010716   Arokyamary R J;Ramasesh C P (NO, Mysore Univ, Mysore, Email: jerry.arun@gmail.com) : ICT skills and core competencies of LIS professionals: A case study of VTU research centres in Karnataka. Pearl 2012, 6(1), 24-29.

Man without information is a beast and information without man is a myth. Therefore, information is highly important in the University of knowledge and society. In information society, information is power. Libraries and information centres are the power houses of academic research and industrial setups. The advent of ICTs and the internet have forever changed the way information is gathered, processed and disseminated. This research paper is a case study of Vishveshwaraya Technology University Research Centre in Karnataka that maps the ICT skill levels of the LIS professionals working in such libraries with set parameters that are basically essential for any LIS professional in this era of technology.

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010715   Alabi A O;Nduka;Chinnaya S;Olatise O M (Lagos Library Univ, Lagos Univ, Nigeria, Email: oladesh@yahoo.com) : Information service delivery (ISD) in academic libraries: discovering new ways of satisfying the information needs of library users. Libr Prog 2012, 32(2), 109-21.

Academic libraries are at the forefront of providing information services to their respective communities in order to support their teaching, learning and research needs. Although most university libraries in Africa also extend their services to users from outside the university community. Effective delivery of information services that meet the needs and aspirations of citizens, decision-makers and life-long learners is a long standing goal of the information profession. The role of librarians is to support, enrich and provide superb services - in person and online. This study, therefore, investigates the information service delivery methods available in academic libraries in Nigeria, the strategies in place and new ones that could be developed. *Survey research design was adopted for the study with questionnaire as the research instrument. 24 libraries were randomly chosen from thirteen institutions in Southestern Nigeria to constitute the sample size. Data obtained were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study showed that the use of Booklets or Library Guides, Face to face delivery method and regular hands on training for library users are strategies used for information service delivery to their users. Based on this finding, a case was made for new strategies that academic libraries can utilize for effective information service delivery.

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010714   Adeyomoye J I (Librarian Univ, Ondo State cience and Technology Univ, Okitipupa, Nigeria, Email: ifedayoadeyomoye@yahoo.com) : Information literacy competence among students in Nigerian private universities: a case study of Caleb university, Imota, Lagos, Nigeria. Libr Prog 2012, 32(2), 185-93.

Developing skills that will facilitate the recognition of when information is needed, and the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information is required in tertiary education. In this era of information explosion, the need to be information literate cannot be over-emphasized. It is therefore expected that students in tertiary institutions develop skills to adequately source for information for the realization of their academic pursuit. Librarians are expected to be key players in achieving this goal. This study therefore, intends to find out the level of information literacy competence among the students of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Nigeria with the view to sensitizing the University Management to the need for the inclusion of Information literacy in the curriculum.

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010713   Ademodi D T (NO, Adekunle Ajasin Library Univ, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria, Email: tundeademodi@yahoo.com) : Automation in libraries: the experience of Adekunle Ajasian University Library, Akungba Akoko. Libr Prog 2011, 32(1), 61-72.

This paper gives the historical background of automation and discuses its relevance in library operations particularly in the digital age. It highlights the procedures and criteria for the choice of software used in automating Adekunle Ajasin University Library. The paper also enunciates lucidly each module in the software of choice which is strategic library automation and software (SLAM). It highlights the features of SLAM and discusses the process of retrospective conversion of catalogue records. The paper concludes with precautions libraries need to take in automation and raises some suggestions that will help university libraries and university administrations.

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010712   Abdul Majeed K C;Femin V T (Library & Information Science Dep, Farook College, Kozhikode-673 632) : Journal use pattern among medical community: a case study of government medical college, Calicut, Kerala. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(1), 49-55.

The objective of this study is to examine the use of e-journals and print journals by the medical community in Government Medical College Library, Calicut, Kerala state. This study aims to assess the preference in the use of e-journals among medical community and the problems in using both print and electronic journals. Even though the medical community Indicates preference towards electronic journals, but they use print jounals. Around half (47.7%) of the medical fraternity occasionally use electronic journals. The users were using print Journals rather than e-journals. The study reveals the major problems pertaining to the use of both e-journals in the medical college library are; lack of organization of e-journals, availability of plenty of literature, inefficiency of search engines, lack of awareness about the e-journals etc. It is suggested that a detailed study is needed to find out reasons for the difference in use of print and electronic Journals.

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010711   Abdul Azeez T A;Vijesh K (NO, Calicut Univ, Kerala-673 635, Email: azeez64@gmail.com) : Content analysis of the editorials of the Mathrubhumi daily. Kelpro Bull 2012, 16(1), 42-8.

Newspapers are valuable sources of information. They are the cheapest means of communication for the masses. Today they are the more vital documents in libraries than ever before. The Mathrubhumi is an excellent and credible national daily in Malayalam. The present study is a content analysis of editorials appeared in mathrubhumi dally. Editorials are noted for its relevancy, popularity and factuality as it comments on current topics and it also reflect the opinion of news paper itself. This study attempts to assess the subject of focus discussed in the editorials and also categorizes the editorials on the basis of subject contents.

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008618   Thareja P;Jayjee G K;Dhawan I;Singla P (NO, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, Email: pthareja@yahoo.com) : Comparative analysis of power point and blackboard teaching methodologies. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(1), 8-15.

In the era of latest technological advents, education and style of lecture delivering too have undergone transformations. The teachings methods have seen a long list of changes beginning from Chalk and Talk method to the latest Computer Integrated Teaching while sailing through the bridge of PowerPoint. To reach successfully to the latest teaching methods like Computer integrated teaching, one must attain a good proficiency over PowerPoint. PowerPoint, a product of Microsoft has become an integral part of our lives. Whether business gatherings, academic conferences or even in media, it is finding large scale acceptance and appreciation. Education domain is also not untouched by the impact of PowerPoint. As the techies say, it has added power to every application it has entered into. But whether these presentations are truly preserving the essence of classroom teaching? To get a better answer to the posed question, a survey was conducted on 85 students and 35 teachers of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India. In the questionnaire presented to them, numerous issues regarding PowerPoint and Blackboard teaching were asked. According to teachers, use of PowerPoint is more suitable for large class consisting of more than 100 students. The students were of the opinion that a mix of the conventional Blackboard and PowerPoint methods works well. The following Research Paper is an endeavour to throw some light upon several issues that need to be taken care of while using PowerPoint in teaching.

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008617   Shettar R;Taorem S (Computer Science Engineering Dep, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore-560 059) : Sentiment extraction and analysis of product reviews at sentence level. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(2-3), 22-9.

These days large number of people are using internet as a medium to communicate and express their views on politics, products, movies and other various domains. Monitoring these views online will be helpful for the companies, individuals or groups, who are interested in knowing what the customers are talking about their products. But manually monitoring is a costly and time-consuming task. Using sentiment analysis one can perform automatic summarization of the customer views based on their opinions. Presents work carried out to perform sentiment extraction and analysis of the product reviews at sentence level. Machine learning techniques, namely Multinomial Na‹ve Bayes (MNB) and Support Vector Machines (SVM)) were used to perform sentiment classification. Experimentation was carried out with two different data corpus and results of the two machine learning techniques were compared. Cross-domain sentiment analysis was also studied and its result is presented. The sentiment analysis system presented here also identifies the product features and extracts the sentiments associated with it. Finally, challenges faced in sentiment analysis and future works are discussed.

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008616   Krishnaiah N;Narsimha G (Computer Science and Engineering Dep, BVC Engineering College, Odalarevu-533 210, Email: nkrishna520@gmail.com) : Clustering categorical data using node importance method. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(2-3), 8-15.

Data clustering is an important technique in data analysis. It can be defined as a given set of data objects, the problem of clustering is to partition data objects into groups in such a way that objects in same group are similar and objects in different groups are dissimilar according to the predefined similarity measurement. Authors introduce proposed MARDL mechanism.

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008615   Agrawal S;Pandey N K (NO, RGPV, Bhopal) : Comparison between two association rule mining techniques. Curr Trends Inf Technol 2011, 1(2-3), 1-7.

Data mining requires associated items to be mined from given transactions. Association rule mining (ARM) has gained importance in view of trend-prediction and decision-making process. Mostly ARM is implemented using variants of FP tree growth techniques. Introduces an improved technique for ARM - Improved Relative Dotted Sequence Path (IRDSP)-based ARM. The logic justifying why this technique saves time in comparison with classical technique - FP tree based-ARM has been explained. Projected technique saves time on two counts. On first count, the arrangement in descending order on the basis of occurrence frequency is not required. On second count, unlike FP tree, where each node and link is traversed many a times for generating frequent item set, this technique traverses them only once. The gain in time is because of time spent in formation of IRDSP graph. However as size of graph grows beyond a certain level, the proposed technique becomes comparable with other proposed approaches. Still the gain for small and moderate level set of transactions validates the effort.

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007591   Sreekumar M G (Centre for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL), Indian Institute of Management Kozhikose (IIMK), IIMK Campus P.O., Calicut-673 570, Email: mgsree@iimk.ac.in) : Strategies on e-resources management for smart information systems. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 155-69.

There has been a paradigm shift the world over, the way how information and knowledge is being generated, stored, accessed, disseminated and consumed. Information and communication technology (ICT) is the game changer in this and it has propelled the growth of large numbers of electronic resources across the world. Organizations now spend a major portion of their budget for subscribing to electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, bibliographic/full-text databases, online services and web portals. It is imperative on the part of the information professional to have a componentized and a multi-system approach to knowledge technologies and information management. Seamless aggregation and meticulous integration of diverse data streams embracing the traditional as well as the electronic information is the most appropriate strategy to be adopted and applied. Switching over to the technology pedestal shall ensure the information systems an exponential growth in the r-resource base, as well as facility to outreach to a wider community at a 24x7 formula. Information systems could also explore numerous resource base enhancement innovations such as the UGC Infonet, INDEST Consortium etc. and several Open Source Digital Library technologies towards making the library vibrant, resourceful, accessible and visible. More over with the advent of an array of ICT applications and with the upsurge and penetration of a vast variety of electronic content, the multitude of electronic information services will indeed attract and potentially influence the users prompting them to step in and stick to the changed scenario. As a measure of the impact on the scientific and research productivity, the increase in the overall scholarly intellectual capital of the institute could be matched against the improvement in research publications and the conferences, symposia, workshops etc. hosted by the organization. Quality improvement on the courses offered by the organization could also be considered.

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007590   Somaratna S D;Peiris C N (The Library, Faculty of Science, Colombo Univ, Sri Lanka, Email: sajees@lib.cmb.ac.lk) : Service quality in university of Colombo libraries: an assessment. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 170-83.

Survey of 614 users of the University of Colombo Library system using a modified version of SERVQUAL was carried out to ascertain the views of library users about the service level. They were asked to assess the actual service delivered by the library; to establish the importance of the service to them as users; and, to identify to what extent the service met their expectations. Exploratory factor; analysis with Varimax rotation was employed to identify underlying dimensions of service quality of the Library and the best predictor of the overall service quality of the University of Colombo Library was identified by regression analysis. Finds that the service quality of the University of Colombo Library System was represented by seven dimensions and the best predictor of the overall service quality was the dimension referred to as "Collection and Access". This is the first user survey conducted in University Libraries in Sri Lanka to assess the service quality through user perspectives, discovering service quality factors.

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007589   Sahu A K;Goswami N G;Choudhary B K (Information Management & Dissemination Centre, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur-831 007, Email: aksahu@nmlindia.org) : Research publications of National Metallurgical Laboratory during the year 2001-2010- a study on citation patterns. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 151-60.

R&D publication growth, its characteristics, research impact, quality, citation value, category of journals, core research areas, characteristics of productive authors with reference to the National Metallurgical Laboratory, an R&D organisation under CSIR, India is analysed. Based on data obtained from the Science Citation Indices, it was found that the highest number of 120 papers was published by the laboratory in the year 2010, out of which 28 papers received 62 citations during the same year for the papers published by the laboratory whereas the highest citation received was 738 from 88 out of 107 papers published in 2006 as on April 2011. The average number of publications per year was 88.1 for the period under consideration and the average citation per paper was 5.02. The analysis shows that the majority of the authors of this laboratory published their research work in joint authorship (96.48%). The authors mostly prefer to publish their research findings in reputed international journals rather than Indian journals. 72.95 percent citing authors are from foreign countries and only 27.05 percent are Indians. Therefore, the R&D contributions made by scientists of CSIR-NML had a global impact in the field of metallurgy and materials science. High citations received were in the areas of materials science, metallurgical engineering, nanoscience & nanotechnology and environmental engineering over the last decades as observed during the period 2001-2010. The h-index of the last decade was 25.

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007588   Sahoo B B;Agarwal G P (INDEST-AICTE Consortium, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi-110 016) : INDEST-AICTE consortium: a decade of service for engineering, science and technology community of the country. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 170-80.

The article discusses various consortia operating in India, the inception of 1NDEST-AICTE Consortium, objectives, administrative structure, membership, services, and activities of INDEST-AICTE Consortium. It also discusses the selection of e-resources, review of e-resources, license agreement with publishers, fair use, usage analysis of various e-resources, economics of expenditure, research output of core members, archival access of e-resources for the core as well as other member of the consortium and future plan for the consortium.

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007587   Pradhan D R;Rai A K;Arora J (STO, INFLIBNET Centre, Opposite Gujarat Guest House Univ, Post Box No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad-380 009, Email: dinesh@inflibnet.ac.in) : Implications of SUSHI for analysis of usage statistics of e-resources: a fcase study of UGC-INFONET ditgital library consortium. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 187-93.

The usage of e-resources is one of the most important parameters to judge effectiveness of a eonsortium. Manual downloading and analysis of usage statistics is a time-consuming process for a consortium like UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium having more than 180 core members. COUNTER and SUSHI standards have the potential to ease the work of a consortium administrator by minimizing the time involved in manual downloading of usage statistics allowing more time for analyzing the usage statistics for better decision making. The article gives a brief of the implication of SUSHI for creating a usage statistics portal at the INFLIBNET Centre for monitoring the usage of the member universities.

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007586   Moorty A L;Pant A (NO, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, Metcalfe House, Delhi-110 054, Email: almoorthy52@gmail.com) : Assessing the use of electronic information resources in DRDO institutes: an analytical study of DRDO e-journals consortium. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 194-203.

Resource sharing amongst libraries is a good old practice that is aimed at overcoming budgetary constraints. The new millennium saw quite a few number of Library Consortia established in the country, NKRC of CSIR and INDEST being the most successful of them. After taking in to consideration the experiences of these and other Library Consortia that are successfully serving their users, DRDO E-Journals Consortium was established by DESIDOC in the year 2009 with 7 core publishers. This paper briefly discusses the genesis of the DRDO Consortium, its services, budgetary provisions, services offered, and efforts made by DESIDOC to enhance the use of e-resources across the Organisation. An analytical study of the usage of e-resources by the DRDO scientific community was also made and the inferences were listed. Overall the Consortium has been perceived as a major facilitator in providing required information within least possible time.

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007585   Malhan I V;Rao S (Computers & Information Sciences, Central Himachal Pradesh Univ, Dharamshala, Email: imalhan_47@rediffmail.com) : Refocusing attention on institutional and collective responsibility for an effective consortia model. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 143-7.

Access to content through consortia approach is becoming prevalent in libraries. This paper discusses the status of consortia in India and portrays the challenges of e-resources access and describes how the changing landscape of libraries, information products offered by publishers and emergence of e-learning environment is influencing consortia. The article concludes that we need to focus on more effective consortia models for just in place delivery of content for greater user convenience. In order to enhance their usage, the consortia resources must be in alignment with institutional thrust areas of work and users' information requirements for work performance.

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007584   Loan F A (Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir Univ, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Email: fayazlib@yahoo.co.in) : Internet use by the college students across disciplines: a study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 118-27.

A questionnaire based survey method on internet use among college students in Kashmir Valley found that students of computer science make use of internet most of all followed by students of business and commerce, general science, social sciences and humanities students respectively. The students of business and commerce leads in using internet for information, students of computer science use it predominantly for communication purposes and students of social sciences and humanities use it for education purposes compared to others. Information overload is the most common problem faced by students of all faculties while searching the relevant information. The students of general science, social sciences and humanities find internet illiteracy as the major limitation in using the internet. The students of general sciences, social sciences and humanities, and business and commerce faced institutional curbs to internet access.

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007583   Lal D D (DBT's Electronic Library Consortium (DeLCON), National Brain Research Centre, NH-08, Manesar, Distt.- Gurgaon, Haryana, Pin-122 050, Email: ddlal@nbrc.ac.in) : Consortia based electronic information resource sharing in department of biotechnology institutes in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 181-6.

In the current era of IT (Information technology), the information needs of the users have increased considerably that no ibrary individually can meet all the information requirements of the users. This has required the need for efficient association and collaboration between libraries and information centres for sharing their available resources and information through networking. The consortia approach can be considered as a major step towards library collaboration in sharing electronic resources. The paper describes the DBT's Electronic Resources Consortium (DeLCON).

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007582   Khatun A;Zabed Ahmed S M (Information Science and Library Management Dep, Dhaka Univ, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: muckta_202@yahoo.com) : Bibliometric analysis of diarrhoeal disease research in Bangladesh. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 109-17.

Quantitative analysis is carried out to identify the literature growth, authorship pattern, collaboration and journal distribution on diarrhoeal disease research in Bangladesh based on data obtained from PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases. Well-established bibliometric laws, such as Lotka's law and Bradford's law are employed to further explore the characteristics of diarrhoeal literature. Bradford-Zipf distribution is applied to determine the core journals on diarrhoeal disease research in Bangladesh. Moreover, a comparison was made to determine the strength of diarrhoeal research in Bangladesh using/i-index on bibliographic data from Scopus. The result shows increasing R&D activities on diarrhoeal research in Bangladesh. Lotka's law and Bradford distribution do not apply to diarrhoeal disease research in Bangladesh. The/i-index count indicates that Bangladesh tops the diarrhoeal research impact list in South Asia region.

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007581   Kalra J;Verma R K (NO, Kurukshetra Univ, Kurukshetra, Email: jaya.kalral@gmail.com) : Evaluation indicators of library websites of selected research institutions in India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 139-50.

An attempt has been made to evaluate the library websites of selected research institutions in India both quantitatively and qualitatively on the basis of Web Impact Factor, pre-defined check list of indicators, and online questionnaire survey. Studies the existing procedures and practices of evaluation indicators of websites at national and international levels as reported in the literature. Reveals that there are many inconsistencies and terminological issues and many effective methodologies/techniques for websites evaluation which are practiced at international level but are not being used in such studies in India. Two major quality components viz. 'usability' and 'usefulness' covering the various evaluation indicators at 'indicative' and 'illustrative' level have been examined. Concludes that there is scope of further research for developing and standardizing the indicators with multiple evaluation perspectives at various levels. Suggests the active and crucial role of library and information scientists in the evaluation process from design to content management in future.

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007580   Jayasundara C C (Colombo Library Univ, P.O. Box 1698, Colombo Univ, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka, Email: chaminda@lib.cmb.ac.lk) : Promotional avenues for university librarians in Sri Lanka. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 100-8.

The paper identifies the existing promotional avenues for university librarians in Sri Lanka, the basic requirements needed for these avenues, the obstacles and obstacle mitigating strategies. The research design of the study comprised of three steps, viz., literature analysis, survey based on telephonic interviews, and finally, the opinion modeling. It was found that the major problems that hinder career advancement prospects among librarians are a combination of professional duties with research and publication requirements, inadequate opportunities to reach the rank of librarian and lack of higher educational qualification requirements.

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007579   Gaur R C;Tripathi M (Librarian Univ, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, New Meharuli Road, New Delhi-110 067, Email: rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in) : Role of consortia in preservation of e-journals. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 204-11.

The present paper briefly describes the importance of library consortia and enlists main consortia of the country. It mainly dwells upon the various issues related to the preservation of digital content of e-journals. It suggests that various Indian library consortia in the country should take lead and initiate action for preserving e-journals for future.

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007578   Garg K C;Kumar S;Bhatia V K;Ramasubramanian V;Amrender Kumar;Jyoti Kumari (CSIR-National Institute for Science, Technology and Development Studie, , Dr. K.S. Krishnan Marg, Pusa Gate, New Delhi-110 012, Email: gargkc022@gmail.com) : Plant genetics and breeding research: scientometric profile of selected countries with special reference to India. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 184-97.

Analysis of 32,574 papers published by USA, UK, China, India and Brazil in the field of 'plant genetics and breeding' research during 2005-2009 indicates that USA produced the highest number of publications followed by China. The impact of research output as seen by the values of different impact indicators is highest for UK. The sub-domains of emphasis of research shifted in 2009 as compared to 2005 for all countries. India contributed about 9 percent to the world publication output. Indian output formed a part of the mainstream science as seen by the pattern of publication and citation of the research output. The total Indian output originated from 1,806 institutions located in different parts of the country. About 41 percent of the total Indian output was concentrated among 23 institutions. Among the institutions, international institutes located in India had the highest impact. The proportion of single authored papers has decreased considerably and the share of internationally co-authored papers has remained almost steady during the period of study.

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007577   Farahi M T;Ramesh Gandhi R T D (Library and Information Science Dep, Mysore Univ, Manasgangotri, Mysore-570 006, Email: mfarahi20@gmail.com) : IT skills among LIS professionals of medical libraries in India and Iran: a comparative study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 161-9.

A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to elicit IT skills needed for LIS professionals working in medical, dental, and pharmacy colleges affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) in Karnataka, India; and Ministry of Health and Medical Education and Islamic Azad University (MOHME & IAU), Iran. Results revealed that all the skills listed under IT basics and, internet were considered important by medical librarians in India and Iran. However, skilk in working with non-popular software packages in areas such as presentation, publishing, and email were considered as unimportant. Concludes that Iranian LIS professionals' IT skills requirement was higher than that of Indian LIS professionals. Iranian professionals attributed more importance to the ability to use non-popular software packages in some areas, such as electronic mail, publishing, presentation, and databases than their Indian counterparts did.

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007576   Dixit A (Physiology Dep, College of Medical Sciences Univ, Delhi Univ, Delhi, Email: abhinavdr@gmail.com) : ''IMRAD'' format: a concise and clear way to present a scientific study. Indian J med Spec 2011, 2(2), 192-3.

Nothing can be more exciting to a researcher than publication of his work in a peer reviewed journal. Every journal issues its own guidelines for authors for preparation of manuscript. However the generally accepted format used by most of the journals is what is popularly known as the "IMRAD" format, an acronym for Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. This article aims to provide a basic idea of IMRAD to help young researchers in drafting their manuscript.

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007575   Chandel A S;Mukesh Saikia (Library & Information Science Dep, North Eastern Hill Univ, Shillong-793 014, Email: nehushgmzu07@gmail.com) : Challenges and opportunities of e-resources. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(3), 148-54.

The advent of e-resources and their increased use have changed the library scenario from physical to virtual. Users' preferences are more for e-resources and virtual libraries with little attraction for physical libraries. In spite of innumerable advantages of e-resources, there are certain problems also relating to their acquisition, maintenance, management, etc. which need collaborative efforts of professionals and all other bodies associated with creation, distribution and use of these resources to establish the sound practices and the models. The paper highlights these issues, emphasizing the need to develop or procure an ERMS which can integrate all these resources along with printed material to provide single window approach to all resources available locally as well as globally in a universal library.

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007574   Aggarwal A (National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi-110 029, Email: aabha54@gmail.com) : Sampling issues in research methodologies. Indian J med Spec 2011, 2(2), 169-72.

Research is an academic activity and as such the term should be used in technical sense. It refers to systematic method consisting of enunciating the research problem, formulating a hypothesis, collection of facts or data, analysing the facts and reaching certain conclusion either in the form of solution(s) towards the concerned problem or in certain generalised formed theoretical formulation. The purpose of research is to discover answer to question through the application of scientific procedures. This article is a discussion on sampling in research mainly designed to equip beginners with knowledge on general issues on sampling, its purpose, types of sampling design and guide for deciding the sample size to get the quality results.

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007573   Adithya Kumari H;Talawar V G (Studies in Library & Information Science Dep, Mysore Univ, Mysore-570 006, Email: adithyakumarih@gmail.com) : Reference sources collection in university libraries of Karnataka: a study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 93-9.

Studies the reference sources collection, i.e., handbooks & manuals, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, directories, yearbooks & almanacs, geographical sources, indexing & abstracting sources in seven university libraries of Karnataka. Among seven universities included for the study, the Mangalore University Library has rich collection of reference sources. Among the reference collection, dictionaries and encyclopedias are more in number as against geographical sources of information and directories in university libraries. The study also gives a comparative analysis of reference collection in university libraries with its number of users. Finds that there is a need to strengthen the collection of almanacs, maps and atlases, gazetteers, indexing, abstracting and statistical sources in all the university libraries under study particularly, the handbooks and yearbooks collection in Bangalore University Library and statistical sources in Karnatak University Library. Almnacs and abstracting sources collection in Kannada University Library has to be initiated.

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007572   Adekannbi J (Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, Ibadan Univ, Nigeria, Email: janet.adekannbi@gmail.com) : Web link analysis of interrelationship between top ten African universities and world universities. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2011, 58(2), 128-38.

Data for the exploratory study on web link analysis were extracted using the AltaVista search engine. A sample of 2395 links was selected using proportional-to-size sampling technique while individual link was selected using systematic sampling. The data were analysed using the frequency and percentage distributions. The results of the analyses showed that 73.7% of the links were from the Top Ten African Universities to the Top Ten World Universities; whereas these Ten African Universities received only 26.3% inlinks from the Top Ten World Universities. It was also found that most of the outlinks from the Top Ten African Universities were to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (27.3%) while the highest number of inlinks were from Stanford University (21.8%). The study concludes that African universities showed more interest in linking to the world class universities; a trend that was not reciprocated by the world universities. The low level of links received by the African universities was probably due to the fact that African universities in general have only recently embraced the many features of the World Wide Web. It is recommended that African universities should improve their presence on the web and incorporate ranking in their web relationship with other universities which should significantly be tailored to benefits that could be received from academic activities.

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006558   Rup Lal (Zoology Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi, Email: ruplal@gmail.com) : First impact factor of Indian journal of microbiology. Indian J Microbiol 2011, 51(4), 415.

006557   Nishy P;Parvatharajan P;Gangan Prathap (NO, CSIR National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resou, Dr. K S Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: prmparvatharajan@gmail.com) : Visibility and impact of the Indian journal of chemistry, section B during 2005-2009 using scientometric techniques. Indian J Chem-Sect B 2012, 51(1), 269-84.

Organic chemistry has always been one of the strongest areas of research in the chemical sciences in India. The Indian Journal of Chemistry. Section B is the leading journal from India covering important contributions in the area of organic and medicinal chemistry. This is the first attempt to carry out a scientometric assessment of the visibility and impact of this journal towards serving the needs of researchers, mainly from India, in these areas. All papers published in this journal during 2005 to 2009 have been analysed using various scientometric parameters like geographical distribution, citations received each year, authorship patterns, etc. The papers are grouped under four main fields: (i) Heterocyclic Chemistry, (ii) Synthetic Organic Chemistry, (iii) Natural Products Chemistry and (iv) Theoretical Chemistry and assessment and performance of these and the forty five specialized sub-fields in organic chemistry have been studied.

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006556   Devi Lal;Rup Lal (Zoology Dep, Delhi Univ, Delhi-110 007, Email: ruplal@gmail.com) : The rise of open access. Indian J Microbiol 2011, 51(4), 416-17.

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005505   Zafrunnisha N (Library and Information Science Dep, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univ, Anantapur, Email: nishazafru@gmail.com) : Bradford's zones and productivity of journals in psychology doctoral theses. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(1), 39-52.

Bradford's law of scattering is based on the principle that every scientific field is related, however remotely, to every other field. One hundred and forty one Ph.D. theses accepted in the field of psychology for the award of doctoral degrees were analysed to identify the Bradford's zones and productivity of journals cited in the theses. The productivity of cited journals is measured after dividing the journals into four equal groups. The average rate of productivity of journals in the first group is 254 articles, whereas it has considerably gone down to 10.73 articles in the fourth group. The journal distribution as per the Bradford's law reveals the ratio as 17:46:358 in psychology, dispersion of journal titles in psychology does not satisfy the Bradford's Law of Scattering.

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005504   Vijayalakshmi B (NO, Sri Sarada College for Women, Tirunelveli-627 011) : Z39.50-an overview. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 266-70.

Z39.50 is a client-server protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote computer databases. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950. The standard's maintenance agency is the Library of Congress. This paper describes about overview, definition, versions, application, process, implication, Z39.50 on the web & advantages of Z39.50.

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005503   Varatharajan N;Chandrashekara M (NO, Hyderabad Univ, Hyderabad-500 046) : Library professional working experiences in an automated and digital library at university of Hyderabad. Pearl 2010, 4(3), 196-204.

This paper studies the experiences and attitudes of library professionals at Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad towards automation and digital library activities. A questionnaire method used to collect the data. The study found that staff involvement with automation is well balanced with all modules of the library software, whereas, limited staff involved with digital library and digitization activities, lack of promotional avenues and health care measures are required more attention, etc.

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005502   Uzuegbu C P;Chukwu O C;Ibegwam A (NO, Michael Okpara Agriculture Library Univ, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria, P.M.B, 7267 Umuahia, Abia State, Email: fortenews@yahoo.com) : Creating universal resource locator links on library computers desktop: a panacea for students' underutilization of subscribed electronic databases in academic institutions in Nigeria. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(2), 97-105.

This study is a 3-week experiment using Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) Digital Library and clients as study area and population respectively. Having observed the problem of students and researchers underutilization of electronic databases subscribed by academic institutions in Nigeria, the research was aimed at testing students and researchers approach to a new method that may enhance usage of subscribed electronic databases and recommend it if positive. Dummy links, representing some of the Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of the databases subscribed by MOUAU were created as the desktop page of ten computers in the digital library. Designed purposively, a click on the dummy links referred clients to the librarian. The record of clients who reported to the Digital Librarian as a result of the dummy upload request was collated. Apart from finding that, gender, level of study and purpose of visit are electronic database utilization variables, the study reveals that creating URL links on desktop pages would effectively sensitize and increase students' utilisation of the various electronic databases subscribed by individual Nigerian academic institutions. The experiment's result show that URL links would effectively introduce subscribed electronic databases to students and researchers much better than any other means.

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005501   Talab S M G;Tajafari M (Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi Mashhad Univ, Iran, Email: ghaemi83@gmail.com) : Impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on library staff training: a comparative study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(1), 7-15.

Through a questionnaire survey, the study identifies and compares the impact of ICT on training of library human resources in two university libraries each of India and Iran. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse data. The findings show that though both Indian and Iranian library staff believe that introduction of ICT in libraries has created a need for training. Library staff from Iran have perceived the effect of ICT on their training needs more than their Indian counterparts. The article concludes that university libraries in both countries have to get their library staff trained in ICT.

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005500   Sinha B;Joshi K (NO, Zoological Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh, Regional Centre, Senki Valley, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh) : Analysis of India's solar photovoltaics research output. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(2), 106-21.

Knowledge of national research trends and thrust areas as well as R&D capability in solar photovoltaics has become all the more essential following the launching of the National Solar Mission in 2010. The present study analyzes the status of solar PV research in India encompassing aspects such as pattern of output, impact of research, thrust of research; identifies the leading agencies, institutes and authors including their research thrust. Finally, the paper looks into the pattern of collaboration in Indian solar PV research including academia-industry collaboration. The study concludes that a comprehensive mapping of solar PV R&D capability of India should be taken out on a priority basis in order to make effective R&D strategies to take advantage of supportive policy initiatives like the National Solar Mission.

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005499   Shimna P K;Surulinathi M;Srinivasaragavan S (NO, Bharathidasan Univ, Trichy-24) : Developing live chat portal for library services: a study of Bharathidasan university library, Trichy. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 276-8.

The last two decades, Libraries have experimented with technology to provide traditional library services in the online environment. The use of e-mail, chat and other online media to provide reference services has presented numerous challenges and opportunities. As a result of these collaborations, librarians must often work with users outside of their primary patron base. Collaborative online reference services have brought together librarians from different environment, including public, academic and special libraries. Livechat@BDU Library Web Portal will allow our Library Users to review of their work request on-line from any computer that is connected to the Network. Online chat, RSS feeds - we never imagined that these technologies would impact on information services in the ways they have and we can begin to imagine the greater changes that tomorrow will bring in the world of the virtual reference library. This paper is to help librarians understand and appreciate chat reference users, to present practical tools for serving this population and to stimulate further discussion and inquiry into teen use of chat reference services. I believe that responsive service to this population is crucial to the future development and growth of chat reference services.

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005498   Saleh A G;Sadiq H (Library Science Dep, Maiduguri Univ, Borno State, Nigeria, Email: adamgambo48@yahoo.co.uk) : The influence of denominational affiliations on the information seeking behavior of the Ulama in Borno state, Nigeria. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(2), 79-89.

Information seeking behavior (ISB) studies is one area in library and information science that has over the years attracted the attention of information professionals, resulting in several studies being carried out with a view to understand why people seek information, how they seek it, and what influences their information seeking behavior. Thus, the main objective of the study was to investigate whether the information seeking behavior of the Ulama is influenced by their denominational and sectarian affiliations. The study deployed the survey research method. The target population was made up of 973 Ulama dispersed within 27 Local Government Areas of Borno State of Nigeria. Proportional stratified random sampling technique was used to arrive at the sample size of 284. The study used questionnaire to collect data which was subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistical procedures. The study identified the existence of various religious groups in Borno and highlighted the information sources preferred as well as the diverse search strategies adopted when seeking information. Most importantly however, the study revealed that the denominational and sectarian differences does not affect the ways the Ulama search for information to carry out their roles, what however influences their preaching, counseling, administration, and leadership roles, was their interpretations of Islam according to sectarian and doctrinal beliefs.

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005497   Sahu S B (Central Library, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), 15, Ashok Marg, Lucknow-226 001) : E-journals: role and challenges for library & information centres. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 271-5.

As we approach the twenty-first century, journals offer one of the greatest challenges confronting library and information science professionals. For more than a decade, journals prices have continuously increased at a rate far higher than general inflation and library funding levels, placing genuine financial pressure on most libraries. Some of the technological developments such as electronic journals, CD-ROMs, listservs, the Internet, and the World Wide Web (WWW) have reduced the crisis in this regard to some extent. However, at the same time it also creates unresolved problems and opportunities for the library professionals in particular and growth of information in various subject fields in general. Like in other subject fields, the growth of e-journals in Social Science has also increased many folds during last few years. In 1989-90 Ulrich's listed 2131 serials in an online format (either exclusively online or simultaneously with a print version); in 1998 it contained 8762.

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005496   Rupsingh Naik N;Rao M A (NO, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Univ, Hyderabad) : Barcode technology: advantages for libraries. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 259-65.

Explains the barcode technology, used in libraries in detail. This paper explains the overview implications, different barcode symbologies, scaning devices and applications of Barcode systems in Libraries. It also explains the Advantages of the Barcode System.

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005495   Reddy K K S (Library and Information Science Dep, Sri Venkateswara Univ, Tirupati) : User satisfaction in Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College Library. Pearl 2010, 4(3), 189-95.

Describes in brief, a survey conducted at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College Library, A.Rangampet, (Tirupati) to find out the user satisfaction in library resources and services. The study also covers the impact of these resources on the student academic work/study. Also describes the problems faced in using the library resources. Hence, there are about 2,835 students studying in the B. Tech, M.C.A and M. Tech in Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College. Since the population is too large to study in view of time and cost involved, a sample of 300 (10.5% of the total population) users has been drawn from the population consisting 2,835 members by simple random method. However, the investigator received responses from 290 (10.2%) persons.

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005494   Ray P P;Sen B K (Instt. of Education, Visva-Bharati, West Bengal, Email: raypartha1@hotmail.com) : Letter correspondences of Rabindranath Tagore: a study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(2), 122-7.

Published letters written by Rabindranath Tagore counts to four thousand ninety eight. Besides family members and Santiniketan associates, Tagore wrote to different personalities like litterateurs, poets, artists, editors, thinkers, scientists, politicians, statesmen and government officials. These letters form a substantial part of intellectual output of 'Tagoreana' (all the intellectual output of Rabindranath). The present paper attempts to study the growth pattern of letters written by Rabindranath and to find out whether it follows Bradford's Law. It is observed from the study that Rabindranath wrote letters throughout his literary career to three hundred fifteen persons covering all aspects such as literary, social, educational, philosophical as well as personal matters and it does not strictly satisfy Bradford's bibliometric law.

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005493   Parvez A (NO, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore-453 331, Email: akhtaronline@gmail.com) : Information needs of managers in Indian financial institutions. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2012, 59(1), 64-73.

Corporate managers are in constant need of current and credible information quickly. Through an online survey and interview of 352 managers working in financial institutions in India, the choice of mangers specific types of information, online/traditional sources and ranking of various information sources have been discussed. Financial and industry specific databases were found to be used the most by the managers who had clear preference for electronic format. Faster exchange/communication was found to be the major reason for managers' format preference across categories. The article concludes that the information providers should focus on providing customised information solutions so that the issues relating to the formats, types of sources and so on could be addressed in the best possible manner. Also, a serious thought is needed on the part of government and private agencies for providing timely and credible information which could be easily reused for further research and analysis.

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005492   Nireekshana Babu V;Sivaprasad G (Library Univ, Potti Sreeramulu Telugu Univ, Hyderabad) : Library consortia in India. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 220-3.

Libraries in India are facing the problem of shrinking budgets and at the other end exponential rise in the prices of journals. UGC-INFONET, INDEST, CSIR e-journal consortia, IIM Library consortia and HELINET Consortia are five major initiatives that have come to the rescue of libraries so that they can cater to the needs of clients, depending upon them. Library consortium is collaborative activity of a group of libraries to cope up with above mentioned crisis.

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005491   Nema N (NO, , A-2, Staff Colony, MNNIT, Allahabad-211 004) : Development of public libraries in India. Pearl 2010, 4(4), 245-58.

India is a multi-lingual national country containing 25 states and 7 union territories (UT). Each state and UT is divided into districts and sub-districts. This paper tells about the stages of the development of public library. It also specifies the current states, where public libraries are situated in different areas of India. The Act, which was passed by library legislation, is also specified in this paper. It also tells about the plans of the central government, which is especially concerned with the financial expenditure during the Five Year Plans, important developments, and their impact on establishment of the public library system, after the independence. This paper suggests the possible remedies to transform the situation of the public libraries in rural India to the best possible level. It details the new technological developments and the practical result, which would assist in the establishment of digital library services in rural India.

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005490   Natarajan N O (Library & Information Science Wing, Directorate of Distance Education, Annamalai Univ, Annamalainagar-608 002) : ICT applications in health care profession. Pearl 2010, 4(3), 160-6.

The advent of computer and communication technologies and the advances in the Information and communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the scope of health science disciplines and emerged as a great potential to surpass the conventional barriers such as time and space that one time inhibited the communication for patient care. This paper outlines the areas of application of ICT in health care profession like management, Hospital management information systems Epidemiological surveillance, Telemedicine etc. It also focuses the need to ICT learning, barriers using ICT in Medical informatics.

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005489   Muralikrishna C (SDCE, Dravidian Univ, Kuppam-517 425) : Need for digitization of university libraries. Pearl 2010, 4(3), 156-9.

The Library, as the life blood of higher education institutions, can benefit tremendously from the facilities provided by the ICT. The university libraries can be transformed into a new information services unit, providing electronic cataloguing, electronic on-line. Public access catalogues, electronic acquisition and serials control. Electronic inter-library loan and electronic circulation functions. But it must be realized that many university libraries are yet to take advantages of modern ICT. In some of the first generation universities, digitalization is taking place in many of their libraries and library information networks are being established with connectivity through the university campus network to the Internet. Digitization is an excellent way of providing access to library material, but the technology, in its current state of development, is not adequate for archival preservation. Digitization has proven to be possible for nearly every format and medium presently held by Libraries, from maps to manuscripts, and moving images to musical recordings. The use of hardware and software for capturing an item and converting it into bits and bytes, matched by a quickly developing set of practices for describing and retrieving digital objects, is giving from to the talk of library without walls. Digitization refers to the conversion of materials that were originally created in another format into an electronic form.

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