Proceedings of IEEE 5th International Symposium: Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Service

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"Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services has become an inevitable topic of discussion among the Library professionals for the past several Years. The unprecedented developments in the field of ICT and the rapid advancements in internet and telecommunication technologies have kept this topic current and vibrant all the time. Persistent advancements in internet technologies along with increasing awareness and improvements of the social networks, digital content delivery, virtual access and mobile technologies are part of the development that captivate the new digital eco system. Keeping these developments as the focal point ETTLIS has once again proved its continued commitment to provide a platform for healthy dialogue and discourse to harness the research impetus of the information scientists. The symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services is a celebration and showcasing of the deliberations of the information scientists whose contributions pave way for innovative service delivery in information sectors. This volume is a profusion of such intellectual discourse carefully selected and presented to the Information Science fraternity to have a glimpse of what is in store for them in their profession. The eighty papers which adorn this book reflect the meticulous research most of the authors have carried out to reflect their finding for the entire community to benefit. This magnum opus is a result of one such network and collaboration where hundreds of international and national experts have shared a common platform at 5th IEEE-ETTLIS Symposium with their expertise and proficiency to demonstrate their contribution towards Information Science. In the past Years Libraries and Information centres have transformed themselves as portals of knowledge warehouses where people converge to share information and depart with knowledge. Emerging Technologies have proved yet again that its services which were only a dram of the past can be effectively implemented in libraries so that the quest for knowledge can be easily augmented. The future of information ecosystem and the digital Iandscape, especially the production, organization and dissemination of information and the practise and techniques used to achieve the desired results, need constant reminder and rekindling of such skills. The cornucopia of ideas presented in this book is divided into seven broad sections for quick access and easy reading. The papers capture the essence of the emerging technologies in all its different dimension and disseminate the results in a more authentic fashion. Emerging new semantic web technologies, New data Models, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Web Analytic Tools, Knowledge Management Tools and the emergence of Alternative Metrics to analyse the impact of knowledge dissemination are dealt in detail in these seven sections of intellectual discourse. The binding vine of the entire gamut of this collection is the emerging trends and technologies which work for the betterment of the society. ETTLIS as a brand is committed towards bringing together various role players in the information eco-system. This collection of research output is the result of such persistent support to the discussions on Emerging Trends in Libraries and Information Services. ETTLIS, as always, believe that survival in this digital ecosystem depends mainly in networking and exchange of ideas which in turn provide ample scope for interoperability and exchange; the transition from classis isolated fields of expertise to widespread knowledge exploration.