1. ROLE OF E-SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN FORMATION OF IRCs USING ICT Anil Kumar Mishra LIO, NCHRC, NIHFW, New Delhi - 67 anilmlis@gmail.com 24 March 2011 1

2. This is an exercise among the e-sources of information which gave the new face to documenataion. Advent of ICT and internet made far reaching impact in the arena of information science. ICT have become ubiquitous with current and future for the development of IRC. During the past decade rapid development occured in an information pattern, and ICT took place to share the information as WWW; and due to the information explosion search engines on internet occurred. Preservation of knowledge in e-format is particularly important in the era of IT. The role of technologies on vary level is undeniably significant. As the positive effects of ICTs have continually been noted in development of IRCs, ICT provide a broad perspective on the nature of technology and the impact on information system. 24 March 2011 2 Introduction

3. "Sources" means the origin of something.Information sources may be observations, speeches, documents, pictures etc. From starting, flow of the information was very slow, because emerged libraries in society were not more than a store house of books, but gradually, especially during the last decade due to ICT the face of library changed and known as Information Resource Centres (IRC). IRC is treated as the nuclei of any organisation, which play a vital role in the development of society or a nation. These nucleis are also known as social institutions, the repositories of information. 24 March 2011 3 Information Resource Centre (IRC)

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5. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) refers to ICT, as a “powerful enabler of development” because of the significant impact on the economic, scientific, academic, social, political, cultural and other aspects of life. 24 March 2011 5

6. ICT is the combination of technological applications of informatics and communication technology, which enables access to limitless information, facilitates different modes of communication, connects economies and communities. 24 March 2011 6

7. E- Publishing Steps Computerized typesetting in which text prepared Desktop publishing inwhich editors/ designers use computers to lay out pages and edit text. The pages then assembled at least partly by computer and printed on presses Completely electronic publishing in which books, magazines, newspapers, and other material appear electronically. In distribution CDs/ DVDs are in use or send over a vast computer network. As an advantage e-publishing offers privilege over print publishing. An electronic publication can use features that print cannot use, including animations, videos and sounds. 24 March 2011 7

8. Formats Text: - RTF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, PDF, PPT, XLS, HTMLetc. Audio: - WMA,AAC, MP4, MP3 etc. Video: - 3GP, WMV, MOV,AVI, DAT etc. Images: - PNG, TIF, GIF, JPG, JPEG etc. 24 March 2011 8

9. E- documents E- documents are the sources of information which communicate the information via electronic media, which is a computer based media for storage and dissemination of information. 24 March 2011 9

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12. E-journals The Encyclopaedic dictionary of Library and Information Science define journals as “the record of proceedings or transactions of a learned society”. Most e-journals are published in HTML, PDF formats. A small minority publish in DOC, and a few are starting MP3 audio. CD-ROM technology helps a lot in e-publishing. 24 March 2011 12

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15. E-theses & Dissertation (etd) vidyanidhi 24 March 2011 15

16. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization 24 March 2011 16

17. E-Newspaper 24 March 2011 17

18. Consortia - group of libraries working together for meeting the varied needs of users. 24 March 2011 18

19. Databases Bibliographic Databases contains descriptive information about documents as books, periodical articles; the data typically in these databases are title, authors, journal names, volume, number, dates, keywords, abstracts 24 March 2011 19 Local- Network in a campus as IIT Delhi, Kanpur Metropolitan- City network as DELNET, CALIBNET National- Network like INFLIBNET International- Network like Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

20. CDDVD BD 24 March 2011 20

21. LAN(Local Area Network) WAN (Wide Area Network) MAN (Metropolitan Area Network). 24x7x365 24 March 2011 21

22. It is the e-sources of information which gave the enhancement to IRCs by using ICT on the formulla of 24x7x12 (round the clock). Speed, accuracy, transperancy, fast distribution, uploading, downloading, online printing, space saving, community accessibility, cross links are also as an advantage. 24 March 2011 22

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24. Thanks e-users Anil Kumar Mishra LIO, NCHRC, NIHFW, New Delhi - 67 Twitter: anilkmishra 24 March 2011 24