Dynamics in Digital Information Systems : Festschrift Volume in Honour of Prof M Bavakutty by A Amudhavalli

New Delhi: Ess Ess Pub. Hardbound. As New. Contents Preface. Foreword. Felicitations/Krishan Kumar and C.A. Augustine. An interaction with Prof. M. Bavakutty/T.P.O. Nasirudheen. 1. Library and information science education in India some observation/K.C. Abdul Majeed. 2. Knowledge management a paradigm shift in organizations/Ajit Agale and Sukeshini Horannavar. 3. Are library and information professionals still significant/A. Amudhavalli. 4. Traditional knowledge organisation systems in the electronic environment/Lalitha Aswath. 5. The impact of knowledge management on organizational development/Nagappa V. Bakkannanavar and Anju Govindani. 6. Knowledge management/G.S. Birdar and R.R. Naik. 7. Total Quality Management (TQM) in library and information centres/V. Chandrakumar. 8. Knowledge management in digital information system recent challenges and solutions/Subarna Kumar Das. 9. Dynamics of information technology and future librarianship/Anil Kumar Dhiman. 10. Representation of institutional knowledge on institutional websites a case study of university of California's e scholarship repository/Hamsa Kalyani T.D. Kemparaju and T.B. Rajashekhar. 11. Knowledge management in the twenty first century/Asis Kumar Hazra and Samir Chattopadhyay. 12. Role of libraries in knowledge management/S. Humayoon Kabir. 13. Entering knowledge society some modest Indian e initiatives/C.R. Karisiddappa and Iqbal Ahmad Urajgoli. 14. Blogging as a teaching tool in library education/Krishan Kumar and Jaideep Sharma. 15. Application of information and communication technologies in special libraries/K. Mohamed Haneefa. 16. Archival of digital resources challenges and issues/T.K. Mohammed Sageer and T.A. Abdul Azeez. 17. Knowledge management in digital environment an overview/M. Nagarajan P. Sivaraman and M. Surulinathi. 18. Competitive intelligence in the context of knowledge management/Santosh A. Navalur and Savita N. Nayak. 19. Mobile and wireless communication technologies in knowledge management in marginalised and rural communities/A. Neelameghan. 20. Globalization information society and the future of libraries/K.S. Raghavan. 21. Information literacy and digital libraries in the higher education scenario/R. Samyuktha. 22. Concept of bibliometrics scientometrics and informetrics/S.L. Sangam and Keshava. 23. Perspective in digital preservation/N.R. Satyanarayan. 24. Current trends in IT and its application in academic libraries/D. Shivalingaiah and K. Manjunatha. 25. Sustenance of libraries in digital environment what and how to do/R.S.R. Varalakshmi. 26. Biometric technology for network security/Rekha Rani Varghese. 27. Digital library security and competencies of library professionals/Shilpi Verma K.L. Mahawar and Rekha Verma. 28. Competencies of LIS professionals in the digital age/K.P. Vijayakumar. 29. Scholarly communication in the networked environment/V. Vimalkumar. 30. Web based knowledge management in digital era/K. Vinitha S. Kanthimathi and Sampath Kumar. Index. This volume is brought out in honour of Prof. M. Bavakutty as a befitting tribute for a dedicated glorious and competent colleague of the LIS profession yesterday today and tomorrow. He has been always very good as a teacher research guide or organizer a prolific writer and an active participant and contributor in professional deliberations both at the national and international planes. Most of the papers in this volume are hence in the areas of knowledge management knowledge organization library and information systems services and professionals in the digital and networked environment. Knowledge management will facilitate empowering rural and indigenous communities on the one hand and enable the sharing and use of the wealth of tacit community knowledge for the good of the nation the global community of nations and states. The concern is not only the need to empower the marginalized communities through information out reaches programmes but also to collect and record the community knowledge make efforts to understand their cultures and leverage on the wisdom they possess for the good of the society. Recent developments and extension of ICT applications points to the possibilities of bridging the digital divide and better management of rural community knowledge. Attempts to use ICTs to reach out to indigenous and marginalized rural communities with a view to empowering them through implementation of e governance providing access to a variety of government documents relevant to the life of rural communities village kiosks land sat imaging and remote sensing geographical information systems etc.