Getting Started with Information Technology: Practice and Applications

Contents: 1. ICT applications. 2. ICT challenges and skills. 3. Information skills. 4. User orientation. 5. Digital resources management. 6. E-Library management system for content and knowledge. 7. Formulation and testing of hypothesis. 8. Library security system.  9. Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship elucidated. 10. Consortium sensitization. 11. Quality management in VNT library and information resource centre. 12. Practical application of technology in VNIT: SWOT analysis. 13. Practical application of technology in VNIT: implementation of RFID. 14. Current status of libraries of NIT’s in India. 15. Practical application of technology in VNIT: ROI a progressive outcome. 16. Applications of cloud computing with special reference to NITs. 17. Information literacy. 18. Ideas of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan in the light of digital era. 19. Copyright and digitization. 20. NAAC norms. 21. Open information products. 22. Visual thesaurus.  Bibliography.

This book discusses in detail the very relevant and current technologies and issues such as library automation, digital library applications and management, RFID technologies, user orientation, digital resources management and knowledge management and is the result of the rich experience the authors have in all the above.

Information literacy, the most significant area that is always on forefront gets addressed in detail. The book also discusses, the relevance of ideas of Dr. S.R. Rangathan in the digital era. The future information products such as LOR (Learning object repository), Visual Thesaurus and OCW (Open Course Ware) are also some of the topics this book consists of. (jacket)