Rupesh Kumar

The study investigated the online scholarly visibility of Library and Information Science (LIS) teachers in India. Records of 154 LIS teachers were sourced from the websites of various Indian universities. 31 of them had profiles on Google Scholar and 28 had accounts on Mendeley. Total Citation counts on Google Scholar and total reader counts on Mendeley were 3267 and 5201 respectively. Associate Professors had highest average number of citations on Google Scholar while Professors had highest Mendeley reader counts. The average citation count on Google Scholar was 105. Reader count on Mendeley averaged at 185. The correlation between citation counts and reader counts was positive (r=0.598), but not statistically significant (p-value=0.052).

The study has ranked Indian Institutes of Technology based on the number of citations of top 10 profiles on Google Scholar. The methodology prescribed by the Ranking Web of Universities has been adopted. Top ten user profiles based on the number of citations on Google Scholar have been considered for each of the 23 IITs using institutional email domain. The first (top 1) profile of the list is excluded for improving representativeness. The number of citations for the rest of the top 10 profiles has been added and IITs have been ranked in the descending order of this indicator. IIT Delhi secured the top position, while IIT Goa is placed last. Seven IITs did not have institutional profile on Google Scholar, though individual user profiles use institutional email address.

This study explored the Web Presence and Visibility of National Library Websites of SAARC Countries. Based on WISER ranking method, National library websites of SAARC countries were ranked. National Library of India secured top position in terms of Web presence. National Library of Bangladesh outscored other libraries in Webometric ranking and occupied the top position. The websites of all National libraries considered for the study lack rich files and scholarly content. Afghanistan was excluded from the study since its National library website could not be ascertained. The study recommends that Web masters should publish more content in the form of rich files and make available more scholarly content so as to improve the Web presence and visibility.

The primary purpose of a library catalogue is to help users ascertain the availability of document in the library. With the development of Web OPACs, users expect library catalogues to be available online. However, hosting an OPAC online involves investment. This paper demonstrates the creation of a free cloud-based library catalogue using Google Fusion Tables.

This is a guide demonstrating the installation of Lubuntu operating system on a Windows computer using Liblivecd - the live cd for librarians.  DSpace, Koha, Joomla, Squirrelmail and other essential applications are pre-installed in Liblivecd.  This means that installation of Lubuntu will come bundled with the above mentioned software.  Thanks to Dr. A R D Prasad, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bengaluru, India and Dr. Sunita Barve, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune for developing Liblivecd.

This is a presentation made at the UGC Sponsored International Conference on Knowledge Resources and Library Technologies held on 24-25 February 2017 at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. It demonstrates the creation of a free cloud-based library catalogue using Google Fusion Tables.

Webometric analysis of institutions with NIRF overall rank of 1 to 50 was carried out. The institutional websites were ranked based on Webometric ranking indicators. Kendall’s tau-b correlation test was conducted on NIRF ranks and Webometric ranks. The test reported a positive correlation between the two sets of ranks. The correlation coefficient was statistically significant (τb = 0.289 p-value = 0.003).