Benchmarks in ICT Applications in LIS Practices : Essays in Honour of Dr. P.K. Gupta

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Dr. P.K. Gupta : A life: 1. Dr. Pawan K. Gupta: an appreciation/D.C. Ojha. 2. Academics administration and affability : our big boss/Deepak Bhatnagar. II. Current practices in use of e-resources: 3. Marketing of e-resources in Central Library, IIT Bombay/D. Jotwani. 4. Application of management information system in University Libraries: a conceptual approach/Vinay Kashyap and Gopal Krishan. 5. Analysis of open access journals in the area of library and information science/Subhash Khode and Archana Choudhary. 6. Emerging trends and the use of technology in media library management/Jayaja Krishnan. 7. Challenges and opportunities for librarians in Knowledge management era/Vaishali Khaparde. III ICT and its impact on libraries: 8. Impact of ICT on library science education: issues and challenges/Purnima Kaushik. 9. Use of e-resource by science research scholars and PG students at Panjab University Chandigarh: a study/Vishal Sharma, Monika Sharma, Mandeep Singh and S.S. Pawar. 10. Librarianships for distance learners in ICT era/Anil Kumar Dhiman. 11. User awareness towards using ICT Government arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu: an analytical study/S. Thanuskodi. 12. Exploring the knowledge management issues in ICT Era/R.K. Bhatt and Amit Kumar. 13. Management of electronic resources in the academic libraries/Mili Bajpai. IV. Technological Innovations: 14. RFID technology : an introduction concept and components/Deepak Shukla and Kalpana. 15. Radio frequency identification RFID technology: a boom for libraries/Salek Chand and Surbhi Saini. 16. Barcode and RFID technology for security surveillance/Anil Kumar Jharotia. 17. Web Crawlers and datapository methods for e-learning/Shadab Khan, Vijay Mohan Shrimal and Madhav Sharma. 18. Web 2.0 and libraries: an overview/T.D. Tilwani and Anil Agarwal. V. Digital libraries: 19. Genesis of digital library: an overview/Satya Prakash and Anand Anjani Jha. 20. Digital libraries: federated search and metadata harvesting/Kapil Singh Hada. 21. On effectiveness of digital libraries/Manish K. Singh. 22. Role of digitization in the field of library and public Governance/Ramkesh Meena, Chetan Rajpurohit and Prakash Vijayvargiya. 23. Digital libraries: what and how/Vimal Kishore Purohit, Tirth Das and Mukesh Gehlot. V. New shape of academic librarianship: 24. Information literacy plan in academic libraries/S.D. Vyas. 25. Human resources in library and information services: problems and prospects/Dinesh K. Gupta and G. Mahesh. 26. Technical implementation of Shibboleth based access management for the N-LIST programme/Yatrik Patel and Jagdish Arora. 27. Paradigm shift in librarianship: basic challenging issues/Ch. Ibohal Singh. 28. Faculty librarian relationship: a collaborative partnership in achieving the vision of 21 century academic libraries/M.S. Rana and Shobha. VI. Consortia practices: 29. Indian scenario of library consortia/G. Naga Ratna Mani and V.V. Suryanarayana. 30. Web 2.0 and library 2.0: a new avenue for library services/A.K. Pareek. 31. Open access for effective scholarly communication/Rabindra K. Maharana and Sunil Kumar Satpathy. VII. Case studies and miscellaneous: 32. Information seeking behaviour in University libraries: a discussion/H.G. Gaur. 33. Dissemination of social science information in digital library environment/Sunil Kumar Satpathy. 34. An analysis of NITs library websites/Anna Kaushik. 35. Automation of Banasthali Vidyapith Central Library: a case study/Govind Prasad Gupta.…