CALIBER 2001:Pune

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DIGITIZATION: AN OVERVIEW
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Tyagi, Om Prakash
The age of digital technology has revolutionised communications. It is used and enjoyed by all strata of society for business, education, research, and entertainment. Digitisation of information is of particular relevance to business. Organizations must learn how to use information effectively, as competition will keep increasing and profit margins will be under pressure. Information should be stored in a manner that the retrieval is quick and storage safe and permanent. Paper records, books, journals and reports are not very handy as compared to CD-ROMs when it comes to looking for a particular piece of information. It may take, some times, weeks to compile the results, using traditional records. So, we are looking at digitisation as a solution for the coming years. The digital collections must include genre of library materials such as text (books, serials, dissertations/theses), numeric database (statistical/scientific) and special collections (image, audio, video, manuscript etc.). In this paper, the author focuses on the meaning of digitization, benefits of digitization, application area and digitisation process.
HYPERCONVERGENCE USER SERVICES : A SERIOUS CHALLENGE AND WARNING TO LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Majumdar, Kamalendu; Panigrahi, P K
Library service is a busy, user-oriented activity, with a deep-rooted emphasis on means rather than ends, on tactics rather than strategy, on building collections rather than on the roles those collections play. This has been reflected by many renewed critics in their professional literature on practical and technical matters. In this paper the authors try to emphasise major changes that are likely to take place and a need for recognition regarding convergence between library, computing , and telecommunications services; of probable changes in the publishing world, and library management using new tools and techniques.
ARCHIVAL OF DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE FIELD OF BANKING AND FINANCE IN INDIA: A PROPOSAL
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Vaidya, Sachin
Digital resources in the field of banking and finance in India are a few compared to the Western world. Archival of digital resources at national level is a concept that is yet to catch the attention of the leaders of banking and finance industry. The author proposes a system for archiving the digital resources in the industry.
WEB-BASED DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES: TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Arora, Jagdish
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ENTERING A NEW COMMUNICATION ERA: A DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Hatua, Sudip Ranjan
Information superhighway is today thought of as a revolutionary platform intended to form a network connecting computers globally. The Digital Library System (DLS) is an information service in which all the information resources are available in computer processable form and the functions of acquisition, storage, preservation, retrieval, access and display are carried out through the use of digital technologies. It is not restricted to the provision of information in text format. In fact, audio and video resources are also to be represented digitally. A DLS can disseminate its information across a network and users can retrieve information in the same way. Scholarly and professionals interest in DLS has grown rapidly during 1990s. A typical DLS is a media server connected to high speed networks. This paper discusses the typical DLS, with its components and features.
“GROWTH OF THE INTERNET RESOURCES AND CRITERIA FOR THEIR EVALUATION AND SELECTION”
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Malhan, I V; Sahi, Vikaram Singh
Ever since the development of the webpage, the Internet resources have grown at an exponential rate. Growth rate has further increased with the digitization of old documents besides the creation of new digital resources. The Internet empowers every author to create, publish and directly distribute the contents to the end users. Easy and expeditious access to information, convenience of use and advances in technology led to the increasing accessibility of the Internet resources and further accelerated their growth. The Internet can provide comprehensive information in a diversity of subjects for a variety of needs and to various categories of users at any point of time. The major concern now is evaluation and quality filtering of information resources, accessible on the Internet. This paper includes the criteria for evaluation and selection of web resources for libraries and information users.
CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES: SERVICES ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DIGITAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY TOOLS FOR THE DISABLED USERS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Nagarajan, M; Surianarayanan, S
The information and communication technological tools for the resource discovery should be used b7y all the citizens without any discrimination. But the physically disabled users are not able to use them all on par with other users. This paper describes the development of information and communication technologi3es in various nations. It gives an out line of the present scenario of the physically disabled users. It elaborately discusses various physical disabilities of the handicapped users in handling the information and communication technological tools in the resource discovery and gives solutions for the alternative assistive technological tools effective usage for the benefit of certain disabled users.
CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES AT REC, TRICHY LIBRARY
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Thamarai Selvi, G; Mohan, V
In the mist of fast emerging Information explosion, finding a particular relevant information is a very cumbersome job. So it is very urgent and inevitable to create and manage digital resources of information and make them easily accessible to the user. The traditional libraries should be changed to Digital/Electronic libraries by providing Digitized Information Services to cope up with the needs of these 21st century end users. Now-a-days, CD-ROMs, Computer Networks, Internet, Multimedia, E-mail, Electronic Texts and Journals play vital role and involve very much in creating and managing information in digital libraries. This paper explains the above digital resources of information and also it deals with various digital information resources available and the digitized information services provided byREC, Trichy Library.
SWITHCHING OVER FROM TRADITIONAL FORM TO DIGITISED FORM : A CASE STUDY OF REFERENCE SECTION OF JAYAKAR LIBRARY
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Pharande, Chandrakant P; Taru, Sanjay S
In changing perspective of digital resources, there is drastic change in the reference tools also. In the light of this change, need for switching from traditional form of reference service to digital form of reference service has been envisaged in this paper. Comp uterisation of reference section is an activity to convert existing reference section into electronic based media. This paper puts emphasis on the automation of reference section to ensure better service with high speed. Prerequisite for implementing automation activity in the reference section has been discussed.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN DIGITIZED INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Satyanarayana, M; Rao Venkateswara, L
The university library serves as a resource for teaching, learning and research programmes of University. Its basic objective is to help the university in achieving its goals. The latest information as well as communication technologies and ever- increasing needs of users have made the university libraries move from traditional to digital environment. The modern university library no longer consists only of books but also has information in digital format. This paper defines university, it s objectives and functions. It presents the services that are being provided by a modern university library. It discusses the latest advancements in information and communication technologies. It defines the concept of Digital Library and its nature, functions and environment. Finally, the paper concludes that in the digitised information environment, a university library is better equipped to provide services in a pinpointed, exhaustive and expeditious fashion.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION: ISSUES AND CURRENT STATUS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Jyoti, Misra
For several decades, preservation specialists have voiced concern over preservation of our cultural heritage in electronic form. Digital information is no less important than its analogue counterpart. Both require efforts to preserve the wealth that they contain. But, because electronic formats are mo re fragile and rely on technology that is constantly changing, the decisions that must be made about preservation must be considered sooner rather than later. It is in this context, that, this paper explores the issues surrounding the preservation of digital information and throws light on proposed strategies for digital longevity. This paper concludes that the need of hour is to create and develop valid documents in standard formats and adopt suitable methods to preserve data in digital format.
XML ROLE IN DEFINING METADATA USING DTDs FOR THE DIGITAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) GAYATHRI DEVI, S
This paper introduces the concept of deficiencies in html and advocates that xml can be a substitute of html for its advantages. Being the web standard, it also accomplishes its application to the library documents as a metatag descriptor. The paper explains this through an example of XML, DTD, CSS, HTML files with few catalogue fields as descriptors. It also focuses on the various recommendations brought by RDF and Dublin Core in the development of metadata.
FREE ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY JOURNALS: A STUDY
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Ayesha, Taranum
From the early 90’s, the pool of free scholarly electronic journals has increased considerably. Electronic Journals in Scholarly setting continue a tradition of creation and dissemination of knowledge that has begun long ago on Print Journals. The attitude and publishing habits of researchers have changed. Amidst the furore of serial price increase, the steady growth of scholarly journals freely available in electronic form is worth noticing. Most editors and publishers agree that the research findings should be made widely available to all, and the internet is capable of doing just that. This paper tends to look at some of the aspects of free scholarly journals, their availability, impact on the scientific community and resource links.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INTERNET EDITIONS OF MARATHI NEWSPAPERS.
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Patil, S K; Mahajan, S G
Internet editions of various newspapers in English and other regional languages in India are being produced, on an increasing scale, in India during the last three/four years. The text of these editions is preserved at various newspaper offices. This has resulted in database creation activity in Indian languages. Internet editions of Marathi newspapers are also being produced recently . Studies have been conducted on four Marathi news papers and various aspects like periodicity, preservation periods, typography/fonts used, procedure for information searching, headings, colours used etc. have been studied.
MANAGEMENT OF REPROGRAPHY AND MICROFORMS SERVICES, NECESSARY FACILITIES, DIFFICULTIES AND REMEDIES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Sharma, Veena
The paper mainly dials with how to manage the reprographic services in the libraries provides guildlines for all types of libraries with practical approach towards selection, acquisition and usage of microforms. The problems in managing the services and enumerated. Different types of technologies used in providing reprographic services are listed along with associated problems and solution. Finally, the paper proposes that, there is need to bring out a CD containing information of 15,000 manuscripts collection available in Nagpur University Library.
CHANGING ROLE OF 21ST CENTURY LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS IN THE ERA OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Dhiman, A K
The era of information technology has provided us various opportunities to access, store and retrieve desired information quickly and accurately. But to stay in the race, library professionals need to acquire the skills to manage the libraries with the available technologies. Besides expertise in Library and Information Science, the professionals must be ready to gear up themselves to meet the challenges concerned with effective and efficient methods of using new technologies in the library. This paper discusses some of the problems to be faced by the library professionals in the coming years of modern technology.
ARCHIVING ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT ROLE PLAYERS
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Gireesh Kumar, P
Electronic Journals have now been recognized as a major link in scholarly communication. They have brought a number of advantages to publishers, libraries and scholarly community. Along with these advantages they address number of issues and challenges. One of the major issues is in respect of archiving of the back issues of a journal. This has been addressed by various players like publishers, consortia, individual libraries and third party aggregators. This paper discusses the role of these players.
DATABASE APPROACH TO WEB SITE DESIGN: A CASE STUDY WITH SOFTWARE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Anuradha, K T; Shivarama Rao, K
This paper discusses problems associated with cataloguing, categorising heterogeneous resources on the WWW for retrieving precise information. By providing database approach to the web site design, these problems can be solved to some extent. Since the information available on the WWW is massive, the design is done for software in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. The need for software database and features of existing Bio related software databases are explained. The data about Bio software on the WWW is collected and arranged in a generalized standard format. This is loaded on to a MYSQL database and is accessed through PERL.
APPROACHES OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Panigrahi, P K
This paper emphasizes on the modern trend of library and informationservices considering that the digitised information is easily accessible than print media. It discusses the mission of digital library, a new library concept in the digital age of information. It emphasizes on two main aspects - multimedia technology and networking specially Internet, which can be treated as two wings of any digital library system. It also highlights that library and information professionals must acquire the knowledge on these two emerging areas and develop their skills for rendering effective and efficient users services. Lastly, it discusses scope of developing digital libraries in India and the role of the INFLIBNET in this regard after its full- fledged implementation.
HOW TO MAKE BEST USE OF THE INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT OF THE COUNTRY? A SIMPLE APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS IN INDIAN UNIVERSITIES
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2001-03) Gobinda G., Chowdhury
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.

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