The major challenges facing by college librarian in developing e-resources are inadequate fund, inadequate infrastructure, manpower, lack of user education and computer literacy.
Collection Development
Due to the availability of e-resources, there has been a corresponding transition from traditional collection development to electronic collection development by librarians towards meeting the users' information needs in the fast changing information environment.
According to Swain (20100, academic user community (students and academic staff) is encouraged 'to trust in electronic resources with a presumption that, the wealth of information available in electronic formats can utterly accomplish their scholarly needs as a better substitute to traditional print services. Moreover students can have direct access to electronic information with consistency and guaranty of equity access. Besides, students can get certain advantages in accessing electronic information like, quick browsing, compound access, retrieval speed, sharing, print and downloading, comprehensive information coverage, and more so"
Harrod's Librarian's Glossary defines collection development as "the process of planning a stock acquisition programme not simply to cater for immediate needs but to build a coherent and reliable collection over a number of years, to meet the objectives of the services". According to Evans and Saponaro (2005) it is the process of identifying the strengths and weakness of a library's materials collection in terms of patron needs and community resources, and attempting to correct existing weaknesses, if any.
It is the process of planning and acquiring a balanced collection of library materials over a period of years, based on an ongoing a...
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We live in an information society where the development of information and communication technologies accompanied by a corresponding increase in knowledge with a rapidly growing flow of information. In this new information environment, library professionals require new skills in seeking, processing and disseminating information.
...ow, library has long tradition of resources sharing and networking which the nature shows how the information sharing happened. Going beyond explicit knowledge, libraries needs to develop a website portal that serves sources of selective and relevant knowledge and information whether on site or remote, and in all formats. Library and archives in the future may consider three publishing models for digital archiving formats such as :
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Despite the advancement of the internet, many people (students and teachers alike) fail to utilize the web for educational purposes. According to Jimoyiannis, Tsiotakis, Roussinos, Siorenta (2013), people use the interne...
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A library or information unit must have a dedicated plan on having an organized Collection Development Policy, represents the guideposts of all types of library institutions. Collection development is the process of planning, selecting, acquiring and evaluating the library collections’ convenience to print and electronic collection developments. Thus, it is essential to have a written collection development policy, a statement of general collection building principles with desalinating the purpose and content of a collection in terms of relevance and internal audiences (Clayton and Gorman 2007). Broadly, the international and local libraries have sketched written collection development policies which they are aware of its uses. Recently, the written policies consistently renewed with the rise of digital collections. However, the value of the written collection development plan shakes with the complexity of managing electronic resources, funding and time considerations, criticism on how it written and also its inflexibility. This essay will examine the arguments for having the advantages of the written collection development policy (CDP) and the issues evolve which against the latter.
To begin, countless differences correspond in the preferences of a physical and electronic book. In more depth, the educational department has a huge quarrel with the two practicalities of the online and standard textbook. An electronic
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In the world of preservation and library science the common focus is on preserving content, ensuring its longevity, findability, and a stable consistent metadata and technology solution, However we live in an age where everyone is a publisher of some form, and more consistently the content they produce will be in a digital rather than analogue form. Within that content there will always be varying amounts of metadata, some will be populated with an immense detail and granularity, some content will have been created with no human intervention to add additional information to it. In fact much of the digital material produced will have been done so by people who have no concept of metadata, and no inclination to know about it or time to use it. The question raised by Smiths statement highlights many of the issues around data preservation and digital content, with metadata only being a part of those issues, but integral to the ongoing management of the massive influx of digital content being produced.
Zabel, D. (2008). Reference desk dilemmas: The impact of new demands on librarianship. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 48 (1), 20-25.
Now that we are living in an ever changing world, technology is viewed as the most resourceful tool in keeping up with the pace. Without the use of technology, communication would be limited to using mail for delivery and encyclopedias for research. Although technology has improved the way we communicate and find information for research, the information is not always valid. Unfortunately, for those of us who use the internet for shopping, research, or reading articles of personal interest the information is not treated the same as a your magazine or book. While such literature is reviewed by an editorial staff, internet literature or information can be published by anyone. In order to reap the full benefit of having the use of technology for any purpose, there are five basic criteria’s one must keep in mind as an evaluating tool for deciding whether or not the particular website is a reliable source for information.
Print publishing has been credited for the long standing preservation of literary works of numerous authors, both past and present. This system of preserving the intellectual nuances of personages, customarily through books, is what affords for the realization by future generations of what the past looked like, in terms of the events and people that characterized it. In essence, books, according to Dixon-Fyle, link the idea or sentiments of authors to certain fundamental cultural and societal practices that enunciate the background of a particular civilization over time. However, the recent spate of technology that announced the entry of the digital age has cast a dingy decadence on the future of printed books, and the whole conventional practice of print publishing. The question that many academicians, librarians and other relevant stakeholders have constantly barraged themselves with is; will the digital age render print books obsolete?
To make users aware of the availability of e-resources and how to use it are other challenges faced by the librarians. E-resources are meant to be accessed to retrieve information for various purpose and needs. Users must be aware of its existence to be able to use it effectively. It is the librarian's responsibility to inform the users about availability of e-resources and to educate them how to use it properly. The need to provide users with appropriate skills is highly required and necessary since most of the e-resources are technologically advanced. Moreover, the searching methods vary from one resource to another. Thus the need for total reorientation of users to enable them achieves optimal utility of available e-resources.
complexity in the functions and management of the library which has changed the job of the librarian as
However, iIn spite of the current pre-eminence of e-books, it may be argued that they are not likely to replace print books anytime soon or possibly at all. Both formats have their advantages and drawbacks, which makes for one of them difficult to replace the other. Moreover, they serve differents needs and purposes. E-books are famous for their portability. Hundreds of e-books can be stored on a single device. Thus e-books don’t take shelving space and are convenient to take on travel, while even a few paper books are bulky and quite heavy to carry around. Numerous e-books are in open access, while paper books are not routinely available free of charge. E-books may be acquired and accessed immediately online, a feature I enjoy especially and treasure most: many a time I was able to buy and read an e-book at home within minutes of learning of its existence. Needless to say, e-books are considerably easier to cite and quote than print books, since the copy-paste feature spares us the trouble of retyping the quoted text. Another important advantage of digital books is their specialized software, which makes reading much easier: search and reference tools, changeable font size and day/night mode, dictionaries. Last but not least, e-books conserv...