H, Jayaprakash; Bachalapur, M M(INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)
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Due to increase in the cost of journals, dwindling library budgets and proliferation of electronic
information resources, libraries have been involved in cooperation, coordination and
collaboration in resource sharing. The emergence of information technology made library
professionals to change their role as navigator of information and come closer willingly to
share available information with other libraries. Libraries and Information Services (LIS)
are being transformed by technology; consequently, LIS have to adopt to meet their user’s
changing needs and growing expectations. Included among the resource sharing initiatives
conceived by libraries in India is the creation of a computerized network or consortium of
all LIS to achieve optimum use. This paper presents the consortia developments in the
library and information centers in India.
Unknown author(INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)
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An attempt has been made to determine the present status of familiarity and use of Digital
resources. It was felt that use of digital resources is still poor among the medical students
of the Universities in the developing countries. This paper presents survey to investigate
the familiarity and use of Digital resources by students through online and offline Information
Databases of the Central Library, “Central Library Books & Journals Database (CLBJD),
and the CD-ROMs databases available in the academic libraries (MUI). The subjects of
this study were the students of the Isfahan Medical University. For evaluating study questions
and data collection, the questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 250 students.
The result of this survey are presented and discussed in the paper.
Krishnamurthy, M(INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)
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The explosion of information on the Internet and information technology in general has
created challenges for libraries to focus on developing more effective ways to meet the
information needs of users. One practical approach is through customized portals performing
simultaneous database searching. This paper presents a new library portal service used at
the Indian Statistical Institute Library at Bangalore (ISIB). The key feature of a library portal
is to allow searching across multiple databases without having repeat search. This feature
is generally referred to as meta-search, parallel search, broadcast search or federated
search. Discussion also includes strategies of local customization and the impact on library
management in an electronic environment.