017352   Kademani B S;Vijai Kumar;Anil Kumar;Sagar A; Lalit Mohan;Surwase G;Gaderao C R (Scientific Inf Resour Div, Bhabha Atom Res Cent, Mumbai-400 085, Email: bsk@barc.ernet.in) : Publication productivity of the bio-organic division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre: a scientometric study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(4), 135-46.

Attempts to analyse quantitatively 475 papers published by the Bio-Organic Division of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre during 1972-2002 in various domains like Synthesis (202), Bio-organic Chemistry (100), Biotechnology (70), Natural Products (53), Waste Management (30), Supra-molecular Chemistry (18) and Organic Spectroscopy (2). The highest number of publications in a year were 38 in 2001. The average number of publications per year was 15.3 and the highest collaboration coefficient 1.0 was found in the years 1972, 1976-1977, 1980-1985, 1987, 1989-1990 and 1993. The most prolofic authors were: A. Banerji (125), V.R. Mamdapur (93), S. Chattopadhyay (86), M.S. Chadha (61), S.K. Nayak (37), A. Chattopadhyay (30), L.P. Badheka (26), G.J. Chintalwar (26), S.K. Ghosh (25), and N.B. Mulchandani (25). The core journals preferred by the scientists to publish their papers include: Indian Journal of Chemistry-B (56), Tetrahedron Letters (20), Synthetic Communications (15), Journal of Organic Chemistry (14), Biotechnology letters (12), Phytochemistry (12), Tetrahedron Asymmetry (11), Journal of Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions -1 (10) and Molecule (10).

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014189   Mehta N (Inf Div, Natn Chem Lab, Homi Bhobha Road, Pune-411 008, Email: nsm@ems.ncl.res.in) : Measuring organizational scientific productivity: A study at NCL. Curr Sci 2005, 88(2), 223-30.

Research evaluation of any organization is based on indicators of science and technology activity. Bibliometrics provides such tools to be applied to research evaluation. It provides quantitative approach in science studies. One of the areas in bibliometric research concerns the application of most commonly used bibliometric laws such as Lotka's law of scientific productivity and Zip's law of rank-size statistics. A study of ten-years data of papers published by scientists at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune and also patents granted to NCL in the same period has been carried out to, examine the applicability of these laws. For all these cases, a Lotka-like distribution was observed with a correlation coefficient of 0.99. Zipf's law was also found to be satisfactorily applicable. Lorenz curves were plotted to see the relative productivity at NCL. The analysis indicates that 8 to 10% of scientists contributed to more than 90% of publications. The results also indicate that top 1% scientists are 10 times as productive as an average scientist.

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013133   Yogendra Singh;Gupta B M;Suresh Kumar (NO, Indian Inst of Technol, Roorkee) : Research contributions and impact of research of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 1993 to 2001. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 8-14.

Methodology for studying the quantitative profile of a research and teaching institute, with a view to get idea about its major research contributions, performance and impact in different fields of S&T. A number of quantitative and qualitative indicators have been used for studying the relative performance of the institute across various subject fields. Concludes that the three subjects, namely mathematics, biology and clinical medicine, although contributing smaller number of papers, secured first three ranks in terms of average normalized impact factor per paper. They have also done fairly well in terms of percentage of collaborative papers, but faired badly in terms of contributing to high quality papers, with the exception of clinical medicine. These three fields have performed the best in terms of publication effectiveness index.

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013132   Vijay K R (NO, Def Fd Res Lab, Siddharthanagar, Mysore-570 011, Email: dfrlmysore@sanchrnet.in) : Bibliometric study of research publication trends among Indian food scientists and technologists. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(3), 77-81.

Study highlights the collaborative research and authorship trend in the area of food science and technology in India. The study revealed that collaborative research was preferred to solo research in the area of food science in India and the degree of collaboration was found to be 0.91. The average number of authors per paper also showed an upward trend from 4.89 in 1994 to 8.2 in 2003. The publication pattern from different institutions has also been studied to determine the pattern of contributions from the different organizations and institutions.

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013131   Suresh Kumar;Gupta B M (NO, Natn Inst of Sci Technol and Dev Stud, Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: bmgupta1@yahoo.com) : Applications of statistical distributions in collaborations data profile of research specialities: case studies in quantitative ecology and multivariate analysis. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 44-54.

The main objective of the paper has been to explore, analyse and test the validity and applicability of selected probability distributions to the authorship distribution with time in the publications of quantitative ecology and multivariate analysis. It has been observed that Geometric and Truncated Poisson distributions adequately described the distribution of the number of authors per publication. The results also indicate that these distributions are valid in collaboration distributions over a period of time in the development of research speciality.

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013130   Singh S P (Lib STOPWORD Inf Sci Dep, Univ of Delhi, Delhi-110 007, Email: singh_34@yahoo.com) : Styles of bibliographical citations. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 95-108.

Three important styles (Chicago, Harvard andMLA) of providing bibliographical citations. Article has been particularly written for the students and research scholars who create new ideas, literary works in the form MLISc, M Phil, Ph D, D Litt dissertations, research papers and articles, etc. The concept of plagiarism, need for giving references and importance of using bibliographical standards has been explained. Various examples according to the three styles for various types of documents, including electronic sources have been given.

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013129   Singh N S (NO, GB Pant Univ of Agric & Technol, Hill Campus, Tehri Garhwal, Uttranchal, Email: nshill@redirfmail.com) : Revamping agriculture library and information services in India: retrospect and prospect. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 31-6.

Discusses the state of agriculture libraries in India and evaluates parameters such as need for Agriculture Library Association, Automation and Networking, Agriculture Documentation Centre, professional development of library staff, professional status etc., and suggests measures for improvement of library services.

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013128   Sewa Singh;Udani N T (Lib STOPWORD Inf Sci Dep, Guru Nanak Dev Univ, Amritsar) : Redesigning users' services in university libraries of Gujarat. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 73-80.

A survery of ten univeristy libraries of Gujarat state have been made. It reveals that, majority of the university libraries do not provide abstracting and indexing services, CAS/SDI services, CD-ROM search, etc. Highlights some factors required for the radical change in users services and concluded that the university library staff should provide foundation for batter library services.

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013127   Ray P P;Biswas B C;Sen B K (NO, Visva Bharati Univ, PO - Santiniketan-731 235) : Knowledge communication in Tagore's model for rural reconstruction. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(3), 94-102.

Rabindranath Tagore, the world-famous poet, is also considered as the pioneer of rural development programme in India. He started rural reconstruction project at Sriniketan in 1921 aiming to make villagers self-reliant and self-respecting, and competent to make efficient use of resources for the fullest development of their physical, social, economic and intellectual potential and abilities; and to get them acquainted with the cultural tradition of their own. For this purpose Tagore laid full emphasis on collection and dissemination of information. An attempt have been made to highlight how information on rural Bengal was collected, disseminated and utilized for preparing rural development plan and its implementation. The functions of the Rural Reconstruction Centre to the dissemination of information to rural masses.

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013126   Rajendran P;Ramesh Babu B;Gopalakrishnan S (NO, SRM Inst of Sci and Technol, Kattanguluthur, Kancheepuram Dist.-603 203, Email: raj03_pk@yahoo.co.in ) : Bibliometric analysis of `fiber optics' literature. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 82-5.

The objective of this study is to analyse the global output of `fiber optics' research. Articles covered in the Ei- Tech Index database covering the period 1992-2003 have been considered for the study. Growth of literature year wise, country wise, authorship pattern, bibloiographic forms, ranking of core journals and nature of research have been analysed.

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013125   Rajeev Kumai;Amritpal Kaur (NO, SBS Coll of Engng & Technol, Ferozepur Cantt-152 004) : Use of internet by teachers and students in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of engineering & technology. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 81-94.

The use of Internet by teachers and students in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering & Technology (SBSCET) has been examined. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among 30 teachers and 30 students (10 from each branch) to find out the use of Internet facilities at SBSCET. The study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of Internet use Such as, frequency of Internet use, methods used for learning of Internet skill, most frequently used place for Internet use, , purposes for which the Internet is used, use of Internet services, ways to browse the information from the Internet, negative and positive aspects of the Internet, problems faced by the users and satisfaction level of users with the Internet facilities provided in the college. Suggestions have been given to make the service more beneficial for the academic community of the college.

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013124   Rai L P;Naresh Kumar (NO, Natn Inst of Sci Technol and Dev Stud, Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110 012, Email: lp_rai@yahoo.com) : A rationale for Lotka's law: an examination of empirical data. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(3), 103-7.

Attempts have been made in the past to describe scientific productivity. These studies suggest that law of scientific productivity follows an inverse law of growth and measures the frequency of occurrence of scientific output. Lotka's law of scientific productivity among authors and within institutions has been examined with the help of empirical data. Based on these findings an attempt has been made to rationalise the law.

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013123   Parmar A S;Sanghmitra A S;Thusara Prakash (Cent Lib, Bundelkhand Coll, Gwalior Road, Jhansi) : Information seeking beaviour related literature: a LISA plus based bibliometric analysis. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 55-64.

A study conducted on literature related to information seeking behaviour from LISA Plus has been dealt with. The out come of the normal keyword search in LISA Plus are analysed to present the growth of publications; collaboration-ship pattern of authors; most contributed authors; languages in which maximum number of articles are published; type of publications in which information scientists preferred to publish their works; highly preferred journals in which information seeking behaviour related works are published; and the contents of information seeking behaviour related literature through subject descriptors.

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013122   Pande D K (NO, G B Pant Inst of Himalayan Envir and Dev, Kosi Katarmal, Almora-263 643, Email: pandedk1181@yahoo.com ) : Data warehouse techniques in traditional knowledge systems. Indian J Tradl Knowledge 2005, 4(4), 358-66.

Traditional knowledge is the knowledge that has been passed from one generation to the next through the oral or written traditions. The elders have gained the knowledge in their lifetime are needed to teach the younger generations. The relationship of the indigenous people to the land and its resources is tantamount to their survival. No matter where they live and whatever beliefs they have, they all view land as the basis of their survival. Attempts are being made to document and preserve Oral Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions. Looking into the quantum of the information, it is difficult to document and retrieve the information. To make this a reality, an urgent need to fabricate a Data Warehouse (DW) on Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) has been emphasised.

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013121   Natarajan M (NO, NISCAIR, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi-110 006, Email: m_natarajan@hotmail.com) : Digital preservation of cultural heritage information and its implications. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), (NULL).

Definitions of digital preservation and the requirements for preservation have been dealt. The need required for preserving digital objects and the characteristics are discussed with the preservation requirements and storage considerations. The author explained the managerial issues, challenges and the preservation strategies have been explained. The managerial aspects of digital preservation and planning requirements are given along with the advantages of digital access and the problems faced for preservation. The technical issues like Intellectual property rights, societal and legal issues, access issues and policies, quality control, financial issues and human resource management etc. are also discussed in detail. Limitations and standards for the digital preservation are also given.

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013120   Mounissamy P;Kalliammal A A;Thirunavukkarasu (NO, Natn Inst of Technol, Tiruchirappalli-620 015, Email: mouni@nitt.edu) : Access of E-Journals in the institutions of Indian higher education through consortium. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 26-36.

Indian Higher Education System is one of the largest systems in the world, facing challenges due to globalization, increased academic population, knowledge explosion in different forms and a lot of research and development projects on one side and on the other side reduced budget, diversity of users' needs, reduction in staff, inflation, escalation in cost of scholarly publications and so on. These cause pruning of scholarly publications for subscription, which becomes a barrier to the flow of exploded information from generation to the end users. The library consortium is a better solution. The Government of India initiatives such as INDEST, UGC-Infonet, CSIR Consortia, FORSA, IIM Library Consortia, IUC-DAEF Consortia-Based Subscription to Electronic Resources are briefly discussed and suggestions are made.

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013119   Kumbhar R (Dep STOPWORD Lib STOPWORD Inf Sci, H.P.T. Coll Nasik, Maharashtra, Email: kumbharrajendra@yahoo.co.in) : Speciator based faceted depth classification's application in thesaurus construction. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 15-24.

Article narrates the experience of constructing a thesaurus of LIS terms by using speciator based faceted depth classification schedule. It also explains the advantages of this method in establishing various thesaural relationships.

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013118   Kumaravel J P S;Sangeetha K (Dr. T.P.M. Lib, Madurai Kamaraj Univ, Madurai-625 021, Email: jpskumar@yahoo.com) : Ranking function for query based digital information retrieval. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 65-7.

Problems of information retrieval in digital environment have been discussed a mathematical model for ranking the retrieved records based on the weight of the key words has been presented.

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013117   Karisiddappa D C R;Kavita H C (Dep STOPWORD Lib STOPWORD Inf Sci, Karnatak Univ, Dharwad, Email: Karisiddappa@gmail.com) : New face-lift for public libraries through information literacy. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 1-13.

Information is a vital resource for life long learning. It enables people to perform all sorts of activities perfectly and efficiently. It is also considered as an important resource for the social, economic and overall development of a nation. Today information environment is posing several challenges and demands people to validate, evaluate and interpret information so as the check the validity before it is applied for various purposes. This present paper describes in brief the role of information literacy endeavors in public libraries. It also discuss the need for information literacy training for both public library librarians and their users. A few examples where information literacy efforts are already being made are mentioned.

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013116   Jhory N (NO, NASS OC, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110 001) : Asia-pacific population journal: an analysis. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 65-72.

Population of any country has a significant important on the socio-economic and political developments of a country. Therefore, population studies are conducted in order to improve the quality of lives that people lead. Present study is an attempt to analyse the periodical entitled "Asia - Pacific Population Journal" to know the areas of studies in the field of population and the trend of research in the area.

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013115   James T C (Dep STOPWORD Industrial Policy STOPWORD Promotion, Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi-110 011, Email: tcj@ub.nic.in ) : Digital technology and libraries: a copyright law approach. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 1-7.

Digital technology gives libraries an excellent opportunity to improve their services. It also provides new ways of preservation and dissemination of library collections. But the different stages of digitisation of the materials in a library involve many copyright issues. There are legal problems and purely practical ones such as locating the owner of copyright. Librarians need to take note of these problems and explore possible solutionss. Attention have been focused on the major copyright problems involved in digitisation of library collections.

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013114   Ikoro Francisca M (NO, Natn Inst for Niger Languages, P.M.B., 7078, Aba, Abia State, Nigeria) : Information system in traditional IGBO community : past and present. J Libr Inf Sci 2004, 29(1-2), 37-43.

The traditional Igbo information vehicle, it roles and qualities, information materials and functions: instrument for traditional broadcasting; Information dissemination and affairs in the Igbo community; Information sources and services in the modern time have been considered relevant suggestions for the further imporovement in the existing information system have been considered. Relevant suggestions for the further imporovement in the existing information system have been made.

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013113   Hazarika T (NO, Rain For Res Inst, Post Box No. 16, Jorhat-785 001, Email: tilakhazarika@yahoo.co.in) : Information use pattern of Indian forestry scientists: a bibliographic study. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 68-75.

Citation pattern of research papers published during 2000 to 2002 in the Indian Journal of Forestry has been studied. Of the total 3798 citations appended to 252 research papers, the highest of 60% citations are from journals followed by that from books and monographs (28%) and from technical reports (5%). The obsolescence factor of forestry literature is found to be 17-18 years. Forestry literature complies with the Bradford's Law of Scattering. Based on the number of citations received, rank list of forestry journals published from India as well as abroad is prepared.

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013112   Gupta V K (NO, Natn Inst of Sci, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi 110 012, Email: vkgupta@nistads.res.in) : How indian scientists collaborate in patenting?. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 47-50.

There are very few studies on collaboration in patenting in India. The understanding of collaboration in patenting is important for R&D managers in order to effectively organize R&D teams and distribute the benefits that may result from such collaborations. The paper looks into the nature of international collaboration in patenting, specially, the contributions by scientists from India. It also indicates the pattern of collaboration while patenting in India, particularly, reflecting upon the case of CSIR. It shows that there is significant amount of contribution by inventors from India in collaboration with inventors from other countries in patenting. There is a gradual decline in individual inventor patents from India. The contribution by teams of three inventors is maximum. The R&D managers should take initiatives to manage collaborations among individual researchers -bringing them together, creating healthy relationships among them and improving the work environment by minimizing and resolving the bottlenecks during collaboration.

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013111   Gopikuttan A (Dep STOPWORD Lib STOPWORD Inf Sci, Univ of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram-34, Email: agopikuttan@yahoo.co.in) : Time interval for scholarly publications: a case study of University of Kerala. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(3), 108-14.

Case study to find out the variations in the time intervals of faculty members for bringing out journal articles has been made. Annual reports of the University of Kerala from 1980 to 1999 (20 years) have been taken as a source to collect the publication data of faculty members working in the science departments of the University of Kerala. A total number of 1542 articles were produced during the period under study. The study shows that the mean year taken to bring out one article by a lecturer is 0.915, reader is 0.906 and professor is 0.471. Female members need more time than male members to publish journal articles.

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013110   Dutta B;Sen B K (NO, St. Xavier's Coll, 30 Park St.; Kolkata-700 016, Email: bidyarthidutta@rediffmail.com) : The scattering of articles over a journal system as observed from the viewpoint of Bose-Einstein statistics. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 51-5.

Rank vs. Number of articles distribution pattern of a journal system has been investigated from the viewpoint of Bose-Einstein statistics assuming a subject as equivalent to a phase space, a specific or microsubject as equivalent to a phase cell and corresponding journals as the Bose-Einstein particles.

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013109   Dutta B;Das A K (NO, St. Xavier's Coll 30, Park Street, Kolkata-700 016, Email: bidyarthidutta@rediffmail.com) : In search of an axiomatic concept of document. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(1), 25-30.

Normally, the word 'document' denotes a textual record that holds information. The term 'document' represents a discrete physical object in human perception. The role of document in the context of information retrieval has been discussed. The nature, form and scope of documents are also continuously changing. The feasibility and scope of considering natural objects as primary documents have been discussed. Various concepts of documents are presented from different viewpoints.

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013108   Angrosh M A (NO, Indian Inst of Plantation Mgmt, Jnana Bharathi Campus, P.O. Malathalli, Bangalore-560 056, Email: library_iipm@vsnl.net) : Electronic and print journals: a value chain analysis. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 56-64.

Even as the society marches into a digital age, libraries and information centres have assumed greater responsibilities for meeting the diverse needs of its user community. The new technologies have largely aided in designing value-added library services. The emerging digital libraries are redefining the way by which user demands are being fulfilled. Among other resources, electronic journals occupy a prominent place in digital libraries, by providing access to 'online full-text information'. While historically, print journals have played an important role in information dissemination, the spiraling costs of the same have forced both 'information providing' and 'information seeking' community to look for cost-effective and reliable means of information dissemination. The paper, while studying the importance of pring electronic journals in information dissemination, applies the concept of 'value chain analysis' for obtaining a longitudinal understanding in terms of 'costs of production' and 'cost drivers' associated with it. Accordingly, a value chain distingushing the structure of production for print and electronic medium is drawn for identifying the different costs associated in different stages. Further, the paper proceeds to illustrate the competitive position of e-journal industry in terms of different structural cost drivers and pur forward a 'differentiation with cost strategy' for e-journal industry for achieving optimum benefits for different stakeholders involved in the process, viz., information providers, information managers adn information seekers.

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013107   Ahmad M;Haridasan S (NO, , ) : Periodicals collection in National Library of Veterinary Sciences. Ann Libr Inf Stud 2005, 52(2), 41-6.

Investigates the use of periodical collection by the post graduate and research students by conducting a survey at the National Library of Veterinary Sciences (NLVS), Izatnagar. About 310 foreign journals and 120 Indian journals are being subscribed by the institution. The findings of the investigation revealed that most of the respondents were satisfied with the periodicals collection.

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012012   Uganneya S A;Idachaba J A (NO, , ) : Information system effectiveness: a user's satisfaction approach study of Francis Sulemanu Idachaba, library university of agriculture Makurdi, Benue state, Nigeria. Int Libr Movement 2005, 27(3), 165-72.

012011   Thamaraiselvi G;Kaliammal A (NO, Regional Engg. Coll, Trichy-15, Email: thamarai@rect.ernet.in) : Data mining: concepts and techniques. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 339-48.

World Wide Web as a Global Information System has flooded us with a tremendous amount of data and information. Our capabilities of generating and collecting data have been increasing rapidly every day, in this age of Information Technology. This explosive growth in stored data has generated an urgent need for new technologies and automated tools to assist us in transforming the data into useful information and knowledge. Data Mining, popularly known as Knowledge Discovery in databases is the automated or convenient extraction of patterns representing knowledge implicitly stored in large databases which solves the above problem. Explains What is data mining? and Why is it important? Also it with about the basic concepts of data mining, data cluster and data mining rules. How to choose a data mining system with some examples also have been discussed.

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012010   Srivastava R;Saxena S (DLIS, Isabella Thoburn Coll, Lucknow-226 007) : Digital libraries - dream or reality?. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 327-38.

Paper is concerned with the emergence of new concept in the field of library and infomiation science, called "Digital Library". An attempt has been made to discuss the concept, assumption, need, objectives, characteristic, requirement, services, challenges concerning the digital libraries and the Indian scenario. In the scenario of rapidly changing environment infrastructure and service facilities should be made available according to the need so as to compete and survive in era of globalization and competitiveness. It also provides glimpse of changing role of librarians, problems in its implementation, and advantages.

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012009   Singh S P (NO, , ) : Electronic information resources in academic libraries: some key issues. Int Libr Movement 2005, 27(3), 152-64.

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012008   Siddiqui M A (King Fahd Univ of Petrol & Miner (KFUPM) Lib, , Dhahran-31261, Saudi Arabia, Email: moid@kfupm.edu.sa) : Electronic document delivery : a KFUPM library experience. J Inf Mgmt Scientometrics 2005, 2(1), 40-3.

The technological advancements over the years have tremendously influenced the library services, thereby providing a new dimension to every area of library services and operations. Document delivery remained no exception to these changes. Examines the various available electronic document delivery transmission systems, such as the fax, the North Carolina State University Digitized Document Transmission Project (DDTP), the Ohio State University Network Fax Project, and the ARIEL system of Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN). the paper also describes the hardware and software requirement, Internet access, and the cost of getting started, etc. with the advantages and disadvantages of using ARIEL system for document delivery. It may be concluded that the ARIEL document delivery system is a high-speed, cost-effective and low-risk investment as the equipments required to run the system are mostly available in the libraries.

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012007   Sharma B (NO, , Distt Library Gurdaspur, Punjab, Email: sharma_bab@yahoo.com) : E-governance and libraries. ILA Bull 2005, 41(2), 20-5.

The evolution and rapid expansion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has effected the whole society. The tools of ICTs like computers and internet, have entered in a big way in every aspect of our lives from defence to education; entertainment to research; busines, health, civil administration and many more. E-governance is a buzz word these days. It is a new evolutionary stage of democratic government and synonymous with good governance. Actually it is governance in the usual sense of the term Ie' is only an environment. Information and Communication Technologies have a valuable potential to help meet good governance goals as government is by nature an information - Intensive organization in its generation, collection, consumption and communication.

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012006   Sharma A K;Gautam J N (Indian Inst of Soil Sci, , Nabi Bagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal-462 038) : Price trends in foreign journals: a case study of Indian Institute of Soil Science. ILA Bull 2005, 41(3), 9-15.

Trends of price hike in the foreign journals subscribed by the Indian Institute of Soil Science Library have been analysed. Periodicals are top priority publications for any research organization as the scientist get first hand information therein. The exponential growth rate of periodicals and their cost has affected the libraries very much and scientists are not able to get the information in want of the periodicals. Confronting the vast demand of researchers to keep themselves aware of the latest development in their field of specialization, the librarians are finding it difficult to meet their requirements due to the shrinking budget. The case study of IISS Library for foreign journals subseription and problems related to them has been described.

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012005   Shafi S M (NO, , ) : Medieval manuscripts online: designing a national database of manuscripts in India. J Inf Mgmt Scientometrics 2005, 2(1), 1-5.

Introduces the importance of manuscripts with the problems about their preservation, conservation and delivery. Focuses on their identification, documentation and digitization. Discusses various methods involved and refers to the projects of manuscripts in India to make a case of designing and national database of manuscripts taking into account pioneering initiatives by various western countries. Emphasizes on inputs for overcoming problems of scattered distribution, script variation and linguistic diversity.

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012004   Satija M P (Guru Nanak, Dev Univ, Amritsar 143 005, Email: satija_mp@yahoo.com) : Salient feature of the DDC 22 (2003). SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 309-16.

Organization, features and new changes in the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification are explained.

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012003   Satija M P (Deptt of Lib & Inf Sci, Guru Nanak Dev Univ, Amritsar-143 005) : Information society : emergence and characteristics. J Inf Mgmt Scientometrics 2005, 2(1), 6-11.

Defines a society tracing its origin to 120000 years back with the discovery of agriculture. States that roots of the Information Society (IS) historical stages in the March of civilization, namely, Agricultural, Industrial, and Information societies. Makes a comparative study of the characteristics of these societies. Explains the causes, emergence of the IS in terms of inevitability of change, economic expansion, cumulation of information, expansion of IT for instant dissemination of information. Lists the milestones in the evolution of the IS. Gauges the magnitude of the information explosion in terms of the indicators of numbers of PCs, TV sets, knowledge centres and information workers. States that the information economy sectors are : Content creation, Information packaging and repackaging, and information processing. Lastly points out the social and psychological problems and new issues of an IS.

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012002   Rokade S M (Anand Niketan Coll of Agric, , Anandwan, Warora, Dist. Chandrapur-442 914) : Growth of agricultural university libraries in India. ILA Bull 2005, 41(2), 11-15.

Describes the state wise, year wise and decennial growth of agricultural university libraries in India after independence. The growth of agricultural university libraries in India have been examined by collection of data on 33 agricultural university libraries through questionnaire. It is concluded that the growth is remarkable but still there are seven states and six union territories in India which need to have their separate agricultural universities and libraries for the better development of agriculture, agriculture education, research and extension education.

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012001   Ramakrishnegowda K C;Walmiki R H (NO, Kuvempu Univ, Jnana Sahyadri, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga-577 451) : Assessment of information literacy and computer literacy among post graduate student: a case study of Kuvempu university library users. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 367-82.

Study was conducted in Kuvempu University to know the entry-level computer literacy and information literacy of the post-graduate students. Questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The study found that the majority of the respondents lack awareness regarding directories, encyclopedias, subject journals, yearbooks, etc. As many as 66% of the students do not possess the ability to identify the key concepts in the given information environment. More than 44% of the respondents are not able to use the computers and many of them do not possess the knowledge of software, hardware, storage devices, etc. Nearly two-thirds of the total respondents are not able to use the Internet. The majority (75.03%) of the students opine that the computer literacy and information literacy programmes are "very important" for them. The authors suggest the University to take steps to impart computer literacy and information literacy programmes to the students studying in the Constituent Colleges for the bachelor's degrees. And, such training should be continued at the post-graduate level also to attain the advanced level skills and expertise. Stresses the role of Librarians working in Colleges and Universities to impart such education to students.

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012000   Rama Chandran M (NO, , ) : Selection and formulation of a research problem. Int Libr Movement 2005, 27(3), 130-5.

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011999   Purnima;Vikas D (Dep of Lib and Inf Sc, Manipur Univ, Canchipur-795 003, Email: puni_thoidingjam@yahoo.co.in) : Information needs in higher education: a study of college faculties in Manipur. ILA Bull 2005, 41(2), 16-19.

An attempt has been made to study information needs of the college faculties of higher education in Manipur. The study reveals that except for a few colleges/universities, most of the faculties were not aware of the IT, due to lack of infrastructure in their libraries. Questionnaires method was used to collect data from the college and university faculties to understand their information needs and thereby suggest application of ICT to all the colleges and University of Manipur.

011998   Patel N R;Zala L N (Mudra Inst of Communs, , Shela, Ahmedabad-380 058) : Digitization project of collections of MICA library: a case study in the context of newspapers, television commercials, dissertations and print ads. ILA Bull 2005, 41(2), 5-10.

Describes how MICA, KEIC digitizes that target resources to fulfull the requirements of its target audiences (users). Selected data bases like Newspaper, Television commercial, Dissertations and Print ads are supported by WINISIS software package disigned by UNESCO. It also focuses on the use of various generation of CDS/ISIS software package to digitize the collection of KEIC.

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011997   Patel D R (Lib & Documn Div, Space Applic Centre(SAC), Ahmedabad-380 015, Email: dharmista52@yahoo.com) : IEEE transaction on image processing: a bibliometric analysis. ILA Bull 2005, 41(2), 26-36.

Describes the activities carried out at SAC and importance of scientific periodicals in SAC library. The Image Processing subject is explained. The study attempts to do a bibliometric analysis of the journal, "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (ITOIP)" for the period of 1998-2002. Functions of IEEE, Signal Processing Society and ITOIP are also mentioned. The analysis throws light on different aspects such as nature and scope of papers, publication rate, authorship pattern, country-wise contribution, up-to-dateness, length of articles, citation analysis, distribution of figures/tables/images, subject-wise distribution of papers and correspondence items. Conclusions are derived for each point of analysis.

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011996   Mahapatra R K;Panda K C (Dev Stud, N.K.C. Cent, Bhubaneswar-751 013) : Health research literature on Orissa a bibliometric analysis. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 383-92.

Vividly describes the growth trend in health science literature on Orissa published from 1993-2002. Includes in its scope 118 research papers on 'health literature' from 59 Indian and foreign journals. Analyses the data by their authorship pattern, year wise growth subject wise break up of papers, category of journals, country of origin, length of papers, and ranking of journals.

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011995   Lawrence Mary A (NO, TDMNS Coll, T Kalikulam-627 113) : Continuing education need for library and information management professional in Tamil Nadu. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 361-66.

Attempt has been made to explain that importance of continuing education to library and information management professionals. Application of modern technologies in library and information centres has made in all the more important for the professionals to keep abreast of the developments in the field.

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011994   Kumbar M;Girish Kumar N;Vasanth Raj N; Praveen J K (DOS in Lib and Inf Sci, Univ of Mysore, Manasagangorthri, Mysore-570 006) : Use of electronic resources by research scholars in CFTRI, Mysore. ILA Bull 2005, 41(3), 16-20.

Study indicates that 92.86% of respondents use electronic resources for the purpose of their research work. Of 97.21% respondents use internet as an electronic resource. The study reveals that majority (45.71%) of the respondents use FSTA data base. Of 75.71% the respondents opined that access of to current information is only through electronic resources. Of 52.86% respondents stated that too much of information retrieved is one of the major hindrance in using electronic resources. At the same time more than 70% of respondents of opined that standard of their work would suffer without electronic resources.

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011993   Krishnamurthy M (NO, Indian Statistical Inst, 8th Mile Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore-560 059, Email: mk13murthy@hotmail.com) : Digital library. SRELS J Inf Mgmt 2004, 41(4), 317-26.

Describes the objectives of digital libraries and the project in some detail. The role of the digital libraries, standards, collection management, cataloguing, stages of digital libraries , and evaluative of various aspects. A number of lessons emerged from this are described, as model for digital library.

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011992   Katundu D R M (NO, , ) : Resource planning and acquisition challenges in academic and research libraries in Tanzania. Int Libr Movement 2005, 27(3), 113-23.

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