Future Librarianship in Knowledge Society

Contents: Preface. 1. Knowledge management: a source to enhance libraries/K. Praveena and M. Nagarajan. 2. Digital libraries and knowledge management; trends and developments/R.U. Ramasamy and A. Pavalavannan. 3. RFID technology in digital era: a new service/Titiksha Goswami, Dhanya P. and Maheswaran K. 4. Knowledge auditing in the context of knowledge management/Santosh A. Navalur and Raveesh S. 5. E-journal collection development; problems and prospects/T. Sunitha. 6. Upcoming trends in library acquisitions with special reference to e-books/Sreejaya P. 7. Knowledge management and present libraries/Padmamma S. 8. Future librarianship in knowledge society/B. Ravivenkat and P.V. Govinda Reddy. 9. Knowledge management in libraries/M. Nagarajan, V. Krishnan, K.S. Alvi and A. Sheeba. 10. Knowledge management; emerging perspectives/P. Panneerselvam. 11. Changing role of library professionals in cyber era/Balasubramani R., Manju P.U. and Surulinathi M. 12. The role of digital libraries in future librarianship/R. Senthilkumar, N.G. Balaji and P.U. Manju. 13. The challenging role of librarianship in the knowledge society/G. Thamaraiselvi. 14. The emerging role of librarians as knowledge managers in the digital age/K. Rajasekharan. 15. Professional skill and computer educational requirement for future librarians/Milind K. Labhasetwar and R.B. Nimat. 16. Knowledge management; an emerging concept/Shishir H. Mandalia. 17. Issues and challenges in knowledge management/S. Raja and G. Shanmugavadivu. 18. Measuring the quality of libraries: role of SERVQUAL/Abdul Majeed K.C. and M. Bavakutty. 19. The best practices in the college libraries; an evaluation/T.P.O. Nasirudheen. 20. Librarianship in the changing scenario of education/C. Beena and V.S. Kunjumuhammed. 21. Tacit knowledge organization methods and techniques for future librarianship/Mehaboobullah K. and Abdul Gafoor Manningachali. 22. Information technology based access and services in libraries: a study/Amulraj S., Selvakumar R., Thenmozhi R and Sathya A. 23. Information and knowledge management/Babita Garg and Salek Chand. 24. Digital library initiative/Johnson David and R. Balasubramani. 25. Digital library information resources and services/Naresh Chandara Verma. 26. Future librarianship/B. Mini Devi. 27. Skills for Library and Information Science professionals in future libraries/K.S. Sikakumaren, T Elanchezhiyan and B. Jeyaprakash. 28. Knowledge management and librarian ; an overview/Subrata Sur and Sujata Sur. 29. Knowledge management systems life cycle; a study/Nagappa V. Bakkannanavar and Suryanarayana Sastry B.H. 30. Knowledge management course curricula for Indian LIS schools/K.V. Satyanarayana, Seema Nair and Shubhada Apte. 31. The components of knowledge management/Gireesh A. Ganjihal, Santosh A. Navalur and Pratibha S. Kumbargoudar. 32. Role of library professionals as knowledge managers in rapidly growing libraries/Susanta Kumar Sahoo. 33. Knowledge management system for a multi campus university/M. Bavakutty, Dinesan K and Muhammed Najeeb. 34. Role of learning styles and methods in learning in the context of Knowledge Management System/M. Surulinathi, Titiksha Goswami and Dhanya P. 35. Building knowledge management based organizations; new role of LIS professionals/N. Sureshkumar. 36. Impact of knowledge management: on organizational development/Nagappa V. Bakkannanavar and Anju Govindani. 37. Knowledge processing need for a new technology/K.N. Soman. 38. Awareness of library professionals on knowledge management/R.U. Ramasamy and K. Sivasekaran. 39. Practical problems in the process of digitization; a case study of ETD@IIT Kanpur/Noufal P.P. 40. LIS education: need for change/Sreekala P.K., Sangeeta T.G. and M.D. Baby. 41. Knowledge management in libraries and information centres in India/G. Dhanasegaran. 42. Human resource management; core of knowledge management in libraries/S.V. Gumaste, S.Y. Amdani and Dipak Krushnarao Bhalekar. 43. Applicability of knowledge management in libraries in digital era/Suja K and Shaini Gopinath. 44. Desktop to web top; emerging trends in the web/Jamsheer N.P. Index.

"The modern libraries and library and information science professionals face many challenges in the knowledge society driven by the information technology. It is also true that the emerging knowledge society offers many new opportunities. The information and communication technology has changed the ways in which the information is published, stored, organized retrieved, accessed, communicated and utilized. The library without walls in the form of digital repositories and portals are now accessible to users without any barriers of space and time. It is important to discuss and comprehend the implications of these vibrant changes for the benefit of the profession. With this objective ion mind a national conference on Future Librarianship in the knowledge society was organized in the university of Calicut on 28 and 29 March 2007.

This volume contains the papers presented in the conference by the practicing library professionals and library and information science teachers, researchers and students. Both, theoretical as well as practical papers were presented in the conference. These papers will certainly be instrumental to encourage the library and information science professionals to understand the great responsibility they have to shoulder and the efforts they have to carry out in the coming days in the ever dynamic knowledge society."