Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

 Education is cited as the catalyst for Development, Poverty ,Reduction, Nutrition Improvement, Health Gains, Gender Equality and Empowerment ,Water and Energy Sustainability, Economic Growth, Inequality Reduction, Environmental Protection and Resilience and Promotion of peaceful just inclusive societies by UNESCO. Thus, the academic institutions provide education and that education is embedded in Library. As we all know library is the hart of every academic Institution, like that, the Library is playing role of hart as a purifier, giving pure blood to body, library strains good, original, essential information to readers. In ICT era, the computer technology flourished and so, with use of this technology the librarian and information professionals save their time, money and energy and give quality services to users. Today, the librarians role in changing day by day , it changes library structures, services their challenges too. Librarians always maintain a balance between traditional library as well as modern virtual library. There are so many challenges but the librarians have to overcome them and prove their efficiency.

 Big data is being produced by everybody around us round the clock. Newly emerged big data technology is the biggest invention in the field of computer science and technology during the last decade. We have to create rules and laws to prevent abuse of big data along with new developments of this technology enabling useful capabilities. For information scientists and librarians, big data is a big deal and great challenge, and also a good opportunity to play a significant role in the ever growing universe of big data.

 The library resources and services are the basic components to serve the readers but the complex nature of resources and modernity in services, sometimes, create a new image of library before its users. The preparation of a library, to a new environment and diverse nature of users’ needs, draws attention towards technologies and tools. This paper highlights the presence of library collection, components and various services in general provided as a basic model of university library collection and services. At the same time it examines a university library system in the light of Ranganathan’s fifth law of library science i.e. the library is a growing organism. The paper discusses about the strategic actions taken during last financial years to strengthen the library resources and extending the range of library services. The concluding remarks embark the journey of a university library in modern times.

 This paper throws lights on how discovery solution works and provides the potential features of Discovery Solutions in context to Library environment. It also evaluates the available web discovery services offered by eminent organizations and also provides a practical analysis of available library discovery tools in context of the present­day explosion of available open search engines on the Internet. The focus of analysis include how discovery tools are expected to manage library collections, provide access to scholarly information content, as well as other factors. It discusses some of the possibilities regarding how these technologies, methodologies, and products might be able to adapt to changes in the evolving information landscape in scholarly communications and to take advantage of new technologies, metadata models. It also throws light on Indian scenario of web discovery service.

 The present study investigated the use of Library Information resources and services by the Social Science user of MaharshiDayanad University, Rohtak (Haryana). A total 100 questionnaires were distributed randomly among the users and out of these 86 questionnaires duly field up by respondents were found valid for analysis. It was found that maximum of the users with 38(44.18%) visit the library daily and 23(26.74%) of the respondents use library information resources and services for preparing the competitive exam. It was also found that 28 (32.55%) use textbooks and 26(30.23%) of the respondents use Library circulation services. Out of the 86, 21(24.41%) of the respondents have faced problems as lack of time in using the library.

This paper aims to study the open source content management software like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. A thorough analysis of all the three software’s has been done and listed the general and technical features available in all the three content management software. A content management system (CMS) is a database which organizes and provides access to all types of digital content ­ files containing images, graphics, animation, sound, video or text. It contains information about these files (known as ‘digital assets’), and may also contain links to the files themselves in order to allow them to be located or accessed individually. A content management system is usually used to manage digital assets during the development of a digital resource, such as a website or multimedia production. It might be used by staff digitizing images, authors and editors, or those responsible for the management of the content development process (content managers). Content management systems range from very basic databases, to sophisticated tailor­made applications. These more complex systems can be integrated with the eventual digital resource in order to enable access to digital assets and to allow regular updating. Aims 1. To compare 3 Open Source Content Management Software to create the library website. 2. To find out the best OS CMS to create and develop the website. 3. To know the different OS CMS features. 4. To find out the suitable platforms to install the OS CMS. Methods: Investigative and evaluative research methodology was used for the study. Data were collected: By browsing internet and downloading 3 open source content management software such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. Comparing the selected open source content management software. Preparing the worksheet by using different criteria of selected open source content management software such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. Conclusion: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress basic features can be used to create simple sites, single or multi user blogs, brochure ware, forums, community websites and more. Libraries should make consistent efforts to provide web ­ based services to their users and it is the role of the librarians to act as a guide and be should up – to – date and should also know the usefulness of web sites, web portals. Hence librarians can easily work on the content management system. Content management system allows librarians to create resource page for their liaison groups without any prior knowledge of web development technologies. The study of widely used CMSs Joomla, Drupal and WordPress and the analysis of the features of an individual system can help an individual or organization to choose an appropriate CMS for their specific web application.

 This article carries out a bibliometric analysis of the journal “Annals of Library and Information Studies” (ALIS) during from 2010­2014. The study analyzes the volume wise distribution of articles, distribution of citations, authorship pattern, most productive authors of the ALIS and the average length of articles during the period under study. The study reveals that the maximum numbers of contributions were from the two authors.

 Now a day Internet has become indispensable part in modern research work. There is no research work carried out in modern era where Internet can’t effectively be utilized. Quick and easy access to scholarly materials and enormous number of e­resources makes it more dependable sources of information for research scholars. That’s why a modern researcher must have the competencies and some sorts of skills in searching and retrieval of information over Internet. The present study was carried out with a view to explore the extent of Internet literacy skills among research scholars of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. For this purpose primary data in relation to assess the level of Internet literacy skills collected through a selfdesigned questionnaire. 125 research scholars were randomly selected and distributed them questionnaire to which 96 research scholars returned the questionnaire with a response rate of 76.8% out of which 92 respondents (96%) access Internet. The study revealed that a high percentage of the research scholar (78.26%) access Internet to support research and development. Though majority percent respondents (96%) have idea on advanced literature search techniques yet half of the respondents usually search Internet for specific piece of information using ‘exact phrase’. A high percentage of respondents have practical knowledge on search engines (89.13%) and web browser (83.69%) while a majority of them don’t have any idea on semantic web (95.65%), programming language (83.69%) and web development (81.52%). Majority percent of the respondents have the awareness towards the usage of some web resource tools like SNS, e­mail and blog sites. In the case of e­journal database, OPAC and citation index database, almost half of the respondents are unaware. More than half of the respondents neither use narrowing parameters nor avoid adjectives, prepositions, and articles in search phrase. Use of Boolean operator, term truncation, wild card, bracket and nesting command and proximity operators are not familiar in most of cases under survey.

 This paper highlight on the use and awareness of social networking tools to the agriculture science professionals of T.C.B. college of agriculture & research station, Bilaspur. The main objective of this study determines the use and awareness of Internet and social network. The study found that a majority of the agriculture professionals used social networking tools. This paper also describes in brief about frequency, place, and frequency of uses of Internet and awareness, time spent on access, social networking tools, and purpose of using social networking.

 This study was aimed to examine the Institutional Repository (IR) practices for the period of 2013­2016 by exploring their growth and development, maintenance, technologies used, search and access features, challenges and opportunities etc. in surveyed some libraries of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh nine libraries/ institutions were claiming the existences of IR which were also enlisted by DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) of which 6 libraries were purposively selected to conduct the survey. A structured questionnaire comprising of 40 separate questions was designed for quantitative analysis of gathered data. All of the surveyed libraries commented that the concept of IR was not completely new but was evolved somehow in new package. The findings revealed that there were some problems that hampered the advancement of IR development in Bangladesh. Finally a sustainability model for IR based on some opportunities and challenges was recommended.

 ICT is changing each and every sphere of our lives and libraries are not untouchable of this technology. Though university libraries are doing well in adopting ICT and providing ICT based services to their users but college libraries have also started to adopt the same technology, particularly the self­financed colleges. This paper is an attempt to observe the student’s view on library resources, ICT facilities and the use of library by taking data from the library of Babu kamta Prasad Jain Mahavidyalya, Baraut. This study will be useful to increase all types of collection and to execute new and innovative services to meet out the student’s requirements more efficiently.

 Author concerns the citation analysis of the journal entitles “Annals of Library and Information studies” from the period 2003 to 2014. Citation analysis is a branch of Information science which contributed quantitative evaluation of publication patterns of all macro and micro communication along with their authorships by mathematical and statistical calculation. It can be applied to any branch of subject or subject area. Citation analysis is a process to establish the relationship between one works to other research works by mathematical and statistical calculations. The study covers the total numbers of citations per volume, authorship pattern of cited references, print vs web document cited references and type of cited references.