In the emerging knowledge society people need to acquire skills for efficiently using information resources for day-to-day and other vital activities. Information literacy enables individuals to recognise when information is needed and have the capacity to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. It is considered as an indispensible component of information empowerment process. Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning and information literate persons are competent independent learners. For an effective functioning of the democratic world, the citizens have to be information literate and able to take right decisions for the development of the society.

Illiteracy is one of the biggest problems in the spread of information and knowledge. In India there are two hundred million people consisting of seventy million males and one hundred females. This illiteracy is reducing at annual rate of 1.3% which means it will take around twenty years to clear the back log. This paper explores the actual scenario of the reading habits of Indian citizen. This paper also stresses on to develop English skills and vocabularies and government role, role of public libraries etc, and recommendation becoming more efficient in reading habits

The data for this study is collected by way of distributing questionnaires to the users of the District Central Library, Kadapa, A.P. seventy five questionnaires were distributed to the regular users of the library and sufficient time was given to them to answer and respond. Out of 75, the investigator could collect only 50 filled questionnaires. The data was analysed and depicted in Tables as shown under

The main purpose of this manuscript to depict the course of action for performing Inter Library Loan (ILL) service by any r esear ch institute library in India, with r efer ence to Physical Resear ch Laboratory (PRL) library Ahmedabad. Recent, latest and newly generated information is a success key p o i n t f o r a n y o t h e r r e s e a r c h w o r k . S o e v e r y r e s e a r c h i n s t i t u t e t r i e s t o f u l f i l l d e s i r e d document/information by its r esear ch scientists. In this service, library pr ovides such kind of users' r equested documents (Journal's Articles, Books, Bound V olume Journals, and Audio-V ideo etc.) which ar e not available in its own library . These documents ar e loaned fr om other libraries. Inter library loan service is based on cooperative among libraries.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) allows an item, for example a library book, to be tracked and communicated with by radio waves RFID is a broad term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to store a serial number that identifies a person or object, and perhaps other information, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (the chip and the antenna together are called an RFID transponder or an RFID tag). The antenna enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a reader. The reader converts the radio waves reflected back from the RFID tag into digital information that can then be passed on to computers that can make use of it . This paper also discussed in historical background, using the technology in library and challenges used in library.

Information is an essential commodity for research. Research center libraries provide the necessary information to the research through its facilities and services. In the present study an attempt was made to know the library facilities and information services provided to research scholars in 82 VTU research center libraries in Karnataka State. The survey method is used with a well-designed questionnaire collect data. SPSS tool was used for data analysis. The librarians' responses on various library facilities and information services in these libraries were gathered using Likert's 5 point scale. The responses were analysed using statistical techniques.

Education is the base of Mental, cultural growth and development of the humanities. Education is the formal process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another. This paper presents an overview of LIS education in Chhattisgarh. It describes the state-of-the-art of LIS education in 05 LIS Departments of Chhattisgarh, suggests for innovativeness and standards to meet the present and future demands of knowledge society. Data related to admission requirements, course content, and course material delivery, teaching methods have been collected through respective websites and contact to the LIS Professionals.

Data Mining (DM), the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases, is a powerful new technology with great potential to help the Libraries and Information Centers to focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. Data mining popularly known as Knowledge Discovery in databases is the automated or convenient extraction of patterns representing knowledge implicitly stored in large databases. The present study attempts to know the meaning of data mining, importance and its process. Explains the different steps of data mining and its implementation in libraries. Finally suggests the guideline to choose a data mining system.

This paper discusses interdisciplinary differences in behavior on self-archiving practices and related issues and help in enhance the awareness among faculty, research scholar and post-graduate students

The paper focuses on the need and importance of information literacy for every human being to make better life. In the 21st century, information literacy is a key attribute for everyone, irrespective of age or experience in human life, information is needed for executing every type of work, for solving any problem and all types of work related to everyday life, without information no one can do anything. There is a solution to every problem. If the problem solution would definitely just requires finding the solution. The person, who is information literates, can perform a variety of task. Information Literacy is a tool that tells us that how we can get desired and required information at earliest without losing time and efforts.

This papers examines the articles published in SRELS Journals of Information Management from 2006-2011 for authorship pattern, Year wise distribution, length of article, degree of collaboration and geographical distribution of authors. The study carried out for this paper found that majority of papers occurred is multiple authored. The degree of collaboration is found to be 0.60. The geographical distribution reveals that the authors of Karnataka contributes the highest number of published articles in India.

Governments around the world are racing to establish a so-called e-government or digital government. In every region of the world form developing countries to industrialized countries, develop national and local governments with critical information on-line, and the mechanism used to simplify the complex processes that were by and interact electronically with their citizens. The widespread definition of electronic or digital government is the use of information and communication technology to support the effectiveness of government services and dealing with citizen's better and easier way, and to allow access to the greatest amount of information, and make government itself more responsive to the wishes of the citizens. This present study provides an insight regarding the theoretical assumptions about e- government and the role of public libraries as service providers in E-Government systems. This study discusses the present scenario of e-government efforts in India; constraints to building e-government and the challenges before the stakeholders and a vision for future

Though some reports suggest that in-service training of library personnel started first time in India in the beginning of 20th century, yet the LIS education as university course started quite late as compared to other disciplines in undivided India. Geographically distribution of LIS education centres in India presents an interesting feature. Calcutta, Baroda and Lahore (in undivided India) set the motion and then Andhra and others followed. 1940s and 1950s have been the turning point so far the progress of LIS education is concerned. Spread of LIS education has been so that during last one century more than 100 universities have been imparting LIS education with quite a few colleges offering LIS education too. The preset study makes an Endeavour to trace the chronology of development of and chorology of distribution of LIS education in India.