CALIBER 2013:Gandhinagar, Gujarat

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Information Seeking Behavior of Legal Researcher Towards Use of Electronic Legal Resource: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-21) Rai, Priya
Law researchers often involve in various complex tasks of drafting, counseling and advocacy and experience considerable problems in satisfying the information need. The timely access of accurate information required is a major factor of performance as a researcher. Librarians understanding with researcher’s subject practices are vital element for supporting scholarly research by collection development, research training and reference services. The advent of ICTs as research tool has solved the basic problem relating to gathering and collecting legal literature. The study seeks to examine the information seeking behavior of users of academic law libraries in digital environment. The study helps to understand the basic research habits of legal researchers, problems encounters while accessing digital law library.
Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACS and Corrective Measures
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Cherukodan, Surendran; Kumar, G Santhosh; Sheeja, N K; Humayoon, Kabir S
The present study is an attempt to highlight the problem of typographical errors in OPACS. The errors made while typing catalogue entries as well as importing bibliographical records from other libraries exist unnoticed by librarians resulting the non-retrieval of available records and affecting the quality of OPACs. This paper follows previous research on the topic mainly by Jeffrey Beall and Terry Ballard. The word “management” was chosen from the list of likely to be misspelled words identified by previous research. It was found that the word is wrongly entered in several forms in local, national and international OPACs justifying the observations of Ballard that typos occur in almost everywhere. Though there are lots of corrective measures proposed and are in use, the study asserts the fact that human effort is needed to get rid of the problem. The paper is also an invitation to the library professionals and system designers to construct a strategy to solve the issue.
Application of Mobile Technology in Library Services: A Review
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Sampath Kumar, B T; Vinay Kumar, D; Prithviraj, K R
Information activities are influenced by the technological innovations. Application of Information and Communication Technology in libraries is inevitable due to overproduction of information and library users also demand for new services. At this point of time, it is significant to use mobile technology in library and information centers. Due to the availability of mobile phones with everyone and the ease of reach, it has become a significant technology that a library can use. This paper reviews on the services offered by the libraries in which the mobile phones can be used effectively.
Use of Web 2.0 Services and E-Learning for Teaching and Learning Purposes among Indian Library and Information Science Department
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Singh, Ritu; Gautam, J N; Kushwah, Shivpal Singh
The paper covers the status of contents available at Universities/LIS Departments websites related to the teaching and learning purposes. Data collected and analysed in light of current development of e-learning and contents creation funded by NME-ICT. Status indicates Departments/Universities need to be motivated to use and create platform for local content development and management.Some mandatory provisions for teachers and for students needed from UGC (University Grants Commission side to use of e-learning, web 2.0 enabled services that will help content creation and use among the LIS community.
Wikipedia Utilization Pattern of Post Graduate Science Students: A Case Study of University of Kerala
(2013-03-23) George, Mathew; Pillai Sudhier, K G
The paper investigates the awareness and use of wikipedia by the post graduate science students at the University of Kerala through structured questionnaires. The survey was conducted through a structured questionnaire circulated among 241 M. Sc students taken from 10 science departments of University of Kerala and the response rate was 78.42%. A stratified accidental random sample method was used for selection of respondents. Google is the most preferred search engine for the science students to locate information electronically. A majority of 50% respondents frequently use wikipedia and 35.44% of them are eager to know more about it. Majority of the students (72.48%) opined that they can get adequate information from the Wikipedia for their academic purpose and 80.31% are getting current information from it. The study reveals that 74.60% of total students are aware of wikipedia as an open source Information resources. The paper concludes that wikipedia have become an integral part of the information needs of post graduate students at the University of Kerala.
University Ontology for Choice Based Credit System
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Sirja, Jasmin; Kapadia, Kapadia; Pareek, Jyoti; Jhaveri, Maitri
The classical web is based on HTML which cannot be exploited by information retrieval techniques. Processing of information on web is mostly restricted to manual keyword searches which results in irrelevant information retrieval. This limitation can be overcome by a web architecture known as semantic web which is an intelligent and meaningful web proposed by Sir Tim Berner’s Lee. In his roadmap for semantic web, Ontology plays a pivotal role in information exchange, use and re-use of knowledge, shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and across application systems. Ontology can be used to capture knowledge about any domain of interest with the objective of incorporating the machine-understandable data on the current human-readable web. In this document, we consider the education domain and demonstrate the development of a University Ontology using Protégé 4.2 Editor. Mysore University, Mysore, India has been taken as a case for the Ontology Development. This university has implemented Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).Various aspects like super class and sub class hierarchy and relations among them have been demonstrated. Sample execution of DL query and SPARQL query has been shown as a proof of concept.
Securing the Clouds
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Ahmed, Mohammed Imtiaz; Ahmed, Mohammed Bakhtawar; Das, Debojit
Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring [16]. While some consider it as a future derived technology that will not only help organisations to gain more profit but will also have a positive impact on the environment, others consider it as a past derived technology which is a refined version of Timesharing model from late 1960’s and nothing new. Whatever the words be, Cloud computing has gained a lot of attention in the recent years and has a wide scope in the IT industry and the big IT giants are all set to provide cloud services to the clients, as they require. Beside its wide possibilities, one threat that cloud faces is of its security issues. As in cloud computing, the data resides in the third party data centers, and the data is always vulnerable to attacks and changes. The changes or modification of data can be in from of a third party attack where a unauthorised person makes unwanted modification in the data or it can be a insider attack where an authorised person makes unauthorised changes in data. In this paper we identify some areas where cryptography can help a rapid adoption of cloud computing. Although secure storage has already captured the attention of many cloud providers, offering a higher level of protection for their customer’s data, we think that more advanced techniques such as searchable encryption will become popular in the near future, opening the doors of the Cloud to customers with higher security requirements.
College Library Services in Marathwada Region: A Study on Impact of NAAC Accreditation
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Ghumre, Shivshankar; Veer, D K
The objective of the present study is to highlight college library services in Marathwada region. In includes technical processing, circulation, periodicals control, reference services, book-bank services, and IT based services as well as modernisation of the library. The present study includes assessment of the present status of college library and its services in Marathwada region; and to find out need for change, to suggest practical solutions to the prevailing problems of the college libraries using questionnaire method. The questionnaire was sent to all the 116 NAAC accredited Arts, Commerce, and Science colleges in the month of October 2010. Out of the 116, only 80 (68.97%) questionnaires were received within a month.
Library Services in Medical and Paramedical Colleges in Assam: An Analytical Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Devi, Dalimi; Lohia, Sourabh
LIS Forum: Professionals Dias in ICT Era
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Basosle, Medha G; Dharmapurikar, Ranjeet G
In information technology era, different on-line forums in different subjects are now working as a guiding tool, news providing tool, information providing tool, etc. These forums are playing the role of on-line conference, seminar, workshop, etc. author of this article is a member of nearly five to six online LIS Forums. It is useful to keep in touch with the LIS activities of known and unknown LIS professionals. Forums are also used to discuss on news, events, problems, etc. Authors have tried to analyse the 1110 communications made on MLOSC forum’s by its members during the period of June-November 2012. Mails categorised in nineteen different heads. A main objective of this study is to see the information seeking trends of LIS professionals in ICT era.
e-Learning: Initiatives in India
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Pallavi; Kumar, Abhishek; Thakur, Archana
The rapid growth in the e-content development using web technology and its ever increasing usage has given unprecedented opportunities to educators to extend teaching material to students not only within the four-walls of their class rooms but also in the comforts of their home all over the globe. Indian Government has taken a number of initiatives, and awarded a no. of e-content development projects under NME-ICT for the growth and development of e-learning environment. The targeted users are not fully availing the e-learning opportunity of such initiatives. The bigger challenge is to get the attention of target users or in the other word to spread the awareness amongst its target users so that the e-learners not only get the maximum benefits from the projects but also participate in its creation and evolution through interactive Learning Management System (LMS) platforms. With increases use of ICT in education and setting up of National Mission in Education through ICT (NMEICT) in 2009, e-learning has become the most popular learning method that helps a learner to learn at his own place. In this article we have defined the e-learning and studied about the major initiatives taken by Government of India for e-learning & self education. The article also develop upon the categories of the learner and their respective e-Learning choices among the e- GyanKosh, Sakshat, FlexiLearn, NPTEL, CEC, Institute of Lifelong Learning (ILLL), and e-PG Pathshala.
DESIDOC Services on Social Networking Application: A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Faizul, Nisha; V Senthil
Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) provides various scientific information services to the user community through web using social networking technology. This paper highlights the concept, methodology, and need of social networking technology adapted by DESIDOC to some of the specialised services. Special focus has been given on DRDO Blog and DRDO Wiki. Paper also discusses the customisation and experience in using Wordpress software for DRDO Blog and creation of multi-lingual web pages to the multi-faceted library community. This software was tested for nearly three months before it was made available to the entire DRDO user community. In addition to Blog and Wiki, the paper also addresses the implementation of DRDO Institutional Repository. The paper concludes that using blogs and wikis is an effective way for library community to stay current and for libraries to disseminate information in a timely manner with presentation of updated content.
Use of Information Technology in Engineering College Libraries in Rayalseema Area of Andhra Pradesh
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Naidu, K Nataraja
The aim of this paper is to analyze the use of Information Technology in engineering college libraries in Rayalaseema area of Andhra Pradesh in India. Engineering college libraries are facing a piquant situation and unforeseen challenges in this age of Information Technology. IT has brought in sweeping changes in the traditional way of libraries are functioning. Engineering college libraries need to evaluate and measure the impact of Information Technology on them. It was observed that the use of Information Technology is still inadequate among the engineering college libraries in Rayalaseema area of Andhra Pradesh. The author also discusses about the need of Information Technology to improve the condition of the engineering college libraries under study. This paper also mentioned the problems of Information Technology application and also suggested some solutions to overcome the problems.
The Role of Librarians in National Development in Tanzania: Information Inclusion and Exclusion
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Tweve, Julius Tunsaje
Public libraries are inclusive institutions created for everyone to equally and freely access information for educational, social and cultural development; indeed that is the essence of inclusion. However, this is not true because defining and identifying user inclusion is a difficult task due to the wide range of factors that cause potential users exclusion from using public libraries. This is unfortunate, because the major function of a public library is to meet the information needs of all community members without discrimination. Previous research has shown that librarians usually draw two conclusions about exclusion factors: first, it is users’ personal preference when they do not use library services; and secondly, inadequate marketing of public library services to the citizenry. This is due to the fact that a public library as an inclusive institution is so ardently incorporated into the identity of public librarianship that questioning the social inclusiveness of libraries rarely occurs. This paper examines the issue of exclusion, attempts to define the inclusive society, and subsequently makes recommendation on how the librarians can use their professional capacity in service provision to combat the exclusion in the society in turn enhance development.
Promoting the Use of Open Sources via Delivery of Information Literacy Module for Science Students
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Shelar, Vandana R
The investigator delivered the Information Literacy Programme in which she has presented the Information Literacy Module for Science students. The module designed was topic for research undertaken for the PhD degree. The eighth module emphasised the promotion and utility of open resources. In this paper the researches briefly mentions about the various modules. The feedback received after the delivery of ILP was very favourable and inspiring to the entire library team.
Dominant Issues/Expectations Among E-Journal Users: A Study of User Experiences at University College of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technologcal University, Kakinada
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Naick, B R Doraswamy
The paper makes a critical attempt at analysing pertinent issues emanating from the e-journals usage perspective as experienced by final year students of B. Tech. as well as M. Tech. University College of Engineering, JNTU, Kakinada. A structured questionnaire throws up all the desired data out of a sample size of 100 students. A majority of the students rank high on the awareness level in relation to the availability of e-journals in the library. Interestingly, valuable inputs provided by library staff, peers, and faculty in general, is found as the biggest contributing factor to this higher level of awareness. Further, analysis puts the tag of ‘most favoured place’ to the central library as far as access to e-journals is concerned. Research requirements stand at the top of the e-journals’ search priorities among students. However, typical problems/snags, such as lack of uniform accessibility and abysmally sluggish downloading rate dampen the user spirits. Even though, widely perceived as a highly productive source of information by students, yet the students do not rate themselves as serious users of e-journals. They consider up-gradation of skills as a serious and urgent necessity. Besides, half of the students register satisfaction with the availability of e-journals in the library. However, a sizeable majority exudes optimism about the usefulness of users’ awareness programmes and look forward earnestly to such programmes.
Assessment of Information Literacy Competence of Researchers
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Joshi, Taruna
ACRL’s Information Literacy Standards for Science, Engineering, and Technology were used to develop questionnaire to assess the information literacy competence of doctoral researchers in science of central universities in Delhi, and IIT Delhi. The findings are baseline assessment of such researchers, which could be used to guide the development of information literacy programme.
Marching Towards Networked and Collaborative Culture: A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Sahi, Vikram Singh
Collection and Assets Management: One University Library’s Journey to the Future
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) N K, Sheeja; Mathew K, Susan; Pillai, Sreerekha S; Cherukodan, Surendran
Academic libraries worldwide have witnessed a number of trends and paradigm shifts over the last decade. It is vital for university libraries to develop a collection of high standards to satisfy academics and researchers for supporting the vision and mission of a university. The area of collection development and management is the most important part of any library. This paper reports on the problems and prospects of collection and asset management of the University Library of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). The insight for the paper comes from the authors’ first-hand experience supported by literature review. Detailed information regarding the purchase of books, serials, policies regarding the acquisition, and changing trends and problems were collected from the official records with the help of a structured data sheet. The study discovers the current trends in collection and asset management in CUSAT and point out the changes likely to be adopted in future.
Publishing MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data as Linked Data With Provenance
(INFLIBNET Centre3, 2013-03-23) Marjit, Ujjal; Sharma, Kumar; Biswas, Utpal
Publishing Bibliographic data as Linked Data into the Web of Data provides information that are rich in semantics and syntax. Linked Data approach allows machine to analyse the data without human intervention. Data becomes reusable and publicly revealed into the web. Such data are always shareable among different data sources. Data that are published into the Web of Data can be increased in size. In spite of having meaningful and structured data into the web, their metadata or provenance are available at a minimum rate. In order to provide the utility and the glimpse of the data, the enquiry such as, what a dataset will contribute, who published it, their access mechanisms and licensing information are essential for the data consumers. In this paper, we present an approach for publishing MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic data as Linked Data with Provenance. We believe that the provenance information will help data consumers, mainly in library domains, to determine the quality & uniformity of the bibliographic information.

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