Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS)
Contents: Preface. 1. Open source software @ DLIS-BHU/H.N. Prasad and Aditya Tripathi. 2. Application of Open Source Software (OSS) in development of libraries and information centers/Ram Kumar Dangi, Santosh Kumar and Major Kumar Verma. 3. Open source for libraries and research community: presenting the case of GIST find/Amit Jha, Collin Dmello, Preeti Chaturvedi and Tarun Arora. 4. An information model for a university system using Dspace/Sneha Tripathi. 5. Greenstone: open source digital library software/Rajendra Kumar Bharti. 6. Planning of digital library using open source software: Dspace/Vijay Kumar Bharati and Sunil Kumar Gautam. 7. Developing electronic repository of theses and dissertations of Indian Universities using GSDL 2.81/Rabindra Nath Mohanta and Rajesh Kumar Mishra. 8. Comparative evaluation of open source digital library packages/Vinit Kumar. 9. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for content management in libraries/Dimpel Patel. 10. Organize and disseminate free information available in the Internet by using content management software Joomla/Sudip Ranjan Hatua. 11. Open source software and Koha/Rajani Mishra. 12. A study of open source software (Newgenlib) and application of RFID technology in libraries/Satish Kumar Arya and Radha Krishna Kishore Patnala. 13. Managing leader and control fields of MARC21 bibliographic format in FLOSS based LMSS: benchmarking of Koha and Newgenlib/Parthasarathi Mukhopadhya. 14. Pixels of knowledge: an open source enterprise knowledge management system/Anand Kumar Pandey, Anila S. and Aditya Kumar Rai. 15. Open Source Software (OSS) in knowledge management/Shyam Sunder Pandey and Garima Verma. 16. Use of protege in building ontology for visual arts: a faceted approach/Amrita Majumdar. 17. From Tacit to explicit knowledge management in context of digital environment/Bhaw Nath Pandey. 18. E resources in knowledge management in health science libraries in India/Rakesh Kumar Srivastava. 19. Dimensions of knowledge management and its application in libraries in 21 century/Rabindranarayan Mishra and Sanjeev. 20. Digital preservation: an overview/Rajkumar Singh and Devendra Kumar. 21. Future of open source library solutions/Akhandanand Shukla. 22. Digital information awareness and use of Internet services by faculty members of Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, U.P., India: a case study/Krishna Kumar and Devendra Kumar. 23. Major initiatives for the education and development of the rural communities I the 21 century: Indian perspective/Nimai Chand Saha, Ajay Kumar Sharma and Kanika Debnath.
Open Source Softwares (OSSs) have come up to liberate library community from the paws of costly and proprietary softwares.
The book presents real time experiences of librarians with OSS. The present book demonstrates the capabilities of librarians required on various categories of OSS tools like, digital library systems, Library management systems, content management systems, e learning systems etc.
The book presents selected papers and case studies presented in the National Seminar on open source library solutions, held at Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras hindu University, Varanasi.
