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Multimedia: An Effective Component in Digital Learning Environment
Get PDFThe Digital learning environment has been most powerful motivational force for both learners and teachers. It energizes the curiosity of student within the structured frameworks and reveals their own intellectual interests with the help of various components, like Multimedia and others. This technology has been power play of electronic media that embrace a set of standards for the creation and management of learning content in open market. This paper discusses the effectiveness of electronic media (like Multimedia), its various components and integrated framework
Online access to DRDO periodicals using open source software
Get PDFDefence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) is a nodal centre for information communication and dissemination in the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO). As the publication wing of DRDO, DESIDOC brings out regular publications including Defence Science Journal, DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, DRDO Newsletter, DRDO Samachar and Technology Focus. These periodicals cover a wide variety of topics in various subject areas targeting different user communities situated all over India. A pilot project was undertaken with an aim to provide online desktop access to the full text of these periodicals to the users including R&D scientists of more than 50 laboratories and establishments. The project also aimed at facilitating the Publications Division to directly upload the contents to the system. The open source software EPrints is used and customized according to the user requirements particularly on Intranet. Upon successful testing and evaluation, these periodicals will be hosted on Internet allowing subscription, access and downloading by users across the globe. This paper discusses the experience in using EPrints and customization at various levels for DRDO publications and explains various features of the model
Standards in Library Automation and Networking
Get PDFThe paper presented as a tutorial discusses the metadata and interoperability standards that a modern web-based library automation should be compliant with. It also emphasizes the need and reasons why Indian libraries should adopt such standards in their work and in planning and seeking both automation and networking solutions
Digital Library Environment: Implications on E-learning
Get PDFThe paper discusses about the digital library initiatives in context of digital learning environment as both the environments are coming closer as the demand of time. It also highlights the significance of learning objects in e-learning environment along with the brief introduction of some major learning objects repositories of various disciplines. The paper outlines some functional requirements of learning objects
Training of Trainers in the DLE: WHY??
Get PDFDLE is not a singular concept per se rather it covers a wide set of applications and processes, however, many organizations only consider it as a network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge. To provide intelligent support in a digital learning environment, information-seeking facilities and skills are needed to locate suitable materials. Digital resources and users can only be linked in a virtual learning environment. Virtual Information Center at ICICI Knowledge Park was established to provide a meaningful connection between learning activities and learning resources. This paper describes how the isolation gap among the “Information haves and have-nots” can be bridged by utilizing Information and Communication Technology
Information literacy and public libraries in India
Get PDFInformation literacy competency ensures maximum utilization of the information resources as well as optimization of information handling capabilities. Many libraries and information systems introduce user orientation programmes to educate users on the salient features of information resources, search techniques, search strategies, scholarly communications and other aspects. In India a number of training programmes are conducted by the different agencies, who are also architects of modern information systems, to the end-users. For example, INFLIBNET conducts workshops on information resources in Infonet e-journal consortium. NISCAIR conducts workshops on information resources in CSIR e-journal consortium. National Informatics Centre conducts training programmes on ‘biomedical information retrieval’ covering Indian Medlars Centre’s resources like, IndMED, medIND, OpenMED and UNcat. All these training programmes meant to develop information literacy competencies of the end users. Similarly, public library authorities and public librarians should impart information literacy competencies to the public library users. The importance of public libraries would be felt more strongly, if the public libraries attract common citizens and younger generations and public librarians meet the information needs of all users
ICT for Continuing Professional Education for LIS Professionals
Get PDFThe paper outlines the opportunities that DLE has put forward for teaching and learning. Focusing on a particular aspect of professional development i.e., Continuing Professional Education (CPE) in the light of Information and communication technology (ICT), the paper discusses about the changed scenario. It also presents an Open Access Continuing Education Virtual Classroom, developed to provide a continuing professional education platform to LIS professionals in India
Public Library based Web-enabled Community Information System for Rural Development in India: Designing A FLOSS based Multilingual Prototype
Get PDFThis paper is an attempt to develop software framework for public library based and Web-enabled multilingual community information services by utilizing open standards and open source software. It uses GSDL as DL software, PERL, PHP and Java as programming environment, Unicode as character encoding standard, SeamlessUK Application Profile as metadata schema, RFC-2731 as metadata encoding standard, and an array of FLOSS based multilingual tools for designing Bengali script based user interface, processing and retrieval environment