CALIBER 2011:Goa

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Present Status of Availability of Electronic Resources in Engineering Institutions in Tamil Nadu
(2011-03-02) Sasireka, I; Gopalakrishnan, S; Balamurugan, S
The paper describes about the availability of electronic resources in academic libraries in T ami lnadu. It is based on the case study conducted in the Engineering I nsti tutions of T ami lnadu. The study provides evidence of the current status of e-resources, selection and access to various e- resources.
Use of Online Resources by the Students of Indus Business Academy, Bangalore and Greater NOIDA, India: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Hussain, Akhtar; Khan, Mohd Asif; Fatima, Nishat
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.
Awarness and Use of Open Access and Free Resources on the Internet: A Case Study at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) V, Anuradha; V, Gopakumar; Baradol, A K
The Internet is a huge source of free and openly available information. However, the awareness about the availability of such free and open source information amongst members of the academic community is not clearly known. This aspect was studied using a structured questionnaire and the data recorded through the survey was analyzed. The results reinforce the commonly held belief that the academic community is largely unaware of these vast and freely available resources. The study also points out the role a librarian can play in imparting awareness through information literacy sessions from the library .
Information Literacy: A Scientometric Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) G, Mukhyadal B; S, Sonwane S; A, Vaishnav A
The information society calls for all people to become information literate which means that they should not only be able to recognize when information is needed but also be able to identify, locate, evaluate and use effectively information needed for decision making or fulfilling different goals. Information literacy (IL) is increasingly important in the present context of the information explosion and related uncertainties about its authenticity, validity, and reliability.
Information Literacy Initiatives in Sri Lankan University Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Ranasinghe, WMTD; Siriwardana, A S
Information literacy (IL) which is described as the ability to recognize when information is needed, and to be able to locate and evaluate the appropriate information and use it effectively, have become prerequisite for all levels of education including higher education. Objective of this study is to examine to what extent the IL is practiced in university libraries in Sri Lanka. It studies the effectiveness of existing user education (UE) programs as well as IL programs in 15 national university libraries in Sri Lanka. The survey questionnaire is used as the primary data collection instrument and the findings of the study are discussed in this paper. Study revealed that all the responded university libraries (73%) are conducting UE programs and only 63% out of them have introduced IL programs. However, it was identified that majority of these IL programs are only extensions of existing UE programs and as a result, no proper contribution can be expected by them on the improvement of IL skills among user community. Suggestionsare made to overcome this issue and the study has emphasized the need for a national policyframework on IL skills development.
Maximising the Value and Return on Investment (ROI) of Special Libraries: A Case Study of INMAS Library
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Vij, Rajeev; Soni, Navin Kumar S
The paper examines the concept of return on investment (ROI) in the context of special libraries. The aim of ROI is to establish a relationship between the special library and its host institution that could be expressed in quantifiable terms and which would satisfy administrators and demonstrate the library’s economic value to the institution. The value of a library to its parent institution is difficult to measure. Many different methods have been used to measure value, including return on investment (ROI), contingent valuation, and other explicit and implicit measures — essentially derived from library services and user satisfaction. This article describes major functions, activities and services of the INMAS library. It briefly touches upon both print and e-resources subscribed by INMAS library. The article outlines activities undertaken by INMAS library which are leading to cost saving and cost recovery, thereby, increasing return on investment (ROI).This article elaborates on strategies used by INMAS library for effective promotion- for increased utilization of its resources, which shall in turn result in increased research output in form of various products and services and a better ROI. Lastly, this article outlines future endeavors of the INMAS library which shall ultimately result in increased for the library.
Searching Online Resources in New Discovery Environment: A State- of-the-Art Review
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Pradhan, Dinesh R; Trivedi, Kruti; Arora, Jagdish
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.
Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Research and Development Libraries in Karnataka: A Study
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) G, Maruthi; R, Rajashekara G; M, Nagaraja Shastry G
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.
Enabling ILAP as Digital Library Software: A case study with KOHA
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) Pandey, Shri Ram; Singh, Pankaj Kumar
Open Source movement has tremendously influenced Information industry in general and digital libraries in particular. Many of the open source digital library software available on the World Wide Web are developed based on highly sophisticated programming language, which needs in depth knowledge and guidance for installing, implementing, customizing and integrating with other open source software. They generally do not cater to the needs of beginners who want to develop software in open source environment. Present paper is an attempt to enable Integrated Library Automation Software (ILAP) Koha, as a digital library especially koha version 3 in the view that koha can support digital library functionality.
Web-Based Information Retrieval Pattern of Medical Students
(Inflibnet Centre, 2011-03-02) K, Mohamed Haneefa; M, Jina E
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.
Information Literacy for Teacher Education
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Gandhe, Charudatta Achyut
In the present information society, the world is changing into global village, classrooms are changing into virtual class rooms and libraries are changing to information centers. Students are more technology oriented and so the whole teaching-learning process. The students are expected to learn beyond the syllabus and teachers should play a role of facilitator. This is due to advent of information and communication technology. Every aspect of education is changed. e-learning, e-resources, etc. are the common words. Everyone in the education system is depend upon the information. As a result of it, we are facing new challenges like information overload, information poverty, etc. To face this challenges the librarians and educationist must think collaboratively to impart information literacy among the students so as to survive in this information age. The teachers should be information literate so that they can implement the information literacy programme in their schools. But there is a need to impart the information literacy skills among the teachers during their pre service teacher education. This paper tries to suggest a model and a draft programme with teaching and learning techniques which will be suitable to impart information literacy skills among the teachers during their pre-service teacher education in India. And it demands collaborative efforts of librarians, teachers, educators, educationists and policy makers.
Competencies of Sanskrit Academics In use of e-resources
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Chandraiah, I; Reddy, A Bhaskara; Madhusudan, P
Libraries have changed with emergence of information technology. Users are acquainting with latest technologies in libraries. It is very difficult to be in any profession without computer literacy. The library users from all spheres of life are acquiring information literacy skills irrespective of their subject background. Usually, the people with oriental and religious learning expected to be unaware of latest technologies. But, the fact is quite different and proved the popularity of Information Technology among all people. Though, there is an alternative source of information, library was not lost its prime place. The Internet became the alternate source to library users. E-Journals and subject websites have become popular among the Academics.
Structure and Functions of Citation Index
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Kumar, Shailendra; Singh, Manisha
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
Web Resource Management and Semantic Web
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) Dunsire, Gordon
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.
Web Analytical Tools to Assess the Users Approach to the Web Sites
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) S, Suguna L; Gopikuttan, A
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.
Indian Contributions to World Soybean Research: Measurement of Research Productivity of Soybean Scientists
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Jain, Keerti Bala; Kumar, S
The paper studies the measurement of research productivity of Indian scientists contributing to world soybean research for the period 1989-2008 based on the data available in the International Crop CD database. The paper measured the publication share of India in the world publication on soybean, its activity index, growth rate and doubling time, analysed the authorship pattern, various statistical distributions of authorship like mean, variance, binomial distributions, negative binomial distributions, geometric distributions; collaboration coefficient and collaboration index, prolific authors and their dominance factor, applicability of Lotka’s law, etc. The paper reveals that India has 2nd rank in research publication with 13.64% share in the world. The activity index of India decreases gradually. The growth rate has also decrease gradually and correspondingly doubling time has increased. The paper reveals high degree of collaboration with 93.10% contributions of joint authorship. The average collaboration coefficient is 0.931 and average collaboration index value is 3.115. Lotka’s Law is still found applicable in the study. The paper than calculate dominance factor (DF) of some prolific authors having 25 or more contributions and found most of the authors with low DF value.
Usage of Electronic Resources Available Under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium by Assam University Library Users
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Sinha, Manoj Kumar; Singha, Gauri; Sinha, Bimal
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..
Federated Search and Discovery Tools
(Inflibnet Center, 2011-03-02) Vastrad, Gayatri; Bharathy, Jaya; Kumar, P Dharani
The article describes how federated search helps the users to find resources across library collections. Federated search is essen-tially an umbrella search often utilizing, as far as possible, the search facilities already offered by each library resource. Federated searching, also known as meta searching, broadcast searching, cross searching, and a variety of other names, is the ability to search multiple information resources from a single interface and return an integrated set of results. These targets include the library’s collection of books, software, databases and online public access catalogs.
Science Indicators of Scientists in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada Univeristy, Aurangabad
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) Sonwane, Shashank; Adhe, Govind; Vaishnav, A A
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
Web Resource Service: Usage of Open Access Journals by the Academicians of Autonomous Colleges in Dakshina Kannada-A Survey
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2011-03-02) K, Vishala B; Bhandi, M.K.
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.

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