A survey of digital information literacy of Faculty at Sambalpur University

Information now plays a vital part in the lives of individuals, organizations, and institutions, and information literacy is the key to the optimum use of information. Digital media pose new challenges for individuals in collecting, organizing, accessing, evaluating, and using it. This survey presents the results of a survey of faculty, who were asked about their use of digital resources and their knowledge of searching for and evaluating these resource

Rethinking Leadership: Finding the Right Balance in Managing the 21st Century Library

Library must strike an appropriate balance in providing innovative and quality service to the users. Library should stay focus on customers and their changing needs and should create library as service rather than library as place of collection. Professionals in libraries will have to learn to lead change and rethink their strategic role to find out the gap between patron demands and service and should fill the gap by apply strategic ideas. A strong, dynamic, and visionary leadership is the need of the hour in order to preserve the past, convene the present and work to build a better future. If library wish to sustain, remain competitive and viable, transformational and evidence based library leadership must developed among the library leaders to sustain and thrive to build a successful libraries of the future. This paper will examine and explore the new frontiers of library leadership and enthusiastically implement strategic action plans for sustaining and maintaining the library of the future with special emphasizes on core competencies for the next decade librarians

Impact of Social Media on Academic Business School Libraries in India: An Empirical Study

Academic libraries are progressively using social media platform to connect users, felicitate services, promote resources, reach the outreach, and enhance visibility through online presence. This exploratory study will investigate the adoption rate of social media as an innovative medium to deliver services, explores influencing factors and examines the effectiveness of using social media tools in Indian business school libraries for the benefits of users. Findings demonstrate the approaches, strategies, and challenges of adopting social media for the benefits of library users. The present study, with its ambit, has included Academic Business School Libraries based on the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the year 2018. The finding of the study reveals that innovation has a significant influence in library marketing in respect of adopting and implements social media among business school libraries. The outcomes suggest that libraries should follow evidence-based, innovative practices for effectively implementing social media for the more significant benefit of patrons in a collaborative online environment

Impact of Social Media on Academic Business School Libraries in India: An Empirical Study

Academic libraries are progressively using social media platform to connect users, felicitate services, promote resources, reach the outreach, and enhance visibility through online presence. This exploratory study will investigate the adoption rate of social media as an innovative medium to deliver services, explores influencing factors and examines the effectiveness of using social media tools in Indian business school libraries for the benefits of users. Findings demonstrate the approaches, strategies, and challenges of adopting social media for the benefits of library users. The present study, with its ambit, has included Academic Business School Libraries based on the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the year 2018. The finding of the study reveals that innovation has a significant influence in library marketing in respect of adopting and implements social media among business school libraries. The outcomes suggest that libraries should follow evidence-based, innovative practices for effectively implementing social media for the more significant benefit of patrons in a collaborative online environment

Social Networking Technologies (SITs) in digital environment: its possible implications on libraries

Social networking is a social structure that lets the user interact and work collaboratively with other users, in an environment where the facility to browse, search, and invite friends and to connect and interact with web world is available. Social software in the web 2.0 will not only enhances the usability of the library but also helps the librarians to add value to their profession, in an environment in which the potential of the librarian is being questioned. The paper describes the possible implications of social networking technologies in the field of library and information services in the web 2.0 milieu. In addition, an attempts to illustrate different social software tools and their effective utilization in the social networking environment. The author cites some stunning examples of libraries being run in the world using the web 2.0 technologies. The paper makes an attempt to highlight the role of information professionals in using web 2.0 technologies the digital library environment

Marketing library and information services on the green road of web 2.0: the library perspective

Technological advancement has ushered in a great change in the knowledge economic sector. The way people communicate, and in the process of information collection, organization and dissemination are crucial. The right information is to be provided to the right customer (users) at the right time in a customized, personalized, and collaborative way which is imperative for the information professional. The role of the library is crucial in developing the intellect and also for the success of the individuals and institutions that they serve; responding to these changes. The web 2.0 movement emerged as a response to the modern means for upgrading the libraries into more user-centered systems in the present library marketing scenario.The paper describes marketing library services from user perspectives by applying social networking tools on the green road of marketing library and information services. The paper also demarcates marketing strategy 2.0 plan for implementing social networking tools effectively in the library and information services

A Survey of Digital Information Literacy of Faculty at Sambalpur University

Information now plays a vital part in the lives of individuals, organizations, and institutions, and information literacy is the key to the optimum use of information. Digital media pose new challenges for individuals in collecting, organizing, accessing, evaluating, and using it. This survey presents the results of a survey of faculty, who were asked about their use of digital resources and their knowledge of searching for and evaluating these resources

Driving on the Green Road of Open Access: The Green Factor for Successful Institutional Repository

In this electronic publishing age, institutions have increasingly recognized that an institutional repository (IR) is an essential infrastructure of scholarly dissemination. An institutional repository is broadly defined as a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution. To achieve the success, IR must require to plan, implement, evaluate maintain and sustain green factor on driving of the green road of institutional repository. This paper examines how to harness successful factors to make an institutional repository the central and authoritative source of the research materials output of institutions. There is much discussion and examination of the factors that help to build and sustain a successful repository for the long- term survival, value and usability that depends on numerous criteria have been discussed in the topic