PLANNER 2007

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Knowledge Organization in Digital Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Letha, M M
In a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive world of today, Knowledge may be Organisation’s greatest competitive advantage. Knowledge should flow freely in the organisation and a knowledge portal is essential in any organization from where users get knowledge they need to do their work at their finger tips and should get appropriate reputation for the knowledge they share. The paper briefs Knowledge Management (KM) and highlights the salient features of a knowledge portal. The paper stresses the importance of a knowledge portal in any organization.
Open Source Software and Building Digital Library Using Gsdl Software
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Das, Nabajyoti
The paper presents and analyses the development of open source software and the building of digital library with reference to the GSDL software. It describes digital library and its importance in details. It also discusses with illustrations how to build a digital library by using the open source software i.e. ‘Greenstone Digital Library’. Searching and browsing full text information is also described taking example from New Zealand Digital Library. It identifies the strength and limitation of GSDL. It is predicted that GSDL is becoming popular digital library software because of its flexibility and low cost/no cost of ownership. The author conclude that because of its cost effectiveness and flexibility GSDL can be a powerful tool in bridging the gap of digital divide in India.
Skills for Library and Information Professionals Working in Borderless library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Mazumdar, Nirmal Ranjan
Borderless library is a technologically empowered web-based library, which provides services to its user throughout computer networks. As the changes occurred in library environment, the library and information science professionals should be acquaintance with different skills. This paper tries to reflect some skills required for the library and information professionals working at IT environment and highlights on different programmes to enhance these skills among the professionals.
Concept of Quality in Library Services: An Overview
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Thakuria, Pranjit Kumar
The library services have changed very fast in the last twenty years. Nowadays, electronic resources, networks and the World Wide Web represent a large portion of the library services. The librarians must manage staff, information in several supports, and technical activities to produce quality services. Quality services means resources and services, which satisfy users’ expectations and perceptions. It is very clear that librarians must use management tools to run the library services. These tools such as TQM, SERVQUAL, LibQUAL help them to assess services, to make decisions, to improve services and to achieve a better quality. The networked environment offers libraries’ challenges and opportunities in a number of areas including management, services, and collection development. The main objective of this paper is to describe and identify the issues meriting attention by the library professionals to gear up the library product and services so that user communities get satisfied coming to library.
Digital Library Architecture: A case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Bhuyan, Sewali
The time for comparisons and conflicts between print media and electronic media appear to be over as the world prepare itself for the next era in the digital society. The need of modern information society has changed the library from traditional type to digital one. This paper discusses problems challenged and issues involved in design and development of worlds standard digital library focused on India Context. The paper explains the concept and architecture of a digital library. Digital libraries can immediately adopt innovations in technology providing users with improvements in electronic and audio book technology as well as presenting new form of communication. This Paper also discusses the Metadata concept as it is developed in the field of library and information science. If is an effective way of information management. It briefly touches upon concept of Metadata repository. It also discusses how Indian University Libraries can develop a digital library for electronic theses and Dissertation (ETD). Finally, it highlights the initiative taken by various Indian Organization towards the development of Digital Libray.
Internet Training for Academic Library Staff Within Greater Guwahati
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Barua, Niraj
Analyses the Internet training for the academic library staff. The study is based on a sample of 6 academic libraries within Guwahati. The study throws light on the importance of Internet in today’s academic environment and the importance of Internet training. The study goes into depth to investigate the training methods used, contents of the training and other aspects that are most important before the management to organize Internet training for the academic library staff.
Role of Open Access, Open Standards and Open Sources in Libraries : A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Baruah, Bobby Goswami
The key concepts open access, open source and open standards are playing a great role today when we talk about borderless libraries. Immense benefits and importance to libraries are being examined. Greater benefits include lowering of cost, greater accessibility and better prospects especially for long term preservation of scholarly works. The paper mainly discuses on the importance and utility of the three concepts i.e. open access, open source and open standards in libraries emerging, which has helped to widened the gap in resource sharing, making it accessible in a far better way, limiting the expenses and above all standardizing which helps different systems to share their resources.
Digital Information Management and Retrieval System
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Sharma, J C
Digital forms of Libraries are being faced with new challenges with new development in Information Technology and the widespread availability of information. These challenges include the collection development, processing and dissemination of information in Digital Information resources. It is an Information Resource, which contains information in the form of binary digits, and, therefore, a digital resource can be created at the hard disk of a computer or can be stored on a CD or remote computer, which can be accessed on the internet easily.
E-learning in the Context of Open and Distance Learning through the Borderless Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Duarah, Kakoli
The application of ICT in the libraries and education has brought a paradigm shift in the structure of the library and education system today. The traditional library has now changed to the automated, digital, electronic, hybrid and at present to the borderless library and the conventional education too is been replaced by e-learning. The borderless library has a huge collection of information resources in electronic form which are accessible through the Internet, intranet and extranet. It reduces the geographical restrictions and makes the process of obtaining education and training easy at a reduced cost and time enabling a vibrant user even from a remote area to obtain education and training in his field of specialization or as to the requirement of his profession from the online institutions and universities available in his own country or outside thus paving a significant way towards the global information network.
OAI-PMH: A Tool for Metadata Harvesting and Federated Search
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Deka, Dipen
This paper focuses on the importance of OAI-PMH in the aspect of accessibility to the digital repositories. The basic structure of OAI-PMH and its functional elements are given along with some existing metadata harvester services of India. The paper discusses about the PKP Harvester software and its users. Concludes that OAI-PMH is an effective solution of the problem of lack of interoperability.
Digital Information Resources and Digital Information Literacy: A Symbiotic Approach
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2007-12-07) Bhattacharya, Udayan
Paper deals with two most recent topics Digital Information Resources and Digital Information Literacy. After defining the terms if discusses their various features and shows a symbiotic relation between the terms. Finally it explains how library can play a pivotal role in minimizing digital divide.
ICT and Electronic Library: Management and Delivery Within The Traditional Library
(INFLIBNET Center, 2007-12-07) Devchoudhary, G B
ICT plays a crucial role in today’s increasingly globalized world. Libraries are in a process of fundamental change brought about by radical changes in technology. In this state of transition to introduce electronic library services, traditional libraries offer support in the way of personnel, funding, information delivery and management for these electronic libraries. The electronic library is growing fast in parallel to the traditional library. The high rate of growth is dictated by factors outside the library. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to achieve their noble goals much faster than planned, to adopt new technologies, to compete with others in managing the tremendous growth of information and to be able to lead in the area. The management and delivery of information in an electronic library differs from traditional library in many ways. The purpose of this paper is to collect the management and delivery problems arisen out of adoption of the electronic library and to present possible solutions in the areas of five basic parts of scientific management – planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling.
Expert Staff for Digital Resource Management : An Analytical View
(INFLIBNET Center, 2007-12-07) Sur, Subrata; Mukherjee, Arup; Sur, Sujata; Dutta, Bratati; Shome, Soumita
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are undergoing rapid changes. Librarian needs to redesign the structure of their library to meet the changing needs by learning and implementing new practices and technologies. How does one provide excellent library service through digital technologies? What are the expectations of digital library patrons? How do we make library patrons satisfied in this digital era? What are the skills librarians need to possess? These questions are addressed in this articles. The digital librarian acts as guardian of the information superhighway and acts as a symbiotic human-machine guru. Article also highlights the roles and functions of a digital library information retrieval, navigation and browsing. This paper outlines professional skills and technological competencies for the development of library professional staff in order to meet the current and future need of users as well as to survive in a rapidly changing technological environment.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Tea Science and Technology – Proposal for a Networked Repository of Tea ETDs
(INFLIBNET Center, 2007-12-07) Joshi, Govind
Theses and dissertations are important knowledge resource created by graduate students in universities or institutes of higher learning. Due to lack of bibliographic control, and restricted access, these grey literature collect dust on shelves of libraries. Hence these are lost to prospective researchers and students to further their studies etc. Although many national and international efforts are being made to collect, collate and distribute theses and dissertations in many forms, none is comprehensive. The present trend is to prepare the theses in electronic form to facilitate easy online access to metadata, abstract and table of content or full text , the theses become OAIPMH compliant and can be searched on internet from anywhere. Depending upon access restrictions the theses can be harvested and stored in any institutional repositories. Indian scenario of theses and dissertations as knowledge resources, and maiden efforts by Tocklai Library in creation of Institutional Repository [IR] of all theses and dissertations in tea science and technology including other aspects are discussed. Proposes for a networked repository of TeaETDs among possible stakeholders in the plan.
Developing Informational Professionals in the Age of Information Technology: A Study
(INFLIBNET Center, 2007-12-07) Sagolsem, Memori; Vikas; Bobby
An attempt has been made to study the IT awareness among the informational professionals and also highlights the obstacles faced by the libraries in the application of IT in the public libraries of Manipur. For this, a questionnaire and personal interview method was used to collect the adequate data. The study reveals that majority of the professionals were not aware of IT and thereby suggesting the need for a training programme for the in-service information professionals to help them keep abreast of the latest IT in order to face the new challenges in the field of information science.
Skill Enhancement: A Necessity
(INFLIBNET Center., 2007-12-07) Devi, Birana; Singh, Radheshyam
In recent years, technological advancement has made a drastic change in all the professions including Librarianship. Unless the library professionals enhance their skills and update themselves, they will not be able to meet the demands of the users. The required skills and knowledge will have to be acquired by the professionals and at the same time the users of different levels and of different backgrounds are to be trained by the professionals. The paper emphasizes how the professionals will acquire the skill and train the users particularly in the academic libraries.
Federated Searching: A Myth or a Reality in Web-based System
(INFLIBNET Center., 2007-12-07) Verma, Shilpi; Mahawar, K L; Verma, Rekha
In today’s information explosion age the needs of users’ becoming complex day by day. The task of information professionals is also very complicated and difficult to meet out the needs of the different users. This paper deals with concept of Federated searching that provide facility to search over different databases in one interface. The challenges of today’s searching and need of federated searching is also dealt. The paper also describes the process and hub as well as local database relationship along with point to point model and broker model architecture. The factors affecting the federated searching are also covered. The myths of the federated searching are also dealt in this paper in detail.
Federated Searching : A Myth or A Reality in Web-Based System
(INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Verma, Shilpi; Mahawar, K L; Verma, Rekha
In today’s information explosion age the needs of users’ becoming complex day by day. The task of information professionals is also very complicated and difficult to meet out the needs of the different users. This paper deals with concept of Federated searching that provide facility to search over different databases in one interface. The challenges of today’s searching and need of federated searching is also dealt. The paper also describes the process and hub as well as local database relationship along with point to point model and broker model architecture. The factors affecting the federated searching are also covered. The myths of the federated searching are also dealt in this paper in detail.
Training & Development of Library Professionals for It Application in University Libraries: An Overview
(INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Saha, Nimai Chand; Ghosh, Koushik; Mondal, Tapas
University is the apex institution of higher education. Again, development of any society / nation has largely depends upon its quality of education and Research & Developmental activities. Due to the rapid growth rate and ever-growing demand of information application of IT is indispensable to ensure the accessibility of information. The supply of right information to the right user at the right time is possible when right human resource employed and developed on continuous basis at par with on going changes. In this direction, this paper made an attempt to accentuate human resource development for information technology application in libraries from the training and development point of view. The paper covers the various aspects of HRD in Library services and its role in the present information society.
Total Quality and World Class Service System in University Libraries: Some Suggestive Factors
(2007-12-07) Mahawar, K L; Verma, Shilpi
The paper describes the concept of the Total Quality Management in brief. The essential elements of TQM are also listed in the paper. The ‘servicing sector systems’ are discussed in general. The relationship between ‘servicing sector’ and libraries is highlighted. The world class service system is also outlined. The paper discusses about some essential characteristics for world class service system and their applications in the university libraries.

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