Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

This paper discus on challenges and opportunities of digital library management. In the developing countries, digital libraries are an implementation of innovations. Technologies for Knowledge formation and management in future, and basic concepts, process, services, challenges and opportunities in the role of librarians in digital library management, In this digital era librarian facing many challenges in managing digital libraries, librarian manage the collection, preservation of data and others. The librarians play a vital role in digital library management, so librarians having a knowledge and skills in digital library management.

ICT applications in libraries have made drastic changes in the library housekeeping activities, specifically with the electronic information sources. In the present Information age, Electronic Information Sources gain lot of popularity and compatibility both in terms of usage and information dissemination. In the light of these facts, how to manage or organize the e-resources in libraries and various issues concern to the development of e-resource collection have been discussed in this paper.

Human beings are social in nature it’s a basic instinct of every individual, as technology advanced the same concept has been turned out in to human beings are socially active on networking sites to certain extent, some are more active and some are less but the core concept of ‘socially active on Networking Sites’ is more of less very true, which is endorsed by many studies and researches across the globe, people are day by day increasing the usage of web based social networking sites. This paper highlights the importance of social networking sites, its usage across professionals and its effect on academic activities along with merits and demerits has been discussed. 

This paper presents the findings of the study onawareness and use of electronic resourcesamong the users of Environmental Information Systems (ENVIS) Center Libraries in South India. A total 563 number of users from the Students, faculty members, research scholar, Research Associates and Research scientists were selected and their response was obtained with the help of questionnaire. The findings show that majority of respondents (62.87%) visit the library every day, (74.33%) of respondents are Aware & Use electronic resources, (44.56%) respondents are spent less than 1 hour for accessing e-Resources and (30.48%) respondents spent more than 2 hours for accessing e-Resources, (54.36%)of respondents agreed that the e-Resources is helpful as for as access from remote areas is concerned. Again, 45.81% of respondents have strongly agreed access to information is very fast and efficient by accessing e-Resources; (50.09%) of respondents have agreed that they faced the problem of Lack of time to retrieve the huge information and (49.91%) of respondents have disagreed that lack of internet connectivity and slow download are major problem while access information resources and services. 69.88% respondents are satisfied with the electronic resources and 15.69% of respondents are Extremely Satisfied with the electronic resources.

In Bangladesh libraries and information centers (L/IC) have been facing serious obstacles for a successful implementation of knowledge management (KM) system [1]. Both the staff users and end users of these L/IC are also not conscious regarding the impact of knowledge management. As a result, they are not actively participating to make a successful knowledge management based platform [2]. The present study was designed to reveal problems of L/IC in relating to KM based activities and service in L/IC of Bangladesh. Finally, the study proposes a model with working plans for running the KM-based activities in L/IC successfully.

The study analyses that electronic information accessed by the faculty members at engineering and Technology Institutions in Coimbatore District. The study could be noticed that 26 per cent of the respondents are female and 74 per cent of them are male. It can be noticed that male respondents reported that 48% of them higher than female respondents. a large number of 263 (50.6%) of the respondents are “Highly Satisfied” with the lecturing materials followed by 257 (49.4%) for the respondents who are Satisfied” with e-resources offering lecturing materials. maximum number 251 (48.3%) of the respondents rated that information sought from E-Resources as “Excellent” while 205 (39.4%) of the respondents rated it as “Very Good” followed by 64 (12.3%) of the respondents who rated it as “Good”.