Library utomation using e grantahalaya : a study of KV NLP

LIBRARY AUTOMATION USING e- GRANTAHALAYA: A CASE STUDY OF K.V.NLP

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CONTENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT USING MOODLE : A CASE STUDY OF KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA LIBRARY

ERMes, an open source Electronic Resource Management system, is being
developed by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and has code
contributed by Iowa State University. ERMes provides basic organization
and management functions critical to an ERM along with various reports
including COUNTER use reports. ERMes is freely available for download.
http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/
Elgg, TikiWiki, Moodle, Joomla are some of the Opensource CMS.

                                       DISCOVERY SERVICE  SINGLE WINDOW TOOLS FOR SCHOLARLY  INFORMATION 
INTRODUCTION 
A discovery service is a search interface to pre-indexed meta data and/or full text documents. Discovery services differ from federated search applications in that discovery services don’t search live sources. By searching pre-indexed data discovery services return search results very quickly. Discovery services are touted as an evolution beyond federated search and in some ways they are. Some discovery services either provide integration with federated search .What is new about the recently introduced discovery services is the focus on integration with other content, typically the library’s OPAC.


Cited Reference Searching: Track prior research and monitor current developments, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of colleagues' work, and follow the path of today's hottest ideas. Navigate forward, backward and through the journals and proceedings literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to discover information with impact.
Easy Author Identification: Locate articles written by the same authors in a simple, single search. Find the right author, right away — eliminating the problems of similar author names or several authors with the same name
nsightful Analysis Options: Find hidden trends and patterns, gain insight into emerging fields of research, and identify leading researchers, institutions, and journals with the Analyze Tool. You can also capture citation activity with Citation Report, instantly creating formatted reports to view vital citation information for individuals or institutions. Citation Maps make it easy to visualize citation connections and discover an article's citation relationships
Find high-impact articles and conference proceedings.Uncover relevant results in related fields.

• Discover emerging trends that help you pursue successful research and grant acquisition.
• Identify potential collaborators with significant citation records.
• Integrate searching, writing, and bibliography creation into one streamlined process.
• Everything the researcher needs in one place – , DS offers a single interface for discovery of a library’s entire collection and the powerful features to heighten the research experience.  
• Full-text searching – DS offers access to metadata for full-text content, which in turn will yield the most accurate search results.
  Fast, simple access to all of the library’s full-text content (electronic and print) – DS offers a truly integrated one-stop search experience for all of a library’s Journals, Magazines, Books, Special Collections, OPAC and more. 
• Enhanced branding options for institution logo as well as HTML graphic placement (with the EBSCOhost logo understated with “powered by” at the footer).

• Who is providing discovery services

  1-EBSCOhost Discovery Service

  (http://ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1245)

  2-Ex Libris

  (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoCentral)

  3-Innovative Interfaces

  ( http://encoreforlibraries.com/products)

  4- University of Virginia Library

   (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/blacklight.html)

  5-OCLC WorldCat Local

  ( http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcatlocal/default.htm)

  6- Oregon State University Libraries

  (http://libraryfind.org/home)

  7- Serials Solutions

  ( http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/)

  8-TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES WORK DISCOVERY SERVICE.

  1-Z39.50: Z39.50  It is a
  protocol which specifies data structures and interchange rules that allow a client machine to
  search databases on a server machine and retrieve records that are identified as a result of
  such a search.
  2-OpenURL  is a versatile linking scheme that uses metadata (instead of an object
  identifier such as DOI) for generating dynamic link by passing metadata about a resource to a
  resolver program. It consists of two components, i.e. the URL of OpenURL resolver followed by a
  description of the information object consisting of a set of metadata elements (e.g. author, journal
  issue no., volume, year, etc.).
  
  3-OAI-PMH:
   Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides a mechanism
  for repository interoperability. Using OAI-PMH, the service providers can make request to the
  repositories to harvest metadata. This is mostly used by the repositories and some e-journals
  providers also expose their content using it.
  4-CASSIR
  This service is a part of the project "Development of OAI-Based Institutional Research Repository Services in India", sponsored byDepartment of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. This project is being carried out at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The service will harvest metadata as per the OAI-PMH protocol from the registered OA respositores in India. It also provides a web-based search/browse functionality over the harvested metadata.
  5-CrossRef’s
   mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOI link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Our citation-linking network today covers tens of millions of articles and other content items from thousands of scholarly and professional publishers.
  (http://www.crossref.org/)
  (www.doi.org/)
  

  What to consider while choosing for such service.
  Librarians have been examining these new discovery tools carefully, but comparisons have been frustrating because these products are new and enhancements are ongoing. Nonetheless, librarians have narrowed in on certain features and capabilities that are key to making decisions about these tools. Naturally, different institutions weigh each factor differently based on local needs and objectives, collections, users, and staffing. Leading factors are:

  CONTENT
  • Scope and depth of content being indexed.

  • Richness (and consistency) of metadata included in the indexes.

  • Frequency of content updates.

  • Ease of incorporating local content, if desired.

  SEARCH
  • Simplicity of the interface.

  • Quality of results, including relevance ranking.

  • Ability to customize search and relevance settings.

  • Availability of tools for navigating search results (such as clustering, facets, etc.).

  • Ease of incorporation into existing institutional access tools.

  • Support for new use environments, including mobile access and social-networking features.

  FIT
  • Ease of implementation.

  • Compatibility with existing software and content.

  • Responsiveness of the vendor and alignment of priorities regarding future developments.

  • Overall customer support, including reputation and prior dealings with the vendor.

  COST
  • As a new service in addition to existing tools.

  • Instead of other finding tools or delays to other upgrades.

  • Justification in light of libraries’ goals and objectiv
  
  OTHER OPTIONS
  
  
  

  Auto-Graphics’ AGent Search Provides federated search that can be integrated into the XML-based AGent Web Services module or via a branded website. Staff can access statistics regarding database, website, and other usage. Users can also customize the look and feel of the interface.

  Innovative Interfaces’ Encore Integrates federated search and harvested content. Functionality includes faceted search, and such social networking features as tag clouds and community reviews. Allows application development via its application programming interface (API).

  SirsiDynix’s Enterprise Provides federated and harvested searching and faceted results. Social media and mobile support included. Users can save URLs of searches or RSS feeds to be informed of new library materials. Also allows library staff to create customized patron profiles.

  TLC’s LS2 PAC Catalog module includes federated search with faceted results, as well as such social features as user-subscribed RSS result feeds, tags (which are fed back into the search index to help refine search results), and user reviews.

  VTLS’s Chivas New discovery product slated for launch in May 2011, this is characterized as combining the functionality of VTLS’s Visualizer discovery interface with that of its Chamo social OPAC to “produce a unified user experience, combining broad discovery across multiple resources with full OPAC access through faceted results.”
  NEW AREAS OF DISCOVERY SERVICES
  1-
  

   search text, audio, video and images in multiple languages

  2-seamless integration of audio, video, and image content sources into Explorit

  REFERENCE

  
  

  WorldCat Local

  WorldCat® Local

  Single-search access to 892+ million items from your library and the world's library collections

  .
  
  

  FIND materials quickly and easily

  Give your users access to a single search experience that eliminates the need to consult many separate resources and interfaces. One search provides instant access to your library's materials – digital objects, electronic materials, databases, eJournals, music, videos, audio, eBooks, maps, journals, theses and books – in addition to materials in group and consortial catalogs and thousands of OCLC member libraries worldwide.

  WorldCat Local is the best way to get more than 892 million important and unique works in the world's libraries in front of your users. More than forty national catalogs contribute to WorldCat, bringing the riches of international scholarship to your community. And because the cooperative partners with organizations like Google Books, the HathiTrust, JSTOR and OAIster, every WorldCat Local search reveals deep and useful results from an extraordinary range of collections.

  
  

  CONNECT users to the materials they need

  With WorldCat Local, simplicity doesn't stop with the search. Your users are presented with only the most appropriate options to quickly connect them with what they need. And because WorldCat Local integrates with your current services and live circulation data, users know immediately whether (and where) an item is available. One click lets users view an electronic copy or place a hold or resource sharing request. They can identify the branch or department location of the items they want, eliminating the need to consult multiple areas on your Web site for electronic resources, group and consortial catalogs and interlibrary loan options.

  Your staff will enjoy benefits related to centralized access, too. Less time is required to maintain data in multiple locations and systems, and no separate data loads are required for libraries that contribute and maintain their holdings in WorldCat.

  Coming soon: Users will have direct access to electronic resources from search results, due to integration with the new WorldCat knowledge base. A "View now" link on brief records will connect users directly to the electronic articles and open access content their searches retrieve.

  
  

  EXPLORE 892+ million items and growing.

  OCLC members work together in a unique, worldwide cooperative that allows every library to contribute to and benefit from the combined purchasing and licensing power of the membership. As an OCLC member, you get access to major publishing and content partners from around the world. Your WorldCat Local service connects your users to:

  • Content cataloged by thousands of librarians worldwide over the course of decades.
  • The rich resources of dozens of national libraries.
  • Major aggregators of eBooks, including NetLibrary, ebrary, Overdrive and MyiLibrary;
  • Large mass digitization collections, including Google Books and HathiTrust;
  • Content from publishers such as Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press and more.

  With access to more than 892 million items in a wide variety of formats, your users will find more routes to the information they need.
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Web discovery services

Web scale discovery services for libraries provide deep discovery to a library’s local and licensed content, and


represent an evolution, perhaps a revolution, for end user information discovery as pertains to library collections. This

article frames the topic of Web scale discovery, and begins by illuminating Web scale discovery from an academic

library’s perspective – that is, the internal perspective seeking widespread staff participation in the discovery

conversation. This included the creation of a Discovery Task Force, a group which educated library staff, conducted

internal staff surveys, and gathered observations from early adopters. The article next addresses the substantial

research conducted with library vendors which have developed these services. Such work included drafting of multiple

comprehensive question lists distributed to the vendors, onsite vendor visits, and continual tracking of service

enhancements. Together, feedback gained from library staff, insights arrived at by the Discovery Task Force, and

information gathered from vendors collectively informed the recommendation of a service for the UNLV Libraries.  source-

http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/ital/italinformation.cfm

LIBRARY ADVOCACY

To advocate is to plead in favor of or to support,






promote, and defend publicly, and advocacy is a system or





discipline of organized support, promotion, and defence of a





cause, an association, or an institution in the public arena.





In the world of libraries, advocacy has come to mean two





things—the public, organized support and promotion

Grid computing

Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files. What distinguishes grid computing from conventional high performance computing systems such as cluster computing is that grids tend to be more loosely coupled, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed. Although a grid can be dedicated to a specialized application, it is more common that a single grid will be used for a variety of different purposes. Grids are often constructed with the aid of general-purpose grid software libraries known as middleware.




Grid size can vary by a considerable amount. Grids are a form of distributed computing whereby a “super virtual computer” is composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting together to perform very large tasks. Furthermore, “distributed” or “grid” computing, in general, is a special type of parallel computing that relies on complete computers (with onboard CPUs, storage, power supplies, network interfaces, etc.) connected to a network (private, public or the Internet) by a conventional network interface, such as Ethernet. This is in contrast to the traditional notion of a supercomputer, which has many processors connected by a local high-speed computer bus.
Grid computing combines computers from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal,[1] to solve a single task, and may then disappear just as quickly.




One of the main strategies of grid computing is to use middleware to divide and apportion pieces of a program among several computers, sometimes up to many thousands. Grid computing involves computation in a distributed fashion, which may also involve the aggregation of large-scale cluster computing-based systems.



The size of a grid may vary from small—confined to a network of computer workstations within a corporation, for example—to large, public collaborations across many companies and networks. "The notion of a confined grid may also be known as an intra-nodes cooperation whilst the notion of a larger, wider grid may thus refer to an inter-nodes cooperation".[2]



Grids are a form of distributed computing whereby a “super virtual computer” is composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting together to perform very large tasks. This technology has been applied to computationally intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and it is used in commercial enterprises for such diverse applications as drug discovery, economic forecasting, seismic analysis, and back office data processing in support for e-commerce and Web services.


SOURCE- Wikipedia

SOCIAL MEDIAS /NETWORKING SITES ARE BOON FOR LIBRARY COMMUNITY: AWAITING YOUR COMMENT

comparing libraries with social media is a misnomer

There is a phenomenon (rather it should be called a fashion statement) among

library and information professionals that we are trying to equate libraries

with Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools. This phenomenon was more

visible in recently concluded two day conference in Shivamogga on “Collection

Management in Changing Context: Problems and Prospects” organized by the Kuvempu

University College Librarians’ Association, Shivamogga on August 19th and 20th

of 2011.





But the question is, can libraries be equated with Facebook and Twitter? This

comparison itself seems to be a complete misnomer. Here it has been tried to

look at how social media cannot be a replacement for libraries and the

misconception of this grand rhetoric.





Social media cannot be a replacement for cultural institutions like libraries.

Social media tools can best be used for providing library services (alerts, news

& events, chat references, post tutorials, etc.,) rather looking it as a

replacement for libraries. The argument of “Libraries without walls” and

“Paperless society” which emerged in the early 80s and 90s have not replaced

libraries. But technological developments have helped libraries to collect,

organize, and disseminate information in varied formats with multiple options to

access information. It is worth noting that library professionals were the

first to use technology for information processing. The Cranfield Indexing

experiment is a case in point. Thus as mentioned above, social media tools can

be best used as a supplement for providing library services.





Another important aspect is engaging digital natives in a critical study or

thinking. The nature of non-linearity of text available on the Internet has

contributing in cognitive decline of the Internet users. The recent works

mainly of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the way

we Think, Read and Remember”, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and another

interesting article which has been appeared in EDUCAUSE Review entitled

“Individual Knowledge in the Internet” by Larry Sanger, the co-founder of

Wikipedia have critical of how the non-linearity of text available on the

Internet changing the way we read books either in analog or digital format and

turning us as a “skimming machine” instead of engaging in deep reading or

critical study.  Libraries for time immemorial have helped scholars to study

and engage in critical thinking. Does same ambience exist in a virtual world?





The longevity and the sustainability of social media tools are another important

issue to deliberate. The Interne savvy users prepare digital technologies which

are easy to use and allow collective participation. It has been pointed that

social network sites are famous just because these tools allow for connecting

with friends. The social media tools which are famous few years back have

become near-extinct. The tools such as Orkut, and MySpace have become less

famous day by day. The recent survey reports of Pew Internet and American Life

Project have found that there is a considerable decline of interest among

American Teenagers in blogging. The decline of using blogs in recent time raises

the question of sustainability of social media tools. Google Plus which has

been released very recently regarded as a potential threat for Facebook. Thus

the development in social media technologies keeps us always guessing what next?





In terms of Internet users mainly from third world countries like Sub-Saharan

African countries and some of the Asian countries like India are very few. In

India only 7 out of every 100 Indians are able to access Internet, if this is

the case how social media can be equated with libraries. Libraries have

remained as cultural legacy for centuries and it will continue with

technological developments mainly how we collect organize and disseminate

information. In this context comparing libraries with social media is a

misnomer. Library is not social media; social media is not library.
Vasantha Raju N

GFGC-Periyapatna

Mysore

EBSCO Discovery Service

 

EBSCO Discovery Service is also being used to support the needs of novice and advanced users at Asbury Theological Seminary. Meeks explains how EDS delivers the search experience that each user wants while also providing a broader and deeper range of content. "EDS gives novice users an even more basic experience than other previous methods because now, not only are they finding journal articles with just a few clicks but also books from our local collection and documents from our institutional repository. And our advanced users get even more information without having to go to three or four separate websites, but still get the same rich metadata they'd expect to see from publishers' websites."

Looking to the future Meeks hopes that together with EBSCO Discovery Service, they can connect their users with "improved quantity, variety and quality of resources in an experience that creates excitement and encouragement and limits failure and frustration."

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution's information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library's collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world's foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 400,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.