CALIBER 2013:Gandhinagar, Gujarat

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Academic Libraries and Cloud Computing
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Joshi, Namrata; Prajapati, Saurabh K
In library and information, first revolution came when automation started in most of the libraries. The main objective of this article is to give a basic overview of Cloud Computing and try to clear up some confusion on using the same. This paper also tries to present Cloud Computing in such a way that library community can understand it easily and make librarians to think on using it for designing and providing different services with modern infrastructure and technology.
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 Customer Relationship Management in Libraries
(2013-12-12) Patel, Mayuri; Trivedi, Urvi
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is inevitable in a competitive business world. The customer is a king in the service sector and any failures to understand his/her demand would shake the sustainability in the market. The purpose of the paper is to understand the application of CRM in libraries and why librarian should implement the marketing concept of CRM in the library. Library automation, internet and World Wide Web has enhanced the expectations of users for providing the better services by acquiring and making the e-resources accessible within their library and having hyperlinks on their library web pages. The goal of CRM is to optimize management of customer information needs and interests to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Application of CRM in libraries can improve customer data and process management, customer loyalty, retention and satisfaction. CRM refers to the methods and tools which helps an organization to manage its relationship with its customer in an organized way. Relationships between the staff and the users are explored using CRM framework.
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.
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.
Challenges in Automating Tanzania Academic Libraries
(2013-12-12) Metili, Lois – Singa
The main aim of this paper is to establish the cultural challenges of automating academic libraries in Tanzania. It is evident that many libraries, especially in the developed countries are using automated libraries to retrieve data, hence save space, time and increase efficiency in their daily activities. While there are some automated libraries such as that of the University of Dar es salaam, majority are still operating manually. This paper starts with introducing the paper and defining academic library, automated library, and automated librarian and moves forward in identifying some eight cultural challenges that act as a stumbling block to the automation of Tanzanian libraries. Amongst those are poor reading culture, inadequate capital, availability of services, poor infrastructure, lack of ICT skills, lack of management support and the donor – funded dependency syndrome. It ends with a conclusion on how best to overcome these stumbling blocks.
Cloud-based Services: Prospects for the University Libraries
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Choukimath, Puttaraj A; Agadi, K B; Koganuramath, Muttayya M
University libraries are set to build and manage their own data centres. In this data-model libraries would gain more control over the software applications and data stores. Cloud-based technologies are here to make this possible. This paper, discusses meaning, definition, and characteristics of cloudbased computing. It emphasises on IT infrastructure and highlights the potentialities of libraries in implementation of these technologies. It also gives brief introduction to the challenges posed by cloud-based library services. The objective of this paper is to investigate and design reference architecture to digital library systems with scalability using cloud computing. This paper intend to explore the possibilities with ‘cloud-based technologies’ as ‘must adoptable’, feasible prospects for future of university library systems in building highly scalable and robust information systems.
Collaborative Services through Websites of Law Colleges in India: An Evaluation
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Wadnerkar, Vaishali B; Sontakke, Minakshi R
At present, Law Educational institutions in India maintain website and provide information about. This paper is focused on evaluation of websites of top law colleges in India. The paper aims to study and analyse these. These reveal various facets such as services, resources, and facilities available in25 law colleges in India. The evaluation process is achieved by grading and ranking. Out of these, 5 top law college websites are ranked, and finally a model of law education is given.
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.
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.
Creating Library Website using Joomla: A Case Study on IIM Ahmedabad Library Website
(2013-03-23) Amin, Jignesh; Navik, Viral
Numbers of organizations, including the libraries, are turned to use Open Source CMS (content management system) to managing their web contains. Authors did study on Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, this is a prime management Library and had successfully implemented Joomla CMS since 2008.The main objective of this study is to share authors experience with open source CMS Joomla used at Vikram Sarabhai Library, so that remaining libraries and information centers can more easily assess its appropriateness to their own environment.
Databib: Cataloging the World’s Data Repositories
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Witt, Michael
Databib (http://databib.org ) is a curated, global, online catalog of research data repositories. Librarians and other information professionals have identified and cataloged over 500 data repositories that can be easily browsed and searched by users or integrated with other platforms or cyberinfrastructure. Databib can help researchers find appropriate repositories to deposit their data, and it gives consumers of data a tool to discover repositories of datasets that meet their research or learning needs. Users can submit new repositories to Databib, which are reviewed and curated by an international board of editors. All information from Databib has been contributed to the public domain using the Creative Commons Zero protocol. Supported machine interfaces and formats include RSS, OpenSearch, RDF/XML, Linked Data (RDFa), and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
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.
Digital Divide and Digital Library Environment: Bridging the Gap through Information Literacy and Role of Academic Community
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Gupta, Sobhagyawati; Rajneesh; Rana, Madan Singh
The aim of this paper is to explore the problem of how best to conceptualize information literacy (IL) in the higher education environment, in order to ensure that without combined efforts of teachers, librarians, administrators and users, the concept of digital divide is not easy to be handled by the academic community. This paper outlines the importance of developing IL in higher education for bridging the digital divide and the influence of the digital library environment. Further, it also describes the role of academic community in developing the IL and bridging the digital divide.
Digital Information Literacy Among Research Scholars in Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati: A Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) D Konappa
Digital information literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of e-resources in appropriate contexts to construct knowledge. In the current digital age, information literacy has inevitably been influenced extensively by developments in technology with the emergence of digital information literacy. This paper describes the baseline findings of the digital curricular literacy.
Document Delivery in Digital Age
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Siddiqui, Suboohi
With the advent of the Internet and electronic publishing systems, new ways of delivering scholarly information have arisen which challenge some of the traditional systems made for document delivery. Document Delivery bridges the gap between the customers and the document. Libraries have to offer user friendly access to hybrid collections, and design and implement document delivery mechanisms from paper originals to provide a seamless integration between delivery from electronic and paper articles. This paper explores how that role is changing to embrace virtual holdings and electronic document delivery.
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.
E- everything in Open and Distance Learning of Higher Educational Institutions in Assam : A Case Study
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Mazumdar, Nirmal Ranjan; Deka, Dipen
The application of electronic media in open and distance education has made significant impact in India in imparting education to the deprived. This paper highlights the applications of different electronic system in the open and distance learning higher educational institutions of Assam. The different services like e-learning portal, community radio, toll free helpline numbers etc. of these open and distance learning educational institutions of Assam have been discussed here.
E-learning and its Impact on Solapur District
(INFLIBNET Centre, 2013-03-23) Tank, Manisha Kishor
When in 1991 the World Wide Web was initiated, there was surge of interest in the possibilities of electronic learning (or e-learning). The use of the eeb as an educational medium made a large change in communities, organizations and markets. To define e-learning it is said that e-Learning is referred to as teaching and learning by using electronic media. This methodology supports the use of networking and communications technology in teaching and learning. e-Learning is generally meant for remote learning or distance learning, but can also be used in face-to-face mode. In this paper I had made study about the awareness and impact of e-Learning in Solapur district of Maharashtra which is a mainly rural area. An analysis on the collected data has been made to find the advantages of e-Learning resources and their affect on social-economic and mental development of the individuals belonging to rural areas.
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.

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