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Digital resource building , Intranet online services and Internet browsing
are gaining momentum in technical library services during last few years
in order to supplement the modern library services, specifically in the area
of research and development activities in different parts of our country,
and so is the case with Central Library of Indian Institute Of Technology
(I.I.T) at Kharagpur. I.I.T. Kharagpur, being a premier, large and
diversified technical institute in the field of science and technology, is
always at the fore front of adopting modern practices for providing new
kind of services to its community. Annexing Electronic Library (EL) in
the year 1995, Central Library , I.I.T. Kharagpur , since then in a
continuous process, started acquiring various digitized commercial
databases and also applied all other possible means to build up its digitized
document collection and services thereof. This paper presents an image of
experiences gathered by the ‘Author’ in augmenting digitized resources
and making newer services available thereof to meet the changing needs
of the users, focusing on computer based literature search services,
electronic SDI, and the like. Author, being an experienced library
professional, starts this paper with an introduction to a panoramic view of
to-day’s library system. He, proceeds further to give a brief account of
traditional library services, followed by ,the salient features of the
Electronic Library at I.I.T. Kharagpur including collection of digital
resources in their stock, unfolding the scope and coverage in each case,
such as source of origin, the search and retrieval software, the vendor
details, cost of the database and the computer platform used . Further to
this ‘Author’ tries to give reference to the in-house digitized information
creation by way of Homepage development and its world wide
accessibility through Internet ; creation of web documents through
MHRD(Ministry of Human Resource Development) project grant (i.e
Archives on Technical Education) . Finally ‘Author’ concludes this paper
with his optimistic idea of emergence of hybrid library system in coming
days to maintain parallel collection of documents both in print media as
well as in digitized format to supplement and complement the gap in
formation need of the users at large. |
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