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KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management
, have captured the attention of the research scholars in the recent years, thanks to the vast digital resources made available in Universities. This study attempts to trace out the awareness and use of e-resources by the full time Ph.D scholars of four departments of 'School of Chemistry' at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. A sample size of 80 scholars was selected by random sampling method. The data required for the study was collected through a questionnaire. The findings of the study: 49 (65%) respondents locate information in the web with the help of Search Engines. Google has become the most popular search engine among the full time Ph.D scholars (92%). Keyword search is the favourite search strategy (40%). 31(41%) respondents have less than 6 months experience in using e-resources and 20(27%) respondents possess more than two years experience in utilizing the e-resources. 72 (96%) respondents are aware of Internet, 64 (85%) respondents are aware of e-journals/e-books and 63 (84%) respondents are aware about websites/home pages. 80% of the respondents use Internet and 39% of the respondents have not used the virtual conference ever.54(72%) respondents are expert in websites/Homepages and 42(56%) respondents are beginners in using e-journals/e-books. The major benefit of using e-resources is their ease of use (37%). 35 % of the respondents consider "Lack of knowledge for using e-resources' is the major constraint in using e-resources. Guidance from others is the main mode of learning about e-resources among the respondents (58%). 71% scholars want to attend some kind of training programme to learn to use e-resources. 15(20%) respondents need training in skills to get required information from various e-journals. Connectivity problem is 146 KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management Volume 2 Issue 2 the topmost limiting factor for 49% of the respondents and Lack of time is the major limiting factor for 23% of the respondents.
Special Digital Library - a Tata Memorial Hospital experience
The Tata Memorial Hospital is a premier and leading organization for cancer diagnosis, prevention, education, research and treatment in India. The need for information varies every moment with every user. To meet the special needs, the library maintains a collection of utmost importance and relevance. The library's management system allows users to search the collection from their desks. The services are searchable through a single library page, allowing access to e-journals and customized contents for certain highly important and most frequently used journals. The present developments have positively affected the library services. It has been observed that the information queries made on the library have not only grown in number but are also varied in terms of subject. There has been an increase in requests for online search, copies of articles and the Inter Library Loan. This paper would study the impact of such services on its users in terms of quantity and quality, viewing the need for updation of services and adding new ones to the existing ones and could provide a base for prospective long term study.
International Journal of Library and Information Science
In this era of transition from information age to knowledge society, the libraries have much greater challenges to face. The whole insight of library has now changed from collection of books to a single window knowledge bank. This paper discusses the definition and features of open source library management software, criteria of selection of best open source library management software, their, advantages and limitations. Open source library management software is a solution to reducing that cost. The paper describes in brief about the feature of some of the open source library management software like Greenstone Digital Library, DSpace, KOHA, E-Prints, NewGenlib, PhpMyLibrary, OpenBiblio, Avanti, etc., which are useful for developing digital library and institutional repositories.
The National Library of India, Its Collection Development and ICT Library Progress June 2019 (21)
Library Progress (International), 2019
Public library is the nerve of the education and culture and the National Library is in core center in the system and it has resulted ongoing changes in a society’s economy, education, policy, tradition and religion.In the public library system, National Library is the apex library and extensive use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in its housekeeping operations and activities has tremendously impacted the type of services delivered by public libraries in the society. In present study the ICT based library services provided in a public library has been discussed with special reference to the National Library of India. The paper also explores the possibility of introducing other modern ICT based user services where the National Library can initiate those facilities to its users. The main objective of this study is to examine the services provided by National Library of India to its esteemed users.
2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was conducted to find out the case study about the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) library, New Delhi (India). This case study reveals the library activities, services, collection, ICT usages, infrastructures and management of the library for the benefit of user community. Methodology: For the required information a set of questionnaire was prepared for the present study and it was distributed to the library professionals of AIIMS library only. Findings: This study revealed that library has well furnished collection of printed and eresources, facilities for disabled users, yearly training program for library professionals, usages of ICT in the library etc. Research Limitations: The present study is limited only for the AIIMS library of New Delhi. Though different categories of library users use the library yet the research survey was limited for the library professionals only.
DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVES AND ISSUES IN INDIA : EFFORTS ON SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
The academic and research libraries across the globe are striving hard to harness technology for achieving scholarly knowledge management, which is fast proliferating, distributed and scattered. Knowledge Management leveraging on information science (IS) and information technology (IT) is the recent trend and strategy seen in the advanced academic and corporate environment. Building world standard digital libraries, as powerhouses of knowledge, that are able to address the complex issues put forth by the technology push as well as the demand pull are fast catching up worldwide attention. Particularly, in India, Open Digital Library (ODL) initiatives are picking up unprecedented Institutional as well as professional group attention owing to a variety of excellent features offered by these DLs. During the past five years India has been responding to this global trend quite proactively and positively. One of the major reasons being, presently, more than 70 percentage of world's scholarly literature are born digital. Naturally when they are acquired by the libraries for patron's use they will have to be acquired in the digital form. A digital library is a collection of information that is both electronic (born digital) as well as digitized and it gives us powers we never had with traditional libraries. Digital libraries have attracted almost all the developed and developing countries due to its multifaceted features and the opportunities it extend to the information providers and information seekers. It offers new levels of access to broader audiences of users and new opportunities for library and information science field to advance both theory and practice. Creating effective digital libraries and providing cutting edge digital information services poses serious challenges for existing and future technologies. They include collection building, infrastructure, acceptability, access restrictions, readability, standardization, authentication, preservation, copyright, policy and strategic issues, user interface, funding etc. Yet the advantages outweigh most of the bottlenecks and hardships and therefore the importance of digital libraries have been recognized by all nations of the world. India has recognized the power of digital libraries and lots of initiatives are on the move for developing state-of-art digital libraries.
2020
Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is of paramount importance in modern-day libraries and information centres. ICT helps in capturing, processing, storing, and communicating information. No library can still rely only on traditional printed information resources to perform effectively and efficiently (Etebu, 2010). The present study investigated the various realms of research pursued focusing on ICT with respect to libraries and made an effort to map the research scientometrically with a special reference to India. ICT and library related SCOPUS records are elicited and analysed to make a review of the research pursued by professionals in the field. A steady growth in the number of publications in the area and an increasing trend is observed during the last ten years. Most of the studies are surveys in nature conducted in libraries attached to academic institutions. ICT and its implementation, usage, skills acquired by professionals, ICT development, accessibility, its impact on individual, institution, society, evaluation are the key areas discussed in most of the publication records. There are some research areas identified by the present study to be explored by researchers worldwide and Indian researchers. Special libraries and public libraries are to be focused as the users of the libraries are multifaceted. Library Philosophy and Practice is the most preferred journal for publishing research outputs from researchers in the field and Egypt and India have the maximum number of authorships in the published papers. The comparison of ICT research areas at global level and Indian scenario enabled to identify the gaps in research at both level so that those indents to take up new researches may choose the areas on complementary way.
Use of different information and communication technologies in Indian academic libraries
Library Review, 2015
Purpose – This paper aims to present an exploration of the potential utilisation of different information and communication technologies (ICT) in Indian academic libraries. Design/methodology/approach – A survey method was used for the collection of data. A structured questionnaire, containing close-ended questions, was sent by postal mail to 30 librarians of the Central University Libraries in India, of which 15 questionnaires were returned. Findings – Academic libraries in India have mostly been involved in applying traditional ICT-based solutions for the management of various library functions and services, particularly for organising and retrieving information. Use of modern ICT-based tools of knowledge creation and sharing such as web discovery tools, blogs, wikis, Real Simple Syndication feeds, social networking and social bookmarking seems uncommon in academic libraries. Lack of trained staff in ICT, low level of ICT skills among library users, unawareness of potential benefi...