E-Discovery Tools and Applications in Modern Libraries (original) (raw)

Smart library services with discovery tool: A present-day context

2019

With the passage of time things have been evolved from manual to automation and then integrated. The successors and versions of the cataloguing standards has come up with their enhancements alike AACR2 to Resource Description and Access. RDA is being developed to provide a better acceptability with object-oriented database structures. Today card catalogues are totally replaced with OPACs and now discovery interfaces are replacing OPACs. Discovery interfaces are also called next generation catalogs which give an enriched web-based interface used by users including scholars and researchers. It also provides link resolver and an indexing, search and retrieval element. This paper discusses the discovery services and its development in the libraries and provides an overview of how libraries are using and take advantages of advance technology and make their resources easily accessible to the patrons through single search interface.

Library Resources Discovery Service: Future of the Libraries

Day by day the online and print resources are increasing in the University libraries either from purchasing, subscribing or generating its own research output. Librarian has to seriously think over the search & retrieval system of these documents in a single window search rather to make simple search on various databases of library. To overcome of these issues, Library resources discovery service will be the option which has to adopt by the libraries soon. This paper provide an overview of the library resource discovery environment and explain how these technologies, methodologies, and products might be able to adapt to changes in the evolving information landscape in scholarly communications. This paper will also attempt to explore comparative features of library resources discovery products and services available in commercial as well as open source both and also the case study of adaptation of library resources discovery tools in Central Library, Tripura University.

Discovery tools and its Impact on Higher Learning Institute Libraries

International Symposium of Knowledge and Communication (ISKCOM): Future Librarianship, 2016

An effective discovery and easy access drive usage, which growths the value of the content to libraries, makes it more likely that the library will renew its subscriptions or will purchase new content. Web-scale discovery service systems and platforms are ongoing to evolve and become more commonly accepted in academic libraries. Functioning as more than next-generation catalogue due to their volume and associated Web services, they invite strategic inquiry and launch libraries into deeper inquisitorial and continuous critical thinking regarding discovery system best practices. Complete and accurate discovery depends on high-quality, rich bibliographic metadata. Selection and access to full-text content depends on accurate holdings data for the specific library.

Impact of New Technologies in the Digital Libraries

STM Journal-Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences, 2019

The Digital library aims to provide access to information 'on demand' regardless of the location of the computer, where it is stored. The role of digital libraries in the present day information environment and new challenges and promises for library services especially in the India. A Digital Library is to be an electronic collection of real or virtual resources, which may also be available elsewhere. These resources must be whole works with which human can have a complete cognitive effective engagement. A Digital library may allow either online or offline access to the elements it organizes and houses, and may include multimedia as well as multilingual data. Although accessible online, a digital library is not identical to a website or a portal however while portals, specialized websites and search engines cover a wide range of subject areas, digital libraries are more narrowly focused around one or a specific group of disciplines. Digital libraries, moreover attach content specific and highly descriptive metadata such as, descriptors or keywords to describe each item in the collection. Therefore, searches in a digital library can produce more useful results, save time and effort in searching , and in the best of cases browsers may directly access the text or multimedia content for which they executive their search. INTRODUCTION We are living in the age of digitization. Library provides information services that must fulfill the Information needs of present and future library users. Traditional libraries are still handling largely printed materials that are expensive and bulky. Information seekers are also longer satisfied with only printed materials. They need to supplement the printed information with more dynamic electronic and multimedia documents. The user demands for information delivery in digital form at their desktop are increasing in recent times. In the present environment where there is a wealth of information resources being published and transmitted through electronic media, libraries must take proactive measures to develop digital collections to cater to digital information needs of their users[1].