The Inclination of Library Professionals to Modern Tools in the Knowledge Era

The edited volume of the book consists of ten articles covering the innovative practices of libraries in the digital environment. It includes the areas such as library network, e-resources, scholarly publishing, digital libraries, knowledge management, Web 2.0, and blockchain technology etc., that can influence the work-life of the library professionals and the academic community

Nitya Archives : Innovative blending of techniques for Selective Access to Information from Digitally Organized Text (SAIDOT)

The invention of digital technology for information storage and retrieval is a milestone in the process of making formal communication flexible and transparent. It is only by harnessing digital technology the wealth of information, which is growing at an exponential rate, can be effectively managed. By developing capacious secondary storage devices like Compact Discs and hard disks, it is made possible to have digital libraries and digital publications. The present trend is to convert printed records into digital records – a situation comparable to the Middle Ages when manuscripts were converted to printed documents with the invention of printing. Nitya is a full text retrieval utility developed by CIRD (Centre for Informatics Research and Development) in Kerala for the creation and maintenance of digital libraries. The utility can be used for bringing out digital publications too. Nitya is created by interfacing UNESCO’s database management system CDS/ISIS and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Searching of the digital library and opening of the full text is made possible by this front end

Creation of digital archives in Indian languages using CDS/ISIS : development of M-ISIS (Malayalam ISIS) and 'Nitya'

Need for developing Information Systems in Indian vernacular languages is now felt more than ever. Use of local scripts becomes inevitable in the creation of Information Systems for digitized palm leaves, copper plates, manuscripts and local documents. M-ISIS is a localized version of CDS\ISIS for Malayalam language, which is programmed using ISIS32.DLL created by UNESCO. It is a bibliographic information system for Malayalam documents using Malayalam script. Together with the techniques of 'Nitya Digital Archives' it searches using Malayalam script and retrieves both references and full texts. A special font 'Meera.ttf' is designed and a rendering engine to process conjunct formation is programmed, enabling both data entry and query formulation in Malayalam. Paper describes the creation of a digital archive of 'Mathrubhumi' weekly. A few issues of the weekly were scanned to PDF using Adobe Acrobat. Catalogue data of every individual article was fed into a CDS\ISIS database through a data entry worksheet designed in M-ISIS. The prototype shows immense possibilities of localization of CDS\ISIS in Indian languages