READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

information and publishing it on the web is far from knowledge management. To
provide high quality information services to users, libraries need to describe the
information using metadata and organize them using classification schemes. Keyword
based searching may not retrieve the content what user is looking for. For more
effective and efficient search, the support of subject specific thesaurus can be used.
To be successful in Knowledge Management, DL must become a knowledge space
for a wide spread of knowledge enquiry, sharing and propagation.
DL
Knowledge Enquiry
(Knowledge Base)
Looking for Knowledge
Information Browsing
Intelligent Information
Information
DL Searching
Fig.2 Knowledge Discovery
Information Search is targeted towards a specific document by user request.
Information browsing produces a conceptual map of set of documents. Knowledge
discovery from the information require intelligent answers to user queries with the
support of set(s) of relevant documents. To form a knowledge base, the classification
and thesaurus are to be merged into a concept network and the metadata are
distributed into nodes of concept network according to their subjects. This is not only
the framework for knowledge organization but also a structure for knowledge
Navigation retrieval and learning.
6. USER MANAGEMENT
Basically, information services consist of three main points, and libraries
should be able to (i) provide information services to the patrons (ii) provide access to
information, and (iii) satisfy patrons' information needs. Libraries should form the
amount of services and resources considering different patrons' needs. The whole
variety of patrons' needs can be generally divided into three main groups.
6.1 Access
Libraries should provide open access to different kinds of information in
different forms and on different media. In other words, a patron may need textbooks,
reference works, dissertations, reviews, biographies, etc. in different languages and
publication date. They may need a printed original or a digital copy, they may want to
watch a screen version of a book or listen to some audio clips. A library must provide
not only the resource itself, but an opportunity to read, watch, listen or study it.
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