Information Access in Digital Libraries

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Useful Online Resources in the Field of Veterinary and Animal Sciences/Balwan Singh. 2. University Library Automation and Network Services in Chhattisgarh: A Study/Brajesh Tiwari and Uaday Kumar Watti. 3. Management of Open Access Resources: An Overview/ D.Ravinder. 4. Role of the Libraries in 2020/Dev Walia. 5. Role of Cloud Computing in Library Services and Bioinformatics/K. N. Kandpal, S.S.Rawat and Faheem Khan. 6. Tools and Techniques of Knowledge Management (KM) and Knowledge Sharing (KS) For Library Profession/Khaisar Muneebulla Khan. 7. Web Based Library Services/Minhaj Fatima. 8. Role of Web Applications in Modern Libraries/N.S.Rohila, B.P. Singh and B.R. Yadav. 9. Emergence of Electronic Resources in Present Academic Libraries /Nidhi Srivastava, Ramnivas Sharma and Manoj Tiwari.  10. Problems of E-Resources in Digital Libraries/ M. Papegowda, R. H. Walmiki, R.M. Shivakumar and V. Srinivasa.  11. Digitization of Central Potato Research Institute Library, Shimla/Prem Lata, Yashodha Negi and Sudhir Gupta.  12 Digital Libraries: Whither thou Goest?/R.D. Dabhi and Ushabala.  13. The Role of Librarian's in the Electronic Information Environment/Rajkumar Singh.  14. Bibliometric Monitoring of Research Performance in the field of Dairy Science with Special Reference to Krishiprabha/Ramnivas Sharma, Nidhi S Tiwari and Manoj Tiwari. 15.  Digital Library: Development of Digital Library/Rishabh Kumar Jain.  16. Library Consortia/Saurabh Nagariya and Barsha Gupta.  17. Cloud Computing: Issues and Concern with the Libraries/Seema Parmar, Rajive Pateria and Bhanu Partap.  18. Information Literacy Competency For Higher Education and the Role of Librarians/ Stanley Madan Kumar and Subramani, M.K.  19. Social Media and Academic Libraries: Trends and Challenges/Stanley Madan Kumar and Devraj.  20. Role of E-Books as Important Electronic Resources in Digital Environment/Subarna K. Das.

Library and Information Centres are continuing to provide information services in a changing environment. The advent of Information and communication technologies has enabled libraries not only to improve the traditional library services but also to devise new methods of information services using latest technological tools. The information seeking behavior of the users has been changed and they demand latest information from any source through any method. Hence the application of latest ICT can be able to suffice the current information needs of the information stakeholders.  Most of the information sources are being published in digital formats. The emergence of digital libraries has completely changed the information dissemination scenario.  Users are now can be able to have access to any library for any information they seek.  It is only the digital libraries which can develop such a system of information dissemination.

But access to information is a problem.  Such problems can be solved if digital libraries are developed in right platform.  In order to discuss those emerging problems the Editors invited the contributors some useful papers.  Hence, the book deals with some of the emerging topics on digital libraries which will be useful for the library and information professionals.