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Sujata Noronha; Beena Choksi – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
The structural inequalities perpetuated by the caste system are a grave challenge to creating a just society. The education system pays short shrift to this topic and caste discrimination is spoken about without holding caste privilege accountable. Historically, social justice is a core mission of libraries. This project worked closely with a…
Descriptors: Social Class, Barriers, Advantaged, Social Attitudes
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Ram, Shri; Anbu K., John Paul; Kataria, Sanjay – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: This paper seeks to provide an insight into the implementation of some of the innovative Web 2.0 applications at Jaypee University of Information Technology with the aim of exploring the expectations of the users and their awareness and usage of such applications. Design/methodology/approach: The study was undertaken at the Learning…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Ashraf, Tariq, Ed.; Sharma, Jaideep, Ed.; Gulati, Puja Anand, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2010
The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation.…
Descriptors: Preservation, Copyrights, Information Systems, Electronic Libraries
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Khalsa, Gurupreet K. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Describes how, over three years, teachers, students, parents, and administrators of a girls' school in India built a school library, going from a small locked-up collection with no check-out system to a warm and busy library room that was a popular hub of activity at the school, with a dynamic and expanding collection and a full-time librarian.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Library Collection Development, Library Development
Kar, Debal C.; Deb, Subrata; Kumar, Satish – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Discusses the development of Electronic Library at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi). Highlights include: hardware and software used; the digital library/Virtual Electronic Library; directory of Internet journals; virtual reference resources; electronic collection/Physical Electronic Library; downloaded online full-length…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Catalogs, Library Collections
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Jambhekar, Neeta – Third World Libraries, 1995
Investigates the government policies in India, especially the five-year plans regarding finance, since its independence in 1947 and their impact on the establishment of the public library system. Highlights include model library systems, library development, national libraries, information services, and adult education and public libraries.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Financial Policy, Foreign Countries
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
Fifteen papers delivered for the Division of General Research Libraries at the 1992 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions annual meeting are presented. These papers deal with national libraries, parliamentary (legislative) libraries, and university libraries. The papers are: (1) "Seeking Alternatives to National…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Cultural Pluralism, Databases
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
Eleven papers delivered at the annual meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions for the Division of Management and Technology are presented. Some were presented at a roundtable on audiovisual media, and others are from sessions on library buildings and equipment, information management, and statistics in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Information Management
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Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, 1991
This issue of the biannual "Syracuse University Library Associate Courier" is devoted to covering the world famous collections of adult and continuing education materials held by the Syracuse University Library. It contains five articles: "Laubach in India: 1935-1970" (S. Y. Shah) describes missionary and founder of Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Continuing Education, Educational History
Doyle, Robert P. – 1989
The Library/Book Fellows Program began in 1986 with a grant to the American Library Association from the U.S. Information Agency, an independent agency within the Executive Branch. The purposes of the program are to: (1) increase international understanding through the establishment of professional and personal relationships and the accomplishment…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Librarians
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
The following 21 papers were delivered for the Special Libraries Division of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions at its 1992 annual meeting: (1) "From Indochina to Afghanistan: Arts from Abroad in Parisian Libraries" (M. F. Macouin); (2) "The Indonesian Archeology Photograph and Documentation System…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Art, Developing Nations, Documentation
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
Eight papers for the Collections and Services Division of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions that were given at the 1992 annual meeting are presented. These papers deal with the acquisition and exchange of library materials, interlending, and serial publications. The following papers are included: (1) "Why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans, International Organizations, Library Acquisition