Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences

 This paper discuss the need for an incorporated electronic resources and services for academic law library users; e- resources availability from the web and advantage of e- resources and also discussed with types of e-journals e-databases and examines the interface requirements in legal education. It concludes by looking to the future in research and development of useful system.
 

E-resources have marked an impressive footprint in managing library and delivering the information services to the end-users. There are few technical hurdles such as performance of technology, timely access; user interfaces, troubleshooting, skilled manpower etc. which have made e-resources more complex in managing information and delivering services. To overcome these issues, the library and information system require an effective and efficient Electronic Resource Management System to assist the librarian in managing the e-resources. Since the last two decades, the information and communication technologies have equipped the librarian with certain e-tools to provide the e-resources services to the end-users in an effective and efficient manner. The Health Sciences Library of Manipal University, Manipal, is a pioneer in providing services to the faculties and students of various disciplines. The library has large volume of e-resources in terms of book, journals, and online databases to cater to the need of library users. This paper makes an effort in providing the details on the ERMSS - an integrated e-resources management and search solution software which has provided for effective management of e-resources held by the Health Sciences Library. 

Keywords: Internet; E-Resources; Single window access; Health Sciences Library; Library users;
ERMSS. 

This study analyzed the growth of the scientific literature in the dental area, as available from NCBI PubMed, using standard bibliometric techniques. Bradford’s law of scattering was used to identify core journals and Lotka’s law employed to analyze author’s productivity pattern. The bibliometric analysis of the journal “Indian Journal of Dental Research Studies’ (2002-2004)” showed a trend of growth in contributions, and average number of contributions was 8.5 per volume. Majority of the dentists preferred to do collaborative research and contribute their papers jointly. Most of the contributions were Original Articles/ Research (79 out of 103 articles). The institutional and geographical distribution of contributions was calculated. Most of the contributions were from Karnataka followed by Tamil Nadu. Most of the contributions were with citations. Majority of the dentists cited journals in large numbers (452), while books came second with 150 citations. ‘Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics’ occupied the 1st rank and ‘Journal of Periodontology’ the 2nd rank in the ranked list of cited journals.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Bibliometric technique; Citation snalysis; Indian Journal of Dental Research;
Dentists; Cited journals. 

In India, all apex literary libraries are gradually adopting to the changes that are taking place in the information world. This paper focuses primarily on those sectors that are nurturing multilingual resources, shows how changes in technology are impacting such libraries. Subsequently this paper describes the various steps in involved in selecting software/hardware technology for multi-lingual system, offering a broad strategic plan to go for automation, thus highlighting priorities of hardware and software selections. Also it takes it to considerations the integrated system and varied modules to replace all traditional library functions, at the same time capable of connecting to the world resources. Apart from identify various steps to embrace automation, makes an attempt to show how multi-lingual approach is not possible with earlier Indian script codes for information interchange. Eventually Unicode offers an excellent opportunity to Indian languages to store and publish the information in any Indian languages. Lastly it furnishes some softwares having Unicode support that helps in building and distributing multilingual library resources. 

This paper discusses the meaning of consortia as well as concept, need and benefits of Library Consortia and emphasized on a particulars of CeRA (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture), which is an unique Consortia launched on 30th April 2008 by IndianAgricultural Research Institute (IARI) New Delhi and gives its importance, Features and Facilities to the users.

Key words: Consortia; Library consortia; Need; Benefit; Indian scenario; CeRA-objectives;Features; Facilities. 

Serials collection management is more challenging for librarians in university libraries. This study covers collection development of commerce and management serials in six general universities of Karnataka state. Due to the limited budget, space, lack of onsite or off site storage, and shortage of staff, it required balanced collection development of scientific serials. This article identifies the year-wise and university wise subscription of Commerce and Management serials. Total 451 (67.7%) of the serial titles in collection were Commerce and they accounted for (67.7%) and for 251 (32.3%) of Management serial titles subscribed to by six university libraries from 2004-2008. This study helped to know how many universities subscribed to common titles and how many universities subscribed uniform serials independently without any duplication.

Keywords : Serial titles; Commerce; Management; Karnataka universities. 

An attempt has been made to assess awareness & usefulness of CD – ROM databases by the users of Karnataka State Universities. The Karnataka State University provides CD-ROM databases to its users, for Research & Development activities. A questionnaire & interview schedule was designed to collect the relevant information. About 1578 questionnaires distributed, only 432 users were using CD-ROM databases. The percentage of using CD-ROM databases was 27.38%, the remaining 72.62% users were not using CD-ROM databases. 

Key words: Karnataka State University; CD-ROM databases; Bibliographical databases. 

The results and discussions in this paper are based on the primary data collected from the professionals and semi-professionals working in 5 medical college libraries and 7 engineering college libraries in Coastal Karnataka through a pre-tested, structured, comprehensive questionnaire with a response rate of 86.24%. This paper reports on the views and perceptions of medical and engineering college library professionals in Coastal Karnataka in respect of their job, job environment and organization in addition to identifying and analyzing the key individual, work and organizational characteristics influencing their job satisfaction. This study finding has implications for human resource management research and practice in medical and engineering college libraries. The key issues considered were job rotation, work environment, leadership qualities and employee development. Superior subordinate relations in the organization have been discussed.

Keywords: Job environment; Job satisfaction; Medical colleges; Engineering colleges. 

In this decade availability of e-resources in a B.Ed and D.Ed college library is very common. But their proper and fair use is a matter for discussion. This paper examines the existence of various e-resources and databases in Nutan Vidyalaya B.Ed and D.Ed college library. The study also highlights the preferences and importance of online resources among the students and lecturers. 

Keywords: E-resources; Communication; Traditional resources; Sources of information; OPAC; Internet; Library. 

In today’s knowledge-driven society, libraries attached to the academic institution are finding it very difficult to manage their knowledge resources and cope up with ever changing and diversified demands of the user community of the academia. Knowledge resources have gained importance and hold the key to scholarly teaching, research and learning environment. Against this backdrop, Resource Learning Centers(RLC) want to equip their students, research scholars and teaching faculties with necessary skills to make them ready to take on the challenges of an ever-evolving society. This requires an educator who is no longer only ‘dispenser of knowledge’ but also a ‘facilitator of learning’. A Learning Object (LO) is a ‘modular digital resource’, a discrete piece of content that has educational value. Learning objects that are stored in database or archives are called Learning Object Repositories (LOR). Faculty members, research scholars and students can make use of these LOR simultaneously and within and between RLCs / academic institutions and enhance the equality of teaching, research and learning process. This papers highlights the concept of LOR and discusses the need for LOR in the RLCs for effective teaching, research and learning. It explores some other practical problems emerging in this context , like academic community participation, quality of learning objects, quality of metadata, etc.  

Abstract

Information technology has changed the lifestyle of mankind in every manner. Application of Information
technology has influenced every area of specialization, library and information centers are no exception.
Right from the beginning of its inception, libraries are found embracing the new technologies to improve
its services and perform effectively to satisfy the information needs of its end user. As the readers are
expecting more efficiency in services, Library and Information Centers are adopting new trendy technologies to cater the needs of its users. As a result, efforts are being made to adopt the internet, mobile technology many more.... in the field of library and information services. The next generation of internet i.e, web 2.0 has had a novel influence on how people interrelate and connect with each other, both from the individual view point and a business. Now in the era of digital libraries, a new concept is emerging called Cloud Computing, which offers information retrieval systems, particularly digital libraries and search engines, a wide variety of options for growth and reduction of maintenance needs and encourages efficient resource use. In simple terms, it is the ability to use resources and tools through the internet without really owning or being near them. This paper reveals the basic features of the emerging technology, its service models, its benefits to the libraries and some novel examples of selected libraries worldwide where cloud computing technology is adopted.

Key word: Cloud computing technology; ICT; Digital library.