Advances in Library & Information Science

Editorial

Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Developing a Classification System for Bengali Literature

Professor Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Banasree Roy — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Literature class is an example of the use of faceted concepts by Dewey Decimal Classification. There have been many changes in literature class in different editions of DDC and 23rd edition is not an exception. In 2011, this 23rd edition is published and while experimenting with this edition, some experiences related to its serious limitations which are still existed are gathered. A few of them are presented in this article to share with fellow professionals. This article also indicates that a new classification system, as
developed establishing the symbiotic relation among DDC and CC, would work in much better way.

Resources on local history and culture of North Bengal

Ms. Ratna Nandi, Professor Pijushkanti Panigrahi, Professor Durga Sankar Rath — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The study attempts to explore which resources on the rich local history and culture of North Bengal are already available in the college libraries of the North Bengal so that they can be utilized in a better way to present to its user community. The work gives a
brief discount of North Bengal and its culture. 50% of the total colleges present here were surveyed with the help of structured questionnaires to collect data on the existing resources specified. Colleges are selected by stratified random sampling. The study finds that maximum hill college libraries i.e. 94% (app.) whereas overall 53% (app.) college libraries have such collection. The study suggests the creation of an institutional repository through the formation of a regional consortium to protect and promote the undocumented rich culture of North Bengal.

Content Management Software

Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This paper deals with a brief overview of Content
Management Systems (CMSs). There are many open source
and proprietary CMSs in the domain like Atex, Polopoly web CMS, IBM Enterprise Content Management system, Drupal, Joomla!, Mambo, PhpWebSite, Scoop, Plone etc. A comparative study is carried out through this study on the basis of some selection criteria. The selection criteria are installation base, OS platform, companion software environment, module and extensibility, web 2.0 compatibility, License and application in library setup. This paper has tried to find the most comprehensive CMS among four initially selected CMS (Drupal, Joomla!, Mambo and PhpWebSite) open source software and concluded that Drupal's performance is most comprehensive one.

Inter-relationship among People’s Lives, Communities and Libraries

Ms. Suparna Naskar — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This paper tries to identify the role of the changing nature of library which is not merely a collection of textbooks. It includes other information sources like reference materials, books relating to school curriculum, general books not relating to a specific subject area, periodicals, newspapers, audiovisual materials, government publications and electronically stored and retrievable materials etc. These resources enable libraries to play a crucial role in the success of lifelong education of communities and society in general. Next, it discusses how the advent of the modern technology has transformed library services and its reflection on people’s lives. The paper also highlights the journey of the library towards digitization. Lastly it depicts the inter-relationship
among People’s Lives, Communities and Libraries, which is a unifying factor in the community.

Knowledge Transactions in a Semantically Enriched eLearning Platform

Ms. Soumi Sanyal — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The entire educational infrastructure has been revolutionized by ICT. In a distributed educational setup, ICT has made it possible to capture and deliver contents to students, faculty and other information seekers creating a situation where eLearning becomes more appealing. The use of ICT made it possible to have access to most up-to-date information when and wherever people want to have at their convenience. The modus is becoming more user friendly with a wide array of user friendly open source applications. In this paper the role and significance of content users is discussed in context of semantic eLearning systems. The ontology characteristics and advancement in eLearning is also discussed. An ontology is also proposed for rule based semantic eLearning portal architecture detailing the users’ rights management.

Ontologies in Knowledge Management

Mayukh Biswas — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A schematic framework for knowledge exchange in an organizational setup is discussed in this paper. This framework rests upon semantic web based technologies for its implementation. For any knowledge transaction within an organization, ontologies and standards like PIMO and Dublin core (DC) is used for its categorization. Any organization that wants to go for automation would get benefited and in turn would operate more smoothly.

Knowledge Management

Mr. Prabin Karkee, Ms. Sudha Sinha — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This article explore the phenomenon of knowledge management as an emerging concern of an organization. The basic of knowledge management including knowledge and the various categories of knowledge have been briefly discussed.
Objectives, principal and process of knowledge management have also been covered. The synergy of knowledge management has been traced. Apart from that the various tools and techniques involved in different context of knowledge management are identified. The article also provides quick insight into the prevalent myths and reality of knowledge management.

TQM vis-à-vis USER SATISFACTION IN ACADEMIC LIBRARY

Dr. Chinmay Mukhopadhyay — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Today every institution of higher learning in the country has a library and it covers almost the whole field of knowledge according to the requirement of its users for the benefits of its users. The image of the academic library, however, does not depend on mere existence of a library, its building and its architectural elegance. Rather it depends on the extent to which it attains its objectives. One of the foremost objectives of an academic library is to provide quality library services to its users to ensure user satisfaction. TQM is a management approach to facilitate user satisfaction in an academic library. The present paper describes user satisfaction (one of the different approaches of TQM) using different parameters(as per SERVQUAL Model) to measure user satisfaction out of using library services on the basis of a user survey on the users of B.C.Roy Memorial Library in IIM Calcutta.

MANAGEMENT OF E-RESOURCES IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY

Dr. Asish Kumar Karan — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 has profoundly changed the way we access information. As such, the library environment has undergone a rapid changes leading to new generation of libraries with an emphasis on e- resources. Moreover, as the popularity of e-resources increases, the librarians and staff are also concerned about e-resources, their methods accessing, evaluation, selection, organization etc. The present paper is an aim to know how to manage eresources in the modern LIS for better digital information services and challenges facing with e-resources.