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A new role for library has emerged and a new identity as well. The information professionals have a human services orientation which requires interaction between employees, staff and user. The efficient use of libraries by users is only possible if users using the library are also provided with psychological peace along with necessary conditions and facilities. Understanding of the nature of teamwork...
During the last two decades we have witnessed the tremendous amount of growth in e-commerce industry. People all over the world buy articles just by a click of mouse. Today recommendation system is an important part of almost every website. A user might not be able to find out all the desired articles and items from the endless information pool available on the internet. Recommender system suggests...
Plagiarism is a serious problem identified amongst research community. Plagiarism has been around for centuries, but with the use of Internet and easy access to material in electronic format has made it easier to plagiarize materials of others. On the other hand plagiarism detection is now as easy as plagiarizing a document. There are a number of anti-plagiarism software available either freely or...
With the development of digital technology, libraries are changing their roles from book providers to e-information providers. Manuscripts are primary source of historic information. Manuscripts are diminishing along with the time. Despite their best efforts, it is difficult to save manuscripts in physical form beyond a time frame. Digital preservation of manuscripts restores it from damage, larceny...
This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in...
The reach of information is now much easier and effective in the age of information technology. Electronic documents and resources have changed the entire paradigm of education and research. Students, teachers, professionals, academicians and researchers may get their information on their desktop/laptop/Smartphone through electronic platform. The availability of Information and Communication Technology...
The paper aims to investigate the statues of digital preservation of Old Persian periodicals especially the Newspapers in Iran. It also discusses strategies and challenges faced by Iranian libraries. The surveyed libraries were National Library of Iran, Malek National Library and Museum, Library of Islamic Consultative Assembly and Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi. The result of the study showed...
Recommendation systems are used to cluster the data and recommend the users with all related items to users. These systems have shown a great benefit in the field of e-commerce, which provide details of users with all related information. Many similar models are being proposed for information systems. But these models cannot be directly fitted into the field of digital library system to acquire the...
Libraries support the parent institution's teaching, learning, and research programs irrespective of its nature being academic or corporate or Research and Development setup. Due to the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), there has been a paradigm shift in the library services and the roles of information professionals. Librarians' role has been changed from information provider...
This paper documents the research and development of a standard based curriculum for information literacy enhancement at elementary schools in the Northern region of Thailand. The exercise is part of a PhD study project that aims to determine both the learning standard and the indicators of information literacy in elementary schools in Thailand. Further, the project evaluates the attitude of the elementary...
Present age is called knowledge age, because information is growing day by day so the assumption is that knowledge should be growing in the same manner. Traditional libraries have changed to paperless library due to the growth of Internet and the World Wide Web. Since advent of ICT, the information explosion have been taken place which force to library to collect, organise and provide right information...
This paper describes the impact of emerging trends and technology in western higher education on academic libraries. These trends present several challenges, as well as opportunities for them. The paper discusses some useful approaches and strategies to overcome these challenges and exploit the opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about emerging trends and technologies among...
At present, developing and managing a collection of e-resources is an essential responsibility of any university library in Sri Lanka, especially in order to go in parallel with their counterparts in developed world. However, these electronic resources are expensive and inevitable at the same time. This paper sheds light on the importance and utilization of e-resources, and discusses about the current...
Indian National Agricultural Research System (INARS) is one of the largest agricultural systems. In 2007, Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) was established for providing access of e-Resources to INARS. Access of about 3000 e-journals has been provided to the 143 agricultural institutions/universities of INARS on IP (Internet Protocol) authentication basis through CeRA. Access of e-resources...
The idea behind the development of spatial data infrastructures is inherently related to the notion of Geographical Information Systems. Nowadays Geographic Information is a key component when it comes to the utilization of natural resources. Geo processing tools, software packages, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), spatial databases provide geographic information or in other words Geo-spatial data...
Building digital library applications is often a search for an applicable and adequate data or document model as well as for software tools which meets the requirements. Especially in digital archives, there are several data and document models to be considered. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all document model or system. For each application, the requirements and properties of a project...
This is transition time for conventional libraries, especially in India. They are trying hard to transform to digital libraries (DL) but there are various issues involved in it. It is crucial to understand these issues by doing more research to find out appropriate solutions. The purpose of this study is thus to review the existing research done on digital libraries, in order to find the gaps and...
Plagiarism — using someone else's ideas, writings or results, and presenting them as one's own without giving proper credit to the actual author. In today's competitive world plagiarism is spreading at a tenacious rate. Scientific writing requires good expertise for it demands both features: vividness and terseness, which are generally hard to accomplish together. Any scientific work should be characterized...
Online Information Resources (OIR) are getting popularity amongst academicians, particularly research students. This study is an attempt to investigate the use and purview of online information resources by postgraduate students of public and private sector universities of Lahore — Pakistan. Through questionnaires, data was collected from 570 research students with the response rate of 463 (81.22%)...
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