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Information Sources and Services

Notes reports such as top performing supplier for quality score, suppliers with poor score for corporate
social responsibility, highly innovative and cost efficient supplier etc.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

6. If a document is stored in ............................. form, several eligible users can simultaneously
access it and download the required portions.
7. A ........................ should integrate supplier performance scorecards with real-time data to
measure and identify key supplier related events, which could impact business operations
and revenue.

6.5 Meaning and Concept of Online Service in Library Services

Online means the state of being in direct and immediate communication with the computer on
which the database is loaded from a remote terminal. It is an interactive system i.e. it allows the
user to input instruction, receive responses and then modify or manipulate the retrieved results.
Almost all organizations today have shifted to the online services by way of the following:

(i) Online Public Access Catalogues (OPAC)/Webcats;
(ii) CD Rom search facility;
(iii) Developing library websites;

(iv) Developing different kinds of databases;
(v) Acquisition of database, e-journal, e-book;
(vi) Building digital library/institutional repository;

To provide access to all the above resources, a modern library offers internet facility to the user.
Introduction of digital section in most of the 21st century libraries also acts as a base of many
modern services.

6.5.1 Web-based Library Services

At beginning library was just a store house of books and other document. General people were
not allowed to use that document. After long time library started document delivery service and
circulation came into picture. From middle of the 19th century there was drastic change of
library services. A large number of different services came into the picture.

Did u know? Computer came during the middle of the 20th century the mode of library
services changed dramatically. It became information service and new kind of offline
service came into picture and last one decade of 20th century it was started to provide
online service.

In early 1960’s developed countries began to experiment with the use of computer in library and
information processing activities. Mainly these systems were batch oriented and used punched
cards as data input media. It was H.P. Luhn of I.B.M., U.S.A. during 1950’s initiated computer –
based SDI, CAS and Indexing services.

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