Role of Information Technology in Library Management in Digital

EraRabishankar Giri

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Invited Presentation

Challenges Information Overload

Example: As on 13th Nov 2015, The IndexedWeb contains at least 4.73 billion pages (http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/), Google Scholar indexes about 160 Million Documents.

Information Pollution Predatory Open Access JournalsGrowing discontent for getting pin pointed information.

Growing Number of NetizensGrowing demand for Instant ServicesHuge Print Resources

Easy Reach through a networked World

How Could?

Library ManagementManagement of Activities

Management of Administrative Activities

Management of Print Collection

Management of Electronic/ Digital Collection

In-house

Subscribed

Open Access

Library Services

Services from Print based Collection

Services from Electronic/ Digital Collection

Expected services as a Resource Person

Information Literacy

Resource Literacy

Tool Literacy

Library Management

ToolsAutomation Software

Koha, NewGenLib, LibSys, Slim++, VTLIS, etc.

Technology based Security & Management System

Barcoding System, RFID Technology, Surveillance System

Institutional Repository

Dspace, e-Prints, Greenstone, Focuz

Federated Search/ One stop Search

EBSCO Discovery, Summon , VuFind, JGate

Subject Portal

Easy Access

IP Based Access- Shiboleth, Athens authentication

Remote Acess – EZ-Proxy, VPN

Virtual Reference Service Tools

Question Point from OCLC, Meebo

Research Tools

Scimago , Mendeley, ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, OpenRev

Social Web

Tools

Major Social Web Aplications used in the Library

Social Networking 1.Facebook2.LinkedIn3.Google +

Content Communities 1.Youtube2.Flickr3.Slideshare

Blog/ Microblog 1.Twitter2.Blogspot/ Blog

Collaborative Projects 1. WikipediaBookmarking 1. Delicious

2. Shelfari

ServicesInteractive OPAC

Single Search Gateway

Accees to Consortium Journals

Institutional Repository

CAS through Facebook

Library Meshup

Library Blog

Facebook in Library

E-Learning Portal

Conclusions Think of as

Scholarly Reource ManagerScholarly Resource LocatorIdea DevelopersService ProvidersPersonal Coaches

I call them Librarian

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