The paper examines the library facilities and services rendered to socially disadvantaged category by academic libraries at Mysore district. By accessing information needs of users, identifying various channels of information used by users to make use for academic purpose, the paper analyses the perception of uses about the library services and also the paper examines the services provided by academic libraries to user ends. The study finds that the questionnaire method was used along with observation and interview schedule for data collection from the respondents. The researcher distributed 1072 questionnaires for the respondents. Out of them 840 filled-questionnaires were received back with 78.35 percent response rate. The received data was organized in a tabular form and simple statistical analysis was employed to draw conclusion. That finds that the majority of respondents 607 (72.26%) belongs to Scheduled Caste (SC) followed by Scheduled Tribe scoring 233 (27.74%). the respondents from the rural area to visit the library were utmost as compared to urban area which represent 65.12% and 34.88% respectively. The “academic purpose” (86.31%) and “to enhance knowledge” (73.81%) are the primary purposes of the respondents to visit the library frequently.

The increasing access of web resources is attracting faculty and students worldwide. WWW has attracted the attention of educationalists, faculty and students around the world as a potential teaching and learning medium. Today, many dental college libraries have set up remote access to their collections, allowing dental professionals to use web resources. The main aim of this paper was to investigate the utilization of web resources by the faculty members and postgraduate students in dental college libraries Karnataka. A questionnaire-based survey of twelve dental colleges in Karnataka was conducted. It is observed that faculty members and postgraduate students of dental college libraries in Karnataka have easy access to the Internet and are using various types of web resources.

To control various systems we require an operating system or equipments such as machinery, processing units, networks, reduced human intervention to get automated test bench. The biggest result of automation is to save labor, energy, materials, and time to improve quality, accuracy and precision. Test automation can automate some repetitive but necessary tasks in systematic manner. In this paper we discuss about the generalized automated engine test cell which gives facility to develop, characterize, test engines. An ideal test cell includes overall system test parameters, such as SCU, MMI CPU, Digital controller CPU, ESSC, Throttle controller, Dyno Controller.

Total Quality Management (TQM) is focused on the requirements of the customer. This study deals with a central library of women’s university to find the quality in library services and users satisfaction. It covers all parts of a library as administration, library staff and library users. The study adopted the survey method to collect the facts and data. For the data collection there are three types of questionnaires was prepared separately for the librarian, library staff and for the users. The questionnaires distributed to librarian to find the detailed information about infrastructure of library and their facilities, to all staff to find the satisfaction level on their job and to the users to get their views on quality in services provided by library. The study found that library has a good infrastructure; library staff is satisfied with their job and agree on quality in job. The users are also satisfied with staff attitude and delivery of library services but the study also found some lack of awareness and about updated collection and all kinds of services of library.

Duplication and corruption are easy concepts to make and finish the work quickly. Cut copy and paste from any source without acknowledging the author or an institution is a punishable offence. For this act of offence, someone may loss his/her job or may be imprisoned by the court of law. Still the practice of this duplication and illegal work is going on in rampant manner. To avoid this bad practice, many plagiarism software have been developed by different software companies to check the plagiarism and make the intellectual ability more respectable. Plagiarism check up is a very good and justice providing concept which gives respect to the author in this modern day information age. So for this, the aim of this paper is to describe the importance and necessity of the plagiarism check up and make the trend corrupt less and a good educational society.

With the increase in the applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in libraries, there is increase in ICT infrastructure in different libraries. The medical libraries include dental college libraries are playing significant role in storage, accessing, retrieval and dissemination information through e-resources. As the use of ICT based e-resources is increasing in all the libraries, the present study is made to explore the accessibility and use of electronic resources in Dental College libraries in Karnataka. Totally 31 dental college libraries were surveyed to collect the primary data on accessibility and use of e-resources.

Dr. Ranganathan recommended ideals of modern libraries so as to know the user interests and to provide documents (information services) to all the users. These ideals are still not adopted in majority of the academic libraries. Due to ICT applications, majority of the library professionals and thinkers are much interested to develop digital libraries in academic environment. It is essential on the part of the digital libraries to possess and continuously upgrade ICT applications along with providing access to e-documents. To use the services of digital libraries, the users must be computer literates and must be experts to get access of e-documents from internet. In reality, the statistics revealed that only 6.15% of the Indian population is computer literate and more than 21.92% of the population is living extremely below poverty line. As such, all the users can’t able to access and use the e-resources that are accessible through computer, intranet and internet. Digital libraries are successful, if they are providing continuous access to its resources.

The present study assessed the use of public libraries among university students in Kuwait and to find the barriers for visiting them. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the 50 students. Frequency, percentage, Mean ranks, Mann-Whitney test (U-Test) and Kruskal (H-Test) -Wallis are the Statistical package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze and manipulate the collected data. Findings of this study showed that the majority (56%) of the students don’t think that the public library could play a very vital role in improving their education. Most common reason for not visiting the public libraries is “academic library replaces the public library” (78%), also there is a significant differences exist in the gender, work category, Residency, Status, educational levels of their thinking that visiting to the public libraries could play a very vital role in improving their education.

Invention of computer is one of the major scientific and technological developments in the history of mankind. Nowadays computer based communication technologies are influencing maximum activities of libraries. It has changed the way how people now access and utilize information. The aim of this paper is to study the paradigm shift of traditional Academic Libraries to modern Academic Libraries with the advent of Information Communication Technology. The paper also discusses about the various media, means & services available in today’s ICT world that has changed the environment of Academic Libraries to enable to meet the challenges of the library users without the barrier of time and place.

Therefore, the present study was undertaken to discuss about the Marketing of information Products and Services in the library of NASSDOC, New Delhi. For this purpose the Questionnaire and interview method has been used for data collection. The results of this study suggested that Marketing of Information Products and Services in the library of NASSDOC are underutilized and it may be due to lack of awareness. Marketing is the process by which products are made available to the ultimate customers from their point of origin. It is based on thinking about the business in terms of customer needs and their satisfaction.

Analysis of 42,872 citations cited in 215 theses accepted by Sri Venkateswara University and Andhra University for the award of Ph.D degree in Education reveals that journals were the most preferred sources of information used by the researchers in the field of Education accounting for 39.26% of total citations, followed by books with 23.62% of total citations. The journal ‘Dissertation Abstracts International’ occupied first place for being cited more number of times accounting for 14.54% of total journal citations. The book entitled ‘Research in Education’ secured the first rank for being cited more number of times accounting for 2.49% of the total book citations. The publisher ‘Mc Graw-Hill’ has secured the first rank among the publishers for being cited its books more number of times accounting for 28.4% of the total book citations. Authorship pattern for cited documents shows that the majority of citations (52.46%) were contributed by single authors. The average number of authors per citation and the degree of collaboration in Education is 1.43 and 0.48 respectively. The research scholars in Education are mostly (85.65%) using the literature published in English language. They are citing the majority documents (52.27%) from their subject literature itself. USA is contributing to 59.04% of cited literature by the research scholars in Education.

We learn things when we study but understood them when we do it practically. [1] With this view our education system understood this need slowly. Our dynamic teaching and learning in higher education has moved from traditional class room, face-to face learning environments to more interactive and collaborative environments due to a demand for online learning from students, and the desire from academic institutes to promote and deliver courses across the globe. With this regard e resources and Moodle based learning management system in the virtual learning environment in one of the best solutions to get quality out of the education and to produce more information specialist and not merely faculty. This study evaluates in details the use of e resources and Moodle based learning management system in the virtual learning environment in PESIT Bangalore South Campus.

The recent information technology develop- ments have huge impact on library operation and services. In the past we have dealt with the automation of library processes and integrated library systems. During the last few years, we can observe a breakthrough of all kind of mobile devices which are becoming another important gateway to library services. Open source software tools are also becoming a very important factor in the operation of libraries. Information technology has transformed the whole world into a global village with a global economy, which is increasingly dependent on the creative management and distribution of information. Today mobile phones are becoming an integral part of everyday life and are changing the way one connects and interacts with the world. In this changing scenario, Mobile Technology will be of great help to libraries towards strengthening their relationship and providing enhanced user oriented services to existing users.

This study is aimed at finding out the difference in Mathematics Scholastic Achievement Test in relation to gender, type of school and Medium of instruction. The result of this study showed positive outcome on the student’s achievement in mathematics. The investigator concluded that - a) Boys performance is better than Girls b) Medium of instruction and types of school influences the performance.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought unprecedented changes and transformation to academic library and information services, conventional LIS such as OPAC, users services, reference services, bibliographic services, current awareness services, Document delivery, interlibrary loan, Audio visual services and customer relations can be provided more efficiently and effectively using ICT, as they offer convenient time, place, cost effectiveness, faster and most-up-to-date dissemination and end users involvement in the library and information services process. The impact of ICT characterized on information services by changes in format, contents and method of production and contents and method of production and delivery of information products. This study explains about the ICT based resources and services in engineering college libraries in Sivagangai and Ramanathapuram districts. The data is collected through a questionnaire to study the ICT based library resources and services among UG students, PG students and faculty members. This study found about purpose of using ICT based resources, aware about engineering databases, criteria for use, problem while access the ICT based resources and found library performance about ICT based resources and services.

User-friendliness of library information systems is an important consideration in the development of the digital library. This paper describes two experimental studies of library information system usability: Graphical User Interface (GUI) oriented OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) with a bookshelf-like browser named SOPAC, and a Collaboration Support System (CSS) and its application to a reference task. SOPAC uses a bookshelf metaphor where books are displayed and the image of each book is based on its size. SOPAC accesses the OPAC database of the university library of ULIS without any modification of that database. The CSS includes TV-phone, Shared Virtual Display, Image Tool, and White Board. An experiment applying it to a task teaching how to use a GUI-based OPAC via network is described. Both systems have been developed on a conventional workstation LAN (Ethernet, 10 Mbps).

E-resources are the most sought after form of resources in this IT penetrated academic environment for the faculty members and the students. The use of e-resources can have a strong impact on the academic performance of the users. The present study aims at evaluating the use and impact of e-resources among the faculty members of Ultra College of Engineering and Technology for Women, Madurai. Questionnaire was used to collect data from 70 faculty members. The findings of the study are : 34(49 %) are male and 18 (26%) faculty members belong to 22-26 age group. 28 (40%) respondents are BE graduates and 19 (27%) respondents are ME graduates. 18(26%) respondents are Assistant Professors. A majority of 30 (43 %) faculty members are from the Dept. of CSE/IT and the least number of 5 (7 %) faculties are from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. 49 % (34) of the faculty members have optimal awareness about the e-resources. % (14) of the faculties access e-resources in the college library. E-manuscripts is the most used e-resource among the faculty members (16%) followed by E-mail used among 14 % (10) of the faculty members. While CD ROM is used by 67 %( 47) respondents daily, 53 % (32) of them use E-mail daily. Online journals are used daily by 56 % (39) of the respondents and search engines are used daily by 51 %( 36) of the respondents.

This paper focuses on Research productivity of faculty members in the School of Mathematical Sciences, NMU, Jalgaon, Proposed research, Objective of the study, Hypothesis of the study, Scope and limitation of the study, Research methodology, Review of literature, Author Productivity: Language wise productivity, Designation wise productivity, subject and Gender wise productivity, Year wise productivity & key authors, Bradford’s Law, Lotka’s Law, Prices square root law, Authorship Patters, Major findings and Implications.

Cultural properties are the vital information source of our history. It provides valuable information about the past and tells the story about what was happened in the past. In this connection museum plays a significant role to preserve these resources and exhibit to the people in the society. The paper mainly highlighted the value of cultural properties of museum as an information source in the context of B. J. Institute museum, Ahmadabad (Gujarat).

The present paper discusses the information needs and information seeking behavior in the context of academicians, who are served by academic libraries. Academic libraries, where learning resources are acquired, processed and made accessible to the students are getting more importance in higher education and research institutes. For students and teachers library plays crucial role as a main information and reference source. For the same, library services have to be evaluated based on defined quality indicators. The libraries have transformed drastically from storehouses for books and journals to the powerhouses of knowledge and information since the middle of the 20th century. The information and communication technology is responsible for this revolution.