With the increasing pace of technical competence, upgrading the technical skills is most critical part of faculty members in any higher technical educational establishments. With the availability of the paid versions of technical papers, this study is focused on understanding the productivity of Open Access Journal (OAJ) where there is no barrier of economical, legal, and technical factors of any sorts. The current study discusses about the situational analysis where the qualitative method is applied with experts opinion in some of the well known higher technical educational institutes in Karnataka, India. As majority of the libraries are exploring new dimensionality of exploring opportunities to influence the phenomenon of utilization of OAJ for technical competencies, hence, this paper discusses about an in depth study being performed in the educational establishments in Mysore district of Karnataka to understand the extent of impact of open access journal towards the usefulness among faculty members.

Users are the key persons of any library and information center. Library users are having various types of information needs and satisfactory levels. So the library and information professionals should have knowledge of understanding their users' needs, the ways to satisfy their users by providing right information at the right time. Hence, the present study undergone to identify the information needs and satisfactory level of users at Connemara Public Library, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The data were collected from randomly selected users through questionnaire. This study focuses the availability of various library resources, services, facilities in Connemara Public Library. This study also identifies the preference of documents used by the library users. Finally, this study suggested some opinions to extend the services and to improve the satisfactory level of library users.

The paper describes the present scenario of higher secondary school libraries in India and Chhattisgarh and discuss the role of Secondary Education Commission in development of School Libraries. Emphasises has been given for improvement of libraries in school education. Points have also been given to improve the conditions of higher secondary school libraries in the Chhattisgarh.

The paper describes the present scenario of higher secondary school libraries in India and Chhattisgarh and discuss the role of Secondary Education Commission in development of School Libraries. Emphasises has been given for improvement of libraries in school education. Points have also been given to improve the conditions of higher secondary school libraries in the Chhattisgarh.

This paper is discussed about the practices run under the Readers Club group. C.D.Jain College of commerce's Library readers club is the medium to reach the library to the students and society. With the help of students we are conducting various programmes to cultivate reading and learning habits of the students. Quality has become the defining element of education in the 21st Century in the context of new social realities. Acquisition of quality and excellence is the great challenge faced by all higher education institutions. The purpose of this paper is to describe various innovative practices run by readers club of C.D.Jain library to enhance teaching and learning methods with the social initiation of students.

This paper examines use of library sources and services of Virudhunagar district central library - a survey study. The public library helps the students, users and members to collect the reference materials so as to face competitive examination. The public library is the local centre of information, making all kinds of knowledge and information readily available to its users. Besides it public library is useful to the researchers to complete their research work as well public library is the best powerful instrument to provide ability, skill, innovativeness, positive thinking and so on.

Without well-educated digital librarians, Digital Libraries (DL) cannot reach their full potential. In order to proposal relevant courses and programs to train digital librarians or educators need feedback from practitioners. Current digital/automated library professionals in academic libraries in the United States were surveyed to determine their activities, skills or training gaps. The findings have implications for the design of digital library education in order to meet workplace needs

Present paper studies the content available in Central University Libraries Websites in India. It mainly focuses on the information available in the library websites, features of the library websites, online library services, links to other information sources, value added services and so on. The results are brought on the basis of pre designed criteria and same has been presented.

his paper focus on the role of medical college librarians, in Maharashtra. To survey for up gradation, improvement qualitative of services by modern technique of medical college librarians in Maharashtra and trace the problems and facilities in medical librarian field.

Library and Information Science (LIS) education incorporates a field of professional education that provides the training to the future librarians to manage the libraries and information centers efficiently. The vision of LIS education includes teaching and research in the field of librarianship with a multidisciplinary focus on the issues of information access and equality. This paper discusses the current status of library and information science education being provided in India with a special focus on the state of Andhra Pradesh.

In this study an attempt is made to investigate the scholarly communications in the online journal “Webology” during the period between 2004 to 2012.For the analysis of the study nine volumes containing 26 issues have been taken up. The analysis covers mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, country wide contribution of articles, etc. The study found that majority of the contributions by single author (54.45%).Universities contributed maximum number of articles (87). India has contributed highest number of articles during the period of study.

This paper describes the background to the development and application of a model of Levels ofImpact (LoI) of innovations in information and library services. The model is based on someprevious work in the eLearning field and provides a tool for comparing the different effects of a service on individuals, eitherwithin a particular community or over time. This paper suggests that there is scope for further development and testing of the model to refine its application.