Editorial: From Grassroots to National Libraries

Usability of Digital Libraries: Editorial

The issue of usability has concerned the Digital Libraries community, at least peripherally, over many years. There is, after all, little point in delivering sophisticated libraries with novel features if those systems are then ignored by the intended users because they are too difficult to use or do not offer the key features that users require. However, the challenge of how to deliver Digital...

Response to Neil Rambo's editorial: "E-science and Biomedical Libraries".

From libraries to 'libratories'

While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the internet and the WWW, now is the age in which the big search engines and institutional repositories are gaining a firm footing. This heralds a new era in both the evolution of scholarly communication and its agencies themselves, i.e. the libraries. Unt...

Theft and Loss from Uk Libraries: a National Survey

GramChitra - Taking GIS to Grassroots

The paper tries to elaborate on a concept that is being attempted to be used for rural development. GramChitra is a project that has been conceptualised as an academic collaboration between; Media Lab Asia; (MIT, USA) and Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions (CSDMS, India). The project envisaged the development of a participatory model with the help of the community, especially ...