Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences

Outreach has become an essential component of library services in academic libraries. The paper discusses various components of outreach programs with the support of reviewing the published literature in the recent past. The paper highlights the trends and ongoing practices at various organizations along with the popular practices.

Today, information literacy (IL) is inextricably associated with information practices and critical thinking in the information and communication technology environment. The term ‘Information Literacy (IL)” occurred in 1974 by Zurkowski in US. Its widespread use started after 1989 and has gained importance worldwide over the last decade. The IL is the ability to know locate and evaluate the information sources through which ability to take right decisions for the development of the society with the objective of transforming the world into a knowledge society. It is the basis for lifelong learning and to develop sense–making ability among the readers. India is moving towards information and knowledge-based society it must be necessary for university students, research scholars and faculty members possess competencies and information literacy skills to accomplish their research goals. There are various programmes taken throughout the world from 1980s to make the people information literate. Librarians, Teachers Library schools and Library Associations can play major role to promote information literacy. This paper discusses on concept of information literacy, its need in present scenario and its role in the 21st century.

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is one of the services introduced along with library automation which is playing an important role in retrieving bibliographic details of publications in the library. The questionnaire based survey conducted at the library. 150 samples of the questionnaire is distributed randomly between the staff and students of Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, out of which 132 completed and valid questionnaires (88.00%) are received for analysis. The data received from the respondents through the questionnaires is analyzed. This paper examines the use and functional lapses in operation of OPAC in the academic libraries in Madurai and presented the results here. This provides original data from library end users in Madurai Kamaraj University experience whiles using OPAC.

The present twenty-first century witnesses a tremendous change and growth in Information and Communication Technology. The e-resources in the academic libraries has enabled the teachers and students to enhance their academic as well as research activities by providing the latest information and access to world wide information. The present study focuses on the accessing level of online resources in the academic libraries by its elite clienteles mainly the students. The students of this ICT era should be provided the right information at the right time. The library services supplemented by e-resources is a great boon to the contemporary users. The present paper aims to analyse the utilization relationship and status of academic libraries with the students, and make a correlation analysis of the usage to analyse the positivity and futurity of academic libraries. This study is limited within the graduate level students of the three respective institutions taken for study i.e., arts and science colleges in Tuticorin District. The study has been carried out among the students belonging to the academic year 2018-2019. The study is mainly an analytical and descriptive study based on the response of the student.

The reason for this article is to think about how and why Cloud Computing and virtual machines (VMs) related advancement situations based on cloud-based assets might be utilized to help and improve the innovative components of any association/ Library. This paper accentuation about specialization in Cloud Computing and Virtualization data and IBM, it is especially a work in advancement as of now thus while the completely covers the essential innovations included, the historical backdrop of the cloud and its underlying foundations in administration arranged design and utility processing, it has plentiful extension to take in the quick changing models that are tossed out by distributed computing. cloud computing, frequently alluded to as basically "the cloud," is the conveyance of on-request registering assets, everything from applications to server farms, over the web on a compensation for use premise. The birth places of the expression "Cloud" can be followed to the covering idea of this current innovation's structure; the framework works for clients yet they truly have no clue the inalienable complexities that the framework uses. The "methods for correspondence among customer and cloud have been named middleware and depend particularly on development of pictures of virtual machines" (Andrew, 2012) spoke to as cloud image, a few libraries and different associations previously utilizing distributed computing administrations/devices and for the most part open source are accessible on Cloud. Cloud-based frameworks, as methods for finding out about PC frameworks, applications and organizing and accomplishing a comprehension of fundamental parts of both distributed computing and virtual machines, situations.

The present study is based on the Indian output of 10,278 research papers in nuclear science as indexed in Web of Science database for the period of 10 years (2009 to 2018), with a view to understand India’s growth, geographical distribution of the publications, research communication in core journals, institutional productivity, highly productive scientists. It is noted from the study that India has produced highest number of papers i.e. 1189, 11.57% scholarly publications 4530 citations with 3.81 average citations per papers in the year 2016, highest research output is from Radiology Nuclear Medicine Medical Imaging 5589 with 32.52% share, leading journal is Journal of Radio analytical and Nuclear Chemistry with 900 publications 18.60% share, followed by most prolific research institutions of India is Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai that has contributed the highest i.e. 2151, 38.62% publications, highly productive scientist is Kumar A. 568 publications with 21.05 % share, Further, International collaborative share 612 articles of India in this research output was with United States with 28.32% share. Besides articles appeared in the journals have shown a predominant contribution 7670 publications with 69.48% share. It is also observed that 10275 articles with 99.97% share in English.