09-08-2012, 03:20 PM
Training programme in Information Technology Applications to Library and Information Services
1Training programme.doc (Size: 62 KB / Downloads: 61)
INTRODUCTION
If knowledge implies power, then its basic ingradient- information is a vital source of power. Scientific and technical information plays an important role in the development of nations. The proliferation of research and development programmes has resulted in an enormous output of the scientific proceedings, etc that is growing exponentially. Added to this, there is a growing user population, making greater demands for information and increasing cost of materials and services.
Challenge and Response:
In the above context, information handling and transfer have become extremely complex. The conventional techniques of bibliographic control have been put to severe strain in recent years, to cope up with this complex problem. Efforts to meet the challenge caused by the information explosion and to make the available relevant information to the user in time and in an economic manner have led to the evolutions of newer techniques in processing and storing of information for quick and efficient retrieval.
Information services:
Information service has been defined as a service provided by, or for, any Information centre which draw attention to information possessed in its centre in anticipation of demand; this is done by preparing and circulating newsheets, literature surveys, reading lists, abstracts, particulars of articles in current periodicals, etc which it is anticipated will be of potential interests of the users of the service.
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENCE INFORMATION
NCSI is a UGC Inter-University Centre for Science Information, functioning as a constituent of the Indian Institute of Science. It has been the mandate to act as a national level information facility for researchers in Indian Universities and colleges in the areas of Science and Engineering. The centre was started in 1983, under the chairmanship of Prof. V Rajaraman and has today developed into a premier information centre, providing a variety of computer-based information services.
Catalyst for Quality research:
Information services provided by the Centre was designed to reduce the time for gathering information and assimilation of information by the scientists and also aid immensely in directing their
efforts towards quality research.
Resource Base:
NCSI has adapted information technology for harnessing S & T information. Our technology base includes networked PCs and workstations, CD-ROM workstations, a 28 CDROM server, Internet and online database connectivity, Web and E-mail servers, scanning and CD recording facilities.
The information services provided by the centre are derived from its electronic library of key international level bibliographic, full text and factual databases on CDROM covering major areas of Science and Engineering.
J R D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Library of the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) Bangalore, was established in 1911 and it is one of the first three departments started in the Institute. It is regarded as one of the best scientific and technical libraries in India. Apart from the main library it has departmental libraries also. In 1995 the library was renamed as “ J R D Tata Memorial Library”.
The primary mission of the library is to support the educational and research programmes by providing physical and intellectual access to information, consistent with the present and the anticipated educational and research functions of the institute. The secondary mission is to serve as a resource centre for the scholars and scientific community of the country. The collection of the library includes books, journals, reports, standards and patents is regarded as the one of the richest collections in the country. The annual budget of the library is about 6.5 crores of which subscription receives over 1557 periodical titles of which 1229 are subscribed while the remaining titles are as gratis and on exchange basis. The total holdings of the library exceeds 4,11,676 documents.
DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE (DDS)
Post-processing of online search results is a fact of life. A searcher will routinely open a captured search session file in a word processing application and edit it by removing false drops or duplicates, and deleting search statements, login and logout displays, cost information, headers and banners—in essence removing anything deemed irrelevant or unnecessary to the client.
According to "Harrod's - Librarians Glossary and Reference Book",
"Document Delivery Services" - hosts enable users to order copies of materials retrieved by online searches, either by direct despatch of items by the host, or via an agent. Such document delivery services may also be offered online to the users' terminals, rather than in
hard copy.