, Mhonbemo
Traces the over all library status & systems in Nagaland. Points out the problems being faced by the libraries in over all management and organizational aspects. Suggests certain points for the over all improvement of public and academic library services in the state.
Human Resource Development for Digital Environment : A Case Study of the Libraries of Manipur
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Devi, Arambam Hileima; Vikas, Ch; Devi, Th Purnima
The present paper highlights the scenario of application of information technology in the three types of libraries i.e. Publics, Special and Academic Libraries residing in the valley of Manipur. The objectives are to present an unbiased account of the scenario which has been large affecting the services of the libraries. It also states the problems and prospect regarding the areas, which can be developed in future for effective functioning of the libraries in Manipur.
Role of Meta Search Engines in Web- based Information System: Fundamentals and Challenges
(INFLIBNET Center, 2006-11-09) Das, Subarna Kumar
Meta search engines are powerful tools that search multiple search engines simultaneously. Unlike crawler-based search engines such as Google, AllTheWeb, AltaVista and others, meta search engines generally do not build and maintain their own web indexes. Instead, they use the indexes built by others, aggregating and often postprocessing results in unique ways. Meta search engines accept your query, and send it out to multiple search engines in parallel. They are often quite fast, using private “backdoor” servers made available by the search engines they query. They get this privileged status thanks to revenue sharing agreements. There are several advantages to using meta search engines, though they’re not always the most appropriate tool. The most obvious advantage is that you can get results from multiple search engines without having to visit each in turn. Apart from the time savings, there is some evidence that this gives your search a broader scope, since each individual search engine’s index differs from all others. Present paper attempts to highlights the role of meta search engine in web- based information retrieval
Access to Web-based Community Information Services in North East India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Singh, Ch Ibohal; Devi, Th Madhuri; Devi, N Vidyavati; Singh, N Giridhari
In this paper an attempt is being made here to highlight the access to web-based community information services of the Community Information Centres (CICs) in North East India. Emphasis has been given on the objectives, specific purposes, infrastructure, and major facilities and services. Points out the need for assessing the impact of the CICs to the people of the
Interoperability As A Bench Mark in Digital Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Gupta, Vibha; Ansari, Ansari
Digital libraries were viewed as systems providing a community of users with coherent access to a large, organized repository of information and knowledge. A given digital library system should provide a coherent, consistent view of as many of these repositories as possible. From the user’s perspective, to the extent possible, there should appear to be a single digital library system. Users increasingly have access to various types of digital collections and information systems: personal information resources, workgroup and organizational information collections and collaboration environments, and more public digital libraries. The digital library system needs to extend smoothly from personal information resources, workgroup and organizational systems, and out to personal views of the content of more public digital libraries.
Buddhist Manuscripts of Arunachal Pradesh and Manuscripts of Manipur: Problematics of restoration and digitization
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Maltesh, M; Devi, Th Satyabati
The present paper is a joint venture of two authors who worked differently on manuscripts of Manipur and rare Buddhist manuscripts of Arunachal Pradesh, and the problematic of restoration and digitization in modern context. The major objective of the proposed study would be to delineate the modus operandi for the restoration of the rare Buddhist manuscripts in Arunachal Pradesh and rare manuscripts of Manipur, involving such scientific methods as electronic scanning, digitization, etc. However, these scientific methods would be complementary to the time-tested, indigenous and traditional methods of physical preservation in order to make these manuscripts available in its original or the simulated formats for the next generation. The electronic rendition of the calligraphies and art forms would be hosted on the web or it can be preserved in repositories by using D-Space software, so as to facilitate the entire world to comprehend the essence and tenets of manuscripts.
Wiki and its different facets
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Barman, Badan
The Wiki is a collaboratively developed Open access / closed access repositories of information in a specific field or in a general field of interest whether the case may be. Any user can create or edit any page on the site using a simple web browser, and all information processing is done on the server side. This article will provide an overview of wikis right from its definition and origin to its characteristic. Due attention is also given to describe how low cost wikis can be created and its probable application in LIS.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Issues and Its Implementation
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Barua, Niraj
Information technology (IT) has given us new opportunities to explore with. Scholarly materials like theses and dissertations can now be submitted in electronic form so that they can be distributed to a wider group of users not limited within the library building. This technology however has not gathered the right pace in our part of the world due to various issues. These issues relate to the technology, necessary modification in workflows, hardware and software requirements, copyright, accessibility, security and issues bothering students, reviewers and the faculty members of higher educational institutions and Universities. Hence, this paper discusses these issues with a favourable attitude towards electronic theses and dissertations and a gives a brief account on its implementation.
Open Courseware: A New Paradigm in E-learning
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Deoghuria, Swapan; Roy, Satyabrata
History has proved that education and discovery are best advanced when knowledge is shared openly. Open Courseware (OCW) is a part of a comparatively new educational movement in the line of Open access and also an opportunity in the field of distance/elearning that leading institutions and universities around the world can capitalize for the betterment of the society. Great Universities and institutions constantly expand their reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community’s most critical needs. Already world famous institutes like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are working along this way that will automatically inspire other institutions to openly share their course materials for open dissemination of knowledge and information that can open new doors to the benefits of education for humanity around the world. India is a vast country with different culture and languages. In this paper we studied different aspects of OCW and its impact on total learning process.
Problems and Prospects of Digital Library and Library Digitization in Bangladeshi Institutes of Higher Education
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Reza, Sarwat Masuda
This paper reveals the status of higher academic libraries of Bangladesh. The issues related to digital Libraries are also highlighted. Library digitization in Bangladesh are in initiation phase and facing various impediments, paper is giving some suggesions to deal with them.
Digital Preservation in The Twenty First Century: Concept, Needs, Problems and Solutions
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Chattopadhyay, Samir
More and more information is being created in digital form. This is done either through converting existing materials to digital form or increasingly born digital. There is no other format but digitise the original. There are increasing expectations in all spheres of life the information we all need will be available on the Internet or at least in an off-line digital format, such as CD-ROM. Digital access has many advantages over paper-based or microform access in terms of convenience and functionality. The present paper deals with the concept of preservation and digital preservation. Difference between digital and paper-based material are discussed. The paper highlights the objective and benefits of digital preservation. Preservation by document type like electronic journals, theses and dissertation, scientific data sets etc. and standard by document type like Text, images, numeric data, and video and audio are briefly discussed. The paper throws light on the problem and solution of digital preservation.
Resource Sharing, Networking and Library Consortia: Problem and Prospects in Bangladesh
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Rahman, Md Anisur; Nahar, Mahmudun; Akhter, Razina
The emerging Information Technologies have brought many changes in libraries. These technologies have facilitated LIS professionals to work together to acquire and share library collection and provide digital library services to the user community. Increase of the literature in all subjects and shrinking of the library budget made the libraries depend upon each other. This leads to library cooperation, resource sharing and networking. Now the more accepted system of resource sharing is library consortia. Consortia approach is one of the many ways of maintaining cooperation and coordination among the libraries and in fact it has emerged as the ‘state of the art’ in library cooperation in recent years. The online databases; electronic journals are facilitate the formation of consortia among the libraries. This paper highlights the past and existing resource sharing and networking status of Bangladesh. In this paper the authors also depict the benefits of library consortia and try to provide some recommendations for the formation of library consortia in Bangladesh.

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