June 2009

User education in libraries

  In this User education in academic library topic we  are mainly giving the information about different kinds of users and non users and using materials and how to use it.  What is the nature of information and different kinds of information? Characteristics of the user and education and how to educate the user.  Different kinds of user education specification if user education nature of user...

Author(s): B. Ravi Kumar and M. Phil

June 2009

Open e-books: The changing paradigm

  When the medieval scribes invented incunabula, less they imagined that a day would come when all that art of printing a book using movable types will soon be invisible and the impact of e-book on scholarship will prevail. The shift in the emergence of e-books to open e-books is magical. Thanks to the efforts of some of the tech leaders like Adobe and Microsoft in revolutionizing the e-book movement. The...

Author(s): K. Nikam and A. S. Rai