Home | Browse | Search | Credits | About
Register | User Area | DL-Harvest | Help
DLIST

Role of library and information professionals as teachers and trainers in agricultural education: An experience of the Kerala Agricultural University, India

Francis, A. T. and Abdul Razak, C. and Kabir, Humayoon (2006) Role of library and information professionals as teachers and trainers in agricultural education: An experience of the Kerala Agricultural University, India. In Khoo, C. and Singh, D. and Chaudhry, A.S., Eds. Proceedings A-LIEP 2006: Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice 2006, pages pp. 642-644, Singapore.

Full text available as:
PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer.

Abstract

The latest developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have made the concept “Libraries without walls” into a practical reality. This has posed several challenges to the information work force and the information users. At the same time, we have noticed the issues related to the information overload and information quality. At this juncture, efforts are strengthening to develop means to persuade and equip the users and information specialists to achieve maximum efficiency in information services. It was observed that one of the important reasons for the under utilization of electronic information is the lack of requisite level of working knowledge and consumption skills among customers and information intermediaries (Sridhar, 1997). To improve the situation, the conventional user education programmes need be redefined and reengineered, to be it more technology oriented. It should be designed in such a way to provide confidence to the user in locating desired information (Francis, 2005).

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:Agricultural education, India
Subjects:Library Instruction
Information Literacy
Database Searching Instructions
ID Code:1448
Deposited On:27 May 2007
Eprint Statistics:View statistics for this eprint
Tell A Colleague:Tell a colleague about it.

Asefeh Asemi (2005). Familiarity and use by the students’ of digital resources available in the academic libraries of medical science university of Isfahan (MUI, Iran. In Multilingual computing and information management in networked digital environment. Third International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions – 2005, Kochi, India, February 2-4, 2005, organized by the Inflibnet Centre/UGC and Cochin University of Science and Technology, edited by Murthy et al. Ahmedabad: Inflibnet Centre. 648-657 pp.

Bailey, Robert L (1998). Information management training and education: a vital need for society of tomorrow. In Towards the new information society of tomorrow: innovations, challenges and impact. 49th FID Conference & Congress, New Delhi, India, October 11-17, 1998, edited by Malwad et al. New Delhi: INSDOC. II.130-135 pp.

Carey, J and Gregory, V (2002). Students’ perceptions of academic motivation, interactive participation and se-lected pedagogical and structural factors in web based distance learning. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 431, p.6-15.

Francis, AT (2005). Library consortia model for country wide access of electronic journals and databases, Iran. In Multilingual computing and information management in networked digital environment. Third International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions – 2005, Kochi, India, February 2-4, 2005, organized by the Inflibnet Centre/UGC and Cochin University of Science and Technology, edited by Murthy et al. Ahmedabad: Inflibnet Centre. 497-504 pp.

Sridhar, MS (1997). Need for imparting consumption skills to customers and information intermediaries for better utilization of electronic information. In Access to Electronic Information. Sixteenth annual Convention and Conference of Society for Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India, January 29-31, 1997, edited by Maha-patra et al. Bhubaneswar: SIS. 321-330 pp.

EPrints dLIST, an open access archive for the Information Sciences, is supported by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. Established in 2002, dLIST has a global Advisory Board and is a part of the Information Technology & Society Research Lab. Open Archives
Contact: Admin | Donate