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Unit 6: Document Delivery Services and Online Services

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becoming web-based. Those institutes who wish to attract prospective students and the
faculty members must show significant improvements in the institute’s infrastructure.
Libraries with mere books and journals may no longer lend a credible support to the
academic fraternity. Having a tech savvy library and information center with exhaustive
information resources in all formats has become unavoidable. Libraries are procuring
more and more electronic sources like electronic journals, electronic books, online databases
along with locally digitized theses and dissertations. The efforts of libraries in providing
users with an integrated way of checking the availability of a source in all possible formats
have necessitated a properly designed web portal. Management libraries are also supposed
to define and redefine their services and continuously keep their efforts on value addition
to the services offered by them. Proliferation of electronic resources has posed several
challenges like multiple logins, multiple interfaces and resource discovery. Web portal
offers effective solutions to these challenges.
Source: http://www.webology.org/2006/v3n2/a26.html

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. A Current Awareness Services is a public discussion area where people can post message
without sending them to anyone’s e-mail address that can be viewed by anyone who
enters the area.

12. A library can provide electronic selective dissemination of information service through
e-mail, which is easiest and common procedure.
13. e-mail is all web based library service.

14. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions.
15. News clip service is one of the CAS provided in many libraries in print/photocopy form.

Case Study Document Delivery Systems between
Gujarat University & Gujarat Vidyapith Library

n this electronic era any document or file transfer through the network is a starting
point of electronic delivery of interlibrary loan through the Network. Due to some
Iadvantages to electronic delivery of articles or documents to user’s desktops, nowadays
a large majority of ILL users continue to prefer print on paper delivery rather than electronic
delivery. In this electronic environment this fact has implications for introducing extra
ordinary electronic services in this electronic era. Normally choosing what services to
impose on library user, and what services to offer as value-added options in library
services, is fundamental to maintaining the credibility of libraries during these times of
rapid change for the library professionals.
The materials not owned it may be borrowed or a photocopy may be obtained from
outside institutions or organizations or universities or colleges. Select which best suits for
your needs. A one-time registration is required for that. The unit you select during your
initial registration will be the pick-up location for all material borrowed on ILL (Interlibrary
Loan). For this service there is no fee for this.

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