Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

 The paper is concerned with the assessment of the development of libraries of technical universities of Haryana during last five years. Presently there are three technical universities in Haryana i.e., Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad and DCRUS&T, Murthal. The assessment of the expansion was done on the basis of collection development, growth of members,subscription of journals, online resources, staff position and availability of software and hardware in the concerned universityduring last five years.

Keywords: E-Resources; Milestone; Library; Technology. 

Keywords: Copyright; Intellectual Property Rights; IPR. 

 The idea of resource sharing is a requirement based, founded on the principle of give and take. At the time of information era, shared the proliferation of publications and the phenomenon has transformed the collection development policies had to be introduced in order to select the most important and core documents, and share the remaining with other librarians or networks. It is because of rising costs of publications and their phenomenal growth in each subjects. To make resource sharing more fruitful among libraries at different geographical locations and to cover all types of document’s for that various library networks are came in to existence. In general networking can be categorized as library network, computer network, and communication network. Among the above three networking library network is very pioneer in nature. The concept of library network evolved in the form of resource sharing over the years. The world resource sharing has been in need with different terminology called; Inter library loan, Library cooperation, Library network, Library Consortia. Resource sharing is a kind of contract among the participating libraries wherein each participant is ready to share the resources among themselves. According to Allen Kent , “Resource sharing is a mode of  operation whereby functions are shared in common by a number of libraries”.  Here we are going to give more emphasis on impact of computer network and library network in resource sharing. One of the great library networking in the resource sharing at the university level is INFLIBNET. In this paper a brief description of INFLIBNET on resource sharing and networking in the university libraries.

Keywords: Library Management; IT Applications; Library Services 

Keywords: Information Seeking Behavior; Technology; Network Services; Innovative Methods. 

 The curiosity to explore and inclusion of e-books based library service in an academic library has been an integral objective of this paper. Initiating with literature review, a survey has been conducted to understand the library users related with aspects of e-books. The study takes consideration of few facets of users’ personality to find the relation between their status and preferences. The paper discerns the means and method to find out users’ inclination towards e-resources with an effort establishing the correlation among the E-books purchase, policies and relating popularity among users at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

Keywords: Meningitis; Bacterial Meningitis; Scientometric Study; Growth of Literature; RGR (Relative Growth Rate); Doubling Time(Dt). 

Keywords: Management Skill; Stress; Academic Achievement; Library Science Students. 

Keywords: Collection Development of Libraries; Evaluative; Comparative. 

Keywords: Bibliometric; American Sociological Review; Authorship Pattern; Geographical Distribution. 

 In the era of information, websites play an important role to store and disseminate the information everywhere on the globe. Days have changed from personal visits and manual doings things to online. Anybody can register, watch, do marketing, do business, share ideas, book a ticket and exchange knowledge. And many more stuffs can be done over internet through websites. This process has entered almost every activity of an institution, academia, and research and development organization. In this context, it is the need of the hour to make an evaluative study of university website to investigate its authority; purpose and coverage; currency; objectivity; graphics; use of colour; contents; legibility; hyperlinks; promotion; searching and FAQ etc. In the present study- an attempt has been made to evaluate 27 university websites based on selected criteria’s viz authority; purpose; coverage and currency of the websites. The results of the study indicate that the users do not aware the information about website designer. The link to library and its resources in the websites meet the academic needs. It is also found from the survey that the contact information is available in the university website and there is a consistency in the domain name.

 The present study deals with a Bibliometric analysis of research output in the Humanities Journal of Annamalai University.The authors have analyzed the year-wise publication, authorship pattern, department wise contributions, etc., during the period from 2007 to 2011.