Information Management in New Millennium : Opportunities and Challenges for Library Professionals

Contents Acknowledgements. Preface. List of contributors. I. Information and society 1. Information Society a new challenge for libraries and library professionals/Ashok Kumar Sahu. 2. Public library the vehicle for information dissemination in a democratic society/Sunil Kumar Satpathy. 3. Impact of information technology on societal development and E Governance/Vibha Gupta. 4. LIS Distance Education a snapshoot of digital resource organization design of information services and management in networked environment/Mahendra Kumar Rawat and Shaliendra Kumar Rawat. II. Information management 5. Knowledge based organisation an overview on the existing knowledge management models/Hafizi Muhamad Ali and Zawiyah Mohammad Yusof. 6. Knowledge sharing and digital libraries in Indonesia facing lot of constraints and challenges to disseminate the S&T Information for the society/Bambang Setiarso. 7. Levels of knowledge/Purushothama Gowda M. 8. Knowledge management the new challenges for libraries in digital era/Sunil Kumar Satpathy. 9. Information management Prativa Acharya and Amitava Pani. 10. Perceptions of service quality in academic library a case study/Ashok Kumar Sahu. 11. Total quality management implication on library services/Neha Joshi. 12. Marketing of information products and services/Sujata Santosh. 13. Application of 4Ps to marketing the information product and services in academic libraries/Ashok Kumar Sahu Rabindra Kumar Mahapatra and Sujata Padhy. 14. Getting out to help students where they learn marketing library services to distance learners/Sunil Karve and Vrushali Rane. III. Digital library and electronic resources 15. Implications for library and information services a study of India's IT revolution and public policies/Tariq Ashraf. 16. Concepts and architecture of digital library with special reference to the creation of digital library through institutional repository by using Dspace/Sibsankar Jana. 17. Establishment of Hyderabad Karnataka Institutional Repository at Gulbarga University Library a development plan/D.B. Patil Praveenkumar Kumbargoudar and Parameshwar S. 18. Digital libraries development using RFID methods information tools and techniques/Mahendra Kumar Rawat and Shaliendra K. Rawat. 19. Library security Bar code RFID/B.A. Rajeev and S. Jayaprakash. 20. RFID Technology in library management concept to completion/Shashikanta Jena and Sanjay Kataria. 21. Digital library/M. Purushothama Gowda. 22. High speed network model for HiTech Libraries/Atul M. Gonsai. 23. Creating digital document archives with Winisis and Genisisweb Software/K. Rajasekharan and K.M. Nafala. 24. Fundamentals of semantic web in the changing context of digital information system in Cyberspace/Subarna K. Das. 25. Anatomy and embedded mechanism of web search engine a bird's eye view/Sibsankar Jana. 26. Evaluation of university websites targeting English speaking users a comparative analysis of selected sites in developed and developing countries/Raymond Wafula Ongus and T.D. Kemparaju. IV. Future trends 27. Development of virtual libraries in India problems and prospects/Mamata Mestri K. Praveenkumar and S. Parameshwar. 28. Expert systems impact on library services/K. Praveenkumar D.B. Patil and S. Parameshwar. 29. Emerging libraries/Chinmayee N. Bhange. Index. By the late 1990's when information was regularly disseminated across computers and other electronic devices information managers found themselves tasked with increasingly complex devices. The Information Communication Technology (ICT) revolution in the last decade has had a drastic and far reaching impact on all aspects of professional endeavour particularly in the knowledge and information sector. Information Management (IM) is characterised by the phrase Getting the right information to the right person at the right place at the right time. Present society is moved to knowledge based society for which information is of primary importance. In 21 century information play an im.…