PLANNER-2012 Gangtok, Sikkim

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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.
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.
Activities and Reasons for Using Social Networking Sites by Research Scholars in NEHU: A Study on Facebook and ResearchGate
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Chakraborty, Nirmali
The paper has made an attempt to study the activities and reasons for using Social Networking Sites (SNS) by the research scholars of North Eastern Hill University (NEHU). For that the study has covered two social networking sites namely Facebook and ResearchGate based on popularity and widely used by research scholars. a self administered questionnaire was distributed among the research scholars of NEHU. And the primary data gathered through questionnaire were analyzed and discussed in accordance with the objective of the study. Here it is found that most of the scholars from social science background use SNS from education and research point of view; on the contrary scholars from pure science think that SNS has no role on research and education. They use SNS just for entertainment. The paper concludes with some suggestions given by the respondents for making SNS better research tool.
Akash Tablet: A Scope for Virtual Service in College Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Das, Rajib Kumar; Singha, Anuradha
The library service is more technology based as times goes. In today’s context mobile based service is very demanding for the libraries. The use of Tablet PC’s application can fulfill the changing demand of the patron of the libraries. This service is already adopted by the some libraries of Western World. The Akash Tablet computer helps the Indian libraries for serving the patron in modern way. The Akash is very cheap and marketed by the Govt. of India gives the ample opportunity to the college libraries to adopt modern service of library. This article highlights the various features and function of Akash Tablet and its scope in the libraries. The e-resource and institutional repository can be handled very easy and cost effective way through Akash tablet.
Application of Smart Card Technology in The University of Mumbai Library to Monitor User Behaviour, Library Traffic, Library Planning, Physical Security and Managing E-purse for Cashless Transactions
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Raja, Nalini A
This paper is aimed at conducting pilot study for implementation of Smart Card Technology for access control to safeguard both physical and intellectual property; and cashless transaction at photocopying centre. The reports are compiled to monitor user behaviour, library traffic and actual use of library resources. The reports are reviewed for effective and efficient collection development, weeding out and library planning policies. SOUL 2.0 software is used for computerizing the library in-house activities. Smart card technology is integrated with SOUL 2.0 software for assigning the user rights as per their credentials for providing various services.
Awareness and Accessing of Electronic Resources by the Post Graduate Students of North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Naga, Moses M; B, Sten
The paper focuses on the awareness and accessing of electronic resources in the NEHU Central Library by the Post Graduate Students within four different Schools comprising of different departments. The purpose of seeking information, formal and informal sources used by the Post Graduate Students in searching the relevant information is studied in the paper. It also discussed frequency of their visit to the library and tools used for searching the information. The awareness of digital repository in helping the students for finding information is also touched upon
Best Practices with NAAC in College Libraries of Nalbari District, Assam
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Ahmed, Merina; Pal, Birender
The twenty first century creates a new environment for education in general and higher education in particular. The progress of any country is strongly linked with the quality of education. However, with mushrooming of educational institutions in all parts of the country and several types of economic activities dominating the landscape, the issue of quality has now assumed a critical dimension. College libraries play an indispensable role in the dissemination of information of knowledge,they should be in a position to provide effective teaching learning information support to its user’s communities. Libraries are one of the important components of the assessment through which an impact on the accreditation of the institute is related. To meet the end user’s demands effectively, they need to identify and adopt good practices. NAAC has decided to identify the set of best practices in Library and Information Services, with the help of a few case presentations from few selected libraries of the accredited Universities and Colleges. This paper shows a clear picture about the developments of college libraries of Nalbari district(Assam) after NAAC’s evaluation. It gives the status of best practices followed by the surveyed libraries.
Building the Participatory Librarianship Approach Through Knowledge Management Tool and Models
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Rawtani, M R
The technologies of the “knowledge Age” are transitioning from individual, isolated information systems and repositories to an expanded exchange and sharing of information in order to broaden the size and depth of knowledge available in individual and activities. Knowledge management is a strategy whereby the knowledge within an organization is treated as a key asset to be managed in the most effective way possible. The approach of Librarian and his technical skills to build a knowledge management system in the organization through collaborative or participatory outreach with user centric views are explained first. Secondly this paper enlists the various electronic utilities tools and models
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.
Cloud Computing for Libraries: A SWOT Analysis
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Pandya, Miteshkumar
This paper provides brief information on cloud computing and its application for libraries. Adoption of cloud computing is not an easy task for Indian libraries. This paper provides some basic idea to choose evaluate Cloud service for the library. The advantages, disadvantages and features needs to be seriously considered before putting data on the cloud. The paper also describes its merits and demerits on the principle of SWOT analysis.
Creation of Institutional Repositories in Academic Libraries Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Maitra, Pubalika Bhattacharya
In the developmental process of digital library formation, institutional repositories are the most advanced collections that are taking the academic yield of the scholastic community. In the higher learning institutions these are the university communities. The influential responses are supposed to be based on two premeditated issues. In the provision of an essential constituent in reforming scholarly communication, and the valuation of the user services undertakes in the benchmarking activities i.e. indicators of an institution’s quality. Thus increasing its vision, kudos, and reducing the vacuum of public digital information use. This paper examines institutional repositories from these complementary perspectives, describing their potential role and exploring their impact on major Stakeholders in the reflective communication practices
Cutting-edge Library Services Right Away Using Social Networking Tools
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Soni, Swati; S, Suboohi; P, Jayshree
Social media website like second life, facebook and twitter reducing the saddle of librarian in all the aspect to communicate, share and disseminate the information in appropriate time. People are extensively using micro blogging and other social network sites to share and feed the valuable resources within their community. Library is the heart of any educational institution could crap this opportunity to interact with their patron in easy way by 24/7. The user perspective has tremendously changed since last decade to access the information like faceted search, book review, rss feed, email alert, sms alert and ranking the resource. To satisfy the modern user the library professional to enhance the skill in web based library services such as content delivery, article or book reminder and sms alert and so on. In this article the author has depicted about various open source tools available for social networking service to the library community, usage and implementation.
Developing a Model Library Automation Multilingual Software (LAMP – Library Automation Multilingual Package)
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Chavan, Subhash P; Mukhedkar, M V
Few Library automation software packages are available in the market. But the cost of the software package, bar code reader, bar code labels and in all the total cost is not affordable to most of the public libraries particularly from rural areas. Most of these software packages allow the data entry of the bibliographic details of the document in English only and allow to take output reports in English language only. Few packages allow the data entry in Devnagari script, but these modules are costly and needs to be purchased separately. The authors, therefore, tried to develop a model library automation multilingual package, which will be helpful to save on costs incurred, allow to enter details in local language, and source code will be made available to make modifications (if required) in it.
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.
Digital Preservation: A Software Approach
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Singh, R K Joteen
In today’s ever developing and rapid growing world, the national heritage site- the pride and identity of a country, seems to be in deteriorating state though various preservative measures are being taken up. What is important here is to understand which preservative method and technique will serve us best in this technological and computerized era. Since there is a continuous technological growth and advancement, the technological component does also undergo transformation on both software and hardware levels. One of the suitable preservation techniques available is the digitization using Xena software. This paper attempts to show how the particular software will help in preserving the national heritage in long run.
Digital Resources and its Usage Statistics in Assam University Central Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Mandal, Saroj Kumar; Nitumoni, Borah; Nath, Mihir Kanti
The advent of ICT has made a clear and pervasive impact in almost every area of library. Hence, the library environment has undergone a rapid change leading to new generation of libraries with an emphasis on digital resources. Digital resources are growing in vigorously and it has replaced the trend from conventional resources towards the digital resources. Now a day, digital resources are very popular due to its easy access and retrieve in the University Libraries. However, as the popularity of digital resources increases, the librarian and the professional staffs should always be concerned about digital resources ie. selection and evaluation of digital resources. In this paper we have tried to highlight the availability and usage of digital resources in modern libraries particularly in Assam University Central Library
Digitisation Trend in Libraries of First Grade Colleges Affiliated to Davanagere University: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) N Kotresh
The college libraries have to widen their system to incorporate the challenges and demands of digital environment by taking the following steps. 1) Developing the born digital collection 2) Digitalisation of existing collection of the college library 3) Development of virtual and interactive network services within the college campus 4) Develop usable, quality educational and cultural content for the user community and 5) Develop services both manual and electronic to ensure equal opportunities for lifelong learning. In view of this, there is a need to evaluate the college library motto towards user community to deal with the challenges of digitalisation and new technologies. Therefore, here is made an effort to know the current trends of digitalisation in Libraries of First Grade Colleges affiliated to Davanagere University. The study tries to identifies the taluk & district wise First Grade Colleges, available resources, qualification & experices of professionals working, prerequisets & components required, initiative steps taken to degitise, process of degitisation.
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.
E-Resource Management in Technical Institute Library: A Case Study on NIT Silchar
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2012-03-03) Satpathy, Kishor Chandra; Sarma, Rahul; Sarma, Roon Devi
Libraries have witnessed a great metamorphosis in recent years both in their collection development and in their service structure. In recent years, the print medium is increasingly giving way to the electronic resources. The documents that are in electronic form are said to be electronic resources. Based on the facts, the paper defines the concept of e-resource & highlights its advantages. It enumerates e-resources subscribed by NIT Silchar and presents a case study e-resource management of the Central Library of NIT Silchar
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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