Browsing by Author "Dhiman, Anil Kumar"

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    Blogging and Uses of Blogs in Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2008-02-28) Dhiman, Anil Kumar; Sharma, Hemant
    Today, the terms like Web 2.0, library 2.0 and blogging are the buzzwords. Along with web 2.0, blogging is also getting popularity among the library professionals. Weblog or blog is the website consisting of journal like entries that are arranged in reverse chronologically order. These are distinguished by their frequent, usually short, post, and by the way they reflect their owner’s personality. This paper discusses the Blog and its uses in library & information centers.
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    Consortium based Library Subscription : Some Issues
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    The academic environment is becoming more and more competitive in its dealings and functions and the academic culture is fast transforming as enterprising in nature. The library as the centre for scholarly communication faces many challenges in meeting needs of its users. Among the solutions used in libraries in providing information, an access strategy through web is very much requested by modern users. As such, now-a-days, the consortiumbased library purchasing is getting favour. This paper discusses some of the problematic issues in consortium – based library subscription
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    Data Mining and its use in Libraries
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2003-02) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    Data mining is defined as the automatic extraction of information from data warehouses, enabling an organization to improve its performance by getting new opportunities. It is relatively new term in the world of library science though it is being used in business organization since a long time. This paper gives an overview of data mining and its use in the field of library science.
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    Developing Human Resources in Digital Era : How Much Effective and How Much Successful?
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    Today, library and information centers are migrating into digital or so called paperless society, which has exerted force on their staff. The staff is expected to be trained in handling 21st century equipments in digital environment for providing information to its users. Various organizations and associations are imparting training to library professionals but this is not so much fruitful. This paper discusses some of the situations, which make this goal tough to achieve.
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    Information Literacy And The Role Of Librarian
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-02-02) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    The present age is Information Age, and the pedagogic implications of this age are that people should learn new skills to use information stored on computers. Libraries and Information Centers have responded by acquiring information technology and encourage computer literacy. The information that is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media and Internet comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, rising question about its authenticity, validity and reliability. In addition, information available through multiple media poses new challenges for individuals in understanding the landscape of information and to acquire knowledge of how to gather, evaluate and use information in today’s world. Information literacy therefore, is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed and assume greater control over their own learning. With the advances in Information and Communication technologies (Dhiman, 2001, 2002 & 2003), the traditional concepts of organization, user orientation, bibliographic description and dissemination of information are to be fine-tuned to the new environment by the Library and Information Professionals. So the LIS professionals working in the environment have to face challenges for providing the right information to the right user at the right time.
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    Librarian to Cybrarian : Changing Roles and Responsibilities of Library Professionals
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2010-02-18) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    Emergence of digital libraries is posing a different kind of conundrum Librarians, where the traditional gatekeepers of knowledge are being bypassed. Likewise the role of library professionals is also changing, they have to act as Cybrarian instead of Librarians. Changed and expected roles & responsibilities of Librarians and library professionals are discussed in the paper.
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    Need of Collaborative Approach for Developing National ETD Repository
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    Digital preservation is an important task to3 be done for the safeguarding of the digital resources for future. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) benefits are given in brief. Indian initiative in this direction has been traced. has made a case for collaborative approach needed for a national ETD in India.
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    Ontology and Ontological Systems for Semantic Webs in Digital Libraries
    (2009-02-25) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    The amount of available information online has increased exponentially with the rapid development of the World Wide Web. A lack of standardization and common vocabulary has continued to generate heterogeneity, which strongly hinders information exchange and communication. Ontologies, which capture the semantics of information from various sources and giving them a concise, uniform and declarative description, have gained significance due to the demands in academia and industry. This paper discusses ontology and its uses in semantic webs for digital libraries.
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    Resource Sharing in Digital Environment through Internet: Problems and Prospects
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2002-02) Dhiman, Anil Kumar
    The libraries exist in many forms and are of many types. With the advancement of information technology, we have image libraries, audio libraries and even digital libraries. A digital library may simply be defined as the library, which has all the documents in the digital form rather than the print media. In traditional libraries, we have the documents in printed forms while in case of digital libraries; all the documents are found in digitized forms. A library can serve at least three roles in learning, viz.; first, practical role in sharing expensive sources like physical and human resources, secondly, cultural role in preserving and organizing artifacts and ideas and thirdly social and intellectual roles by bringing together people and ideas. The libraries serve as centers of interdisciplinary places shared by learners from all disciplines. Digital libraries extend such interdisciplinary approach by making diverse information resources available beyond the physical space shared by a group of learners. Digital libraries have been in use for the last three decades, but there is a constant change and improvement in the technology used by digital libraries in the last decade. By the 1990’s, the technology made it possible for digital libraries to include different items like text, image, audio and video. Nowadays, visual information systems are gaining more popularity as compared to text based information systems. Therefore, digital libraries are becoming more graphical in nature and they provide access to digital information collections. The digitalization is the process of conversion of any fixed or analog media – books, journal articles, photos, paintings, microforms into electronic form though scanning, sampling or even reeking. It is the creation of digital collection of information with multimedia features, that offer faster and easy access to a large number of users. In digitization, the documents are either scanned from print image or directly reproduced in digital form on Floppy, CDs, DVDs and other digital media. The digitalization process provides solutions to traditional library problems such as conservation, preservation, storage, multimedia documents, remote access to information collection and acquisition or original digital works created by publishers, agencies and scholars, access to external material not held in-house by providing pointers to website, other library collection and publishers servers. Though, there are various means of resource sharing like, telephone, fax, xeroxing and e-mail etc. (Dhiman, 1998) but the Internet is one of the media over which many library resources are put in the form of web sites in digitized form. The users can access the information from such sites in digitized form. This paper discusses some important issues regarding Internet uses in library and its role in resource sharing in digital environment.