CALIBER 2019: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Adopting Nudge Theory in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Cherukodan, Surendran
Purpose -This paper examines the nudge theory revealed by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein in their book “Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness” and the possibilities of its applications in academic libraries to enhance library services and library use. This paper tries to identify various nudge ideas and apply them to academic library environment. Application of nudge theory shall bring new insights for library professionals to influence users. Nudge theory will help librarians to become choice architects who have the responsibility for organizing the contexts in which people make decisions.
Awareness and Use of Electronic Resources by Visually Impaired Students at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Khowaja, Sufia; Fatima, Nishat
The study was conducted in order to identify the awareness and use of e-resources by Visually Impaired students at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh by following survey technique in which structured interview was used as a research tool to gather precise data from 76 visually impaired students. The data so collected were analysed and tabulated using ‘SPSS version 23’. Findings of the study revealed that 100% visually impaired students are aware of e-resources, among the majority of students (96.1%) make use of e-books and e-newspaper (84.2%). In due course, it also came to light that these students are using e-resources for remaining updated (89.5%) and writing assignments (88.2%). Besides, it is also found that 85.5% of users find it difficult to use e-resources because of the compatibility issue with screen readers and it is also found that while performing various tasks electronically majority of them are having average experience. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the findings of the study will be helpful for library professionals and institutions serving visually impaired persons to develop effective electronic services in digital environment to access knowledge without any barriers as well as suitably designed survey can be applied to reveal similar trends in different institutions.
Capacity Building of LIS Professionals in Digital Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Vaishnav, Ashwini A
The paper defines the terms capacity & capacity building. Identified need for capacity building of LIS professionals, their roles, competency/ skills needed in digital environment. Explains necessity of professional ethics in 21st century, challenges and solutions, tools and resources for capacity building. Gives knowledge, skills, traits to be possessed by Librapreneur/Entrepreneur, methodology of capacity building programmes, different phases of quality assurance. Suggests how LIS education can update competencies and skills needed to sustain in digital environment. Paper concludes by saying that for survival of LIS profession, professionals and institution necessitates forecasting of changes that will take place and develop competencies and skills to keep LIS Professionals ourselves update in the changing environment.
Capacity Building Programs for Library Professionals: Challenges and Opportunity
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Barik, Nilaranjan; Jena, Puspanjali
The quality of a library is identified by its competent staff, dynamic services, and updated resources. The human resources working in the Library and Information Centre are needed to enhance their personal as well as professional level skills and competence for effective delivery of library and information services. The present study discusses on the concept, method, and levels of Capacity Building Programs for library professionals in library and information centres. Further the study discusses on need of capacity building programs and throws lights on some major challenges persist with it.
Case Study on Vidya-Mitra (e-Learning MHRD Initiative): A Quantitative Analysis on Multimedia Content (Video)
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Kumar, Abhishek; Tiwari, Sanjay; Pallavi
The present study reports about the usage of audiovisual resources available under Vidya-Mitra, An integrated e-Content Portal. Vidya-mitra facilitates to host all the content and provides searchbrowse facility for all hosted content wherein a learner can easily access the desired material including audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia enriched materials etc., through a single interface. Resource analysis has been done in different area such as collections, viewership of content, subscribers, outreach in terms of geographical region, gender etc.
Comparative Study between Omeka, DSpace and E-Print: A Special Reference with Plugin Features
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Ravikumar, S; Hazarika, Hirak Jyoti
Open-source software helps libraries mainly in lowering initial and recurring costs, eliminating vendor lock-in and allowing greater flexibility. DSpace, E-Prints are very popular among academic community and Omeka open source software which is widely used in archival and museum space. Role of Digital Library system used to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute all scholarly research material in digital formats. This paper explains the open-source digital repository software with special reference to the availability of plugin features in Omeka which is not available with others two IR Software. This paper describes the feature of plugins, strengths, and weaknesses of Omeka as a software platform for creating and managing digital collections on the web. This paper also explains, how plugin features easier for users to add features to their repository without knowing a single line of code.
Competencies for LIS Professionals in the Digital Information Environment: An Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Das, Basanta Kumar; Mahapatra, Rabindra Kumar
The term ‘competency’ has now become parallel to technological competency in Library and Information Science. However the norms for the competencies vary from institution to institution as per need due to the objectives, needs and purpose. Competency is very dynamic one. A person who is competent in a particular environment may not be competent everywhere or any other field. In the management of information tools and technologies, IT skills such as access to electronic resources to enhance computer skills must be considered. Due to the changing needs and growing technologies, without ICT skills, the librarians of the present day struggle to exist because the convergence of technology into libraries brought changes in the user’s attitude and approach. However this situation is going to escalate further as the society is now becoming ICT literate and knowledge driven In line with managing information organization, marketing and promotion, research skills/ project management and personnel management are seen as important.
Contemporary Practice in Library and Information Centers for The Academic Improvement of Colleges in Odisha
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Dash, Abinash; Chandrabati, B
Library and Information Science profession has undergone impressive and brisk change during the last three decades under the overpowering impact of ICT. The future of the library is governed by the new technological innovations in the area of storage, retrieval and dissemination of information and the future of the information profession is very much dependant on their adoption by the information professionals. The new role of the Library and Information Centre in the knowledge society is needed to be sloping consequently. It is our responsibility as information facilitators and managers not only to inculcate the society through the technologies i.e., available but also to recognize the problems that need to be solved. Every profession should have professional accountability and moral values to respond to the need of the hour of the community at the right time and in the right point of view. The changing role of information professionals thus, need continuing professional development, predominantly, in an academic set up like colleges and universities to take our students and teachers to the doorsteps of the 21st century.
Data Analytics and Visualization in Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Patnaik, Rachna
Libraries play a vital role in supporting research and learning processes. They manage a large store of data about collections to meet the requirements of users. Data in a digital library is growing and data analytics, visualization techniques are trying to make sense of voluminous amount of unstructured data. Space Applications Centre library provides various digital, online services, which generates lot of data in the form of transaction data, metadata and usage data. A large amount of budget is spent in subscription, renewal of e-resources and for accountability; data analytic tools are effective in producing insights from the usage data to understand users and improving library services. This paper attempts toanalyze library transaction data retrieved from KOHA Integrated library management software and usage data of library website and e-resources at the Library of Space Applications Centre,to make decisions inproviding efficient services by understanding and predicting user needs. The operational data is exported into a warehouse, cleaned and analyzed using Python language and its libraries. Matplotlib a data visualization tool is used to visualize the analysis through scatter plot and bar graph and helped us in the renewal of e-resources.
Dynamic Approaches to the Next Generation Librarianship: A Discussion
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahoo, Bedadyuti; Rautaray, Bijaylaxmi
People anticipate major changes in the field of library automation, digitization, and dissemination of resources, better library products and services in the upcoming years. The Upheavals started in real after 20th century because of the demand of the users for research as well as academia. Accordingly, the importance in the field of library systems and services developed for creating better scope through the process of data management, reserving contents in the archives, creating remote access to the electronic resources, and managing library activities technically through the library management software and databases. Simultaneously, the workflow and the efficiency of the staff members also have developed than the decades before might be the change of the wanting of the users’ or supportive mechanisms and impact of the ICT. This paper vividly discuss in details about the present library management systems and services of the library for the benefit of the whole users’ community.
E-learning: Learning Management System for the Next - Generation Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Singh, Rashmi
Nowadays E-learning courses offering more flexibility about the pace, time, and place for making education widely accessible for each and every one. E-learning provides many benefits to the students as well as instructors to develop their skills. Successful implementation of e-learning requires the appropriate application of the Internet to support the delivery of learning, skills and knowledgeable courses, technologies, or infrastructures. The importance of e-learning paths that vary according to the student, the subject material, the level of competence, and corporate or student preferences etc. In the present digital era selecting and purchasing of a learning management system has become a major financial and strategic decision for colleges and universities. So, the educational institutions need to have suitable strategies for successful deployment of the e-learning process. This paper covers different types of LMS, all the major e-learning tools, and standards, basic security issues, benefits and limitations of e-learning.
Effect of Book Review Writing Activity on School Students' Reading Competencies: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Desale, Suvarna; Kumbhar, Rajendra
Reading a review is a necessity before selecting any book to read. Writing a book review is an activity that can result in the development of various skills. This paper discusses the impact of book review writing activity on the reading competency of school children. Action research of one year was carried out on 40 students from 5th standard of a CBSE school to assess the effect of writing book reviews on their reading competency. The action research contained detailed monthly planning and execution by noting regular observations and reflections of the researcher. The data was collected through book reviews written by students as an assignment for library-teaching periods for the research duration. The actions were modified according to the observations of the population. The findings identified that students became more involved readers when they wrote a review of their reading. The writing of book review stimulated the discussion about the content of the book, which further enhanced the reading habit. So, it was concluded that book review writing is one of the most important activities to develop students’ reading and writing competencies, as well as clarity of thought.
Enhancing Access to Library Electronic Resources through an E-library Portal: The RCSI Bahrain Library Experience
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) P Nair, Bindhu; Anand, Evelyn
The library portal project aimed to improve accessibility and visibility of the Library’s online resources, simultaneously enhancing the user experience. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the e-library portal on the usage of library electronic resources at RCSI Bahrain. Data was collected from library statistical reports. Usage reports from the portal were collected for the year 2018-19 and from individual vendors for the previous years. The study shows that the e-library portal has increased overall usage of library electronic resources. The recommendations for improving the e-portal service include: Upgraded interfaces and compatibility assessments, continuous collaboration between librarians and faculty in selecting and acquiring the most appropriate format of resources to support the curriculum and research needs of the users, well planned and executed marketing strategies for the resources, Workshops/ training in the use of resources and Assessment of the collection to ensure quality and relevance. The development and launch of the portal was not simply a means of enhancing current services and providing a user-friendly platform to access all resources. The portal changed the image of the library from a physical space to a digital companion in student life. Even though the launch of the portal has increased usage of electronic resources, the research needs to be extended to further years to review the access through portal. The library portal has increased the usage but there might be several other underlying factors adding to this, which need to be considered.
Entrepreneurial Management of Human Resource for Capacity Building
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Chandel, A. S.; Pradhan, Sarbada
Highlights the role of organizational culture which is a sum of values, traditions, work culture, ethics, etc. that shape the performance and output of the organizations. The competencies and skills of human resource need continuous improvement by giving opportunities to one and all in order to improve performances. Also discusses some issues of human management and declining work cultures in institutions, suggesting measures of capacity building through developing need-based curriculum in LIS Departments, creating, and providing more and more opportunities to in-service professionals through continued learning and education.
Ethical Role of Library & Information Science Professional in Disseminating Information
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Roy, Mahua
Library & Information Science (LIS) is a profession where ethical responsibilities are there on the part of the LIS professionals towards its users and the institution he/she serves. The paper throws light on why ethics is important in LIS profession. The paper discusses on some ethical codes drafted by IFLA and on some of the common ethical codes which 60 odd countries over the world are following. The paper gives an outline of the Indian scenario of the LIS professional’s ethical code and emphasises the need of ethical code for LIS professional’s in India. Ethical codes are not new to the Indian culture the codes have been there from the ancient times and time has come when India should have ethical code for the LIS professionals
Implementation of RFID System in Modern Libraries: A Study on University Libraries of Assam
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Das, Krishna
Invention of new technologies has drastically changed our traditional methods of livelihood, our thinking and even our education system too. And the Libraries are not so far beyond this change. In early decade books are kept in almirah as prestigious symbol; later it becomes the collection centre of books and now libraries are regarded as the store house of knowledge. Day by day new technologies and terminologies have been included in libraries and library science education. As a result services offered by libraries become updated including its security system also. This paper is based on such a topic which is most reliable and most modern technique related to the library security system and that is the Radio Frequency Identification in short RFID. The paper describes the implementation of RFID in the university libraries of Assam along with some basic findings and suggestions.
Indian Academic Research Data Repository (IARDR) With INFLIBNET: A Futuristic Plan
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Pal, Birender; Singh, Sanjay Kumar
Data and Information are an integral component resulting to form the knowledge. In terms of research information management (e-resource), the Institutional Repository (IR) has played an immense role. Research data is another important asset of research which needs to be properly managed. The situations of research data management in European, American and Australian continents is very much advanced and are having a well research data management platform for their researcher. But when we study the research data management aspect basically in Indian context, then the situation is quite different than the other countries of the world. In Indian universities, a lot of research data has been collected by the researcher which is unutilized after the completion of research. This paper explores that what is the present status of research data management policy in Indian context. It also highlights on how India can have the research data management policy in the field of academics. It further reflects the proposed policy on how INFLIBNET centre can act as a national platform or nodal centre to build the anticipated IARDR. The paper at the end shows the merit and limitation of the proposed IARDR and the role of libraries.
Information Literacy among Undergraduate Students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College and Guntur Medical College, Andhra Pradesh: A Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Murthy, P Rama; Padmini, K
Today Information Literacy has become vital because of proliferation of information resources in all forms. Information literacy is a set of abilities require for individuals to identify the need for information, find, locate, evaluate and use information effectively and efficiently. The Present study explores information literacy among the students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College & Guntur Medical College, affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. The survey method was adopted for the study and 225 questionnaires were circulated among the medical students and 195 were received back for analysis with a response rate of 86.66%. Majority of the respondents were able to determine their information needs, types of information resources available; utilization of e-resources, and know the levels of awareness of social networking sites. This study found that a majority of the respondents of both medical colleges are needed information for updating their subject knowledge, frequently utilized information sources, social networking sites of both medical colleges. Most of the respondents here given top priority high skills in getting information in print and electronic format. They rarely used search engines of both medical college students are viz., infoseek, AltaVista, lycos, MySpace and LinkedIn social networking sites.
Information Management in the Self- financing Engineering College Libraries Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai - A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Rajasekar, V; Krishnamoorthy, G; Kalaiappan, V
Information Management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. Information Management was largely limited to files, file maintenance, and the life cycle management of paper-based files, other media and records. With the proliferation of information technology the job of information management took on a new light, and also began to include the field of Data maintenance. The goals of information management are getting the right information to the right person, at the right time, from the right source, in the right amount, in the right order, in the right form, in the right medium, with optimal accuracy, as quickly as possible and at the lowest reasonable cost. To achieve the objectives of the information management cooperation requires in all the disciplines. The information management disciplines include records management, archives management, corporate librarianship, knowledge management, business intelligence, document management, micrographics, and electronic records/imaging systems. The study highlights the importance of information retrieval system in the colleges for the benefit of the different end users in the libraries.
Internet of Things (IoT) in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) N K, Sheeja; K, Susan Mathew
This paper reviews the literature on the application of Internet of Things (IoT) in libraries and identifies the prospective areas where IoT can be executed effectively. The literatures on IoT applications retrievable by Google Scholar search during 2010 to 2019 were selected. The number of articles available on this area found to be very less. The authors attempted to provide a comprehensive review on the available articles to generate inferences important to the field of library and information science.

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