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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Over the past decade, ever-increasing number of libraries is in the process of abandoning the traditional card catalogue as a means of access to their collections and switching over to computer-based...
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WEB OPAC
The concept of Web OPACs is recent origin and it is serving as a gateway to the resources not only held by the respective library but also to the holdings of other participating libraries without to...
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Application of RSS Feeds in Library
Introduction: The change that is happening in the information industry over the years is astonishing. The convergence of information technology and information science has paved the way for introducing...
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Marketing of Information Products and Services in Library
Marketing of Information Products and Services Introduction: The nature of the information marketplace is under continual evolution. Two of the most powerful drivers of change in ‘the new economy’,...
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Institutional Repository Software
Institutional Repository Software: The chief aim to have an organizational repository is to offer open access to organizational analysis result by self-archival and storage and conserve other...
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Government Publications
Introduction: According to the United States Code (44 U.S.C. 1901), a government publication may be described to be as “… details that are printed as a unique record for which money is spent by the...
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Public Library
The Public Library is a social institution based on the definition of democracy. It is for the people by the people and of the people. In the words of William Ewart, Public Library is founded by the...
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Information and Information Literacy
One of the truths about modern society is that “information is everywhere.” Information is a pervasive and essential part of our society and our lives. Humans are, at their essence, processors and...
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Community Information Services
Community Information Service. Though the origin of community information service can be traced back to the end of the 19th century, it became more significant during the crisis of second world war,...
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Community Information Seeking
Information Seeking Situations and Information Providers: Assessing the information needs of the general public in the community is a difficult process especially with those who are neither aware of...
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Industrial Library: An overview
Industrial Library Introduction: A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. In the more...
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Community Information Needs
What is Community? Community is the local area in, which people function most completely and directly. Sociologists have defined the community as a local area over which people are using the same...
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Cooperative Collection Development and Resource Sharing in Library
Cooperative Collection development: Cooperative collection development is the method in which two or more libraries agree to have certain areas of primary collecting responsibility and exchange such...
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Library Collection Development Policy: Brief Information
1.1 Introduction: Information resources in myriad forms have been collected and preserved for future generations and posterity from ancient times. India has a rich tradition of learning and education...
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Scientometric Research: An overview
The Definition of Scientometrics: Nalimov and Mulchenko (1969) coined the Russian term is equivalent (`naukometriya’) of the term `scientometrics’. As the name implies, this term is mainly used for the...
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Law Librarianship
Introduction: The law libraries are considered as “the laboratories of the university to the chemists and the physicists, the museum of natural history to the zoologists, the botanical garden to the...
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Health Information Management
Introduction: Information seeking behavior is the purposive seeking for information as a consequence of a need to satisfy some goal. In the course of seeking, the individual may interact with manual...
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Information Gathering
Introduction: Since the mid-1990s the use of electronic resources has transformed information gathering for academic research. But it has affected subjects in different ways and to different degrees....
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Information Needs
The study of information needs and gathering behaviour dates back to 1948 when Bernal and others presented a paper on scientific information at the 1948 Royal Society conference (Bernal, 1960). During...
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Information Seeking Behaviour Models: An Overview
Information Seeking: A model may be described as a framework for thinking about a problem and may evolve into a statement of the relationships among theoretical propositions. Most models in the general...
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