PLANNER-2012 Gangtok, Sikkim

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VuFind: An Emerging Open Source Discovery Tool
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-02-03) Mansuri, Imran; Patel, Swapnil; Vaghela, Divyakant
Since the early days of catalogues, the structure and interface of library tools used for accessing the resources are changing rapidly and dramatically to fulfil the changing user needs. In recent years, the behaviour of library users has been undergoing drastic changes due to increasingly use of web search engines and ICT based services. This paper describes the expectations of such users who are looking for information. It presents an optimized approach that enables academic libraries to provide its patrons with an up-to-date user experience while capitalizing on the unique advantages offered by libraries. Ways of integrating the new solution with the current library environment including features and functionalities of next generation catalogues are discussed
Changing Dimension of KKHL With INFLIBNET in the Participatory ERA
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Pal, Birender; Singh, S K; Ahmed, Merina
Libraries and Knowledge are the two faces of a same coin. The University libraries act as an important medium of generating knowledge between the academic communities. The traditional process of organizing, retrieving and dissemination of information is out of fashion and time consuming. INFLIBNET through the application of IT is making great efforts to build up their information infrastructure in order to provide a fast and efficient information highway to help their users in sharing and utilizing the information all over the world. This paper deals about the different developments activities of Krishna Kanta Handiqui library of Gauhati University under INFLIBNET which includes digital collection development, HRD development, status of different databases created by KKHL. The article also discuss about the records contributed by KKHL in the Union Catalogue of Indian Universities and digitization aspects of Thesis and Dissertation collections.
Federated Search: An Information Retrieval Strategy for Scholarly Literature
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Kakoli, Gogoi; Jyotika, Borthakur; Mukut, Sarmah
Due to rapid growth of scholarly information, need of federated searching arises. The article describes the concept of federated search and different federated search engines, features of the search engines and search strategies of some of the federated search engines. It also highlights the advantages of federated search along with its drawbacks. Various technologies used for federated searching have been also discussed. This paper also tries to give the difference between popular search engines and federated search engines.
Social Bookmarking and Tagging in Library Science
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Kannikaparameshwari, G; Chandrashekara, M
This article explores the connotation of social bookmarking and tagging. Social bookmarking can help librarians, not only in providing the library patrons with better and faster access to information, but also with more reliable and well-organized information. Article shows the uses of social bookmarking in library science, what is bookmarking and tagging, advantages of these technological tools. And explain the social bookmarking and tagging with practical experience of my knowledge.
Users percetion Towards Electronics Resources and Services in Dental Health Science Colleges in Davanagere: A Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Lohar, M S; Satsha S H; Mohammed Riyaz; Sab M, Chamana
A Lot of research has been done to find out the information needs of various categories of users. This paper attempts to find out the Post Graduate and Under Graduate students of Dental Health Science Colleges in Davanagere, (Karnataka) towards use of electronic resources and services in their respective libraries. For this purpose the authors has designed a set of questionnaire and distributed personally to both PG and UG students (i.e Bapuji Dental College and College of Dental Science Davanagee) to extract the opinion and collect the data for the study.
Dynamic Library Organization: (Socializing with) Participatory Knowledge Sharing Tools
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Munshi, Usha Mujoo; Garg, Sanjay
The present paper endeavours to focus on the current structure of Library as a dynamic organization that transcended from the earlier unit culture to the present global culture. This transitional transformation is attributed to the splendid changes being brought about by the information and communication technology to the domain of the information management and dissemination. Further, the true culture of libraries as a social and participatory place has been buttressed in the electronic environment by the developments in the web technologies and tools. The paper in an attempt to showcase the application of web 2.0 tools as add-on technology for rendering participatory knowledge services by the libraries, focuses on some of these tools with special reference to virtual reference services. While concluding it is pointed out that the profession in general, claims a long history of effectively recognizing user’s needs and then applying that user knowledge towards service delivery schema which completely address those needs.
Google Sites for Academic Library: A Practical Approach in Pub Kamrup College Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Mazumdar, Nirmal Ranjan; Singh, Sanjay Kumar
With the application of information and communication technology, the library and information centers are now become more available as well as usable for all. IT based library and information center gives the maximum opportunity to the user- community to search their required information using different IT tools. The Google Sites is a service of Google where a webpage can be designed. The steps of designing a website using the Google are discussed in this paper among with the example of Pub Kamrup College Library website.
Institutional Repositories: The Prospects and Challenges in Indian Digital Library Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Nahak, Brundaban; Nahak, Sanjukta
The information evolution leads to the flood of publication. User needs are also rapidly growing. They have to read more journals, require more information but the prices have increased faster than library budget. So to cope up the situation and meet the user requirement the institutional repositories has been emerged. In the age of ICT, the concept of institutional repository has arisen, which have become very essential mode of accessing and sharing the information. Information is always considered the root cause for the development of any society/community. Intuitional Repositories are digital collections of the outputs created within a university or research institution. This paper discussed about growth of IR in India and also global scenario of IRs. This paper is a consideration of some of the important aspects related with IRs. It also explores the trends at global and national level of IR. The present paper also discusses about some important software, which is being used by IR of various organizations world wide and described objective, definitions, content, use, features, design, advantages, key components, issues and challenges, etc. IR consists of formally organized and managed collections of digital content generated by the faculty, staff and students of an institution. IR enhance the visibility of the research outputs locally produced. The paper concludes with the remarks that the LIS professionals need to have more active and responsible for generation and maintenance of IR systems efficiently and effectively. Librarian is the focal point, the IR system as he plays a role of designer as well as service provider.
Treasure of Electronic Resource and its Management System at Central Library, IIT, Kharagpur: A Preview
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Mrityunjoy De; Chand Saha, Nimai; Ghosh, Sanjib; Pal, Nirmalendu
We all know that the technology sector is in the top preference of the authority and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur is considered as one of the remarkable outcome. The central library of IIT, Kharagpur has carrying out valuable role to impart education by equipping with the latest changes of the technology in the library field. Now, electronic resources are the essential part of the collection of any libraries and hence the management of e-resources is the main challenge to the library professionals. The present paper is an attempt to explore the access facilities of e-resource, electronic resource management systems and the present practice followed by the central library,IIT, Kharagpur for its successful dissemination among the users to meet their requirements.
Status of ICT and Internet Literacy for Accessing to E-Resources Available under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium : A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Sinha, Manoj Kumar
The present study has been undertaken with a view to know the status of ICT and Internet Literacy amongst the Assam University Library Users for accessing to E- Resources available under UGCINFONET Digital Library consortium. 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. The present work was carried out during July to August 2008. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted, 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 Internet for their day-to-day activities and status of access to e-journals for their academic and research activities. The self designed questionnaire comprising of 20 questions has been distributed amongst the randomly selected 480 samples. out of which 324 respondents have responded. 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 eresources / web resources available under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortia of INFLIBNET/ UGC. On the basis of filled up questionnaire received from the respondents, 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 paper highlights the important survey findings in respect of ICT and Internet Literacy, Eresources 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 suggestions and recommendations have also been enumerated in brief.
Relevance of Open Access Journals in Library Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Lallaisangzuali, Sailo
This paper discusses the general background and basic concepts of open access, as well as its current developments. It also discusses the open access journal portals, platforms for open access journals, its management and the impact it had on libraries. Despite the challenges raised against open access, open access has become a significant movement that libraries cannot ignore. Libraries need to address both advocacy issues as well as objections in order to assess the contributions of open access to the institutions
Academic Libraries in the Participatory Age
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Sahoo, Bibhuti Bhusan
Libraries are moving into a transitional state i.e. traditional library service and integration of current ICT to facilitate the services. Since the inception of libraries, libraries are trying to develop their collection in order to satisfy the need of their users. It is not possible for the librarians’ to provide all desired information to their users so they depend on other libraries for the information. The Library cooperation started with the participatory culture. The library professionals cooperate each other’s through various ways like inter library loan, consultancies etc. Online catalogs, hightech campus information networks, and accelerated resource sharing present opportunities for building comprehensive information centers. The present paper discusses the participative management, team work, ICT, Library building etc among library professionals as well as the user community. The library 2.0 technologies are helpful for collaborating in information creation, storage and retrieval. The library staff needs to be more dynamic in their approach to learn the current technology and leadership skills.
Digital Collection Development in Academic Libraries: An Overview
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Boruah, Gayatree; Dutta, Gunin Kr.
Digital Collection is a most important part of the Digital Library. The Digital Collections of information include various resources such as electronic journals,books,full text,CDROM,databases.etc. The main objectives of the paper is to know different digital collections and importance in Academic Libraries. The study is based on secondary data includes books, journals and published documents etc. The paper is an analytical and descriptive one.
Federated Search Engines: A Building Block for Participatory Library Service
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Upadhyay, Purnima
This article provides a brief background on the current state of information search in this highly connected and pervasive internet age. It is followed by an introduction to the federated search engine and its definition. While this article assumes that the role played by federated search engine in searching disparate information has been now quite justified and established, it lays the emphasis on the capabilities of the federated search engines. It does so by listing the functionalities expected from a federated search engine, and higher level explanation of inner workings of the federated search engine. It also lists the advantages and shortcomings of federated search engines. This is followed by the selection criteria of a federated search engine and lastly a list of some of the popular federated search engines available today.
Achieving Knowledge Management Through Cloud Computing
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) M R Rawtani
In era of knowledge based economy and globalization of world economy, a new opportunity has been emerged as a management issue within the spectrum of information management, information technology, artificial intelligence, expert system, semantic web, neural network, cognitive sciences, mathematics and management theory, economics and recently Cloud Computing. This study tries to give a different perspective of the cloud application through a knowledge management perspective and its structure in the cloud computing environment. In recent years, there has been a great hype about cloud computing and different books and literature reviews have classified different types of cloud with various definitions and criteria focusing on mainly three different layers of services being infrastructure, platform and software. The benefit of cloud computing is supply of services anytime, anywhere device-agnostic access. This paper provides a metaobservation over an integrated cloud ecosystem through the knowledge window. Achieving Knowledge Management through Cloud Computing has expanded new insights, vision and practices. This article critically evaluates ways to achieve knowledge management though cloud computing.
Transformation of Reference Service to Digital Reference Service: Scholars Review in Context of Present IT Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Singha, Anuradha; Sabhapandit, Tonmay
Reference and Information services are the most important and indispensable component of modern library system. Internet has introduced new modes of communication and has extended the scope of reference service to Digital Reference services to the users across the world. The academic library reference service is undergoing a traditional to web based transition period. Modern reference service is committed to render a client focused service to end users. This paper highlights the emerging formats and models of modern reference service. Based on the literature review and practical experience of us, new research directions are suggested, in which user, paraprofessionals as well as librarians various interventions are integrated. An attempt has been made through this article to notify the significance of Digital reference Services as well as web based reference service in present IT environment and suggests the criteria for Planning and implementing Digital Reference Services in libraries. This article highlights various issues related to digital reference service and its application aspects, also examines the various needs before its implications.
ETD an Effective Research Tool: University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad (UASD) Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Maltesh, Motebennur
The present paper high lights the ETD initiatives in University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad (UASD). It also proves an effective and comprehensive scientific research tool. Around two hundred post graduates and research students were personally interviewed by using short structured questionnaire in the class PGS 501 Library and Information Services, and the result was positive. Many students agreed that the ETD in the University of Agriculture Sciences Dharwad, Karnataka is a very effective tool in their research and writing the theses.
Research Output by the Faculties of School of Human and Environmental Sciences, Manipur University: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Bobby, Phuritsabam; Memori, Sagolsem; Purnima, Devi; Devi, Naorem Mandakini
The present study identifies the various Research works, achievement and contributed of the faculty members of School of Human and Environmental Sciences. This work is to harvest the role of different faculties o the Human an Environmental sciences in bringing globalization by using different types of research in interdisciplinary with art, culture and social sciences. It also help to know that they are implementing new educational policing for enhancing the spirit of learning in which both efforts and imagination play a vital role. Department of Earth Science has highest numbers of Research activities and followed by Department of Geography, Department of Anthropology and Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
Tagging and Social Bookmarking: Tools of Library Services in Digital Era
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Deka, Naba Jyoti; Deka, Dipen
In the web 2.0 environments, Tagging and social bookmarking play a major role in knowledge organization and management in the field of library services. Bookmarking tools like delicious, twitter, flickr, connotea, etc are very popular and useful regarding the use of internet and web resources in a systematic and scientific way. It integrates and accurate the unlimited data and explosive information over internet and World Wide Web in a very controlled manner. This paper explains the various aspects of tagging and social bookmarking and the practical experiences in modern library services in the digital era.
E-Resources in College Libraries of Guwahati with Reference to NLIST: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Karmakar, Gouri Sankar; Deka, Prasanta Kumar; Singh, Sanjay Kumar; Sarkar, Sankar
In the era of Information explosion e-resources are the only solution in the academic community for dissemination of knowledge in the present context. The paper mainly discusses on the use and application of e-resources in the college libraries of Guwahati, Assam. It highlights the present scenario of NLIST including access facility, user awareness and also discusses the security threats of digital era. The INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad is providing e-resources to Colleges in India in general and NE Region in particular.

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