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The Shrinking Supply Chains of Information
Get PDFThe development of Internet has revolutionized the businesses across the globe by
streamlining their supply chain, thereby achieving substantial cost reduction. The
concept of "agile and lean manufacturing", which brought in radical changes in
manufacturing systems all over the world has its bearing on the development of open
standards and efficient networking across the corporate houses. In this paper, we look
how the learnings from manufacturing sector could be translated into the "information
industry", so as to develop libraries for the next millennium. We develop the supply
chain of information, extending right from the point of origin to the point of use,
thereby identifying the non-value adding delays in the process. The model is
illustrated, without loss of generality, through the example of a journal publication.
The paper brings out a decision model for effective deployment of technology for
minimising these delays. The various stumbling blocks in this re-engineering exercise
along with possible ways of elimination are also discussed. The pro-active libraries,
constrained by resource limitation, can achieve quantum jumps in development, if
technology is judiciously deployed to eliminate the delays in the supply chain. The
main objective of this work is to develop a working strategy for developing "agile"
libraries that are quick and flexible, to respond to the changing needs of the end user.
The paper also details the policy measures required for the effective implementation of
the supply chain model
Prerequisites and Selection Criteria of Multimedia Authoring Tools (MAT)
Get PDFThe integration of audio, video, graphics and text on the
desktop promises to fundamentally challenge the centuries old
printed document as the basis of information exchange. Before
this potential can be realized, however, systems must be
devised that enable the production and presentation of
complex, inter-related media objects. These systems are
generically called multimedia-authoring tools. This article will
discuss about different aspects of Multimedia Authoring Tools
(MAT), its categorization, most common features and
prerequisites. A special attention has been given to discuss the
most common features of MAT and the best possible evaluation
criteria of authoring packages. Lastly, three most popular MAT
with their brief features are presented
Digital Libraries: Selection of Materials for Scanning
Get PDFDigitisation of documents is becoming a major activity in libraries and archives in the
world. The libraries and archives that contain some of the valuable resources are either
beginning to digitise their documents or trying to find resources to do so. The very
activity of digitisation makes the job an activity that has both local as well as global
implications
Computer Aided Teaching Packages
Get PDFHaving recognized the importance of education and the
teaching methodology, which plays a vital role, in the
teaching-learning process in the modern electronic age, an
attempt has been made in this paper to explore some of the
important electronic resources, which aid in the
teaching-learning process
Using Multimedia Database with WWWISIS on Win9x/NT
Get PDFThe paper attempts to discuss the various issues in using
wwwisis software on win9x/NT platform, with a multimedia
database having images, audio and video files
Journal selection and the theory of marginal utility
No full textAuthor was a student of Documentation Research and Traning Centre (DRTC), Bangalore. Now working at Central Library, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal.Journal selection is very crucial point in the Net environment and in limited budget in any library and information centre. This article emphasises on limited budget and tries to find solution of the problem in journal selection by using the Theory of Marginal Ulitity. Also discussed here is how Bradford's Law is effective for cost analysis and journal selection. This alternative approach tries to find out the solution for best selection and optimum utility of the budget