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Kumar, H Anil (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The paper looks at the concept of ROI (Return On Investment) in the context of libraries. In light of the dynamic environment, challenging financial pressures and increasing need for accountability have in all forced libraries to prove their worth in terms of outcomes, impact and returns. The paper draws upon various studies and approaches in dealing with this relevant and important topical theme. The paper focuses on academic libraries and concludes that ROI of each library will be different depending on the settings in which it exists. It is important to study the settings and then clearly envisage the measures of returnes of each library. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1641 Files in this item: 1
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Jayalakshmi, M; Jyothi, B (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: Wikipedia says information literacy is “A set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and actively in that society”. This definition is apt for the Information Technology industry, where all employees are informed citizens of an information society. Assessing their information literacy is imperative in the knowledge environment. It aids them to realize their potential and promote their sustainable development in their organization. This paper explores how a corporate library is assisting the employees of the organization in enhancing their information literacy through its customized products and services. To understand the library’s reach among the employees at various roles in the organization, a survey covering 111 employees of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai was conducted and the outcome of the survey is discussed URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1631 Files in this item: 1
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Sonwane, Shashank; Adhe, Govind; Vaishnav, A A (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: A strong and broad-based university research sector is one of the main pillars in an effective domestic R&D system. Not only in terms of leading-edge research and new knowledge relevant to the scientific community and society at large, but also as a source of high-quality human resources that, are well-educated and trained. A pool of talent in science and technology, a sophisticated workforce and effective transfer of knowledge are seen as keys to sustainable successful and competitive innovation culture. The Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwad University sector is the supplier of new knowledge in terms of scientific publications. The paper attempts to find out the science indicators of the scientists in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar MarathwadaUniversity, Aurangabd URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1651 Files in this item: 1
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Pradhan, Dinesh R; Trivedi, Kruti; Arora, Jagdish (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The universe of libraries has evolved and expanded from repository of books, journals and other non-print materials in physical format to knowledge repositories that contain collections in physical as well as electronic and multimedia format. With this changing environment of collection of library resources, the greatest challenge in front of libraries is to find out the best way to present, promote and make accessible the growing collections of heterogeneous resources. Libraries are required to look for search and discovering tools to provide seamless access to their resources. This article introduces basic philosophy of federated search and discovery tools. It elaborates on technological tools, techniques and protocols that are used for developing federated search and discovery tools. The article narrates disadvantages of federated search solutions and discovery tools as compared to conducting a search directly on the interface of primary database. The Concept of open URL as a technology used for link-resolving and finding “appropriate copy” is discussed briefly. Lastly, the article describes contemporary federated search solutions and discovery tools that are available commercially or as open source solution with their merits, demerits and comparative performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1623 Files in this item: 1
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Shivalingaiah, D; Naik, Umesha (Inflibnet Center, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: Online communities of practice may use a specific tag on social bookmarking sites that enable resources to be “advertised” within that community. Considered a better alternative to submitting a website on blogs, manual social bookmarking is a simple, convenient and hassle free way of making sure that our site is noticed and marketed in the right circle. Web 2.0 technologies will promote and enable fundamental changes on intranets. Social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging systems and collaborative filters, treats the group as a first class object within the system. The paper focus on to explore some of the important social tagging, social bookmarks, and social network related tools and services. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1600 Files in this item: 1
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Kumar, Shailendra; Singh, Manisha (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The article explains the concept of citation, citation index and the process of citation indexing in the present environment. Various components of the citation index such as citation index and its subparts (anonymous and patent cited index), source index, permuterm subject index, corporate index along with its sub-parts (geographic and organization index) and journal citation report are explained in brief. Further the structure, working, arrangement of these components of citation index are explained in detail with necessary and self explanatory sample entries which gives a clear idea about all these aspects. Citing and cited half-life are calculated and derived for a journal to understand the functioning and value of half-life of a journal. Functions of citation index are discussed to understand the various applications of research indicators and research trends in the subjects URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1653 Files in this item: 1
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Singh, Iqbal (Inflibnet Center, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The study provides an idea about the availability of library resources, facilities and services of North Indian university libraries. By studying the 12 central university libraries in northern region of India and thereby to develop those libraries, the study has proposed a model/plan named as NIULNET (North Indian University Libraries Network). The main function of NIULNET is to improve the services of libraries of northern region by the way of resource sharing and networking. Again, the study puts some light on the organizational structures and work process of NIULNET. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1598 Files in this item: 1
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Patel, Yatrik; Patel, Swapnil (Inflibnet Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: Internet is one of the valuable and probably most used information resources in the libraries present days. Information Technology have made data retrieval easier and faster, giving rise to a substantial industry providing access to professional, business and scientific information. In Indian context a little progress has been made towards increasing the relevancy of the data with the initiation of various search engines and subject directories. In absence of these activities, information sources remain unreachable, unsearchable, hard to find and difficult to access. INFLIBNET Centre’s” Subject Gateway” is an attempt to make the things somewhat simple. “Subject Gateway” allows user to browse subject lists of good quality and evaluated subject resources. A subject gateway allows libraries and related organizations to explore the usefulness of their subject expertise in the organisation of knowledge in the word of network -based, digital information. In this paper we have discussed development and implementation of “Subject Gateway” at INFLIBNET Centre URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1622 Files in this item: 1
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Shelar, Vandana R (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: This paper is to describe essentiality of Information Literacy skills that makes individuals competent life long learner. IL teach individual to find, evaluate, sought, filter and use information effectively. This enhances students perception and they can enjoy learning .How do faculties make use of ICT in teaching? Which are the Pedagogies they use to teach their students? What do the teacher think about the role played by Librarian in the development of IL skills amongst the students ? A survey was conducted for taking views form faculty on information literacy. Pedagogical practices followed by them were asked. This paper is a result of the findings of the survey. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1635 Files in this item: 1
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Sinha, Manoj Kumar; Singha, Gauri; Sinha, Bimal (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The traditional functions of libraries had undergone various changes in present century and E-Resources have great importance in libraries and amongst the library users. The present study has been undertaken with an attempt to evaluate the usage pattern of electronic resources made available in the Assam University Library under the UGC- INFONET E-Journals/ Digital Library Consortium of UGC/INFLIBNET amongst the research scholars and teachers of Northeastern Region of India with special reference to Assam University, Silchar. The faculty, research scholars and students are mainly drawn from different parts of North Eastern States and few from other parts of the country which represent truly cosmopolitan population. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted by the investigators, which comprises of administration of questionnaire, Observation of the participants, and interview of some of the participants for knowing the opinion of the respondents in respect of usage of electronic resources (e-journals/e-books/databases) for their academic and research activities. The self designed questionnaire comprising of 15 questions has been distributed amongst the randomly selected samples .The samples comprises of faculty members, research scholars,UG/PG Students and officers / staff. The filled up questionnaires have been collected from the respondents for the data analysis and interpretations. On the basis of filled up questionnaire the data has been analysed and tabulated using SPSS Software. For data analysis percentage technique, has been adopted. Due to paucity of space important results findings have been enumerated in brief. The present work was carried out during July- December 2009. Therefore the present investigation is delimited to the randomly selected population of Assam University Library Users who are regularly visiting Assam University Library and using the Internet for accessing to the e-resources available under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortia of INFLIBNET/ UGC. The questionnaire was distributed to 350 samples, out of which 319 respondents have responded. The same study may be carried out on the larger section of population covering other universities of North Eastern Region of India to get more generalized and authentic findings. The findings of the present study may be taken as the preliminary findings from a pilot study. The paper highlights the important survey findings in respect of Internet Awareness, Internet Use Pattern and attitude of library users towards the electronic resources, which have been made available to them under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Besides this, some faced by the respondents have also been discussed and few suggestions and recommendations have also been enumerated in brief.. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1642 Files in this item: 1
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G, Maruthi; R, Rajashekara G; M, Nagaraja Shastry G (Inflibnet Center, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made a tremendousimprovement and change almost in all walks of life. Especially the magnetic word information technology has been changed in all corners of the global areas. Present paper presents the results of a research study conducted to survey the use of ICT in R & D libraries. It describes about library staff, classification & cataloguing method followed status of digital library,infrastructural facilities and barriers in use of ICT in R & D libraries. From this study it confirms that most of the research and development libraries are automated and most of the libraries having good infrastructure with regards to ICT tools. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1603 Files in this item: 1
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Raman, Sarala; Varghese, M (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram, one of the constituent colleges of the Kerala Agricultural University, has been offering M Sc Degree in Soil Science since 1963. As part of the programme the students have to carry out research on an approved topic and submit the thesis. During the period of 1963 to 2010, 129 theses have been submitted in soil science. A study of the citations in a sample of 18 theses, selected at 10 year intervals is carried out with a view to ascertaining the characteristics of the information sources used by the scholars. The 18 theses selected as sample, altogether carries 1794 references distributed among different categories such as monographs and reference books (8.58%), papers in learned journals (68.84%), conference papers/ proceedings (4.12%), government publications (4.35%), theses (6.4%) and other (7.69%) which include technical reports, statistical bulletins and research reports. Analysing the age of cited items, the obsolescence rate of literature in soil science was calculated. Median citation age is found to be 11.13 years. Chronological variation in the various characteristics of the cited literature was also examined. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1649 Files in this item: 1
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Hussain, Akhtar; Khan, Mohd Asif; Fatima, Nishat (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: This study examines the use of online resources by the students of Indus Business Academy, Bangalore and Greater NOIDA, India. A well-structured 95 questionnaires were distributed among the 167 PGDM students of management to find out the use of online resources of the information centers. The present study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of uses of online resources and services provided by the institute library, user’s awareness about ICT/Digital Information, frequency and purposes of visit, Linking patterns, type of e-information, uses of search engine, problems , user satisfaction within information services, and utility of online resources. Findings and suggestions of the survey are given at the end of the articles. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1650 Files in this item: 1
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S, Suguna L; Gopikuttan, A (Inflibnet Center, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: There are number of web sites available in the World Wide Web. They are aimed at sharing information and services to their users. In order to better serve their needs one has to know the visitors’ needs and the site’s traffic. This is possible using Web Analytical Tools. They are softwarewhich helps to know how often visitors come to the site, tracks visitor conversion across a seriesof pages, compares the behaviour of different types of visitors, and much more. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1602 Files in this item: 1
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K, Mohamed Haneefa; M, Jina E (Inflibnet Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the web-based information retrieval pattern of the students of Calicut Medical College, Kerala. Structured questionnaires were employed to collect data from a representative sample of 100 MBBS students. The study found that a majority of the students often use the web for communication and to get general information and recent advances in Medicine. A good number of the students use web-mail and social networking sites very frequently. All the students use simple search methods for accessing the web. Google is the most preferred search engine followed by Yahoo. Only a very few of the students use e-journals and databases. Lack of training/orientation, lack of computer infrastructure, lack of fulltext e-journals and low Internet backbone speed are the major reasons of underutilization of web-based information resources. The findings of this study would assist medical institutions in India to develop strategies and policies that could make better use of web-based information resources for medical education and research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1608 Files in this item: 1
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Dunsire, Gordon (Inflibnet Center, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: The paper discusses the role of libraries in the Semantic Web. It provides a brief introduction to the Semantic Web and its technologies, including Resource Description Framework, and their relevance to library metadata. It describes the evolution of library expertise in developing metadata schemas and creating structured metadata, and the resulting quantities of rich, high-quality metadata records that might provide critical mass to the development and utility of the Semantic Web. The paper outlines modern analyses of user tasks and requirements for knowledge discovery, including International Standard Bibliographic Description, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and RDA: resource description and access, and how the associated models and rules are being made available to the Semantic Web. Examples of current initiatives to make legacy metadata available are given, and the work of the W3 Library Linked Data Incubator group described. The paper then discusses the potential impact of the Semantic Web on library metadata management, as the focus changes from record to individual statement, and the beneficial impact on users of Web and library service. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1605 Files in this item: 1
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K, Vishala B; Bhandi, M.K. (INFLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: In the digital environment the academicians’ interest are moving towards accessing and using Electronic journals for their day to day academic activities. These are one of the main means used by researchers for scholarly communication. They play an important role in the creation and communication of knowledge. There are thousands of open access titles available. The promising open access movement is opening alternate channels for the distribution of scholarly work. As the availability of open access journals increasing, accessing to these journals is also increasing gradually. No doubt the digital information is becoming popular among users in almost all the libraries. Considering the importance of open access journals the research study has been undertaken to provide awareness to the faculty members of five Autonomous Colleges in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka. The study result would provide library professionals and academicians with clear insights into the benefits of using open access journals. The study result reveals that the majority respondents are unaware of open access journals and among those who uses electronic journals majority of them are using open access journals for their academic purposes. Through this study the researcher provided awareness to the to the faculty members regarding various open access initiatives available in India and abroad. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1647 Files in this item: 1
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