PLANNER 2005

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25 Years of Electronic Resources Collection Development at the University of Salford: Some Issues and Challenges
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Sandhu, Gurdish; Sale, Anna
The information landscape is changing rapidly; the reasons for these changes are discussed. The paper outlines the acquisition of electronic resources at Salford University along with the chronological history and expenditure as a percentage of the overall learning resources budget. Past, present and future developments for providing access to expanding e-resources collections are discussed. The paper further discusses the implications for managing e-resources
Application of DCMI In Open Source Software with SpecialReference to GSDL: A Critical Studys
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Das, Subarna Kumar; Das, Biswajit; Das, Rajesh; Kar, Subhendu
This paper is discussed about how to incorporate 15 Dublin Core Meta data element set in Greenstone digital library software (open source) for more robust flexible search in an Institutional Repository. Here, we have created a framework for integration GSDL Meta data with Dublin Core meta data using a Meta data creator tool software named DC-dot. This tool helps to convert Dublin Core Metadata to Greenstone XML documents and built into a collection.
Application of Infoarmation Technology In Special Libraries of Manipur: A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Devi, Arambam Hileima; Devi, Th. Purnima
The paper highlights the problem of IT (Information Technology) in six (6) selected special libraries in Manipur. The main problems of application of IT in these special libraries were the lack of fund. The state Government is not in a position to provide adequate funds for automating these special libraries. The authors also discusses about the requisite of IT to improve the condition of the special libraries of Manipur state. It also mentioned the problems of IT application and also suggested some solutions to overcome the problems.
Building A Digital Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Seshaiah, O.
The idea of converting library materials into digital format for creating digital collections has advanced rapidly in the last few years, thus leading to the concept of a digital library. A digital library is a library that contains materials in digitized form or access to internal or external digital resources. Digital information resources include not only rapidly growing collection of electronic full text resources, but also images, video, sound, and even objects of virtual reality. The most important component of a digital library is digital collection it holds or has access to. A digital library can have a wide range of resources. A digital library is not a single entity although it may have digital contents created in-hourse or acquired in digital formats stored locally on servers. A digital library may also act a portal site providing access to digital collections held elsewhere. The digital imaging technology offers a number of choices that can be adopted to translate from print to digital. Digital conversion process includes Document, Data Capture, Data Processing, Storage, Indexing and retrieval. Dublin Core standard is adopted internationally to create Meta data of digital resources. The advent of the Internet acted as catalyst for Digital Library initiatives. Digital library environment is the context of rapidly charging computer and communication technology. This paper explains digitization methods, process of digitization and tools required for digitization.
Building an Image Repository for Indian Cultural Heritage Materials – A Digital Library Approach
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Lalitha, P; Murthy, T A V; Khan, M T M; K, Manoj Kumar
Digitization has immense potential to store, preserve, disseminate and redistribute cultural materials, if the materials are captured in a bit stream format so as to enable to access through network for learning and understanding the history and culture of a civic society. Generally these materials are stored in museums or in libraries, but they can be spread over the globe and with the spread of the Internet, such contents can be made available to any corner of the world. Universal access implicitly assumes a largely unidirectional flow of information from the developed world to the developing world but the latter is often richer in traditional wisdom, crafts, and cultural artifacts: digital technologies have the potential to preserve that heritage and make it accessible. For developing an Image Repository for photographs of Ancient cultural material by using the advanced digital technology is a challenge, which include description of the photographs of Indian cultural Heritage Materials, Creating Metadata from the sample, Mapping the created metadata with Dublin Core, Developing an Image Repository System using Digital Library open source software etc. This paper is the result of the case study of such an attempt by the authors on exploring Open Source Digital Library Software, DSpace, for preserving the cultural heritage materials.
Challenges of Digital Preservation In Digital Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) V, Satish M; M., Umesh
Today Digital Technology (computers and communication technology) is enabling information to be created, manipulated, disseminated, located and stored with increasing ease over the traditional one. On the other side Technological Obsolescence is the result of evolution of technology: as newer technology appears, older ones ceased to be used. Consequently, information, which relies on obsolete technology, becomes inaccessible. And preserving access to this (digital) information poses a significant challenge to the Library and Information Community. The present study highlights the digital preservation techniques and issues involved with it.
Collection Development and Content Management of Electronic Resources in Knowledge Exchange & Information Center (KEIC) at MICA
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Yagnik, Shailesh R.; Raval, C. N.
Digital resource has emerged as complementary and substitute to printresource. But electronic has become vital source of information. MICA KEIChas experience in handling various electronic resources; it requiresinitiatives and interest to know new things. Subscription management requires continuous tracking to know that along with print subscription library will get free access to electronic journals, with little premium or to pay full subscription. This helps for retrospective searches. Association membership gives the benefits of free subscription and access to electronic resources. Commercial database has got high subscription cost but access to resources from retrospective dates. Electronic resources are cheaper because of aggregator but challenges lies with the librarian for an optimum use of resources subscribed by library. The use study, users study, actual demand and potential demand will help the librarian to take the right decision.
Collection Development in the Electronic Environment: Challenges before Library Professionals
(2005-11-10) Kumbar, B D; Hadagali, Gururaj S
Economic forces and technological advances have combined together to create a new environment, which is popularly known as ‘Electronic’ environment. Where access to collective scholarly resources that no library could ever afford, supersedes the historic quest for the great comprehensive collection. This article describes briefly the impact of Electronic publishing on collection development in libraries. Discusses about the selection criteria, pricing issues and models for different electronic formats and enlist the challenges before library professionals in the changed context.
Consortium of Plantation Crops Research Libraries For Resource Sharing – A Proposal Issues and Facts
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Joshi, Govind
nformation explosion resulted from the rapid advances in all scientific fields has made it vital for all scientists to have rapid, easy access to scientific information. However, scientists in developing countries are hampered by the high cost of subscriptions to various journals. Since air-mail delivery is prohibitively expensive, the journals that are received come six to eight months after the publication date, hampering the work of scientists even further. Fortunately, the Internet has come to the rescue. Online journals are available immediately after publication anywhere in the world, with a few clicks of a mouse. Electronic subscriptions are normally cheaper than print subscriptions. Nevertheless, the costs to institutions are still extremely high, particularly in view of the fact that any institution has to subscribe to many journals to meet the varied needs of its scientists. In view of this urgent need, it is proposed that all institutions dedicated to research on plantation crops come together to form a consortium to subscribe to a core group of international journals, available online, that would benefit all members. This would follow the pattern of other consortia such as INDEST, INFONET and INFLIBNET. Experience gained in an initial experiment are focused.
Consortium based Library Subscription : Some Issues
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
The academic environment is becoming more and more competitive in its dealings and functions and the academic culture is fast transforming as enterprising in nature. The library as the centre for scholarly communication faces many challenges in meeting needs of its users. Among the solutions used in libraries in providing information, an access strategy through web is very much requested by modern users. As such, now-a-days, the consortiumbased library purchasing is getting favour. This paper discusses some of the problematic issues in consortium – based library subscription
Designing A Digital Library with Bengali Language Support Using Unicode
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Das, Rajesh; Das, Biswaji; Kar, Subhendu; Chatterjee, Swarnali
Unicode is a 32-bit code for character representation in a computer. It is described that how to use Unicode in digital library to build a Institutional Repository. Unicode Consortium develops Unicode. It is very helpful that creation of multilingual language database.
Development of Consortial Approach and Resource Sharing in Higher Education Lirbaries With Special Reference to India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Singh, Yogendra
This paper mainly traces the historical development of consortia based library services. States that the consortial approach in the form of cooperation was initiated by Melvil Dewey in 1880s. Main factors behind such cooperation are outlined. States that like any other form of library services consortia were also first came into existence in the United States where by the year 1970 more then 125 academic library consortia were functional. Finds that now the trend has changed and consortia are coming up in developing countries also mainly for the acquisition of electronic resources. Briefly touches the history of consortial development in India where it had not been very successful mainly due to human reasons. Describes in details the two recently formed consortia in India i.e. INDEST and E-journal Consortium of UGC Infonet. Describes the pros and cons of the present model of subscription to full set of journals of publishers in the form of so called “Big Deals” and advises that these big deals may not be really big in many cases. Outlines some of the guidelines for the librarians in these conditions. Concludes that the consortia in the country should work in close cooperation and not in competition to each other.
Digital Collections in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Swamy, H M Chidananda
The success and survival of academic libraries in future will depends on their role to satisfy the ever-increasing information needs of users. The resources of information available in the form of digital format becomes a dynamic resource for global sharing more easily than the knowledge in any form and lends scope for automated delivery mechanism. This paper focuses the need for the practice of digitalization and digitized information resources and services at academic libraries to create digital library service environment. Discusses the objectives and services of digital library. It concludes that in view of the effectiveness of digitized information resources and services, urges that the academic libraries should go in for digitized information resources and services for their survival in future.
Digital Information Management :Preservation Issues and Strategies
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Vinitha, K; Kanthimathi, S.; Devi, K Tharani
Transition form print format to electronic format has given rise to various issues in preserving the digital form. The problem of preservation is further complicated by the rapid obsolescence of the hardware and software required to interpret and present digital documents. The paper highlights on necessity in preserving the digital form, strategies related to preservation, technologies and guidelines for digital preservations. Rapid technological obsolescence combined with relatively short-lived media means that collection and preservation is a must in a digital era.
Digital Libraries: Contents & Services
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Nazim, Mohd.; Saraf, Sanjib
This paper explains what a digital library is and how it is designed to support access to digital contents and services. In a broad sense a digital library is simply an on-line system providing access to a wide variety of contents and services. Contents include virtually any kind of electronic material such as various kinds of electronic media (text, images, video, etc.), licensed databases of journals, articles and abstracts and description of physical collections. Digital Libraries offer different types of reference and referral services, instructional services, added value services and promotional services. The procedure of these services is varied but typically serves the same purpose as traditional library services.
The Digital Technology : Yet to Take Off
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Jolly, Surabhi
The changing world of librarianship has paved to information highway from the traditionally embarked concept of private world. The adaptation of Information Technology (IT) for data readiness, accessibility and decision support excellence has got into the virtual environment of electronic devices in many libraries. The convergence of computer and communication technologies has linked the human minds worldwide and is trying to cut across the physical barriers. This paper points out the gradual shift-over towards digital info high-tech from traditional rudimentary adherence thus giving rise to fears into the librarians to greater extent. The fears are like phobia to computer exposures, stationary skills, regressive attitude, cognitive factors etc. These are the pressing challenges before the professionals of coming generation to enthuse with information highway. The paper also gives suggestions as to how to overcome the fear and develop knowledge based confidence for high tech absorption of Digitization breaking the barriers of distance.
E-Journal Management in Academic Libraries with Special Reference to INDEST Consortia in India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Thamaraiselvi, G; Kaliammal, A.
In the Academic and research libraries, the long-term preservation and management of digital collections is the most important issue. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change. Keeping and managing the e-journal resources accessible for use by future generations will require conscious effort and continual investment. No library is self sufficient to purchase all the books, Journals and other library documents with in their library budget. So customers belonging to different academic institutions or university may purchase e-journals and sharing its cost through consortia. This paper explains the terms and definitions of Electronic Journals (e-journals), followed by the aims and objectives of the e-journal purchase and management. Also the issues in archiving and preserving the back issues of the e-journals, the initiatives taken in archiving them and the role of e-journal agents in purchasing and managing them are discussed. The purchase and management of e-journals through Consortia and the various consortium efforts taken in India with special reference to INDEST consortia also have been explained in this paper.
E-Journal Management: The Role of Training in the Effective Use of Electronic Journals
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) K., Vishala B.; Bhandi, M. K.
Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information” – American Literacy Association, Presidential committee on information Literacy final Report 1989. Online access to scholarly scientific content is growing, Electronic journals (e-journals), in particular is an increasing important resource for research and academic community and plays a significant role in scholarly communication. Library and information professionals and end-users will have to develop learning attitude and network related competencies to reap the benefits being made available to us by the information and communication technologies. The paper emphasizes the role of training and awareness programme, both for staff and users of the library for ensuring effective use of electronic journals.
E-Journals for Academic Community in Indian Scenario
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Sridevi, J.; Satyanarayana, N. R.; Murthy, T. A. V.
In the present digital era, dissemination of e- information, e- resources to the scholastic society and community has become an important task though information is transmitted through various media such as periodicals, serials, journals, databases, etc. In this article we come across the importance of dissemination of information through e- resources to the academic community and the steps taken for the promotion of e- journals and e- resources in India by the reputed organizations like UGC, INFLIBNET, CSIR, HELINET, FORSA, IGCAR, JCCC & VIC, INDEST, SONET, OUHYD Math Consortium etc. Reflecting upon the fast development of electronic journals, there is no doubt that electronic journals open up many exciting service opportunities for academic libraries though this technology possesses both advantages and disadvantages.
Essence of Knowledge Management in Kibraries in Modern Era
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Singha, Krishnamati; Shrivastava, V D; Singha, Gouri
Knowledge management is the powerful tool for any organizational competitiveness. Knowledge is the heart of the organization. KM enhances productivity, effectiveness and efficiency in the aspect of operations and services. Knowledge is explicit and implicit in nature. This paper deals with knowledge explosion or generation, process and management for effective use of knowledge to end –users. With the introduction of ICT, knowledge has become more dynamic which instantly changes its direction and dimensions. As Library is the heart of any organization, with the introduction of ICT and Digital library concepts, libraries have moved from depository or warehouse to Knowledge centers, which preserve, classify and disseminate knowledge from creator to knowledge seeking community irrespective of location and distance.

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