PLANNER 2016 Shillong, Meghalaya

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Software Migration from LibSys 4.0 to Koha: Post Migration Scenario in a University Library of North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Oinam, A C; Nongbri, J P
Choice of library management software is an important step during the planning phase of library automation especially in a large academic library system viz. university library. The choice thus made inevitably will have an impact when the performance of the modern library system is evaluated. Lately, most of the modern library software have the different features integrated in the workflow of the software which appear to be absent to a first-time user. It is the inherent designed in the workflow that characterized the operation of Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). The key objective of any library i.e. to manage its collection, users and provide the right information to the right user at the right time. This requirement should be exhibited flawlessly by the Integrated Library Management System under operation. The rapid development of the Internet and new ICT applications especially in the social media network have strongly influence the characteristics of potential library users. This is evident based on their preference for the types of documents, mode to access or retrieve information and searching strategies. With a focus on these vital aspects, and to stay relevant with time, policy of migration from one software to another is recommended for an automated library system. However, this procedure should be adopted using proven methodology based on best practices to ensure minimal errors. This will facilitate ease in future adaptation, reduce the time spent on the extraction and transferring of data at a lower cost.
Emerging Web-based Learning for LIS Professionals: An Innovative, Informative and Interactive Tool
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Thakur, Pragnya; Shivarama, J
This article explores the different e-learning modes especially the web-based e-learning and how it is suitable for LIS professionals depending on the subject content and its scope. It also focuses how web-based learning can complement current situation of library and library professionals. New technology leaves librarians with ample of options to choose from for upgrading their desired knowledge and skills. Knowledge of different web-based learning methods and available resources will help librarians to leverage the opportunity to the fullest and stay relevant.
The Role of University Libraries in Assam to Enhance E-learning among the User Community
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Das, Phool Rani; Mazumdar, Sangita
The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of university libraries for enhancing the mode of elearning. The paper focuses on the e-resources and services provided to the users. This paper points how these modern university libraries apply appropriate communication technologies in support of e-learning to users. It also discusses about the role played by library consortia for learning, and various problems faced by the university libraries in context of e-learning or access to online resources.
Use of E-Resources by the Post Graduate Science Students in the Tezpur University Central Library in Assam: A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Thakuria, Juli
Electronic resources are those that are made available to the users by the producers either free of cost or on payment basis in different devices including through online or offline like in CDs. Now almost all the university libraries are procured/ subscribed e-resources for their user community. Here an attempt has been made to study the use of e-resources by the Post Graduate Science Students in the Tezpur University Central Library.
ETDs and Its Uses: A Case Study of Gauhati University
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Malakar, Konika; Pathak, Nitya Nanda
This paper explores the use of ETDs among research scholars of various departments of Gauhati University, from Arts, Science, Commerce, Engineering, Medicine and Law. For data collection, questionnaire method and random sample survey have been used. Further, for clear reflection the collected data have been analyzed by simple tabulations and figures with percentage method. This paper points out the significance of ETDs for research purpose, where it has been found that about 87% of research scholars were satisfied by using the ETDS and they admitted the fact that Shodhganga which plays a vital role for research and development in India is also playing an important role in Gauhati University. Finally at the end of the paper some suggestions have been highlighted which we have gathered at the time of the collection of data as well as interview with the research scholars and faculty members of Gauhati University.
Challenging Role of Librarians in Digital Data Curation
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Devarasaiah, Devaraj; Kumar, Stanley Madan
Digital curation involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its life cycle. It emphasizes on long term preservation and persistent access. Care should be taken for data security, integrity and fair use. Digital data degrades more quickly than paper documents. As such, curation is not a one-time preservation process but a perpetual one. The paper discusses the role of library professionals and the challenges they are to confront in digital data preservation process.
Glimpse of Semantic Web and its Application Across Industries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Jha, Ravi Shankar; Roy, Amartya
The most used tools to access data existing in web are the search engines. Traditional search engines are inefficient in the sense that it produces results that are mostly left for humans to interpret and consume and mostly not specific to the user’s search context. Semantic web creates machine/application readable data. Semantic web extends the traditional search engines and helps them produce context specific and meaningful search results by reading and assimilating the data before producing the search results. Also, Semantic web has been helping in externalizing data for sharing and reusability across users and applications. This paper explains some of the concepts of semantic web, and touches upon some of its industry applications with focus on knowledge/information management and sharing.
Global Shift Towards Open Access Publishing: Key Challenges for Research Community
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Visakhi, P
Global shift from pay walled publishing towards open access publishing and transformation of OPEN ACCESS in different platforms like the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda Statement and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge is discussed. Various routes of open access publishing and its advantages and challenges are discussed. Types of Creative Commons Licenses and its effects in open access scenario are discussed. The various colours on different mode of self archiving policies framed by various publishers in SHERPA/ ROMEO databases are highlighted. Publishing trends in journal articles and books in open access mode as well as funding problems in “Gold” OA Publishing, implications in “Green” OA in self archiving etc are also discussed. Mandate of OA by various countries, funding agencies, employers and its impact etc is highlighted. The findings of the “DE Gruyer Open Author’s Survey” is highlighted to reflect the present trends like 26.8% of authors responded positively for having money to pay publications fee in the year 2016. Authors who published more papers than their average disciplinary colleagues in the last 3 years were more optimistic with regard to the availability of publication funds for them. As per this survey, the biggest group of researchers have funds for publications directly from their employers and an abundance of funding sources is mostly appearing for researchers working STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and is rare for Humanities and Social Sciences. Authors in peripheral countries often have less access to money from grants than their core counter parts. The frequency of paying articles processing charges decreases with career level, while its average amount increases. Authors who publish more papers than their average disciplinary colleagues are more likely to have access to national funding sources, institutional sources and grant money
Scholarly Use of Print and Online Journals in Rajiv Gandhi University: A Comparative Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Sarma, Rahul; Tonsing, Langmuanjohn
The purpose of this paper is to compare the scholarly use of print and online journals at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The analysis and results of this paper is based on the data collected from questionnaire distributed to all research scholars of the University. The main findings are that the respondents are more attracted towards e-journals than print journals. However, they depend more on open-source materials than those available via E-Sodhsindhu INFLIBNET. Respondents also identified the need for training in using e-resources and retrieving information from them from time-to-time. The use of e-resources, particularly e-journals, is increasing in the developing countries. Studies such as this one are required to understand the problems faced by the users and to increase the use of e-resources.
Perceptions and Level of Service Quality in Central University Libraries in India: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Eqbal, Monawwer
The main objectives of the study is to investigate the level service quality in central university libraries of India and to measures the perception of users as they relate to quality of information products and services. Survey among library users was administered and data was collected with the help of questionnaire.The questionnaire designed for the investigation of service quality in central university libraries among research scholars and faculty members were administered. The questionnaire comprises the modified SERVQUAL instrument developed by Parasuraman, et.at, (1998).It contains six dimensions of quality services, i.e., reliability, responsiveness, assurance, access, communications and tangibles. The scope of the research is limited to only seven central university libraries of India.The mean score of each dimension shows that the perception of users about the service quality dimensions in Central Reference Library of DU was highest as compare with other libraries. It shows that research scholars and faculty member are very much satisfied with the services quality dimensions
Application of Innovative Services in the Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Hangsing, P
This paper attempts to look at innovative services within the framework of disruptive innovation. Innovative services are further contextualised to the library services. Key points of disruptive innovations found to be very apt to the library services are analysed and questions of whether to adapt, adopt or disrupt were raised. Non disruptive innovations services are distinguished from the disruptive innovative services. The risks of the disruption of individual library as oppose to the collective libraries are elaborated. Simple and affordable innovative services and conversion of non-users to users are suggested for sustaining the existence of the libraries.
Issues and Challenges of Automation in the College Libraries of Guwahati
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Borkakoti, Rituraj; Singh, Sanjay Kumar
The study has been carried out in the provincialised college libraries of Guwahati which are using LMS. Out of the 16 automated libraries, 15 libraries are using SOUL2.0 while one library is using KOHA. The use of the different modules of the library management software in the college libraries are analysed and the challenges confronted by the library professionals towards effective use of LMS are highlighted through the study.
Bibliometric Study of Textiles Research Literature of IJFTR
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Lokhande, Amogh S; Sawant, Priti P
This bibliometric study of ‘Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Technology’ (IJFTR) was undertaken to understand the year-wise distribution of articles, authorship pattern of articles and geographical distribution of affiliations of the authors of articles, to calculate the average number of authors per article and to identify the top authors in terms of articles contributed. Based on the data collected for the study, it has been found that the number of articles published every year increased, that multiauthored articles outnumbered single-authored articles indicating a collaborative research and publishing pattern, that share of authors affiliated in India was about two-third of all authors with authors from as many as 23 countries contributing an article. The average number of authors per article was 2.94, and, Das, A. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India) was the top author with as many as 14 article contributions.
Perception and Use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) by the Students of Mizoram University (MZU): A Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Verma, Manoj Kumar; Devi, Ksh. Krishna
Social networking sites have become a part of life for almost everyone where people use to communicate their ideas and thoughts with one another. The present study is focused on the use of social networking sites by the students of Mizoram University (MZU), Aizawl, India. The survey method and random sampling technique has been used for the collection of data for the present study. 300 detailed questionnaires were distributed among the students of Under Graduate (UG), Post Graduate (PG), and Ph.D. Scholars of MZU where 262 duly filled-in questionnaires were received in total where 35% are UG, 38% are PG, and 27% is Ph.D. scholars. The analysis of the collected data is presented in tables and charts followed by the interpretation. The present study reveals that the majority of the students are aware of SNSs and using one or more than one social networking sites, where Facebook and YouTube are found as the most commonly used SNSs by the students of MZU.
Analysis of the Citation Patterns, Keywords Clustering and Collaboration Networks in Presented Papers of PLANNER Conventions
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Pradhan, Pallab; Solanki, Hitesh; Patel, Swapnil
In this paper, we present analysis of the papers that were presented in the last nine PLANNER conventions held during the period 2003 to 2014 in North East Indian Universities. The data for this study i.e. number of papers, their bibliographical data along with the keywords were collected from “IR@INFLIBNET”repository as well as from the “Convention’s Proceedings” and the citation data was collected from “Google Scholar”. A total of 445 full papers were selected for this study excluding the abstract papers in which 172 papers have received a total of 481 citations with an average of 1.08 per paper and the remaining 273 papers had no citation. Further, this paper demonstrates yearwise citation patterns, most prominent topics presented, key-word clustering, authorship and collaboration networks of authors from different states from the presented papers in conventions.
Open Access Initiatives of the National Archives of Bangladesh (NAB)
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Akter, Rowshon; Begum, Bilkis
The National Archives of Bangladesh (NAB) evolved to ensure official custody and physical safety of the archival resources mainly government records of the country. With regard torelease their resources on an open access environment, NAB has initiated a digitization programme. Though the initiative is praiseworthy, the facilities are yet inadequate to make the project sustainable. The main focus of this paper is to overview different aspects of NAB’s Open Access programme where it used secondary and primary data. The study identified the shortcomings and put forwarded some recommendations, with special preference to a proposed model of Archives Literacy, which eventually will ensure effective completion of the programme.
Altmetrics: The Emerging Alternative Metrics for Web Research Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Kumar, Ashok; Shivarama, J; Angadi, Mallikarjun; Choukimath, Puttaraj A
The use of web 2.0 is becoming the essential part of present day life. People are spending time for many purposes and academic activities among these uses of web 2.0 social media services by users are prominent for searching, sharing, discussing, and messaging of scholarly content. The wider use of social media has given birth to various buzz words and ‘altmetrics’ is one of them. In simple words, altmetrics provides online measurement of scholars or scholarly content derived from the web 2.0 social media platforms. Altmetrics is diversified in nature and categorised in five categories i.e. (i) recommended (ii) cited (iii) saved (iv) discussed and (v) viewed. Altmetrics are becoming widely used by publishers (for showcasing research impact of authors over readers), librarians and repository managers (for adding value to their libraries and institutional repositories) and by the researchers (for complementing reading by instantly visualising papers online attention).
Use of Anti Plagiarism Software for Detection of Plagiarism in Research Work in the North East Region with Special Reference to Gauhati University
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Pathak, Nitya Nanda; Malakar, Konika
This paper discusses the uses of the anti plagiarism software and its impact on research work. This paper attempts to make an extensive study of its use in the NE region with special focus on Gauhati University. The study would show how Urkund has been highly used by the University of Gauhati and the Central University of Tezpur compared to other universities of the NE Region, where it is still in a preliminary stage. Importantly the use of Urkund, as our study shows, has been highly beneficial to almost 85% research scholars in Gauhati University for improving their research work.
Citation Concentration in ASLIB Proceedings Journal: A Comparative Study of 2005 and 2015 Volumes
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Ravikumar, S; Singh, Sangita K
The present study tries to throw light on how citation is concentrated and distributed in the different parts of articles in ALSIB Proceedings Journal. In this present study we are trying to identify which part of an article attracts more citation. From the data it was found that the citation counts between 2005 and 2015 is increased in multifold. Further it is concluded that during 2005 citation concentration was in body and introduction part of the articles while in 2015 the citation was distributed across the articles bust skewed in Introduction, Literature review and Methodology portion of the articles.
E- Learning and E- Services in Higher Education with Special Reference to Library Support Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Joshi, Jagdish S; Patel, Jinali
This is an age of high-technology revolution for the foreseeable future, not only will it be necessary for everyone to be computer literatebutit will also be necessary for all to be occupied with computer skills. Of course, it is probably true to say that the growth of online learning and usage of e- services in higher education is increasing rapidly in the last decade. In addition, the impact of digitalization in the field of education, where through computer networks such as Internet has posed new challenges in higher education and online Library Support Services. The objective of this study is to provide overview of e- learning and e-services in higher education with special reference to online Library Support Services. Besides, present study also gives limpidity about e- learning tools and with the help of those tools it is required, for both the teacher and librarian, to re- evaluate their teaching methodology, services and resources.

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