Innovative Services in Libraries: Trends, Issues and...
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Innovative Services in Libraries: Trends, Issues and Challenges
Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal Endeavour Research Fellow (Australia) Head & Deputy Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela – 769008. Odisha, India. Profile: http://bhojaraju.weebly.com : http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-1473
National Conference on Library Innovations for Excellence (LIFE) - 2017 February 16-17, 2017, IISER Pune
• Introduction
• Platforms for innovative library services
• Libraries and its role in Digital India
• Opportunities for Library Professionals
• Issues and Challenges
• Conclusion
Outline
• The Central Library of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela has named after Biju Patnaik - the former Chief Minister of Odisha, the legendary industrialist and statesman and the founding Chairman of Board of Governors of REC Rourkela.
• It has been functional since 1965.
• Has four storeys covering an area of 2400 sq. mts.
• Equipped with latest tools and technologies to provide IT based services to NITR academic community.
• BPCL website: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Introduction about BPCL
Sections of Library
Book Scanner – Digital Processing Section
Periodical Display
Reference Section
Bound Volumes
Bound Volumes
• Library-cum-Identity card along with Blood group
• Self Check-in/Check Out using RFID
• Campus wide (Residences, Hostels, etc.) access to E-resources
• OPAC search facility for Print and E-books of different publishers with links to full texts
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD) to conduct Orientation/User Education Programme at each departments
• Research/Project Support Services (RPS) to users
• Knowledge Sharing Session for all library staff (Weekly)
Best Practices to provide innovative services
• LibGuide – Customised Subject/Research Guide to connect all resources by Subject-wise at one place
• Library Website – a single point to connect users with all its content
• State-of-the-art implementations – Mobile Applications, QR Code, etc.
• Open Access to all institutional repositories
• User Awareness Workshops (UAW)
• BPCL conducted a library survey - “My Views-Feedback on Library” for NITR users to collect the feedback about library services and its infrastructure.
Best Practices to provide innovative services
Resources* Collections Platform Access / URL
Books 78000+ Libsys http://libcat.nitrkl.ac.in/webopac
Print Journals 90 Print On Periodical Display area
E-Journals 6000+ Titles Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/search-online-journals
E-Books 16000+ Koha http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in
In-house Archival Resources IR – 2382+ ETD – 5523+ Odia Books – 550+ NITR Documents 300+
DSpace E-Prints E-Prints DSpace
http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/ http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/ http://documents.nitrkl.ac.in/jspui/
Bound Volumes 17974 Print http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in
Full-text e-Resources 24 Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Databases 8 Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Video Lectures (NPTEL) 10000+ Online http://oac.nitrkl.ac.in/nptel/
A/V Materials – Books accompanying CDs /DVDs
688 900+
Koha http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/cd-search
Standards (3) 29000+ Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Platforms to manage library resources
*As on July 2016
• User Orientation Programme
• Online Public Access Catalogue
• Self Issue/Return using RFID
• Information KIOSK
• Online reserve/renew documents
• New Arrivals Alert of Books & Periodicals
• E-Newsletter (Monthly)
• Alerts (Overdue, Fine, etc.)
• Institutional Repositories
▫ Scholarly Publications
▫ ETDs
▫ Project - Open Access Odia Books (OAOB)
▫ NITR Documents
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD)
• Research / Project Support Service (RPS)
▫ Turnitin, Grammarly, Scopus, WOS, Ref Mgt.,
• Subject / Research Guide
• Library Blog
• User Awareness Workshops
• Trial Access and Demos of Products
IT-based Library Services
Information KIOSK Pedestal Security Gate
E-Resources @ BPCL - Subscribed Name of E-Resources Titles
ACS 50
AIP 16
APS 14
De Gruyter 2
IEL-Level 2 (IEEE) Titles – 479 + Conference Procd – 19850
+ Standards – 3513
HBR Magazine 1
RSC Gold Titles - 38 + Database -6 + e-Book - 1
Sage-EMS includes Imeche 57
Sage eOnly (HS+Mangt) 9
Science Direct - 5SC 913
Science Online-AAAS 1
SIAM 16
Springer eJournal (1400+) 1469
Taylor & Francis (ECT) 185
Wiley Online (Core + Custom) 23
Database
Engineering Village-2 (Compendex + Inspec)
MathSciNet
Prowess - IQ
SciFinder
Scopus
E-Books
Springer 15636
Science Direct (Elsevier) 441
E-Resources @ BPCL – E-ShodhSindhu (ESS)
Name of E-Resources Titles
ACM DL Titles: 141
Conference Proceedings= 1003
ASCE Journals Online 36
ASME Journals Online 29
ASTM Standard+ Digital Library (SEDL)
Titles – 8 Standards – 12596
STP – 1560 Monographs - 169
Economic & Political Weekly 1
Emreald CFTI Collection 299
Jstor 3071
Nature 1
Oxford University Press 262
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
Database
Jgate Plus JCCC Database
Web of Science Lease Access Database
http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/eres.php?memID=365
e-Resources Management
http://libdocs.nitrkl.ac.in/journals/list/
Awards & Accolades for BPCL
Year Host Award Category
2012 Elsevier Highest "ScienceDirect" usage among NIT's – 2012
2012 Nature Science
Nature Journal Awards 2012 – Best NIT User - INDEST Consortia
2013 IEEE Authorized subscriber of the IEEE [IET Electronic Library (IEL)] 2013
2014 ASME Highest User Award for ASME online Journals in 2014 among Level 2 Core Members
2015 RSC Best usage among NIT's in India for the period 2013-2015
• Library Website
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD)
• Research /Project Support Service (RPS) ▫ Turnitin, Grammarly, Scopus, WOS, Ref Mgt., etc.
• Subject / Research Guide
• Branding of BPCL over Social Media
• Mobile Applications, QR Code, etc.
• Institutional Repositories – Open Access
Initiatives taken by BPCL
IR Name Platform Contents Items
e-Papers@NITR DSpace Scholarly Publications by all NITR fraternity – Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Books, Book Chapters, etc.
2382
E-Thesis@NITR e-Prints Theses and Dissertations 5523
Project OAOB e-Prints Open Access Odia Books (OAOB) preserves the heritage of Odia literature and culture by digitizing old and rare literary in Odia language.
550
NITR Documents DSpace an open access repository system for all official key documents of NITR such as Minutes of BOG, Senate, HOD, MoUs, Accreditation & Ranking, etc.
300+
Source: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
• Library Website of BPCL
• Easy access to all ▫ Resources and information links
▫ Services
▫ Catalogue
▫ Search
▫ Institutional Repositories
▫ Initiatives
▫ Library blog
▫ Research Support
▫ Events
▫ Social connect
▫ Contacts
Library Website
Library OPACs: Books & e-Books
Library OPAC is web based application which gives freedom to search books detail available in the library. It also enables an user to search book through different options such Author, Title, Year , etc. It contains many databases such as Books, Journals etc.
URL: http://libcat.nitrkl.ac.in/webopac/html/SearchForm
E-Books OPAC is web based application which gives freedom to search e-books details available in the library. It also enables an user to search e-book through different options such Author, Title, Year etc. It contains many databases such as e-books, bound volumes, A/V material etc. URL: http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in/
(Libsys) (Koha)
In-house Archives: e-Papers & e-Thesis
Institutional Repository (IR) is an open access repository system to make the institute’s research output such as journal papers, conference papers etc. visible and accessible to the globe without any barrier. URL: http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace
Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) is an institutional open access thesis and dissertations repository of National Institute of Technology Rourkela. URL: http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in
In-house Archives: NITR Documents
NITR Documents is an open access repository system for all official key documents of NITR such as Minutes of BOG, Senate, HOD, MoUs, Accreditation & Ranking, etc. URL: http://documents.nitrkl.ac.in/jspui/
Project OAOB
Open Access to Odia Books (OAOB) is a not-for-profit project initiated by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela. The mission of the project is to preserve cultural history of Odisha by digitizing old and rare literary works in the Odia language. URL: http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/
Book Scanner – Digital Processing Section
IRs visibility
Source: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia/India
Ranking of Web Repositories by Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC Spain for NIT Rourkela as follows: (as on Jan 2017) • e-Thesis (ePrints) - the institutional Open
Access electronic theses repository of our Institute, has been ranked 2nd in India.
• e-Papers (DSpace) - the repository of all scholarly output of NITR is ranked at the 11th place in India.
Ranking of World Universities • NIT Rourkela is ranked 19th place in India Benefits of IRs and Open Access: • Ranking of Repositories • Fame to the Institutes • Visibility to Scholars • Increase citation for Scholars • Grants and Funding • Accreditation
eThesis (ePrints)
ePapers (DSpace)
Repository Name
Ranking
July 2014 July 2015 July 2016 Jan 2017
India World India World India World India World
e-Thesis 5 345 6 395 4 501 2 472
e-Papers 15 862 10 636 7 695 11 865
RPS objectives are:
• to provide value added services to NITR community and to attend the Reference queries
• to support research/project related activities.
• to extend help its users in using Turnitin, Scopus, Grammarly, Searching e-resources, Citation styles, User education and other related tools.
• URL:
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/iniatives/research-support
Research/Project Support Service (RPS)
Turnitin
Turnitin
Helps to Promote Originality
Avoid academic misconduct and confirm the originality of research work
Give rich, personalized feedback with your own drag-and-drop comments
Grading of student work
Other links:
http://turnitin.com/en_us/higher-education
http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training
Turnitin - http://turnitin.com/
Grammar Checker - Grammarly
Grammarly - https://www.grammarly.com/
Grammarly
https://www.grammarly.com/
the world’s most accurate grammar checker
Contextual spelling checker – helps to eliminate 250 types of errors
Vocabulary enhancement – to bring clarity and meaning
Plagiarism check
Subject/Research Guides
Subject / Research Guide to provide information about the key resources accessible to all NITR community in a particular subject. to access resources such as Books, e-Books, Magazines, e-journals, subscribed databases, Open Access Educational Resources
(OERs), Technology Enabled Learning resources (Videos, Lessons, etc.) and library catalog on a single platform. URL: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/libguide/subjects/index.php
Open Access E-Resources (OERs)
All Open Access e-Resources (OERs) are listed at Subject Guide at http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/libguide/subjects/index.php
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/ Open Access links constitutes of E-Journals E-Books E-Theses (OATD, Shodhganga, NDLTD) Institutional Repositories Patents Harvesters (NDL, BASE, OAIster, etc.) E-Newspapers, News Channels IRs are Harvesting at DoAJ, BASE, NDLTD, NDL, etc.
https://www.base-search.net/Search/Advanced
Library Services Blog
Blog: Central library is maintaining a blog on all library Services such as latest information is displayed such new arrivals (periodicals), latest subscription, Trail access to resources, etc. URL: Intranet
NPTEL Videos
NPTEL Videos: The main objective of NPTEL includes curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore as a collaborative project. URL: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Indexing Database Publisher Publications Citations h-Index
Scopus Elsevier 5146 29342 63
Web of Science Thomson Reuters 3581 20083 52
Google Scholar Google 13600 65
Microsoft Academic Research
Microsoft 2115
Engineering Village Elsevier 2714
J-Gate Informatics India Ltd. 2111
SciFinder American Chemical Society
1301
IEEE Xplore IEEE 720
MathSciNet American Mathematical Society
224
PubMed US National Library of Medicine
43
NITR Research visibility
Data as on October 2016
63
52
65
Scopus WoS G Scholar
h-Index
5146 3581
13600
Scopus WoS G Scholar
No. of Publications
• Annual Book Fair
• Conferences/ Workshops
• User orientation programme
• User awareness workshops
• Vendor demonstrations
Outreach programs by BPCL
Conference/Workshops Organised by BPCL
Events Description Dates
ELPES-1 National Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Content Management System (Joomla) & Data Migration: Challenges & Prospects
May 02-05, 2016
ELPES-2 National Conference on Emerging Trends and Techniques for Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges
February 13-14, 2016
ELPES-3 National Workshop on Library Automation with Koha: An open source solution
October 15-17, 2016
ELPES-4 National Workshop on Building Institutional Repository and Website/Blog: DSpace and WordPress
June 06-10, 2016
RSTSP TEQIP Sponsored Workshop on Research Support e-Resources, Tools & Techniques and Scholarly Publishing (RSTSP-2016)
October 27, 2016
ELPES-5 National Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Application of RFID and Reference Management Tool (Zotero)
December 05-09, 2016
NIT 3rd NIT Librarians Meet January 12, 2017
NDL Regional (East-1) Workshop on Institutional Digital Repository for National Digital Library of India,, Jointly Organized by BPCL, NIT Rourkela and NDL (NMEICT Project), IIT Kharagpur.
January 13-14, 2017
User Awareness Workshops
UAW Date Topic
UAW-1 12-08-15 Elsevier’s Research Enablement Tools
UAW-2 19-08-15 McGraw Hill’s Digital Resource Awareness
UAW-3 26-08-15 Turnitin: An Anti Plagiarism Tool & Resource Awareness
UAW-4 02-09-15 Prowess: A Database of Financial Performance of Indian Companies
UAW-5 09-09-15 IEEE Xplore Digital Library: Delivering Research Better Than Ever
UAW-6 16-09-15 Presentation on Digital Resources by Oxford University Press
UAW-7 07-10-15 Digital Library Solution by Informatics
UAW-8 14-10-15 A Hands on Training Session on Prowess
UAW-9 31-08-16 EBSCO Product & Services
UAW-10 21-09-16 Institute of Civil Engineers, Mary Ann Liebert, American Society of Microbiology, SPIE Digital Library Products
UAW-11 28-09-16 Journals of Visualised Experiments: JoVE
Opportunities for LIS professionals in Digital India
Source: http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/content/vision-and-vision-areas
Digital Infrastructure
Governance & Services
Digital Empowerment
• Internet • Mobile • Shareable
private space on a public cloud
• Availability of services in real time from online & mobile platforms
• Information for decision support
• Universal digital literacy • Universally accessible
digital resources • Availability of digital
resources / services in Indian languages
• e-format document submission
• Data Gov
Opportunities for LIS Professionals
Institutional Repositories Scholarly Communication and Publications Copyright, IPR, etc. Open Access Knowledge Management Information Storage and Retrieval Digital Curation Research Data Management Mobile Applications Cloud Storage Extensive use of resources Research Support Services
Vision areas of Digital India Program
Issues, Challenges and Solutions
Issues and Challenges Solutions
• Different perspectives of Issues and Challenges such as • People • Content • Process • Tools & Technologies
• The impact of ICT on libraries • Change in Users’ requirements • Transformation in library services • Submission of scholarly output to IRs • Copyright and IPR issues • Culture • Communication
• Policy Framework • Mandatory submission • Training for library staff • Orientation to Users • Upgradation of LIS Curriculum on regular
basis • Update Skills for Librarians to keep pace
with the demand • Adaption of emerging trends and
technologies to meet the user requirements • Mapping of Experts and data/content • Change Management in libraries • Impact of Social Media on libraries
• Library Professionals need to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field.
• Need to team up with other associated professionals to develop new technologies required for the libraries.
• Librarians must make themselves more pertinent in this Digital Age.
Conclusion
Connect with BPCL
Social Media URL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bpcl.nitrkl
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BPCL_NITR
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CentralLibraryNITR/
Blog: http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0059-6847
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Thank You
Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal Endeavour Research Fellow (Australia)
Head & Deputy Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela – 769008. Odisha, India. Email: [email protected] | Cell: +91- 9900511891 / 9040511891 : http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-1473