Principles for Helpful Sequence and Deduction of Knowledge Organization Systems - An Exploratory Study

Dr. Ranganathan’s “Principles for Helpful Sequence” among the set of normative principles play an exclusive role in the arrangement of subject isolates. Each subject in the universe of subjects is regulated by a guiding principle of its own which analogously determines the sequence of Arrays in ordering the subject surrogates or isolates. For example, the “Principle of Later-in-Evolution” is applied for sequencing isolates of Animal and Plant Species; this concept can be applied to one of the tools of KOS viz. Taxonomies. The application of Principles for Helpful Sequence is summarily presented and in the process the paper highlights the inherent elements of knowledge organization in each one of these principles in a manner that might map the future course of research in this area with the potentiality to bring about a relation between principlesfor helpfulsequence and KOS

A Comparative Study of Print and Electronic Reference Sources : A Case Study On Encyclopaedia

The advances in computer and communications technologies have improved the facilities of information access – in-house and/or remote. The optical storage devices with ability to store pictures and sound and high processing capabilities have added another dimension to the fast changing trend to information access. These developments are today responsible for the growth of full text information sources in electronic media. Mainly two types of information sources, the primary periodicals and the reference works have found it convenient to get into the electronic form in large number their high utilitarian and generic value. Their number is also increasing in recent years and many of them are available on INTERNET and on CD. The recent addition to the category of Reference works in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; (EB) launched on Internet in 1999 with also its CD version. The paper has made a comparative study of both print and electronic form of the Encyclopaedia from the usage point of view and has concluded their mutual benefits. A few sample searches conducted with both print and electronic form are presented in this paper

Futuristic Role of Public Libraries - A Case Study of E-Governance Programmes in Karnataka

One of the issues often discussed of the impact of JCT is the concept of digital divide. The role of many e-governance initatives is studied in this context. These programmes are conceived to narrow the gap between the communities with different levels of acquisition of JCT knowledge and skills to its beneficial use. The public libraries, besides their traditional roles, have also been involved in literacy campaigns, and they have played a significant role in the adult education programme in the past. The Karnataka Public Libraries Act 1965 has created a strong network of public libraries up to thelevel of Gram Panchayats. The paper conceives futuristic role of public libraries in Karnataka for the promotion and brining awareness about the e-governance programmes in the State.The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has planned for establishment of CICs ,hence, a proposal is made in this paper as how the public libraries and the CICs should be brought together to implement the proposal of this paper

Evaluation of Public Libraries in India : the case of Karnataka

This article describes the development of the public library system in the state of Karnataka, India, several exercises in its evaluation during the mid-1990s, and the current direction of its planning. After outlining the system in the rural district of Chickmagalur, it concentrates on the system in the city of Bangalore, the state capital and India’s ‘Silicon Valley’. Quantitative and qualitative survey data portray the demographics of library clientele, their information needs, their rating of library materials, facilities and personnel, and the relationship between their evaluations and the preliminary stages of automation. Analysis focuses on issues of age, gender, trajectories of career development, and the rural–urban divide in determining the future planning of the system

Developmental features of biomedical bibliographic databases

The genesis of bibliographic databases can be traced to the abstracting and indexing (A&I) periodicals. The Journal Des Scavans published in 1665 did contain abstracts of articles, but the formal abstracting journal began in 1820 (English) and in 1830 (German). The growth of primary periodicals required libraries to subscribe to A&I services to search for papers scattered in different journals as it was not possible to acquire all the primary periodical titles. The electronic versions of A&I periodicals started appearing in 1960s with emergence of database concept. The Chemical Titles and the MEDLARS are considered to be the earliest bibliographic databases. The Silver Platter is believed publish first biomedical CD-ROM database the MEDLINE with search facility � SPIRS. The growth and development of bibliographic databases has continued since then and enters the digital era to serve the users. The present paper theoretically examines EMBASE, PubMed and IndMed databases. © 2017, National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR). All rights reserved

Developmental features of biomedical bibliographic databases

16-20The genesis of bibliographic databases can be traced to the abstracting and indexing (A&I) periodicals. The Journal Des Scavans published in 1665 did contain abstracts of articles, but the formal abstracting journal began in 1820 (English) and in 1830 (German). The growth of primary periodicals required libraries to subscribe to A&I services to search for papers scattered in different journals as it was not possible to acquire all the primary periodical titles. The electronic versions of A&I periodicals started appearing in 1960s with emergence of database concept. The Chemical Titles and the MEDLARS are considered to be the earliest bibliographic databases. The Silver Platter is believed publish first biomedical CD-ROM database the MEDLINE with search facility – SPIRS. The growth and development of bibliographic databases has continued since then and enters the digital era to serve the users. The present paper theoretically examines EMBASE, PubMed and IndMed databases