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Purpose - This study was carried out to ascertain parents' attitude about reading related activities of children, to discover parents' efforts for instilling the reading habit in their children, to understand the challenges faced by parents in inculcating reading habit in their children, and to suggest possible solutions to the parents' difficulties related to their children's reading habits. Design/Methodology - The research was conducted using the Survey method, with Focus Group Discussion used as the data collection tool. The research sample was 24 parents of pupils who were studying in the primary and secondary Marathi medium schools in Nashik district. An anonymous data was collected Qualitative descriptive analysis was carried out of the collected data. Findings - It was observed that parents knew that pleasure reading was important for the overall behavioral development of their children. However, less than half of them performed any substantial activities to instill the reading habit in their children. Children's excessive usage of the internet, time constraints, children's disinterest in reading, and parents' incognizance about the effective reading material were the main challenges faced. Originality/Value - This study is one of the first one of its kind in the Indian scenario. Uniquely collecting parents' real experiences through focus group interviews, this paper provides concrete solutions to the difficulties of parents in inculcating reading habits among their children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, e-book research articles were reviewed which are published in various library science and nonlibrary science journals. Identifies facets and significant results of e-book research. For this review, literature on e-books published in English language, in 2016 was searched from various databases. The review finds that the focus of current research on e-books is on use. Themes such as e-book collection development and management; search and discovery are also paid more attention to. Use of e-books by children is emerging as a prominent area of e-book research. Results of most of the research on e-books are supportive to each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to analyse research productivity of life sciences faculty members at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Maharashtra, India. The research is conducted with the intention to know the research productivity over 15 years (1999-2013), the citations received, collaborations, and authorship patterns. Web of Science (WoS) database was used for the bibliographic and citation data. Data were analysed by using bibliometric techniques and software such as HistCite, Intcoll, and Pajek. Results show that the research productivity of faculty members is increasing, their publications are getting good citations and thereby their journals have better Impact Factor. The faculty members have collaborated with prominent international researchers and have extended interdisciplinary research. The paper is based on empirical data exclusively gathered for this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report 2014 made certain predictions about the emerging technologies and trends in higher education worldwide. The article reviews academic library's position with reference to the predictions made by the Report. The articles briefly refers to selected trends in higher education, mentioned in the Report and reviews and discusses academic library's present and future responses. The review and discussions are based on literature review. The articles finds that academic libraries are responding to the emerging trends in higher education through innovative practices and services. It concludes that in spite of their efforts, there is still scope for the academic libraries to improve their role in the changing higher education scenario and to prove their value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to provide an overview of automatic classification research, which focuses on issues related to the automatic classification of documents in a library environment. The review covers literature published in mainstream library and information science studies. The review was done on literature published in both academic and professional LIS journals and other documents. This review reveals that basically three types of research are being done on automatic classification: 1) hierarchical classification using different library classification schemes, 2) text categorization and document categorization using different type of classifiers with or without using training documents, and 3) automatic bibliographic classification. Predominantly this research is directed towards solving problems of organization of digital documents in an online environment. However, very little research is devoted towards solving the problems of arrangement of physical documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper highlights the efforts made by the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pune to use an open source software, viz., Moodle for the promotion of e-learning in the department. Various utilities of the Moodle such as development of the course, blogs, wiki, question banks, notification to the students, etc., has been used. This article narrates the experience of designing, development and implementation of e-learning course for the 'Information Technology' paper of the MLISc curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the literature of classification published during 2000 to 2009 and finds that there is sustainability in the growth of literature on classification in the first decade of the 21st century. It traces the pattern in scattering of literature on classification in library and information science (LIS) journals and concludes that the literature adheres to the Bradford's law of scattering. It produces rank list of journals publishing the literature on classification and identifies authorship patterns and the prominent writers in classification. The research finds that the Indian LIS writers have shown sustained interest in classification domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the development of so-called "info-products," which are information resources and references services targeted at specific communities of users, by libraries. Examples are presented of such communities and of information resources which would be of interest and use to them. A partnership approach is suggested in which libraries would collaborate in developing these information resources and in marketing them to potential users. Possible problems with finances and accounting related to info-products marketing are considered.

The article is based on a survey of websites of antiquarian books. Contents of 14 websites of antiquarian books were analysed. The aspects analysed and interpreted were search facilities, singed editions, reviews, dust jackets, antiquarian books for sale, maintaining 'wants lists', etc. The article concludes that the websites of antiquarian books are helping a long way in bibliographic control of antiquarian books by providing needed information easily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the entrepreneurship and partnership approach and reason for developing micro-level info-products by Library and Information Service (LIS) professionals. LIS professionals reportedly have wide scope to develop variety of info-products in print as well as digital format. The entrepreneurial and partnership approach allegedly aids develop info-products in systematic and economic way. LIS professionals are said to be best judge of information needs of users.

The paper presents a review of e-learning initiatives in LIS. It defines e-learning and its characteristics. and describes the tools of e-learning. The paper also compares the traditional education with e-learning and states how both these methods complement each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article narrates the experience of constructing a thesaurus of LIS terms by using speciator based faceted depth classification schedule. It also explains the advantages of this method in establishing various thesaural relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]