International Information and Library Review

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Index to Volume 35, 2003

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > I-IX

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Knowledge-Sharing through Radio and Newsletters as a Catalyst to Grassroot Participation and Management for Rural Water-related Environmental Problems in Ebo Itumbonuso, in Local Government Areas, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Uwem Robert Otu

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 311-317

Knowledge comes from experience and experience from trials, successes, failures, reading, lectures, and information generally. It is clear that never at any time did humanity witness such a tremendous flow of information as now. The concept behind this study was to relay information about healthy living and environmental sustainability to the rural poor in Ebo Itumbonuso who have no idea of the detrimental...

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Foreword

Toni Carbo, Donald L. Ford

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 131-132

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Empowering Development Through E-Governance: Creating Smart Communities In Small Island States

Wendy Unette Sealy

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 335-358

An attempt is made in this paper to gain an understanding of the current and potential impact of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the Small Island Sates of the Caribbean, in particular those populations living in rural communities. The introduction briefly examines the impact of ICTs on society and calls for alternative channels for government to serve rural communities...

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Digital Libraries in the Central African Sub-region: A Case Study of Cameroon

Innocent Awasom

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 149-155

Valuable research is being carried out in the developing countries but researchers are hampered by not being able to access, use, and share essential scientific information. Nurturing a capability for creating local information collections is an effective strategy for sustained long-term human development as knowledge fostering cultural and scientific exchange can be assembled, thus increasing international...

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Rethinking the Indian Digital Divide: The Present State of Digitization in Indian Management Libraries

Ramesh C. Gaur

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 189-203

In this paper efforts have been made to analyze the present status of digitization of Indian Management Libraries through a survey carried out in 500 management libraries in India. The issues such as library automation, development of digital libraries, and use of bar code and smart card technology have been discussed. Issues responsible for the widening of the digital divide have been identified.

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Information for Research in Developing Countries - Information Technology, a Friend or Foe?

Subbiah Arunachalam

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 133-147

The difference between the advanced and developing countries in the matter of access to information for research has been continually increasing. The advent of the Internet and electronic sources of information has not only exacerbated the gap but also led to the exclusion of developing country researchers from taking part as equal partners in publishing, refereeing, and in international collaboration...

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Knowledge, Connections, and Communities: A Special Reference to Indian University Libraries

J.K. Vijayakumar, Manju Vijayakumar

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 375-382

Most of the Indian University Libraries are accessible not only to the academic and research communities but also to the general public. In this paper, an attempt is made to describe the effects of ICT developments on Indian University Libraries, how much they have been able to catch up with more developed institutions and what the future agenda for connecting knowledge and communities will be. This...

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Building Communities: Some Experiences with IT

Bharati Sen

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 359-365

Broad access to information plays a crucial role for empowerment, skill building, and more active participation of different groups of society, thus making an important contribution to social development. While information technology offers almost unlimited ways to enhance information access and management and to improve organizational structures, communication and workflows, it is the interaction...

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Penang Library Network Aims to Educate in a Caring Learning Environment

Rosnah Idrus

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 205-216

The Penang Library Network (PLN) is a network of private and public higher education libraries formed with the aim of bringing Penang's citizens to the forefront of uniform access to a knowledge warehouse through the use of information and communication technologies. This paper presents PLN's aspirations to change the paradigm of education (information) delivery from a teacher-centered to a radical...

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Interoperability and Information Integration in an Early Online Academic Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: The Case of BTD

Roberto Carlos dos Santos Pacheco, Vinı́cius Medina Kern, Paulo Henrique S. Bermejo

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 319-333

Cooperative organization has been proposed as a means to improve the usefulness of virtual libraries. Information interchange among library and other academic applications is often hindered by the lack of application interoperability. This hindrance may be overcome through the development of standards that allow for digital libraries to exchange and share information with other applications. The Graduate...

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Library as a Provider of Informational Knowledge in the System of Higher Medical Education

M.V. Terehova, L.M. Feodorova, A.V. Karpovich

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 367-373

In this report we reveal the role of the Scientific Medical Library of the Siberian State Medical University as an information center for the creation of a unified electronic resource, reflecting contributions of the medical institution libraries in the Tomsk Region. We propose cooperation of medical libraries in the formation of bibliographical and full-text digital collections of medical resources...

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Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Maintained Research Institutes' Libraries in India: Towards Digitization and Networking

P.K. Jain

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 217-232

The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) was established for development of social science research in India. It provides grants to 27 research institutes and six regional centers in India. These institutes have established close links with scholars in the region through activities such as seminars, workshops, training, and consultancy programs. Some of the institutes are closely associated...

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Building Digital Resources: Creating Facilities at INSA

Usha Mujoo-Munshi

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 281-309

Today libraries are at a transition phase where twin processes of paper-based environment and changing information-seeking patterns in the electronic/digital environment go hand-in-hand. Hence, all components of the information chain are in a state of flux. The rapid growth in computer and communication technologies have greatly benefited the advanced countries, while the developing countries have...

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Editorial board & publication info

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > CO2

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Creating Special Literature Resource Databases in Western China Under a Digital Environment

Ji Lu

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 249-264

This paper addresses the issue of special literature database resources in the creation of Chinese database groups, and it holds that the extremely rich Chinese literature resources should naturally become an indispensable part of global information resource networks. Nevertheless, the digitization foundation for Chinese literature resources, having been subject to various factors, is still very weak...

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China Academic Library and Information System: Current Situation and Future Development

Qiang Zhu

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 399-405

The paper describes the background of the establishment of CALIS, explains its goals, structure, functions, and achievements during the past 3 years, and indicates its future development.

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A Knowledge Network Constructed by Integrating Classification, Thesaurus, and Metadata in Digital Library

Jun Wang

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 383-397

For the digital libraries of China, the development of networked information resources, especially of metadata, is still a principal task. At the same time, many information resources have been accumulated and the exploitation of them is far from sufficient. The current chief utility - keyword search undermines seriously the potential value of information resources, especially the metadata, which...

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Searching Information and Evaluation of Internet: A Chinese Academic User Survey

Xiaoying Dong

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 163-187

This study examines the use of Internet resources and the evaluation of their usefulness from the perspectives of Chinese students and academics. The questionnaires were distributed at Peking University, ISTIC, and at the Information Institute of Science and Technology of Zhe Jiang Province, where 706 valid samples were collected. The data was analyzed according to: The background of the Internet...

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From War-net to Net-war: The Internet and Resistance Identities in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim

International Information and Library Review > 2003 > 35 > 2-4 > 233-248

For decades following independence, informational media in Indonesia developed parallel with the interests of the state that made use of the media as a means to legitimize and maintain its identity as a progressive ''developmental state''. The Internet, which came to Indonesia during the early phase of the political crisis in the 1990s, economically and politically has risen to become an alternative...

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International Information and Library Review

Index to Volume 35, 2003

Knowledge-Sharing through Radio and Newsletters as a Catalyst to Grassroot Participation and Management for Rural Water-related Environmental Problems in Ebo Itumbonuso, in Local Government Areas, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Foreword

Empowering Development Through E-Governance: Creating Smart Communities In Small Island States

Digital Libraries in the Central African Sub-region: A Case Study of Cameroon

Rethinking the Indian Digital Divide: The Present State of Digitization in Indian Management Libraries

Information for Research in Developing Countries - Information Technology, a Friend or Foe?

Knowledge, Connections, and Communities: A Special Reference to Indian University Libraries

Building Communities: Some Experiences with IT

Penang Library Network Aims to Educate in a Caring Learning Environment

Interoperability and Information Integration in an Early Online Academic Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: The Case of BTD

Library as a Provider of Informational Knowledge in the System of Higher Medical Education

Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Maintained Research Institutes' Libraries in India: Towards Digitization and Networking

Building Digital Resources: Creating Facilities at INSA

Editorial board & publication info

Creating Special Literature Resource Databases in Western China Under a Digital Environment

China Academic Library and Information System: Current Situation and Future Development

A Knowledge Network Constructed by Integrating Classification, Thesaurus, and Metadata in Digital Library

Searching Information and Evaluation of Internet: A Chinese Academic User Survey

From War-net to Net-war: The Internet and Resistance Identities in Indonesia

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