Contents: 1. Convention theme/M.G. Sreekumar. 2. Technology based knowledge management developments: threats and opportunities for libraries (concept briefing)/T.A.V. Murthy. 3. Information systems for knowledge enterprises (concept briefing)/K.R. Srivathsan. 4. Knowledge management in libraries: designing proposal for implementation/P.R. Goswami and M.M.L. Goyal. 5. Digital library initiatives and issues in India: efforts on scholarly knowledge management/M.G. Sreekumar and P. Sreejaya. 6. Gladiator: cutting edge web service technology to the Indian universities/T.A.V. Murthy, K. Manoj Kumar and Ankit M. Shah. 7. Structural and conceptual changes in the information landscape: the new challenge for information professionals/Saji Gopinath. 8. Knowledge management strategies for effectively managing libraries/H. Anil Kumar. 9. Library capacity building through e - journal consortia: the Indian scenario/M.G. Sreekumar and T. Sunitha. 10. Approach for accessing and retrieval of digital information system: a model/Nataraj B. Vibhuti. 11. Library consortia in India: a successful way/Rajesh Kumar. 12. Electronic information retrieval system Digital Library of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research/Shivendra Singh and Anurag Sharma. 13. Digital information services in an undergraduate management college/Meeta Rathod. 14. Knowledge management: strategy, technology and application/Biswajit Saha. 15. Music library management in knowledge society/L. Nithin. 16. Competencies and challenges for information professionals in promoting and supporting of digital information services to user community in Bangladesh/Md. Shiful Islam. 17. Computerisation of library functions and services at IMCC, Pune/Meenal Oak. 18. Knowledge sharing: a key for KM success/Appasaheb Naikal and Ramesh Paloti. 19. Managing change in the new knowledge economy with redefined competency - with special reference to academic libraries/Saramma Shaji. 20. Managing knowledge for knowledge society: a proving ground for digital libraries/V. Ravi Nandhan, N. Girish Kumar and A.S. Gangadharesha. 21. Digital reference services in the virtual world/A.S. Gangadharesha, T. Tejaswini, M. Surulinathi and V. Ravinandhan. 22. Problems and perspectives of knowledge management in libraries/G. Thamaraiselvi and K. Kaliammal. 23. Knowledge management: strategies for managing knowledge in the digital age/G.T. Mahesh. 24. Marketing of library and information center's products and services: planning, techniques and strategies/K.S. Sivakumaren, T. Elanchezhiyan and B. Jeyapragash. 25. Knowledge management and knowledge repositories: role of management libraries/Kaladhar Arnepalli. 26. Emerging confront for library and information professionals in knowledge management era/K. Vinitha, S. Kantimathi and K. Tharani Devi. 27. Establishing an integrated and interactive videoconferencing facility at the library of IIM Lucknow/Roshan Lal Raina. 28. Digital libraries in knowledge management: opportunities for management libraries/V. Sivaraman. 29. Multimedia content development for new generation libraries/Ashok Pathak. 30. Digital collection development in J.R.D. Tata Memoral Library at Indian Institute of Science/M. Surulinathi, A.S. Gangadharesha and T. Tejaswini. 31. Web mining for knowledge resource centres (libraries)/B. Sivakumar, R. Sujatha, R. Solaimalai and K. Rajkumar. 32. Knowledge organization in digital libraries using rough set theory/B. Kannan and Veerankutty Chelatayakkot. 33. An integrated model for digitization of information resources/Kapil Mohan Garg, Mahesh Singh Rana and A.M. Sherry. 34. Managing digital library/Babita Garg. 35. Friend agent: a novel scheme for information retrieval/R. Bhaskaran and K. Vinitha. 36. Digital archives: design and development/K.R. Mulla, A.S. Shivakumar, Chikkamallaiah and M. Chandrashekara. 37. Text mining for information retrieval/Jyothiprakash. 38. Institutional repositories -a new paradigm to sharing information/Gayatri Doctor. 39. Organizing for digital archiving: a network model at SDMIMD/N.S. Harinarayana and M.V. Sunil. 40. Institutional digital repositories / e-archives: INFLIBNET initiative in India/Yatrik Patel, J.K. Vijayakumar and T.A.V. Murthy. 41. Metadata: automatic generation and extraction/P.P. Noufal. 42. Document genre and digital libraries/Swati Bhattacharyya. 43. Establishing digital library in higher educational institutions/A. Fazlur Rahman. Author index.
"Scholarly Knowledge Management approach to be experimented and adopted by information professionals in the new information environment, leveraging on the leading-edge technology trends in Information Science (IS) and Information Technology (IT) practices, is the subject coverage of this volume.
This contains the proceedings of the 7 MANLIBNET Annual National Convention, held at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, during May 5-7, 2005.
The book carries 40 peer reviewed research papers contributed by over 65 authors from across the country on the theme 'Digital Libraries in Knowledge Management'. Multidimensional knowledge management theories and practices backed up by emerging technologies and techniques is the first few sets of papers. Followed by these are the theoretical and practical illustrations of digital library technologies, architectures and standards centering around open source digital library software and open digital library standards. There are number of case studies also discussed and presented in the volume." (jacket)
