Abstract
This paper will present some of the developments in providing refined information services and better information organization such as the electronic SDI service and in-house library software development work in the library of a premier academic institute in India. It will also stress activities concerned with professional development and growth such as experiences gained as part of the technical committee in a national level conference, activities as moderator of IFLA's listserver for Library & Information Science in India (INDIA-LIS), and work related to LIS education. The paper also describes some aspects of the future plan, of evolving a content personalization system with the aid of electronic contents procured through subscriptions and consortia access as well as free resources on the Web.
Key Words:
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
- INDEST consortium
- electronic SDI
- Library Automation and Manpower Project (LAMP)
- library automation software
- Central Library Automation Software (CLAS)
- Database Management Systems (DBMS)
- Information Management in e-Libraries (IMeL)
- INDIA-LIS
- content personalization
- distance education in library & information science [India]
- Continuing Education Programmes (CEP)