Multimedia technology has shown its promises for educational applications at all levels of academic institutions as well as business settings for sometime, long before the Internet and World Wide Web have become commonplace. Then, in recent years, particularly the last half decade, we have witnessed how the Internet has changed our world in every conceivable aspect -everything from how we commu...

Cost cutting and personnel restructuring are forcing organizations to make difficult decisions on where to spend money. One of the areas hit hard by budget cuts is education and training. Academic, industrial, and governmental institutions are all seeking means to leverage technology to improve the timeliness, efficiency, and standardization of their required training. One way to extend budgets...

The digital library, widely recognized as an important application in global and national information infrastructures, is an integration of advanced information technologies. Activities related to the digital library and the information technology to enhance accessibility to information in the digital library are surveyed. The paper describes five experimental studies on software tools which ar...

The rapid growth and uses of emerging technologies has changed the traditional library into automated, electronic, virtual and digital library. This revolution has completely changed the library scenario, especially in an academic setup. This revolution is the need of the hour to make research more productive, to disseminate information and to establish a strong network system among all univers...

Services of an university library do not end in itself, but the “general user”, i.e. the “customer”, is in the centre of interest. Customer’s demands can easily be described by – simple and easy search facilities – relevant and complete lists of results – direct and transparent access to all retrieved items, which can best be summarized as a “one-stop-shop” to meet the customer’s demand for inf...

Library-led publishing is one of the new approaches to journal publishing and open access that has grown tremendously in the last few years. A 2010 MLIS-funded survey found that 55% of respondents—from U.S. academic libraries of all different types and sizes—were already implementing or developing a publishing program. Library-led publishing has garnered such momentum because, by offering lowor...

Information service equalization is an important component of public services equalization. It is one of the vital conditions for achieving information service equalization to eliminate poverty, promote economic development and build a harmonious society. Academic library is an important component of social information system, and it is the base of university and social infomationization. There...