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Change Management In New Age Libraries: A Case Study Of Central Library, Nit Silchar, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Krishnamati Singha Jun 2017

Change Management In New Age Libraries: A Case Study Of Central Library, Nit Silchar, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Krishnamati Singha

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Change is an inevitable part of any progressive society. Change management is the competitive advantage of an organization for sustaining in the competitive world. The organization has an internal environment but exists in the external environment. To function efficiently and effectively, the organization has to maintain equilibrium between external and internal environment. The external forces which constantly affecting for change in organization are-technology, increased global competition, economic, workforce, social trends, political, government policies, financial and increased customer needs and preference etc. and internal forces are – managerial and administrative forces, individual and group expectation, organization design and structure, system dynamics, …


Introducing Institutional Repositories In University And Institutional Libraries Of India For Open Access, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Manoj Kumar Sinha Jan 2017

Introducing Institutional Repositories In University And Institutional Libraries Of India For Open Access, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Manoj Kumar Sinha

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There is a growing interest among academic institutions in collecting, preserving, and creating value-added services from digital content produced in teaching and research. Institutional repositories” is a new concept for collecting, managing, disseminating, and preserving scholarly works created in digital form by faculty and students in individual universities and colleges. It is born out of problems with the current scholarly communication model structured by commercial journal publishers and vendors. To properly implement these repositories, libraries will need to recruit librarians who possess digital collection management and Open Archive Information System (OAIS) management skills. In addition, training faculty and students to …


Institutional Repository: Boon For The Development, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Divya Soni Jan 2017

Institutional Repository: Boon For The Development, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Divya Soni

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This paper discusses the importance of institutional repositories and their contribution to the information professional and information industry. It shows the strength of Asian IRs in the figure of no. simultaneously it shows the importance of the librarians and information professionals for the development of the IRs because the information professionals are the real managers of the knowledge management systems and Institutional repositories.


Lectures Beyond Classrooms: Open Source Education Avenues For Students, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, K M Baharul Islam Jan 2017

Lectures Beyond Classrooms: Open Source Education Avenues For Students, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, K M Baharul Islam

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The advent of the affordable and accessible Internet in our society, especially in the urban areas, has changed the way our students can diversify their knowledge input today. Gone are the days when the students have to depend solely on ‘lectures’ delivered by their teachers in college. With wireless broadband, hotspots, cyber cafes, cloud computing, and the ‘free laptops’ around, it is essential for the students (and teachers) to posit the available online video lectures along with the classroom lecturers, prescribed syllabus and curricula in a holistic higher education approach. A cursory look at the various resources available on the …


Training: A Strategic Tool For Boosting Up Skills Of Lis Professionals- A Case Study Of Nit Silchar, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Krishnamati Singha Dec 2016

Training: A Strategic Tool For Boosting Up Skills Of Lis Professionals- A Case Study Of Nit Silchar, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Krishnamati Singha

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Change is an inevitable part of any organization. To function efficiently and effectively, the organization has to maintain equilibrium between the external and internal environment. The forces which constantly affecting change in organization are-technology, workforce, economy, competition, social trends, political and financial, etc. Training is one of the important strategic HRD tool to enhance the skills of the workforce to maintain the equilibrium. Training helps to enhance knowledge, skills, motivation, team building, employee development and productivity of the organization. Training boots up the organization's health by managing efficiently and effectively the 8Ms i.e. Man, Machine, Material, Money, Maintenance, Methods, Measurement, …


Beyond The Back Room: The Role Of Metadata And Catalog Librarians In Digital Humanities, Lisa M. Mcfall Jan 2015

Beyond The Back Room: The Role Of Metadata And Catalog Librarians In Digital Humanities, Lisa M. Mcfall

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Many professors and students are surprised to learn about the variety of skills metadata and catalog librarians possess that can benefit their digital humanities projects. Metadata and catalog librarians already have experience in areas such as developing project metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies, as well as providing suggestions for project organization, and have the basic abilities needed to support learning new skills such as XML and TEI. This chapter will offer perspectives on how a metadata and catalog librarian can contribute to digital humanities projects. A case study focusing on the involvement of the Metadata and Catalog Librarian with the …