Emerging Technologies and Future of Libraries : Issues and Challenges

Contents: Preface. 1. The Entrepreneurial Library: Innovating New Library Products and Services/Ken Chad. 2. Library 3.0: Future Technologies for Libraries/Priya Bhushan. 3. Developing Models of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) with Open Educational Resources: A Conceptual Framework to Empower Education in Digital India/Partha Sarathi Das. 4. E-Content Development Strategies in Electronic Environment: An Exploration/Akhandanand Shukla and Manoj Kumar Pal. 5. Management of Academic Libraries in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) in the Light of Five Laws of Library Science/M.P. Sampath Kumar and P. Nageswara Rao. 6. LIS Education in India: Developing Paradigms, Challenges and Propositions/Keshava and M.C. Lakshminarasimhappa. 7. Digitization Initiatives of Palm Leaf Manuscript Libraries in Tamil Nadu: A Case Study of Dr. U.V. Swaminatha Iyer Research Library, Chennai/K. Baskar and B. Ramesh Babu. 8. Content Analysis of Online Marathi Newspapers in Maharashtra/Ratneshwar C. Bhavsar and Anil N. Chikate. 9. Development of E-Content on Folk Medicine of Hyderabad Karnataka Region/D.S. Amoji and V.T. Kamble. 10. Social Networking Sites (SNSs): An Emerging Tool for Librarians to Provide Effective Library Services in Digital Era/Manoj Kumar Verma. 11. Analytical Study on the Use of Cell Phones/Mallinath Kumbar, C.P. Ramasesh and M.L. Umesha. 12. Discriminant Analysis of the influence of Faculty Members’ Socio-Economic Characteristics on the Use of Social Networks: A Study of KSWU, Bijapur/Gavisiddappa Anandhalli and T. Shantadevi. 13. Use of Social Networking Technologies: A Survey of University of Agricultural Sciences Students, Bangalore/M. Papegowda, V. Srinivasa and Lingappa S. Jadava. 14. Can Cloud Computing Help for Government Colleges to Automate their Libraries? A Point of View/N. Vasantha Raju and N.S. Harinarayana. 15. Impact of Cloud Computing on Libraries/Shrikant Karkun and Vijayakumar Jalagar. 16. Academic Scholars Perceptions on Cloud Based Library Services of Engineering Colleges in Bangalore Region: A Study/K. Manjunatha and Shamrao Ramanna. 17. Knowledge Sharing among Digital Libraries through cloud Oriented Computing Architecture (COCA) Model/U. Nagalingam and K.G. Jayarama Naik. 18. Managing the Library’s Corporate Culture for Organizational Efficiency, Productivity, and Enhanced Service/B. Sujatha and T.Y. Mallaiah. 19. Inclusive Library: A Humanitarian Approach to Information Services/Keshava, Vatnal and Anand Dodamani. 20. Leadership Style of Library Managers and Library Environment/Ujwala Sudhir Ulhe and Sambhaji G. Patil. 21. Impact of Paradigm Shift of ICT Tools and Technologies in the Context of Farmers Information Tools/K. Veeranjaneyulu, P. Punna Rao and N.P. Ravi Kumar. 22. Role of Library Managers in Protecting Copyright in E-Environment/Avinash D. Chinchure and Lalita Sami. 23. Best Practices in Madras University: A Case Study of Guindy Campus (Science) Library, Chennai/S. Baskaran and M. Tamizhchelvan. 24. Electronic Information Services and Current Issues in IPR/Vinay P. Haware and Avinash Humbre. 25. Wayback machine: A Boon for Preserving Web Sources/S.U. Shiva Kumara and B.T. Sampath Kumar.26. Pay Back to Society through Web Based Library Services: Librarians Turn/Prakash Waghmare, Ganapathi Z. Shinde and Anandraj Patil. 27. Innovative Library Services Using ICT Tools/S. Dhanavandan. 28. Virtual Reference Service in Libraries of IISC/IISER in India: user survey/Amol Dewaji Khobragade and Shalini R. Lihitkar. 29. Digital literacy skills among faculty of Sahyadri College of Engineering and management, Mangalore/Shwetha Kumari K. and M. Pruushothama Gowda. 30. Essential information skills for internet surfing in the College libraries: a survey/Mahantesh Ajagond. 31. Information literacy skills of faculty members of polytechnic colleges in utilising information resources: a study/Mahadeva Prasad M.S. and Mallinath Kumbar. 32. Effectiveness of multimedia E-learning in higher educational institutions.…