Role of Social Media in Election Campaigning in India with Special Reference to Assam

This is an attempt to find out the role of social media in election campaigning in India with special reference to Assam. Democratic countries like United States of America, India the social media has become an integral part for political communications during election campaigning. This new way of campaigning during election plays an important role to attract voters. Social media has given a new platform such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Whatsapp, Youtube etc. to the political parties and the voters, these are becoming an easy tool for the political leaders to interact with their voters. Social media allows candidates to share, post, comments, and their views during election and making them more direct involvement to their voters. These new tools or platforms are appeared as new area for research. Firstly to find out the term of social media, secondly, general meaning of political campaigning, thirdly, uses of social media in Indian election campaigning with reference to Assam and lastly conclusions

Mo Pathagar, Mo Adhilar Odihsa re pathagar andolana ra abashyakata (My Library My Right- Need of Library Movement in Odisha)

My library my right, as education is right for all. Odisha has public library act 2001, rules of odisha public library act 2016, panchayat library infotainment centre rule 2018. But the public library system in odisha in in unconditional situation. Many libraries seems to be closed due to insufficient of professional staff. Many school College, university libraries in odisha also have run without professional librarian

Don’t Tender Librarianship: Outsourcing of Library Staff Degrades the Profession

Librarian is a position and Librarianship is a profession, it is not a material which will be called on tender. From outsourcing of library services to outsourcing of library staff, the concepts slowly misunderstood and misguided by some non-professional administrators. Library Associations and professional’s welfare societies are not working properly as expectation. Some people have given face to the administration for tender call notice to supply of Librarians. Why Librarianship is on tender? Advantages, disadvantages of outsourcing along with the problems, solutions and recommendations has been described in this article

Webrarian: A Librarian on the Web

This paper presenting the current tends of Library on the web and the importance of the Librarian in the Web-Library as a Webrarian (Web-Librarian). In the modern technological era, Ranganathan's laws may be extended to the Web using information and communication technology. When we applied the fundamental laws of Library Science to the Web, then the Professional responsibilities and duties of a Librarian will be encouraged to manage the Web and serve the web users. An idea of the joint venture has been creating another platform for the both and the initiative is a library on the Web which is well known as a Web-Library. Mostly libraries have their web sites to organize information and resources and provide access to its users for the collections of quality resources. The role of librarians is to adopt the Web Technology into the profession of librarianship. Librarians have been induced by technological developments to become more efficient as organizers, indexers, abstractors, archivers on the web and then a librarian on the web will be known as a webraria

Granthagara: Gyana Vigyan ra Gantaghar (Library - The warehouse of Knowledge Science)

Library is the warehouse of knowledge. Prof. (Dr.) S.R. Ranganathan known as the father of library science, information science and documentation in India. Every year his birth anniversary on 12th August celebrated as National Librarian's day in India. His contribution five laws of library science known him in the globe. These five laws is the solution for any problem in the field of library science, library service and library management

E-Marketing: The Library Perspective

Paper discusses the concept, need and benefit of e-marketing in the context of providing effective library services. The author has detailed the classifications of e-marketing and the various elements, functions, and challenges associated with e-marketing from the library perspective. The author opined that e-marketing becomes a successful business model for libraries for marketing their information products and services

Deyamukta Pathagara- Samastanka Adhikar (Free Library Service is Rights to all)

Free library services to all. Getting access to library services should be a right of every human. How the library and librarians are neglected in the state odisha has been mentioned in this article. Even after passed public library act in the year 2002, public library system in the state has not been initiated till yet as expected

Granthagarika: Shrenigruha Bina Shikshaka (Librarian: Teacher without Classroom) (ODIYA)

Librarian is a teacher without classroom, but the importance of librarian is not as expected. Only the persons who loves library, going library or attached with library will understand the importance of a librarian. As per UGC guideline librarian position is categorized as academic staff and they are equal to other teaching positions. Library is the heart of an educational institution and an professional librarian will able to develop the library. Many libraries are running without professional librarians

Digital Archival Initiative of Library

“Digital Archival” is the digital form of archival. In other word “Digital Archival” means organizing, preserving, and providing access to information and material in digital way. “Digital Archival” is very synonymous meaning to “Digitization”.These archival (interesting archive material) related services are merely used in Library and Information Centre.Hence this study on “Digital Archival” is a Study of “Digital Library”. Since the invention of printing technology, the Knowledge and information were being preserved in printing form, but now days It can be stored in electronically form also. The concept of library is not only preserve, process information/knowledge through print sources (books, journals, newspapers etc.), but also electronic forms (e-books, e-journals etc.). The Internet has added a new dimension to Information Technology and knowledge sharing platforms such as Digital Library, E-learning, Knowledge management etc. Since the ICT revaluation, there has been a rapid development in libraries which facilities to access by anyone at anytime from anywhere. As the digitalization of information, the digital libraries steadily increased, the day will be very near when the complete breakthrough of digital libraries into the Gutenberg Galaxy

Access to Information and Library Services for the Users with Disability

Access to information is one of the most important human rights that allow a person to develop themselves. Different types of users have been serviced by libraries; some of those users are disabled, which also require information and services from libraries. Libraries must not discriminate against individuals with disabilities and shall ensure that the persons with disabilities have equal access to library resources. The Library professionals should keep in mind that how to fulfill the needs of disability users to follow the fundamental laws of Library Science. The Library should provide facilities to the users with a disability to access the library’s resources and services. When a library wants to provide services for people with disability, then the library should know clearly about the characteristics of the people with disability. The users with disability have the same rights like others to use the library services. Although they are disability, they have different ability to study and work in the changing society. Changing the label of users with disability into users with different ability not only changes the terms, But the meaning of identifying the abilities of a user also varies, whose body condition is different from others