Browsing by Author "Sherikar, Amruth"

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    Digital Reference Services in The Web Based Information World
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2006-02-02) Sherikar, Amruth; Jange, Suresh; Jadhav, Sanjeev
    Reference service has long been a cornerstone of the library profession and the development of Internet brings libraries new modes of communication and outreach and has extended the scope of reference service to Digital or Virtual Reference services to the users across the world. An attempt has been made to notify the significance of Digital reference Services in the Internet world and suggests the criteria Planning and implementing Digital Reference Services in an academic and research world. Further, the Web-based reference services, which could be used by the libraries are compiled and concludes with challenges of system of Digital Reference Services.
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    Enhancing Network Applications in a University Library : A Case Study
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-02-02) Jange, Suresh; Sherikar, Amruth; Gaddagimath, R B; Policegoudar, S B
    Information and communication technology is transforming the society, education, business and the economy. The Library managers must understand these changes in order to position their organizations to flourish in the networked environment to provide effective information services to the users. In the Local Area Network(LAN) world, an attempt has been made to describe the network establishment in Gulbarga University Library and their experiences to enhance the techno-based services to the users. Besides, network architecture with optical fiber, hardware and software requirements for the effective implementation of LAN in the library are explained in detail. Further explores steps taken to establish CD-ROM databases; Internet Lab in accessing electronic resources under UGC Infonet, status of DBMS, library web page and Institutional productivity. Future plan for establishment of Learning Resource Centre, Provision of video camera, retrospective bar coding of collections and touch screen in the library are highlighted.
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    Evaluation of Library and Information Center Websites : User Approach
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Sharma, Desh Bandhu; Jange, Suresh; Sherikar, Amruth
    Academic and Research libraries have harnessed the potential of the World Wide Web to the delivery of automated bibliographical and full text information on their web pages to reach the every nook and corner of the user community. The literature offers considerable guidance on creating and evaluating library Web sites. Development of new methods for evaluation of library Web sites on the World Wide Web’ including a brief examination and discussion of quality applied to Web sites with criteria for the evaluation of the content and design of academic library Web sites. Further, paper attempts to review the relevant literature and concludes with future research.
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    Open Source Software Development: Historical andCurrent Perspectives for Academic Librarianship
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Sherikar, Amruth; Jange, Suresh
    Open source software production is a successful new innovation model which disproves that only private ownership of intellectual property rights fosters innovations. The emergence of Open Source Software (OSS) has gained the attention of research librarians and created new opportunities for libraries to make optimum utilization of the software keeping in view of the benefits not only to the users, but also to the libraries with respect to time, space and accessibility. The paper attempts to discuss the concept of Open Source Software in the modern era by highlighting the relevance of it to the library profession by tracing historical developments of Open Source Software’s. It also elucidates the development of open source operating systems over a period of time and provides briefly the Open Source Software projects available in the Internet era for the professionals of different disciplines.