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LIBRARY CONSORTIA IN INDIA: ISSUES AND PROSPECTS
No full textDue to the crunching financial assistance to the university libraries and increase in the cost of the information sources, it has been very difficult for the libraries to procure all the information sources needed by their users. The solution to the above problem is library consortia especially in relation to electronic resources. Many initiatives have been initiated in India for the formation of library consortia. Many library consortia in India are doing well and many libraries are benefited but at the same time library consortia are not free from problems. Various issues related to consortia like uninterrupted online access, perpetual access to back issues, pricing, licensing, copyright and archival solutions etc are pinpointed and need to be strategically tackled and well addressed to get the best out of the consortia.KEYWORDS: Consortia- Issues; Library Consortia; India- Library Consorti
ENHANCING QUALITY OF PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES IN NIGERIA THROUGH PUBLIC—PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE
No full textThe paper explores various ways of public—private collaboration for quality public library services in Nigeria. It surveys the present collaboration between public and private sectors and terms it non-existent. After x-raying role of public libraries in the national development; mobile library services, provision of current information resources, internet facilities, staff training opportunities and sponsoring of special services to the physically challenged persons as the areas where the private sector can invest in public library services to meet the challenges of the 215t century, are identified. The authors suggests that private sector participation would help in acquiring necessary resources for ensuring reliable, current and quality services by public libraries.KEYWORDSP : ublic Libraries; Public Library Services- Nigeria; Public—Private Partnership-Public LibrariesSenio
Editing of Catalogues and Bibliographies
No full textThe paper shares the experiences of understanding and deciphering problems of manuscripts in designing catalogues, annotations , editing of the texts , Classification and calendaring at Arabic and Persian Research Institute (Tonic) where author was directing the Institute and designing important catalogues of the institution.KEYWORDS : Cataloguing, Classification, Editing, calendaring. Transliteratio
Analysis of Operating Systems and Browsers: A Usage Metrics
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the growth of FOSS and proprietary operating systems and browsing software used in computers and various types of mobile phone devices around the world.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data is gathered from StatCounter (http://gs.statcounter.com) - one of the biggest web analytics service. The collected data is analysed keeping objectives of the study in view.Findings: It offers a thorough insight of yearly and cumulative growth of software industry. As for as OS market is concerned Mac OSX and Linux have increased their share. Linux has increased from 0.69% in 2009 to 0.78% in 2010. Accordingly year wise growth of mobile operating systems show iOS is losing its market share by dipping to 25.48% in 2010 from 34.01% in 2009, while as BlackBerry and Android have increased their share by 8.34% and 6.41% respectively. Browser Internet Explorer (IE) is showing declining trend with 52.77% share in May, 2010 against 44.52% in April, 2011, whereas Firefox is maintaining a study trend during same period with 31.64% share in May, 2010 with slight depreciation (29.67%) in May, 2011. However, in mobile browser arena all the browsers are showing a declining trend in 2010 when compared to 2009 except Android, BlackBerry, Samsung and NetFront. BlackBerry has increased by 8.15% and Android- an open source mobile browser has increased its market share by 6.63% augurs well for FOSS movement.Originality/Value: The paper explore the market share of FOSS in OSs and browsers. It deciphers in detail the FOSS growth and increasing market share and can help stakeholders to take future course of action in this arena.Keywords: FOSS, Proprietary Software, Operating Systems, Web Browsers – Mobile, Web Browsers – computerPaper Type: Research pape
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
No full textThe study explores the growth and development of open access journals worldwide from different perspectives. The major causes of the success of open access in developed countries and low acceptance by developing and other countries is also discussed. The results are based on exploration of open access publications by SCOPUS-a major indexing service
OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT IN PAKISTAN
No full textOpen Access iS a vital trend for developing countries like Pakistan. OpenAccess (OA) has made its place in 1r formation world like a blessing for scholarly community to learn, search, write and share freely and timely. In this paper an effort has been made to explore the Open Access efforts in Pakistan on existing OA sources and to make recommendations for further developments in this regard. Open Access movements have been started in Pakistan on personal or institutional levels. There is no single source in Pakistan which shed light on the mailability of open access sources, which results ignorance of their presence. If Government plays its due role, then OA in Pakistan would be able to bridge digital divid