A Well known phrase in Hindi which
elucidate that the ‘Thirsty needs to go to well,
well will not come to thirsty’. Toolbar has now
changed the scenario in respect that it taking well
to the thirsty. This paradigm shift is due to
advancement in information and computer
technology. The thirsts for the information are
increasing day-by-day. Information wells are
deepens rapidly, library resources are increasing
in collection as well as characters and flowing
along with the technology. Library and
Information Centers adopting various
methodology for collection building, from print
media to digital collection, from individual
subscription to consortia based collaboration in
order to saving budget, library automation for
resource management, Web 2.0 technology for
information literacy and user education and other
tools and technology such as audio visual
methods, forum, emails, list-serves, and many
more lists are added up during the time for ‘save
the time of reader’, what S R Rangnathan’s
philosophy reveal. Library services are fading out
of sight for most user groups and how these users
and their expectations have changed, without us
realizing. It contains a strong plea for a focus
shift for librarians, a focus into the environments
where the users are, instead of expecting them to
come to us, or our resources. Exploration of all
relevant user environments for your organization,
the use of new web-based technologies with Web
2.0 elements and certainly a more structural
technical re-design of library information systems
is required to deliver library services and
resources at the place of need. A simple shortterm
solution like a Quick-Search Library
Toolbar is explained here as a tool for taking
library to user. This paper will discuss the
Technology, Methodology and Usability and1
multitasking nature of Library Toolbars for
enhanced search methodology. This will also
discuss how toolbar can be helpful in getting
latest information about the happenings around
the globe, latest availability of resources in the
library, email check with single click and how the
library toolbar has been adopted at authors
institution for better user education and
information communication. The paper concludes
with the remarks for research on more tools like
library toolbar for enhancing library activity for
user unreached.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/268132 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Ram, Shri, Rao, N Laxman, Kataria, Sanjay |
| Contributors | Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, Osmania University, Hyderabad |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
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