Information Literacy in the Digital Age : Articles in Memory of Late Dr. S.M. Tripathy/edited by C. Lal.Information Literacy in the Digital Age : Articles in Memory of Late Dr. S.M. Tripathy/edited by C. Lal. New Delhi, Ess Ess Pub., 2008, xvi, 440 p., ISBN 81-7000-544-2.

    Contents: 1. Dr. S.M. Tripathi: a memorable personality/C. Lal. 2. Protection of Intellectual Property in digital era/Ashwini Tiwari. 3. Intellectual Property in the developing countries: problems and prospects/V. Vishwa Mohan and K. Sridhar Reddy. 4. Online searching of the databases/C. Lal. 5. Role of e-resources in information retrieval/K.C. Panda and Rashmilata Mohanta. 6. Information networking among libraries/C. Lal. 7. Multimedia: what and why?/Kulesh Kumar. 8. Academic information networks in India/Sashmita Mahapatra and K.C. Panda. 9. Digital library/D.V. Kothari. 10. Digital library: an advent of IT/Umesh Kumar Agarwal. 11. Building-up digital library: tools and techniques/S.N. Singh. 12. Digital libraries/Kulesh Kumar. 13. Creation of a digital library/Abdul Rashid and Masarat Farooq. 14. Virtual libraries/Kulesh Kumar. 15. Telecommunication: tools and techniques/C. Lal. 16. Use of E-mail and E-mail ethics for libraries/Bansilal Badolia. 17. Electronic document delivery service/B.K. Sharma and Pankaj Kumar Singh. 18. Bibliometrics: its concept and applications/A.K. Varma. 19. Modern components of information technology/Kulesh Kumar. 20. Information management/C. Lal. 21. Information society and libraries/Jitendra Shrivastava. 22. Information society: its impact/C. Lal. 23. Electronic journals: prospects and problems/D. V. Kothari and R.S. Rathore. 24. The internet/Lakshmikant Mishra. 25. Internet public library: a revolutionary trend of librarianship/Hemant Sharma and Prem Prakash Pant. 26. Status of Internet use in India/K.C. Panda and Geetanjali Sahoo. 27. Internet search engine: an analysis/Snigdharani Sahu and Diptimayee Badhai. 28. Internet search engines: an overview/Ram Gopal Garg and Vivekananda Jain. 29. Newspaper library: an asset for information society/Sonal Singh and Surekha Pandit. 30. Use of Open Source Software in Indian libraries: a study/K.C. Panda and Diptimayee Sahoo. 31. Current awareness services in libraries/A.K. Varma. 32. Technology management in libraries/Kulesh Kumar. 33. Knowledge management and its implications for libraries/K.C. Panda, Sailaja Mishra and Pradip Kumar Nikhandia. 34. Knowledge management through information analysis tools/Sonal Singh and P.K. Tripathi. 35. Knowledge modelling and management/Brijesh Tiwari and Arvind R. Namdeo. 36. System analysis and design: application of system study techniques to library procedures and services/A.K. Varma and Ishani Mukherjee. 37. Total Quality Management (TQM) in library and information services/B.K. Sharma, M. Aslam Khan and Pankaj Kumar Singh. 38. Information: an analysis/B. Kumar. 39. Cataloguing of non-print media with special reference to sound recording and video recording: an overview/B.K. Choudhary. 40. Traditional vs. web-based resources: access for enhancement of higher education/Satish Kumar Malik. 41. The new information system technology and its usefulness for libraries/Brajesh Tiwari and Ravind R. Namdeo. 42. Current status of LIS education in distant mode: an Indian experiment/K.C. Pando and Subedita Behera. 43. Librarianship in twenty-first century/Sudipti Prava Nath and Babita Behera. 44. Library and information professionals in twenty-first century/Mohit Bhatnagar. 45. Selected changes and revisions in DDC-22 an evaluation/Niranjan Singh.

    "This book is a collection of articles in the memory of late Prof. S.M. Tripathi, who dedicated his life to the library profession and worked endlessly for the betterment of the profession in general and his students and all who looked upon him for guidance, in particular.

    The articles contained in this book are contributions from various learned scholars of library and information science field and cover a wide gamut to new technologies which play an important role in the library operations today. This book encompasses all there is to know for getting an insight into the modern technologies and their impact on library and information science. All the topics have been carefully chosen and arranged so as to let the reader wade through them and know what is new and how the technology is playing such an important role in transformation of traditional libraries to the modern age knowledge store house.

    It is not only the librarians and information scientists, but also the students of library and information science find this book very useful reference work thus making this a befitting tribute to the luminary this book is dedicated to." (jacket)

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