The study analyzed the usage Internet habits of students of class XI-XII (Science Stream) of KV, Narimedu, Madurai. A total of 50 well-structured questionnaires were distributed among Class XI and XII students. The present study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of Internet usage, sources of getting information, about Internet, Web sites, favorite search engines, problems faced by the users in surfing the Internet and satisfaction with Internet for academic purpose. Suggestions have been given to make the Internet usage more beneficial in the school and library.

This article mainly focuses on library collection development in an electronic information era. Collection Development is a vital process in creating and building a library collection. It is a well planned activity for which a well defined policy is essential. The development primarily includes acquisition, selection, evaluation, preservation and weeding out materials/books/journals, etc., after assessing user needs. With the advent of Internet and the digital era, there has been a shift from hard copy formats to digital formats. Accordingly, the collection development policy has been modified to include the digital content in a collection. Once again the entire process and policy of content development would have to be worked out and re-designed.

This paper described the meaning, needs and importance of Library consortia. It emphasis that Modern day library could not survive without sharing resources Libraries exits for users, if those are not able to fulfill the purpose for which they are established their survival and future is very dark because their users will go away. Library consortia help to library to share resources on very economical terms and conditions. Without purchasing or ownership of the material, today access is more important than ownership and for that consortia come to our rescue.

At present day in this twenty-first century we are living in virtual world and Library and informational science professional’s need to use social networking sites for academic users. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of using online advertising on the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in academic libraries and recognize essential trends that subsist. While it is understandably exciting to embrace new technology to reach students and staff members, it is very important to have an understanding of how to utilize the technology to properly connect to library users. Several articles found in library publications are written from a librarian’s perspective, explaining the essence of Facebook and Twitter are describing different ways to promoting library advertising and services.

The present study investigated the information seeking behavior of the undergraduate students in the electronic environment of Pt. Chiranji Lal Sharma, Govt. P.G. College, Karnal. The overall purpose of the study was to explored information requirements, to know how they access information, problems faced while they seek information and awareness of library services available to them. Findings indicated that 22(26.19%) of the total respondents preferred electronic resources and about 19(22.62%) of the respondents were faced problem as lack of time.

All India Radio (AIR) is an Indian Public service broadcaster has been serving to inform, educate and entertain the masses since its inception, truly living up to its motto – ‘BahujanHitaya: BahujanSukhaya’. Sound broadcasting started in India in 1927 with the proliferation of private radio clubs. Due to the impact of information technology, tremendous changes reported in All India Radio for effective preservation and distribution of information to the society and in this direction, authors attempt to highlight the developments in Sound recording in All India Radio library systems using NETIA’S RADIO-ASSIST automation system is discussed and further suggestions and challenges for effective preservation and access to knowledge system for broadcasting is highlighted.

The present study examined acknowledgements appearing in the research papers in Journal of American Society of Information Science (JASIST) covering the period 2005-2014. Acknowledgements are further analyzed in order to find out frequency of their occurrence, types, number of acknowledgements per paper, highly acknowledged individuals, and so on. The results show that 341 research papers contain 45 acknowledgements. On an average, each article recorded 3.6 acknowledgements. It is seen that the largest number of acknowledgements are in the financial support 16(23.19%) followed by 14(20.29%) Peer Interactive Communication (PIC)

Globalization, Liberalization and Privatisation are increasingly changing the character of the state and the nature of Public Administration. Responding to challenges posed by globalization and liberalization has not been an easy issue for Public Administration. A number of strategies have been adopted by scholars and practitioners to cope with the pressures of liberalization. These need to be discussed in terms of the paradigm shift that is tending to change the nature and character of Public Administration. The impact of globalization/Liberalisation is observed in the following areas :

This paper discusses on the potential of establishing Ontology for the rich cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of Manipur with special reference to Umanglai culture. Among the various complicated types of Umanglai cultural heritage, the authors choose Kanglei Haraoba of Meitei community Manipur as an example and apply the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model to the construction of the entities and properties of the knowledge ontology of the Kanglei Haraoba,. This study has tried to provide the solution to the construction of the knowledge ontology of the Umanglai cultural heritage and benefits the digital storage, preservation and management of the cultural heritage, which offers a new way of thinking and is of great significance to the preservation and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage of Manipur.

The present study has been undertaken to assess the Marketing of Information Products & Services in the select libraries of ICAR & CSIR Institutions in India. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the Research Scholars and Scientists of ten Institutions viz, IARI, IASRI, NDRI, CSSRI, CIRB, NISCAIR, CRRI, NISTADS, IMT, CSIO following under the ICAR & CSIR selected research Institutions. The responses were gathered from 599 users (315 Scientists and 284 Research Scholars). The findings of the survey reveal useful facts about the Marketing of Information Products & Services gender wise use the ICAR & CSIR selected libraries, in which male constituting 62.6% than female respondents which were 37.4%. Majority of 25.60% Research Scholars & Scientists were using the offline library weekly, 42.30% occasionally and 16.40% thrice in a week.

Indian information professionals, education specialists and scientists have realized that the time has come to share the information resources and to coordinate mechanisms. This has resulted in discernible change in the information scenario in India. A large number of library resource sharing networks like the Metropolitan Area Networks such as CALIBNET in Calcutta, DELNET in Delhi, BONET in Bombay, PUNENET in Pune, MALIBNET in Madras, HYLIBNET in Hyderabad, ADNET in Ahmedabad, and countrywide ones like ERNET (Educational and Research Institutions), INFLIBNET (Universities and Research Institutions) and DESINET (Defence Laboratories), and sectoral ones like BTISNET (Biotechnology Networks) etc. are under various stages of conceptualization, design, development and implementation.

Learning resources form an integral part of learning and teaching in a school library. It is vital for all schools libraries to develop an inclusive approach to select and manage the library resources. The responsibility for the quality and relevance of the school library collection rests with the school librarian. A well-developed collection is achieved if selection is a collaborative operation involving the librarian, staff members and students. This paper is an attempt to study the management of collection development in the school libraries of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India.

An analysis was carried out on 837 citations appended to the references section of 45 research articles published in Journal of Knowledge and Communication Management during the period from 2011 to 2014. It was analyzed that journals/ serial publications were almost cited source of information among the library science researchers (52.21 percent). The study also revealed that Journal of Knowledge Management topped the list (5.04 percent) as the most cited serial publication in the field of library and information science.

The main functions of a library are to identify, collect, organize, and thus make accessible information to library users. In the past, the more printed materials a library could collect and organize, the easier it would be for the library staff to meet users needs. The quality of a library was therefore measured mainly by its holdings. Today, the development in computing and telecommunications has made it possible for the library staff to provide their users with a wide range of text, image, and sound resources from around the world. Libraries are changing from offering users a limited warehouse of information to a global gateway, leading to infinite net-distributed information resources.

Information Technology has enabled academic libraries, as in the case of the other types of libraries, to move from traditional paper based environments towards networked electronic environment. A large number of subscribed and open sources e-journals and databases are available in various discipline. The present study was carried in universities in Karnataka to examine the factors affect the optimum utilization of e-journals and databases. The study mainly focused on source of awareness, availability of electronic journals and databases, purpose, benefits, frequency of use of e-journals and databases, awareness of e-journals and databases made available via UGC-INFONET Consortium and experience of use of e-journals and databases by the faculty and research scholars.

This paper is an attempt to examine the role of information literacy programmes in India which were conducted at national level by the Govt. of India. The information literacy has become a vital process in modern changing world and Information technology is also taking new shape day by day. The need of hours is to enable the citizens to interpret and make informed choice as user of information sources. Information literacy makes the person capable to recognize when information is needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use effectively of the needed information. In this regarding the government of India has conducted a numbers of programmes in the realm of information literacy. These programmes are- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, District Primary Education Programme, Computer Based Functional Literacy, and National Literacy Mission. In the year of 2005 the government of India passed an Act which is known as RTI Act-2005 which enables the citizens to receive the vital information from the common people government and non government organizations. India is no one nation in the space technology and also become a power house in information technology. The information has become vital to make the people aware of the information technology.

The present study has been undertaken to assess the Information Seeking Behaviour by the Research scholars & Faculty members: A survey of Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra in the disciplines of Social Science. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the research-scholars and teachers of seven departments viz Economics, History, Political Science, Social Work, Public Administration, Sociology and Psychology following under the Social Science in K.U.K. The responses were gathered from 80 users (25 Teachers and 55 Research Scholars).The findings of the survey reveal useful facts about the Information Seeking Behaviour by Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra. 31.2% of the respondents were mostly using the library for daily while 18.7% were weekly, 12.5% were twice in week and 37.5% respondents i.e. research Scholars & Teachers were using the library occasionally.

The main purpose of this paper discusses effectiveness of users’ opinion towards library resources and services of Kakatiya University. A structured questionnaire was personally distributed among 150 K U library users by using convenient random sampling, out of the 124 questionnaire were returned 82.66%. Majority of users satisfied overall resources and services and users are not satisfied with collection of CD/DVD, Printer and scanner facility provided in the library.

Due to the advancement of internet and web technologies, now libraries are offering online services to their users. Now, it is the time for a library to be virtual and develop online presence. Virtual libraries provide a new way of serving the new generation users of the libraries. Virtual libraries are the new vision of libraries of the future. This paper provides an overview of a Virtual Library System. It narrates features, advantages, disadvantages and Virtual Library Environment. A virtual library is an organized set of links to items (documents, software, images, databases etc) on the network. The purpose of a virtual library is to enable users of a site to find information that exists elsewhere on the network.

The paper examines the concept of Digital library and gives an overview of DLs under the following components such as here the authors explored the unique feature of digital library and possiblechallenges ahead for library and information professionals in the digital environment. During the past recent years, there has been tremendous developmentreaming the concept of digital libraries.

Bibliometrics/Scientrometrics are one of the ways to measure the literature explosion. The present study is also intended to identify the growth and authorship pattern of productivity of articles of source journal “Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science”. The paper analyzes a bibliometric study of 114 articles published during the period 2010-2014. The paper covers the bibliometric analyses of year-wise distribution of articles, subject-wise distribution of articles, authorship patterns, pattern of references and geographical distribution of contributions.

The term Consortium existed for decades, but it has gaining much importance in recent decades. The HELINET consortium was started with a vision to improve the quality of education and research in the Health Science institutions (medical colleges imparting both UG, PG and doctoral studies) of the state of Karnataka through enhanced access to high quality medical information. HELINET’s goal is to deliver information to users’ desk-top, with round-the-clock access. Access to resources is now considered more important than collection building especially, if the access is perpetual in nature.