This survey highlights the different areas of university library work - its operations, collections, services, infrastructure and suprastructure, where the change has taken/is taking place in the last few years. This survey provides insight into the problems faced by users; some strategies for effectively managing changes in the university libraries are also suggested. In this survey it is found that the change observed in these university libraries is not transformational but incremental in nature in most of the areas. Change observed is mostly superficial in nature while the core of their activities, operations and services largely remain unchanged.

E-books are commonly perceived as offering great potential for learner support but also as struggling to compete with print due to poor on-screen presentation, restrictive licencing and limited range of titles offered. The experience of a group of Irish university libraries shows that, with the right combination of product and subjects, e-books can thrive among students and faculty, while librarians can create more dynamic, relevant and flexible collections than for print. Subscription management is demanding for libraries, however, and licencing issues remain highly problematic, representing a formidable obstacle to full exploitation

The purpose of any library is to be satisfied to all users needs. Users only can evaluate service and quality of the library. But it is difficult to satisfy completely every user needs. To evaluate "users satisfaction” and to develop the "quality" of the library, it is required to bring a new innovation. To develop the library and its service and to provide maximum users' satisfaction, it is necessary to implement Six Sigma in Libraries. This paper helps to apply scientific and systematic upgrading strategy to have a better service to meet the needs of the users. Six Sigma is typically used by large enterprises to eliminate waste, reduce redundancies and ensure quality. But we're applying the same guiding principles to Library to, improve processes and increase both employee and users satisfaction. In such a way this study aims to implement Six Sigma to provide better service and full satisfaction to the library users.

The article deals with spreading of Astracantha and Astragalus species in the mountainous-cserophit plant zones of the region. These types of species consist of 4 formation classes, 5 classes and 13 assosiations. We have determined that in the mountainous-cserophit plant(phrigana) zones there are 28 species of (10,77%) bushes, 212 species of (81,54 %) perennial grass, 20 species of (7,69 %) annual or biennal plants within the Astracanthum pycnophyllosum species groups.

Greenstone and DSpace are both designed to help third parties set up their own digital libraries. However, they represent rather different perspectives and have different, and in many ways complementary, goals and strengths. One goal they share is to be flexible, and both can be customized and modified at many different levels – including the programming level, since they are open source systems. This gives the ultimate flexibility and yields significant advantages over closedsource systems. Of course, this very flexibility makes fair comparison tricky. This article has compared and contrasted the two systems' goals in terms of the core business that they aim to support, and compared their features in terms of their natural domain of operation. A crude caricature of the difference is that Greenstone supports individually designed collections of different kinds of documents and metadata in an international setting – epitomized by completely static collections on CD-ROM or DVD – whereas DSpace supports institutions in their struggle to capture and disseminate the intellectual output of an institution and preserve it indefinitely – epitomized by its use by MIT Libraries, who helped pioneer its development. However, each system is highly flexible and customizable to meet a wide variety of needs.

The information technology explosion and its application in every aspect of life have changed the entire scenario of present world. Major changes in the information environment have transformed the role of librarians in to those of information managers. This research is an attempt to give an outline of the problems of digital libraries and the changing role of information managers. Digital information system (DIS) management refers to the overall competencies , knowledge, know-how skills and attitudes necessary to create, store analyze , organize , retrieve and disseminate digital information(text, images, sounds) in the digital libraries or any type of information.

The International Journal of 'Astrophysics and Astronomy' is an Springer journal provides raped publication (monthly) or articles in all areas of subject in Physics. All articles published in this journal are peer-reviewed. The data collected from this printed journal volumes 28 to 33 in the year of (2007-2012). Totally 238 articles published in this study period. From analyse this study 2011 exhibited the maximum number of contributions and highest numbers of articles published from India 31.51 % in the International Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy.

he paper brings out the results of a bibliometric analysis of the journal titled “D-Lib Magazine” for the period between 2003 to 2012. The data were downloaded from the journal's website. This study aims at analysing the research output performance of library and Information Science professionals on Library and Information Science subjects. The analysis cover mainly the number of articles, authorship pattern, subject wise distribution of articles, average number of references per articles, forms of documents cited, year wise distribution of cited journals etc. All the studies point towards the merits and weakness of the journal which will be helpful for its further development. The result showed showed that out of 361 articles joint authors contributed 241 (66.75%) articles while the rest 120 (33.25%) articles were contributed by single author. Study reveals that the highest contributions were from universities with 147 (40.73%). This is followed by research institutions with 82 (22.71%) and Colleges 65 (18.00%). The remaining 67 articles (18.56%) were contributed by other agencies like public organisations etc. The study also reveals that majority of the contributors preferred journals as the source of information which occupied the top position with the highest number of citations 3656 (49.36%) of the total 7407 citations followed by Seminar / Conference Proceedings with 1315 (28.68%) citations.

Collection development is a planned, continuous, and cost effective acquisition of quality, relevant material to meet the needs of users and the objective of the library. Collection Development is not only growth in volumes and titles but in the quality of acquired material in enhancing effective information delivery. It is only from this perspective that the word “development “could be meaningful in relation to collection development. Collection development policy is the process of building and improving a collection of library material. This process includes the formulation of guidelines, management of funds, needs assessment, selection, collection maintenance and evaluation. The Library is committed to responsible collection development, which makes the most effective use of budget resources for the greatest number of users according to the established guidelines. The focus of this paper will be on five specific areas including purpose, prerequisites,implementation, guide lining principles and advantages of Collection Development Policy. Collection development generally is described in terms of physical or electronic collection. Practically speaking, collection development is no longer just about creating the physical collection. More important is the notion of providing access to information. The end result of the collection development process is providing access to information regardless of format or location.

This paper presents the findings of a bibliometric study of Journal of Intellectual property Rights for the period of 2008-2012. A total 239 articles from 30 issues carrying 6104 citations were analyzed and 356 authors contributed articles during the five years. In this study cleanly show that collaborative contribution was half of the single author contribution. Moreover, it was found that India is leading contributed nation i.e. 168 articles. The average citation per articles is 25.54 and the average length of an article is 10.21 pages.

ct : Information Architecture (IA) is a professional practice and field of studies focused on solving the basic problems of accessing and using, the vast amounts of information available today. Information Architecture has become one of the latest areas of excitement of within the Library and Information Science community, largely resulting from the recognition it garners from those outside of the field for the methods and practices of information design and management long seen as core to information science. Here we discussed how an Information Architecture connected with information seeking process in library.

Library Council of India (LCI) is a conceptual idea and a proposal plan for library and information science profession in India. It is conceptualized with a view to improve the quality of library and information science professionals in India.

The study aimed at finding the use, perception and expectation of the users in S.V. Ayurvedic College, Tirupati. The perceptions of the library users towards the facilities and services offered are presented in an objective manner. 180 questionnaires were distributed among the respondents, out of which 146 were returned. Results show that respondents are using medical databases and other resources in their library for keeping up to date information.

Library is social institution which play vital role in inclusive development of mankind. In academic and research scenario is play as heart to an institution. In universalities and colleges, libraries role for research and development play as junction to desire for search of things. UGC-INFLIBNET is a way to provide the necessary requirement to the members. INFLIBNET implements the concepts of Resource sharing through its various modules. N-LIST is one of them. These revolutionary steps are providing scholarly Resources including peer reviewed journals, abstracts etc.

This paper discusses the concept of knowledge management (KM) from the perspective of library professionals. KM basics and relations with other subjects also discussed. It overviews the role of LIS professional in KM and issues related to library professionals involvement in KM activities. Skill required for the library professionals to be successful in KM and challenges and opportunities they can face.

This paper presents citation analysis of Ph.D. theses submitted in the discipline of Philosophy of the University of Hyderabad during 1986-2012. The study is based on the 7,444 citations cited in 43 Ph.D. theses of philosophy. The study presents analysis of several parameters like bibliographic form, year-wise distribution of theses, authorship pattern, ranking of core journals, and country-wise distribution of cited documents. The study finds that book form is the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of philosophy accounting for 80.62%, and most of the citations (81.79%) are contributed by single author. U.K (53.16%) is the largest producer of literature in the field of philosophy compared to other countries and most dominant language was English 92.60%.

Information literacy has become very essential in our world today because of the increasing variety and volumes of information resources. Users are confronted with abundant and varied information choices in their studies, at the workplace, as well as in other areas of life, so “the quality, authenticity, validity and reliability of some of the materials in electronic format via the internet cannot be guaranteed. This paper attempts to address the role of library staff in educating students to turn as information literate and methods are being followed.

In present information society information and communication technology (ICT) has changed the complete scenario of generating, preserving and delivering the information. The advent of ICT, paradigm shifts from print journals to e-journals have taken place in past one and half decade. Now e-journals play vital role in today's information explosion environment. The study has been confined to the users of the e-journals at Department of Commerce, AMU, Aligarh.

Libraries and information centres in India are facing a lot of problems for the limited budgets for purchasing the reading materials. This article provides an overview of different types of library consortia available in India such as UGCInfonet, FORSA, CeRA, IIM Library Consortium, HELINET, N-LIST E-consortium, INDEST, CSIR E-journals Consortia. Library consortium is combined activity of a group of libraries to manage the information.

Rapid development is taking place in the field of mobile technology. Libraries seek sustainable ways to keep up with these changes and to best serve our users. From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting websites from different devices so without wasting users time, websites should adjust with the screen of devices users are using and display the information

Library is essentially a service is primary objective of the library is render satisfactory and timely services to the user community .now days is more emphasis on the users. That means the focus today is not on the mere system, but on its response to the needs of the users. The libraries have changed the out model concept of preserving a large number of reading materials for the sake of preservation only in this context, it is noteworthy to quote Gurudeva Tagore's 1remark “The extent of use to which the reading materials of a library is put, should determine its importance rather an the staggering number of volumes”

An electronic journal is a periodical publication which is published in electronic format, usually on the Internet. EJournal is electronic publication in which information is stored electronically and it can be accessible through electronic systems and network environment. E-Journals are a very broad term that includes a variety of different file formats. Instant access is quite possible with E-resources within a fraction of second. It is has various names such as Online Journal, electronic serials, electronic periodical, digital serials, d-journal, Zines ore- zines oo webzins. This paper focuses the status of electronic resources facilities and services provided by the College of Dry land Agriculture and Natural Resources (CDANR), Mekelle University. It also discusses the purpose of using e-journal, benefits, subject coverage status, overall user satisfactions, problems that are faced by CDANR Library users while accessing e-resources and perceived impact of eresources on users. Finally, it reports the results from questionnaire-based survey of e-resources use and its impact on CDANR Library users.

he paper aims to study the perception of postgraduate students on importance of internet-based information resources for accomplishing their academic tasks. In this study, questionnaire method was used for data collection. A total 130 questionnaires were distributed to the postgraduate students of twenty departments at University of Mysore and 123 filled-in questionnaires were received back with overall response rate of 97.69 %. The study findings reveal that the postgraduate students depend on numerous internet-based resources for fulfill their various academic tasks. For example 'Online dictionary' used for looking definition of concept, 'Google books' for looking required books, 'Google scholar' for looking articles, 'Virtual reference services' for looking answer to some specific questions. Search engines are the most commonly used source for accomplishing the complex academic activities such as preparing 'Class Assignments / Seminars' and 'Academic Examination'. However, the new internet-based information resources 'Social Network Sites like Facebook' are very less important sources for performing both the simple and complex academic task of the postgraduate students. Even though, the use of internet-based information resources have been increased considerably, the traditional resources still play significant role than some other popular internet-based resources for performing the some specific tasks. The majority of respondents optioned that the relevance is major criteria for seeking the information on the web.

Marketing is frequently viewed as a set of strategies and techniques that belong to administrators or to individuals outside of librarianship. The present study is an attempt to know the definitions and concept of marketing, e-marketing, marketing process, marketing products & services, and promotional activities. This paper will explore the marketing tools & techniques in libraries. An effort has been made to relate marketing concept with library and information services in ICT environment. This paper also deals that how LIS professional can start marketing their library product for the promotion of their product. Creating a successful information products and services for the ICT environment can be challenging if librarians do not have the right information. This paper also focuses on how to create and maintain information products and services in ICT environment. On account of information explosion, the technological revolution and escalating library costs are responsible for encouraging the library profession to develop a professional marketing approach in its operations and services. Information marketing is the process whose principal function is to promote facilitate exchange of information. The author finally proposes a model of marketing process and highlights the suggestions for improvement of library information products and services.