Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

An analysis of 3047 research articles published by the research community in the five universities of Karnataka has been reported based on the national consortia portal JCCC@UGC INFONET. The research publications contributed by the academic community between 1969 and May 2011 reveals that University of Mysore has highest research publications with 1100 articles appearing in JCCC@UGC INFONET portal. Authorship trend reveals that single author contribution is diminishing to a great extent with just 3.93% of authors published individually while 43.41% of authors have contributed with four and five authors. The domain wise publications are mainly from science stream, with Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics dominating the area of research contributions and Library and Information Science at ninth position. Application of Bradford’s law reveals that onethird of scientific journals publish 2409 articles accounting for 79 percent of publication.

Key words: Scientometrics; Research productivity; Bibliometrics; Publication productivity; Core Journals; Authorship Pattern.

E-Journals are online Journals and explains its characteristics, its History, various types of E-journals and detailed steps involved E-journals on the web and Benefits of E-journals and finally various online subscribed by pond cherry library and the benefits gained to the user community and also user statistics reveals the increase the usage of E_Journals and created new awareness for the usage of E-Journals in the minds of the user communities.
 

The magnetic word ‘Information Technology Changes’ has been chanted the globe and been incorporated in organizational, managerial, developmental and marketing sectors. The services rendered with the help of ICT are faster and more effective. Recent developments in the fields of communication and information technology are indeed revolutionary in nature. An attempt has been made in this study to identify the information literacy in the usage of Information Communication Tool at the Krishnsamy College of Engineering & Technology in Cuddalore District.

Key words: ICT Tools; Electronic resources; Krishnasamy Engineering College.

This is an age of democracy and in a democracy every public utility institution has to justify social desirability on any service. Library as such has been included among institutions of public utility services which enlighten the whole society. But the welfare services which are delivered by the library require quantitative as well as qualitative measurement of their effectiveness, known as benefits to the community. One such service which is very essential on the part of the university libraries is reprographic services. Today, one cannot think of university libraries without this service. This paper discusses the use and effectiveness of reprography services in university libraries of Haryana and the way it can be beneficial for the users.

Key words: Reprography; Copying technique; Duplicating technique.

India has tremendous potential resources. It is the need of the hour to make knowledge based developments in almost all fields. Hence, National Knowledge Commission (NKC) was constituted in 2005 as a high level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, with a mandate to guide policy and generate reforms under the chairmanship of Dr.Sam Pitrada. The NKC has taken steps to review library services and to examine the present standards of public, private, institutional and specialized libraries and other information resources. In this paper, an attempt has been made to present the objectives of NKC and its recommendations to develop the libraries.

Key words: National Knowledge Commission;  Objectives; Recommendations.

The objective of marketing of information is to enhance the use of information; to generate resources for running the service continuously; to facilitate production of user oriented rather than producer-oriented product. The present article deals with marketing of agricultural information in cyber era. Discuss the availability of information technology and its use in agriculture. Proposed web based Agricultural Information Dissemination System(AgrIDS). Stressed the need for mechanization of agricultural information for easy marketing and the employability skill required to disseminate the information.

Key words: Agricultural information; Marketing; Agricultural technology; Web-based agricultural information.

Library is the heart of any university system, where students, research scholars, teaching faculty as well as retired academician, use the library and spent their valuable time to gain information throughout the years. Users are the key persons of any library system. All the luxuries of information – revolution and problems of information explosion are centered on the user and his convenience. Understanding the user needs is half the battle won in providing information services. The success of any information system depends considerably on how best the system design is based on a close and accurate understanding of the user. To put it paradoxically, the user is not only the most important aspect, but is also a dynamic component of information system. As such, understanding the user is an important and a continuous activity. The performance of any library can be evaluated on the basis of the extent of satisfaction of users. Hence, there is a need to conduct the use and the users’ survey studies to evaluate the existing print and non-print resources, services, and facilities.

Key words: Users’ studies; Users’ satisfaction; Users’ survey; Library survey.

The study presents cardiology literature records retrieved from MEDLINE database for the period 1991-2010. This research shows that maximum number of records (829) was during 2000, followed by 826 in 2003 and 789 in 2002. Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (Dt) was found to be in increasing and decreasing trend shown during the period of study. The paper reveals a study of the authorship pattern and collaborative research in the field of cardiology. The degree of collaboration mean score was 0.70 and highest score 0.88 in 1991 exhibits during the period of study.

Key words: Cardiology; MEDLINE; Relative growth rate (RGR); Doubling time (Dt); Degree of collaboration.

Since their inception, the university libraries are engaged with the task to select, acquire, process, store, retrieve and disseminate the documents/ information to cater to the informational needs of their users- the faculty, students, research scholars, and administrative staff of the universities.  It is a challenge for the university libraries to filter and deliver the most useful information from the vast quantity available anywhere. For this purpose, library professionals need to manage the resources of the libraries- man, money, machine, materials using various methods and techniques, in order to provide quality library services to their users. To manage the resources, librarians are now applying management practices and information communication technologies. The present paper describes need for accessing library services and SERVQUAL as a tool to assess the quality of library services after certain modifications. The result of study may motivate the library authorities to get the feedback from the library patrons in order to enhance the quality of such services which require immediate attention.

Key words: University library;  SERVQUAL; Service quality.

Information is the essential commodity for studying, teaching, research and extension activities. The present study makes an attempt to know the use of information resources and services by the teachers/scientists, research scholars and post graduate students in the veterinary colleges of Karnataka State. Questionnaire method was adopted to collect the data from the academic community along with observation and informal interviews. The study aimed at identifying the adequacy of library resources and services, purpose and frequency of using library resources. Tests like mean value and percentage method were adopted to verify the results. Further attempt was also made to highlight the findings of the study and suggestions given based on the analysis and interpretations of the study.

Key words: Information resources; Services; Veterinary education; Veterinary libraries.

This paper points out what is librarianship, what does a library and information professional do, the vision of LIS professionals, new challenges in the changing environment, causes of challenges and the ways to face the growing challenges. Some new roles and responsibilities of LIS professionals are also discussed here.

Key words: Challenges in the Changing environment; Information professionals; Librarianship; Library professionals; Vision of LIS Professionals in India