Mrs. Dhanawanti Sunil Bamane, Librarian, Jaysingpur College, Jaysingpur
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The Library without Walls concentrates on making a system of learning frameworks that encourage logical correspondence and coordinated effort. We are living in the data age where the data is essential necessity to everyone on the grounds that without data we can't do anything appropriately. A database of a billion questions, each of which involves one megabyte, is extensive yet not incomprehensible. When one is alright with sizes of this kind, it is practical to envision a thousand such databases, or to imagine them all as bits of the same worldwide accumulation. A digital library is a collection of documents in organized electronic form, available on the Internet or on CD-ROM (compact-disk read-only memory) disks. Depending on the specific library, a user may be able to access magazine articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos.Advanced library accumulations contain lasting reports. The computerized condition will empower speedy dealing with as well as fleeting data. Computerized libraries depend on advanced innovations. There will be proceeding with development of advanced library exercises. LIS and software engineering experts confront challenges that will prompt enhanced frameworks. An ever increasing number of libraries will have divisions and projects in the advanced library field. Computerized libraries will expand upon work being done in the data and information administration region. Computerized libraries give a successful intends to circulate learning assets to understudies and different clients.
Introduction: An advanced library is an uncommon library with an engaged accumulation of computerized objects that can incorporate content, visual material, sound material, video material, put away as electronic media formats (instead of print, microform, or other media), alongside implies for sorting out, putting away, and recovering the documents and media contained in the library gathering. Computerized libraries can change monstrously in size and scope, and can be kept up by people, associations, or subsidiary with built up physical library structures or establishments, or with scholastic organizations The interactive media material must be caught before it can be utilized by a mixed media framework. For instance, a few or the greater part of the mixed media information is in a simple configuration and must be changed over to advanced shape before it can be utilized by an interactive media framework. The mixed media information changed over from simple must be overseen. An administration office is expected to oversee and keep up the information. An entrance ability is expected to seek and recover put away interactive media information. When it is recovered, a circulation office is expected to appropriate the information to an interactive media framework. Along these lines, a framework is expected to catch, get to, oversee, and disseminate mixed media material. Such a framework is computerized library framework. The Library without Walls concentrates on making a system of learning frameworks that encourage logical correspondence and coordinated effort. We are living in the data age where the data is essential necessity to everyone on the grounds that without data we can't do anything appropriately. A database of a billion questions, each of which involves one megabyte, is extensive yet not incomprehensible..
From Digital Libraries by William Arms:"An informal definition of a digital library is a managed collection of information, with associated services, where the information is stored in digital formats and accessible over a network. A crucial part of this definition is that the information is managed. A stream of data sent to earth from a satellite is not a library. The same data, when organized systematically, becomes a digital library collection. Most people would not consider a database containing financial records of one company to be a digital library, but would accept a collection of such information from many companies as part of a library. Digital libraries contain diverse information for use by many different users. Digital libraries range in size from tiny to huge. They can use any type of computing equipment and any suitable software. The unifying theme is that information is organized on computers and available over a network, with procedures to select the material in the collections, to organize it, to make it available to users, and to archive it."
Why Digitization? There are three primary requirements for digitization; two or all them three may apply to your computerized library venture. i.To safeguard the Documents: That is to enable individuals to peruse more established or exceptional records without harm to the firsts. ii.To make the records more available: This is to serve the current clients better; e.g. to enable the clients to look through the full content of the records or to serve a greater number of clients than visualized in remote areas, case, more than one individual at any given momeiii. To reuse the records. It intends to change over archives into various arrangements; for instance to utilize pictures in a slideshow and to embrace the substance for an alternate reason.
Purpose of Digital LibraryExpedite the deliberate improvement of methodology to gather, store, and sort out, data in advanced frame. • Promote productive conveyance of data monetarily to all clients.
• Encourage co-agent endeavors in inquire about asset, figuring, and correspondence systems. • Strengthen correspondence and coordinated effort between and among instructive organizations. • Take position of authority in the age and spread of learning
Function of Digital Library :Access to a lot of data to clients wherever they are and at whatever point they require it. • Access to essential data sources. • Support sight and sound substance alongside content. •
Network openness on Intranet and Internet. • User-accommodating interface • Hypertext joins for
route. • Client-server design. • Advanced pursuit and recovery.
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Digital library challenges: Creating ―effective‖ digital libraries pose serious challenges for existing and future technologies. The integration of digital media into traditional collections will not be straightforward, like previous new media (e.g., video audio tapes), because of the unique nature of digital information, which is less fixed, easily copied, and remotely accessible by multiple users simultaneously. Some specific challenges are resource discovery, digital collection development, digital library administration, copyright and licensing, etc., library of congress specified various challenges for building an effective digital library, which are grouped as broad categories as follows.
Building the resource a. Develop enhanced innovation for digitizing simple materials. b. Design pursuit and recovery apparatuses that make up for truncated or fragmented inventoriing or expressive data .
c. Design instruments that encourage the improvement of recording or spellbinding data by consolidating the commitments of clients. d. Interoperability
Build up conventions and guidelines to encourage the get together of disseminated advanced libraries.
Conclusion: The term 'advanced library' has been around for no less than 24 years, and potentially more, and a portion of the thoughts behind the term have been around for any longer. While there is still difference about the importance of the term, this piece contends that, computerized libraries are not in a general sense not quite the same as 'customary' libraries; either in the motivations behind existing, or in the administrations gave. The fundamental contrasts boil down to how the administrations are given, and how accumulations are put away and oversaw. There will be proceeding with development of advanced library exercises. LIS and software engineering experts confront challenges that will prompt enhanced frameworks. An ever increasing number of libraries will have divisions and projects in the advanced library field. Computerized libraries will expand upon work being done in the data and information administration region. Computerized libraries give a successful intends to circulate learning assets to understudies and different clients. The library/data focus needs to beat the restraints and search ahead for the advancement of data administrations to the client group by effectively receiving the computerized innovation.
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4.Greenstein, D.I., &Thorin, S.E. (2002). The digital library: A biography.Digital Library Federation.
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BUILDING INFORMATION REPOSITORIES CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Dr. Swati Shivda Shambharkar, Librarian, Dr. L. D Balkhande College of Arts & Commerce Pauni (Dist) – Bhandara
Abstract
Each institution will have its own unique approach for establishing a repository that reflects their specific context and community. Repositories can have a wide variety of uses. To date, most repositories have focused on providing open access to research outputs. Institutional repositories represent an historical and tangible embodiment of the intellectual life and output of an institution. The paper seeks to provide an overview of building information repositories its challenges and opportunities.
Information Repository: An information repository is an easy way to deploy a secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured metadata, processed, de-duplicated, and then purged, automatically, based on data service level objectives and requirements. In information repositories, data storage resources are virtualized as composite storage sets and operate as a federated environment. One way of ensuring that the repository and its services will be relevant to users is to undertake a needs analysis. The most successful repository collections are the ones that support the needs of the community. A typical needs assessment includes both informal inputs, such as through discussions with faculty, as well as more formal means, usually through some type of survey. A knowledge repository is an online database that organises, displays and categorises information. It can be used to provide support and management for many services, including encouraging open access to scholarly research, preserving digital materials for the long term and showcasing academic research. But whilst repositories are becoming increasingly commonplace in India and around the world as houses of shared institutional memory, information on and experience of how best to implement and manage them is limited.
“Free and forever” – evolution of Information repositories: Preserving and making knowledge freely available to the public has long been the mission of libraries. Stone, papyrus or printed books – they were or are all meant to be collected, kept and offered for consultation. Scientific publishing, however, has become a big industry with serious business objectives in the last two centuries and, as a result, the idea of free access to information has been obscured. Commercial publishers release a vast quantity of scientific research papers, and libraries pay a vast amount of money to access them.
Benefits of Building Information Repositories: In regards to the public, that is, individuals, groups, or institutions which benefit from Information repositories, independent of its category and also present alist of
beneficiaries.Researchers/Authors – Brings increased visibility, usage and impact for their work
worldwide.Research Institutions – Enjoy the same benefits as researchers in aggregated form. Besides, theyacquire an information management system that enables them to assess and monitor their researchprograms and a marketing tool that enables them to provide a shop window for their research efforts.Nations – Increases the impact of the research in which they invest public money resulting in a betterreturn on investment.Society – Research is more efficient and more effective, delivering better and faster outcomes for everyone. External Research Funders – Same benefits as the research institutions who needs to beable toaccess and keep track of outputs from their funding and measure and assess how effectively theirmoney has been spent.Readers – Increases reader reach and retrieval power. Gives barrier-free access to the software theyuse in their research.Teachers and students – Information Repositories puts rich and poor on an equal footing for these keyresources and eliminate the need for payments or permissions to reproduce and distribute content. Eliminates the fear of misusing the material, eliminating also delays, doubts, or fees. No more fairusejudgment calls, fear of liability, and painful decisions to err on the side of caution and non-use.Libraries – Information Repositories solves the pricing crisis for scholarly journals. It also solves the permission crisis.They serve a fiduciary function: the parent institution supplies them funds to provide forthe most useful provision of library materials and service to their constituents.Universities – Increases the visibility of their faculty and research, reduces their expenses for journals, and advances their mission to share knowledge,Journals and publishers – Makes their articles more visible, discoverable, retrievable, and useful. It can use this visibility to attract contributions.
Challenges in Building Information Repository: The issue of sustainability for repositories is challenging, with the key questions centring on how to manage – both technically and operationally – the long-term preservation of institutional knowledge and how best to meet the evolving needs of the scholarly community. Repositories also have a significant role to play in the knowledge economy, particularly in emerging market countries. In the first years of the new millennium, the growing enthusiasm for digital repositories was such that some thought that they might soon overtake traditional publishing. In reality, though, the issues associated with
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the development and maintenance of repositories are still numerous and serious enough for the future evolution of IRs to be somewhat uncertain. Although technology both evolves and becomes obsolescent rapidly, developers of repositories seem to be able to take these challenges in their stride. Apparently, the burning issues related to Information repositories seem to lie in other areas. In all probability, IRs would reach the ―plateau of productivity‖ stage much more quickly if they were pure IT operations, although, of course, there is no such thing as a ―pure IT operation‖. As the first of these burning issues, I would like to mention a rather theoretical one, the lack of consensus regarding a clear definition of the repository functions and the scopeof the material that they should hold. Some argue that capturing and preserving information are the key goals, while others consider search and dissemination as the most essential functions (Ruiz-Conde and Calderon-Marinez (2013)). There is no agreement on whether repositories should include only research results or also educational materials. There is another debate on which version of articles should be stored. Some say that only peer-reviewed materials can guarantee the quality of the content and as a consequence, maintain the reputation of institution and its IR. However, publishers only permit repositories to store the full text of journal articles under certain conditions. As the Finch report (2012) describes, journal articles account for most of the contents of repositories in the UK, but most of these are metadata records without full text. As they become more prominent, open access articles may soon increase their share. Nevertheless, databases are very diverse in terms of their scope and structure. Another issue became very significant, especially after 2008. Will academic institutions be able to secure sufficient funding to make IRs financially sustainable? Constant technological upgrades and continuous maintenance of an ever-growing database requires increasing budgetary and human resources. Chowdhury (2014) warns that running an institutional repository may be extremely expensive. Yet, if institutions have no policies to control the continuity of deposit and preservation, sustainability will be threatened. He states that preservation costs might be reduced if they are managed by a central (state) agency and there are indeed legal steps towards making preservation sustainable, eg the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), introduced in the US Congress in 2013.
Conclusion: To conclude, I am hopeful that the number of research and policy papers discussing Information repositories will not drop in the future, as this topic will continue to generate new and exciting questions in regards to further assessments from a technological, operational, professional development and business point of view. Having reviewed many concerns regarding IRs and their role in scientific publishing, we know that despite the worldwide growth of repository numbers, their sustainability is not yet assured. There are several challenges that hosting institutions and IR managers should consider, including technological, policy and operational issues.
References
Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications, Finch report, June 2012 Aman, V (2013). The potential of preprints to accelerate scholarly communication. A bibliometric analysis
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IMPLEMENTATION OF SLIM 21 LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IN CORPORATE WITH BARCODE TECHNOLOGY IN RCPIT COLLEGE LIBRARY M. D. Sonawane,Librarian, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur Dist.Dhule
N. A. Mali,Librarian, R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Shirpur N. D. Rathod, Asst. Librarian,R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur Dist.Dhule.
Abstract
This Paper deals with Implementation of SLIM 21 Library Management Software in corporate with Barcode Technology in RCPIT College Library. Automation is the prime Moto of today’s library because library client needs are changing day by day because of vast of knowledge and availability of internet to cop up with library client needs library staff needs to make sure services that they are providing should be reach to clients accurately and timely. To do so library automation is essential.
Keywords: RCPIT College Library, SLIM21, Library Automation, Barcoding, software, Management, Resources.
Introduction: Library is a Heart of the Organization. Library plays vital role in the development of the student as well as the faculty member. Library is trinity of students, staff member and resources. Library built collection and create tool to support teaching and learning to provide better services to user. RCPIT College has established its own library in year 2001 for student as well as faculty member. Since 2001 to till date this library has experience of lot of technical development one of them is RCPIT College Library automation.
RCPIT College Library: Library is the place where new ideas are generated and visions are broadened. The