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Book SynopsisLIBRARY SERVICES IN THE KNOWLEDGE WEB: Now more than ever, thanks to capabilities made available by the web and Internet, libraries are making materials available to patrons on an almost immediate basis provided those patrons have Internet access. Many journal articles are now made available online by libraries, provided patrons have the right entry id or password, these articles can now be accessed without any need to go to a physical library. The present Festschrift volume is a humble presentation to Dr Madan Kumar Stanley by his professional colleagues and friends to mark his professional valuable contributions and service to the library & information science community, especially to Agricultural Librarianship even after his retirement. A look of contributors of this volume and over whelming response received shows the affection and respect towards his senior professional Dr M.K. Stanely. We extend our sincere thanks to the learned contributors and grateful acknowledges to their contributions. A look of contributors of this volume and over whelming response received shows the affection and respect towards his senior professional Dr M.K. Stanely. We extend our sincere thanks to the learned contributors and grateful acknowledges to their contributions.
Table of Contents1. Gigantic role of e-books: an overview of future libraries/K. Veeranjaneyulu and L.S.R.C.V. Ramesh. 2. Electronic resources collection development : policies and practices in university libraries/Avineni Kishore. 3. Adoption of E-resources in Indian libraries for countering economic challenges/L.S.R.C.V. Ramesh and Mohd. Vali Hussain. 4. Library services and resources in Christian Mission Hospitals in Tamil Nadu with special reference to CMC&H, Vellore/D. Joyson Soundrarajan and B. Ramesh Babu. 5. Agro-informatics: changing trend of using information and communication technology in agricultural sector/Rabindra K. Mahapatra. 6. Electronic resources management : opportunities and challenges in digital era/K. Veeranjaneyulu, N.P. Ravi Kumar and T. Sreenivasa Rao. 7. Electronic publishing: impact of information communication technology on research knowledge resource centres/Rajpal Walke and N.K. Wadhwa. 8. Bibliometric analysis of the nursing literature: a study at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences University, Tirupati/V. Nireekshan Babu, M.R. Murali Prasad and A. Omkar Murthy. 9. User education in the age of information technology/M. Suresh Babu and D. Chandran. 10. The diffusion of library and information science in the modern age in Andhra Pradesh/R. Pommal Rao and M. Muniya Naik. 11. User education in agricultural libraries in digitized environment/Monisha Mishra and Rabindra K. Mahapatra. 12. Awareness of information literacy and computer literacy awareness among teachers: a case study/D. Konappa, K. Kumar, M. Tholkappian and D. Chandran. 13. Total quality management approaches in agricultural libraries in India: an introspection/D.R. Meher and Rabindra K. Mahapatra. 14. Usage pattern of electronic resources by physics and chemistry research scholars in Periyar University, Salem/N. Subramanian. 15. Use of digital information resources: a librarians perspective/C. Krishna Reddy and M. Anjaiah. 16. Institutional repository IR: need and future trends in Indian libraries/Sunil Kumar Satpathy. 17. Hybrid library and information services to agriculture in the landscape need to develop self-service among users/S.M. Rokade. 18. Digital rights management issues/copyright issues/A.A. Abbas Khan. 19. Role of digital library in e-learning: concept and challenges/N.P. Ravi Kumar and M. Sandhya. 20. Safeguarding digital library materials: a study/M. Tholkappian, M. Suresh Babu, Doraswamy Naick and D. Chandran. 21. Metadata encoding and transmission standards METS in digital libraries : Indian scenario/K. Kumar, D. Konappa and D. Chandran. 22. nthropology online: a review of open courseware content of MIT on anthropology/Shriram Venkatraman, V. Seetha Lakshmi and P. Govinda Reddy. 23. A survey of e-library environment in IITs/Usha M. Dangre and Ashwini P. Paradkar. 24. Library network and consortia/Amit Dhar, Ajay Kaundal and Dev Walia. 25. Consortia and prospects of libraries in academic environment: an outline/M.K.G. Rajev. 26. Information literacy skills for LIS professionals/B. Ramesh Babu. 27. Knowledge management in academic libraries/Dipak Krushnarao Bhalekar and Prashant P. Deshmukh. 28. Web 2.0 for enhancement of library and information services : focus on weblog/Shalini R. Lihitkar and Ramdas Lihitkar. 29. E-learning and web based library and information services: an overview/Prabhu B. Gaddimani and Satish Kanamadi. 30. Web credibility of selected national library websites : a study/R. Jeyshankar. 31. Open source software in development of ICTs: issues and challenges/Y. Uma Devi, T. Sreenivasa Rao and V. Shailaja. 32. Library science : a new dimension of information industry yet to open/Arun Modak and Sonal Singh. 33. Revamping of the school libraries: a requirement to fulfill the right to education act - 2009/V. Nireekshan Babu and M.R. Murali Prasad. 34. Public libraries in the service of society/Md. Nurul Islam.
