There has been steady erosion of sole custodial authority of the library on the heritage of
human kind ever since the Information Technology brought about a media revolution in the
content and access of human knowledge. Metaphorically, the library has triumphantly
crossed the physical barriers of time and space. The library automation has reached, but, the
first milestone of providing multiple bibliographical-access to the printed documents mostly,
but has not penetrated further into the full-texts. The library needs to look beyond
automation. Admittedly, the library has to effectively carry on its mission with new stock -in-trade
of e-books/e-journals. It has to redefine its services by way of responding
constructively and imaginatively to the challenges. Days are not very far off when the library will be brought to the desktop of each user for collaborative virtual reference service. The organization of the Internet resources in inter- and intra disciplinary areas for the
prospective community of scholars rests with the library professionals.
Gobinda G., Chowdhury(INFLIBNET Centre, March NaN, 2001)
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While library automation and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) are slowly taking place, digital library research and development activities are at a very preliminary stage in India. Never the less various institutions, especially the universities and other academic institution in the country have rich resources that can be shared and put to optimum use through digital libraries. In this paper the down-to-earth approach to building digital libraries for the Ph.D Theses and Dissertations submitted to the Indian Universities has been proposed, primarily for the benefit of the academic and research
community. Author proposes that INFLIBNET is in an excellent position to spearhead in building such digital libraries and the same may be taken up in three stages for which simple guidelines have been discussed and presented.
Krishnamurthy, K(INFLIBNET Centre, March NaN, 2001)
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This paper describes development of computer catalogue, undertaken at Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Center Library, in which range of professional techniques were applied to modernize the library with the objective of improving its services and raising its profile within the institution. This involved thorough stock revision, retro conversion of the
catalogue, and introduction of an integrated automated library management systems. Two possible approaches to conversion were
identified viz. use of previously compiled accession list of materials available in the manual system; and entering the bibliography details into computer. Some of the important issues are discussed in this paper.