CALIBER 2019: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Academic Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) N K, Sheeja; K, Susan Mathew
This paper reviews the literature on the application of Internet of Things (IoT) in libraries and identifies the prospective areas where IoT can be executed effectively. The literatures on IoT applications retrievable by Google Scholar search during 2010 to 2019 were selected. The number of articles available on this area found to be very less. The authors attempted to provide a comprehensive review on the available articles to generate inferences important to the field of library and information science.
The Revelation of Relationship between Library Transactions and Students’ Academic Performance
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Dash, Nrusingh Kumar; Sahoo, Jyotshna; Mohanty, Basudev
There should be an empirical demonstration by Academic Libraries to show that library usage does contribute positively to students’ academic achievement. It would add value to the effectiveness of the library in particular and institution in general. User surveys and focus group interviews are good tools for understanding user needs, expectations, and satisfaction/dissatisfactions. These can measure students’ perceptions only but that does not necessarily match with real learning outcomes. Library Transactions made by the students here play a vital role in accessing their outcomes in terms of Academic Performance. The present study attempts to uncover the meaningful relationship between the students’ library book transactions and their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). It could be proved that library transaction was able to put its impact on students’ academic performance.
Using Libguides/Research Guide to Enhance Personalized Service in Academic Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Behera, Sanat Kumar
From pathfinders to modern guides, Libraries are adopting different tools and technologies to provide quality service to its user. The growth of quantum of information & the weak paid ranking of search engines is creating a big challenge for the user to access relevant information. Library, as the guardian of the knowledge, has the potential to serve using different technologies. However, it needs extensive cooperation and collaboration from its user community. The library can guide the users if they understand the user queries, academic structure, research needs and information seeking modes. Library personalized service is user-centric service. It aims to personalize the content and serve in such a way that could assist users in getting relevant information and gain maximum user satisfaction. The paper has highlighted the process of personalized service, and how Libguides can be a useful platform for a library in achieving user satisfaction. It has also mentioned the primary personalized feature of libguides software.
Capacity Building Programs for Library Professionals: Challenges and Opportunity
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Barik, Nilaranjan; Jena, Puspanjali
The quality of a library is identified by its competent staff, dynamic services, and updated resources. The human resources working in the Library and Information Centre are needed to enhance their personal as well as professional level skills and competence for effective delivery of library and information services. The present study discusses on the concept, method, and levels of Capacity Building Programs for library professionals in library and information centres. Further the study discusses on need of capacity building programs and throws lights on some major challenges persist with it.
Contemporary Practice in Library and Information Centers for The Academic Improvement of Colleges in Odisha
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Dash, Abinash; Chandrabati, B
Library and Information Science profession has undergone impressive and brisk change during the last three decades under the overpowering impact of ICT. The future of the library is governed by the new technological innovations in the area of storage, retrieval and dissemination of information and the future of the information profession is very much dependant on their adoption by the information professionals. The new role of the Library and Information Centre in the knowledge society is needed to be sloping consequently. It is our responsibility as information facilitators and managers not only to inculcate the society through the technologies i.e., available but also to recognize the problems that need to be solved. Every profession should have professional accountability and moral values to respond to the need of the hour of the community at the right time and in the right point of view. The changing role of information professionals thus, need continuing professional development, predominantly, in an academic set up like colleges and universities to take our students and teachers to the doorsteps of the 21st century.
Plagiarism, a Critical Issue in Academic Research Integrity: Attitudes of Research Scholars
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Faizan, Mohd; Munshi, Shamim Aktar
The purpose of this study is to investigate the awareness and attitude towards plagiarism of research scholars at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. The researchers have applied a quantitative study based on the survey method along with the questionnaire as a tool for survey instrument to achieve the research objectives. The researchers have personally distributed the questionnaires to the fulltime Ph.D. scholars in the Faculty of Social Science. The collected data analysed by using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), version 20, to know the frequencies, percentages and tabulations. The results of the study showed that the majority of research scholars are aware of plagiarism and they believed that it is wrong and immoral. The research scholars believed that the higher score, higher the chance getting a job at the university level, and because of this most of the research scholars produced their publications without keeping the research ethics and academic honesty in their minds and this lead to breaking academic integrity and cause of Plagiarism. However, it is suggested to the university authority to organize such workshops and orientation programs regarding plagiarism, so that scholars or neo-scholars will understand that it is a violation in academic integrity.
Information Management in the Self- financing Engineering College Libraries Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai - A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Rajasekar, V; Krishnamoorthy, G; Kalaiappan, V
Information Management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. Information Management was largely limited to files, file maintenance, and the life cycle management of paper-based files, other media and records. With the proliferation of information technology the job of information management took on a new light, and also began to include the field of Data maintenance. The goals of information management are getting the right information to the right person, at the right time, from the right source, in the right amount, in the right order, in the right form, in the right medium, with optimal accuracy, as quickly as possible and at the lowest reasonable cost. To achieve the objectives of the information management cooperation requires in all the disciplines. The information management disciplines include records management, archives management, corporate librarianship, knowledge management, business intelligence, document management, micrographics, and electronic records/imaging systems. The study highlights the importance of information retrieval system in the colleges for the benefit of the different end users in the libraries.
Perceptions and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Academic Libraries: An Overview of Global Trends
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Gujral, Garima; Shivarama, J; Choukimath, Puttaraj A
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as an extension of human intelligence and has taken over various sectors. Application of Artificial Intelligence in libraries has been providing a breakthrough for the information sector. Technological advancements can stimulate many human capabilities such as calculating, reading, speaking, grasping, remembering, making judgments and interactive learning. The adoption of artificial intelligence in virtual reference services is considered to provide a new online service model for libraries. Librarians are always on the cutting edge of technologies to engage and enhance services for their users, some of the valid additions include virtual realities that engages users with libraries and enhance information literacy skills. This paper attempts to trace the application and potential impact of artificial intelligence in academic libraries. The application of artificial intelligence under four domains like educational, informative, assistive and social networking have been captured and explained along with their implications. Conversational agents such as chatbots, AI-based participatory library services, research impact, and information discovery, virtual reality have been described
Marketing of Library and Information Services through Liaison Programmes in Academic Environment: Prominence and Possibilities
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Pati, Bharati
Being accountable for the precise and timely deliverance of information services, one vital aspect, i.e. ‘Marketing’ couldn’t be disregarded in the academic library environment. Although belonging to a completely service oriented diligence, the promotion of the library products and spreading awareness on optimum usage of the collection would definitely be advantageous for the institution in general and the user community in particular. Through the present study, the authors have tried to figure out the challenges and possibilities of marketing of library resources through liaison programs.
Indian Academic Research Data Repository (IARDR) With INFLIBNET: A Futuristic Plan
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Pal, Birender; Singh, Sanjay Kumar
Data and Information are an integral component resulting to form the knowledge. In terms of research information management (e-resource), the Institutional Repository (IR) has played an immense role. Research data is another important asset of research which needs to be properly managed. The situations of research data management in European, American and Australian continents is very much advanced and are having a well research data management platform for their researcher. But when we study the research data management aspect basically in Indian context, then the situation is quite different than the other countries of the world. In Indian universities, a lot of research data has been collected by the researcher which is unutilized after the completion of research. This paper explores that what is the present status of research data management policy in Indian context. It also highlights on how India can have the research data management policy in the field of academics. It further reflects the proposed policy on how INFLIBNET centre can act as a national platform or nodal centre to build the anticipated IARDR. The paper at the end shows the merit and limitation of the proposed IARDR and the role of libraries.
LIS Education in India: Vision 2021
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Chadha, Ravinder Kumar
We are witnessing a paradigm shift in education methods fueled by ICT, social media and today’s job requirements at national and international level. In order to meet requirements of modern information services this generation would require entirely new sets of skills. The traditional practices and services are taking new shape and with this role of librarians are being redefined. There is a continuous requirement of incorporating appropriate technological subjects in the curriculum. LIS professionals and administrators are continuously showing their concern about the quality of education being imparted by library schools in India. There is a need for LIS Departments to constantly finetune their syllabus to incorporate new modules and contemporary information handling skills to prepare the young professionals for the emerging areas of librarianship. The core subjects of library science education should be sustained and a layer of specialized skills and competencies of modern practices of information handling should be added over these
Entrepreneurial Management of Human Resource for Capacity Building
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Chandel, A. S.; Pradhan, Sarbada
Highlights the role of organizational culture which is a sum of values, traditions, work culture, ethics, etc. that shape the performance and output of the organizations. The competencies and skills of human resource need continuous improvement by giving opportunities to one and all in order to improve performances. Also discusses some issues of human management and declining work cultures in institutions, suggesting measures of capacity building through developing need-based curriculum in LIS Departments, creating, and providing more and more opportunities to in-service professionals through continued learning and education.
Comparative Study between Omeka, DSpace and E-Print: A Special Reference with Plugin Features
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Ravikumar, S; Hazarika, Hirak Jyoti
Open-source software helps libraries mainly in lowering initial and recurring costs, eliminating vendor lock-in and allowing greater flexibility. DSpace, E-Prints are very popular among academic community and Omeka open source software which is widely used in archival and museum space. Role of Digital Library system used to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute all scholarly research material in digital formats. This paper explains the open-source digital repository software with special reference to the availability of plugin features in Omeka which is not available with others two IR Software. This paper describes the feature of plugins, strengths, and weaknesses of Omeka as a software platform for creating and managing digital collections on the web. This paper also explains, how plugin features easier for users to add features to their repository without knowing a single line of code.
Dynamic Approaches to the Next Generation Librarianship: A Discussion
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahoo, Bedadyuti; Rautaray, Bijaylaxmi
People anticipate major changes in the field of library automation, digitization, and dissemination of resources, better library products and services in the upcoming years. The Upheavals started in real after 20th century because of the demand of the users for research as well as academia. Accordingly, the importance in the field of library systems and services developed for creating better scope through the process of data management, reserving contents in the archives, creating remote access to the electronic resources, and managing library activities technically through the library management software and databases. Simultaneously, the workflow and the efficiency of the staff members also have developed than the decades before might be the change of the wanting of the users’ or supportive mechanisms and impact of the ICT. This paper vividly discuss in details about the present library management systems and services of the library for the benefit of the whole users’ community.
Information Literacy among Undergraduate Students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College and Guntur Medical College, Andhra Pradesh: A Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Murthy, P Rama; Padmini, K
Today Information Literacy has become vital because of proliferation of information resources in all forms. Information literacy is a set of abilities require for individuals to identify the need for information, find, locate, evaluate and use information effectively and efficiently. The Present study explores information literacy among the students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College & Guntur Medical College, affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. The survey method was adopted for the study and 225 questionnaires were circulated among the medical students and 195 were received back for analysis with a response rate of 86.66%. Majority of the respondents were able to determine their information needs, types of information resources available; utilization of e-resources, and know the levels of awareness of social networking sites. This study found that a majority of the respondents of both medical colleges are needed information for updating their subject knowledge, frequently utilized information sources, social networking sites of both medical colleges. Most of the respondents here given top priority high skills in getting information in print and electronic format. They rarely used search engines of both medical college students are viz., infoseek, AltaVista, lycos, MySpace and LinkedIn social networking sites.
Twitter Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study of Ten University Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Parabhoi, Lambodara
Sentiment analysis is a computer rule based automatic process that has the ability to scrutinize the short text message, user comments, and other textual information and gives the sentiment score on a given subject. The current study is to examine the sentiment analysis of twitter comments of ten university libraries. The ten of universities list was compiled from World university rankings 2019 (Time Higher Education Website). A total of 15850 number of tweets collected between 1st Jan 2013 and 1st September 2019 via Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) for further analysis. The study found overall av. Pos. - av. Neg. was 0.4115. Out 15850 tweets majority of the tweets from The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford about 2760 tweets and highest friend followers 76180 found. Significantly, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford was the highest Av. Nos. of positive sentiment (1.7728). However, the lowest Av. Neg. sentiment received by Yale Library about (1.1454). Moreover, the study found that the word “exhibition” (499) times and “archive” (401) times used in total tweets. Likewise, the word “Congratulations” found average positive sentiment (3.0152) mentioned in total tweets. The study recommended that the library can use social networking sites and examine the user comments, feedback, and reviews that, a user had given on different posts. By doing this, the library will be in better position to overcome the problem and make better decisions for future.
Library Technology Solutions for Smart Libraries: A Comparative Study of IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay Library System
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahoo, Sambhunath; Panda, K C
Library technology refers to those technologies which are mainly used in libraries for providing smart library services to their users, perhaps keeping in view of the implications of five laws of library science as envisaged by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) recognized as Institute of National Importance, provide higher technical education and research in India. IIT Libraries are using latest technologies to provide smart library solutions to their users.This study used survey method to collect primary data through observation technique and questionnaire tool. The study selected two IITs, i.e. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay who got Institute of Eminence (IoE) status by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India and secured 2nd rank and 3rd rank respectively in NIRF-2019 under engineering category. Their Library plays a pivotal role in making them at the top. The main objectives of the study were to know what kinds of library technology used by IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi Library System. The study found that both the IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi Library used library technology in different areas like library automation, library website, institutional repository, remote access, web-scale discovery system (WSDS), cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. This study suggests appropriate measures for the improvement of existing library system of IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi. Further,it may be useful to those who are doing in-depth research in the field of library technology.
Capacity Building of LIS Professionals in Digital Environment
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Vaishnav, Ashwini A
The paper defines the terms capacity & capacity building. Identified need for capacity building of LIS professionals, their roles, competency/ skills needed in digital environment. Explains necessity of professional ethics in 21st century, challenges and solutions, tools and resources for capacity building. Gives knowledge, skills, traits to be possessed by Librapreneur/Entrepreneur, methodology of capacity building programmes, different phases of quality assurance. Suggests how LIS education can update competencies and skills needed to sustain in digital environment. Paper concludes by saying that for survival of LIS profession, professionals and institution necessitates forecasting of changes that will take place and develop competencies and skills to keep LIS Professionals ourselves update in the changing environment.
Readers’ Advisory Service in LIS Education
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Thakare, Veena; Kumbhar, Rajendra
Readers’ Advisory (RA) is one of the important library services. This paper tries to throw light on the place of RA component in current LIS curriculum and its awareness among educators. The syllabi of all the universities in Maharashtra offering LIS course were assessed. Along with this, a questionnaire survey was conducted of all currently working LIS teachers, permanent and visiting. The collected data showed that almost none of the universities have RA portion in their syllabi. The educators, mostly aware of RA, are of the opinion that it should be a component of LIS theory paper as well as practical.
Use of Social Media in Library Services: A Best Practice at Binghamton University Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2019-11) Sahu, Srikanta; Naik, Pranoy
Social media denotes the websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. In this digital era modern libraries use social media as a platform for knowledge sharing, information dissemination and communication. This paper describes use of social media in Binghamton university libraries. Authors have taken Facebook, twitter, YouTube and Pinterest for study. The study focus two aspects: type of content published and user engagement to evaluate the response.

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