Higgins, Susan E(Inflibnet centre, February 8, 2007)
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The importance of Information and Communication Technologies in
distance learning has been acknowledged as an essential component of
strengthening LIS education in the remote areas of the north eastern states
of India. (Rath). The same could be said of the use of ICT for LIS education
in remote areas of Australia and in America. The infrastructure of physical,
human and financial resources all attract students to the profession. This
reflective essay discusses Robert Stueart’s 1999 challenge to information
access in Asia: “One of the most important activities is information society
is to maintain a cadre of qualified information professionals”. (Stueart,
1999). Maintaining a cadre of information professionals is also an
appropriate challenge to India. Information professionals themselves are
the channel of globalization of education because they see the need for
standards in computerisation initiatives and promote communities of
practice worldwide.
Mandal, Achintya K; Nandi, Subodh Gopal(Inflibnet centre, February 8, 2007)
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The present study discusses on the digital library initiatives on the light of
keystone principles. It includes open source software, and open source library
software. This study analyses webliazer, an open source software as
measuring tool of the digital library usage. It highlights on various methods
of improvement, updation procedure of the digital library by using server log
file analysis for proper maintenance of the library homepage by exploiting
the user feedback at Visva-Bharati Library.
Unprecedented growth and popularity, besides hospitality displayed by blogs
and blog softwares culminated into massive use of this service in many
fields including Library & Library Information Science. This paper briefly
discusses some blogging softwares and blog search engines including those
used in the field of Library and Library Information Science. The Author
has tried to come out with a model blog for Allama Iqbal Library using blogging
software Live Journal and the same is presented through this paper.
Patil, D B; Parameshwar, S; Kumbargoudar, Praveenkumar(Inflibnet centre, February 8, 2007)
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The present paper explains about UGC-Infonet Consortium of the INFLIBNET
and examined use of the Consortium by the Faculty Members and Research
Scholars. Further, the data is collected through a questionnaire to study
the information needs of the Faculty Members and Researchers in Chemistry
and Use of UGC-Infonet Consortium by the Faculty Members and Research
Scholars in the Dept of Chemistry, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga. The paper
revealed that UGC Infonet Consortium is much helpful in fulfilling their
information needs. There is need to train the faculty members and research
scholars in using the UGC-Infonet Journals. Further, there is need to
include more number of Journals in the Consortium.
Over the last few years there has been a rapid rise in the electronic journals
and this electronic delivery of journals has resulted this study. Users of the
E-journals in the A.C. Joshi Library, Panjab University, Chandigarh were
studied in this survey. Study highlights the level of the use of the available
electronic journals. Experiences of faculty and students about various issues
relating to electronic journals are highlighted. This article also discusses
whether attitudes of the users change depending upon gender, age, access
place and branch of study etc.