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USE OF “NEWGENLIB” OPEN SOURCE

SOFTWARE FOR LIBRARY AUTOMATION,

DIGITAL LIBRARY AND KNWOELDGE

MANANGEMENT: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

By

Emmanuel EbnazarCourse: PGDLKM-2014

Research Guide

Dr. Srinivasa Raghavan

Department of Library & Information Science, Bharathidasan University,

Trichy

Statement of the Problem

• Increase in the scope of media handled by libraries-Physical to electronic, with different file formats.

• Increase in the scope of library services-Circulation, electronic media, information service, KM and social networking.

• Different tools for library automation, IR or Digital Library, social networking and KM- Inconvenience to librarians & users . This situation defeats the purpose of 3rd and 4th laws of library science.

• Cost & Effort involved in IT infrastructure required in hosting, maintaining these different tools.

Other Influencing Factors

• Decrease in the size of library staff.

• Organization's growth and expansion and subsequent demand for establishing library services in different geographical locations with limited resources.

• Library services to the users from different generations(different reading habits) and changes in media preferences- Influence of Social media.

• Changing trends in Publication Industry and some of the publishers publishing books in print and electronic versions and some publishers ceasing print version and retaining electronic versions of journals /magazine


• Demand for libraries to become environmental friendly.

• Open Access Initiatives,

• Library Competitors which are not taken seriously by LIS profession but have detrimental impact on library and they are; – Self managed e-Journal and e-book databases (without librarian), – Online vendors allowing users to buy book and download on e-book

readers.– Improved e-readers which are now available at affordable prices – Commercial library service providers like Just Books Inc, Kwench Inc

providing library services in India threatening survival of corporate & special libraries.


• Increase in the cost of commercial Library automation software.

• Increase in the cost of publications and in contrast dwindling Library Budget

• Information Explosion, overload and the increasing need for the library services than never before

Solutions: Single tool/Platform

• A single tool with which the library community is familiar and further which can be exploited and used not only for library automation but can also be used for Digital Library resources, knowledge sharing and social networking.

Review of Literature

• Literature search on “Library automation tool” for “DL”, “KM” and “Social Media” – Ten important papers

• Single tool is still not a focused area of research among library researches.

• Though there are some theoretical papers which describes how a single tool can be used for library automation, DL,IR & KM but these concepts to be practically checked and realized by the library researchers or library software developers.

Review of Literature

• Hence decided on studying NewGenLib open source software which has all the features that meets the above mentioned requirements that is, a single tool with which the library community is familiar and further which can be exploited and used not only for library automation but also for DL/IR, KM and Social Networking.

Objectives

• To study the features of the NGL

• To create a demo collection

• To provide an overview of the features available in NGL for library automation.

Objectives

• To explain through demo collection on how the features of NGL can support managing IR and support federated search on external electronic resources

• To explain through demo collection on how the features of NGL help KM & Social Networking.

Research Methodology

Identify

• Identify the library automation tool that support digital library and knowledge management.

Study• Provide background information about NewGenLib open source software

Install-1• Installation of Java, Postgresql, Apache tomcat and other supporting software.

Install-2

• Installation and configuration of NewGenLib open source software

Collection• Testing & Building up a demo collection.

IR,KM & Social Media

• Explanation of NewGenLib features with special reference to Institutional Repository, Knowledge management and social media

About NewGenLib

• NGL commercial version was developed by KIIKM in 2003

• Open source by KIIKM & Verus Solutions 2008

• 307 commercial installations & 2800 free installations across 56 countries.

• NewGenLib 3.0.4 is the latest version.

Technical Information

• Works in Windows, Linux environment

• Developed on Java Platform

• The commercial RDBMS servers such as MS-SQL Server 2000 or 2003 RDBMS. Open Source RDBMS like MySql, or PostgreSQL RDBMS

• Supports barcode 1D, 2D & 3 D and also support SIP2 Protocol required for RFID implementation.

Technical Information

• Supports international standards such as MARC-21, AACR-2, UNICODE, XML,OAI-PMH and Dublin Core.

• Runs on high end server and also on standalone system.

• Java SDK 6.0/7

• Apache-ant-1.8.1

Features

• Has all the modules available in any of the standard library applications

• OPAC support Web/Library 2.0

• Federated Search- Various databases.

• Real time efficiency,

• Data Security for electronic media through access rights management,

• Features related to Knowledge management, OPAC User friendliness and response times.

Features

• Multilingual Support.

• Allows the attachment of digital objects such as full text in PDF or MS-Word, image files, sound, video clips, etc., to catalogue records

• OAI-PMH will enable a library to build its own archive of digital materials and also for harvesting of documents from other OAI-PMH data providers.

• NGL-Touch for user self service.

Collection Development –IR : Step-1

Collection Development-IR-Step-2

Choose Temple


Choose Temple

Collection Development-IR Step-4

Validation

Collection Development-IR Step-5

Validation

Collection Development-IR: Step-7

Location details


Upload file


Select File


Save selected file


Upload Completed

Preview of uploaded document

Collection Development by users: Login

Collection Development by Users: My Account

Collection Development by Users: Select Submit record

Collection Development by Users: Catalogue

Collection Development by Users: Record Submitted

Collection Development by Users: Workflow-Approval by Librarian

Collection Development by Users: Workflow-Update Record-1

Collection Development by Users: Preview

Knowledge Sharing: Tagging

Knowledge Sharing: Add To Favorites

Knowledge Sharing: E-mail Record

Knowledge Sharing: Add Review comments & Rate

Knowledge Sharing: RSS Feed

Knowledge Sharing: Search Expert Directory

Knowledge Sharing: Search Discussions

Knowledge Sharing: Start New Discussion

Access Rights Management: By Department

Access Rights Management: By Type of users

Access Rights Management: Document Level

Findings

• NewGenLib v3.0.4 caters to the requirements of:

Library Automation

Institutional Repository

Secure handling of Digital Resources

Knowledge Sharing

Social Networking-Within organizational context

ABOUT AUTHOR

• Name: Emmanuel Ebnazar

• Qualification: M.L.I.Sc, M.Phil in LIS and (PGDLKM)

• Experience: 13+ yrs experience in corporate Library

• Organization: Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions Ltd. Previous Organizations: Wipro Technologies Ltd, Pune, Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd,Pune and NCERT Regional Centre, Mysore, India.

• Specialization: Corporate Library, Library Automation, information Services and Knowledge Management.

ABOUT AUTHOR

• Contact Details:

E-Mail: [email protected]

Mobile: + 919886677094

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