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Staffing Agricultural Information Systems / R.Raman Nair.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : ESS Publications , 2000.Description: 429 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 8170002877
  • 9788170002871
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 025.06630 NAI
Contents:
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Objectives 3. Environment 4. Staff Planning 5. System Manager 6. Legal Position 7. Staff Structure 8. Job Analysis 9. Quality and Quantity 10. Professional Development 11. Performance Appraisal 12. Suggestion ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1. Extract from Mehrotra Committee Report 2. Recommendations of the All India Seminar on Agricultural Libraries 3. Recommendations of Agricultural Library Survey Study Team 1973 4. UGC Notification on Revision of Pay Scales and Minimum Qualification 5. Norms for Staff in SAU Evolved By Prof. Ramatirth 6. Dr. Prasher's Formula: Minimum Library Staff and its Organisation for an Agricultural University Library 7. Powers Delegated to SAU Librarian 8. Report of the Expert Committee on Staff Pattern for Kerala Agricultural University and Information System 1999 Index
Summary: Prof. R. Raman Nair, an information technology expert, has designed the Multimedia Library Automation System (McLAS 1993) in India and the KAU Library and Information System with building LANs, digital library, and IT training facilities considered to be the best in the country. He has 14 books including People’s Library Movement, Computer Application to Library and Information Services, and Internet for Library and Information Services, as well as 120 research papers and articles and many national and international conference presentations to his credit. He has organized various national level seminars including the National Seminar on Right to Information and national level IT courses and training programs under various organizations which include Managing Digital Libraries in Agriculture (ICAR). Modern Information Access Facilities (NISSAN) and Worldwide Web for Managing Agricultural Information (CAGI). Prof. Nair has associated with many expert committees on IT formed by professional organizations, universities, and the government. He is a research fellow of the American Biographical Institute and is the founder member of Rural Development Forestry Network (ODI, London), Asian Watershed Management Network (Kathmandu, Nepal), ILA, IASLIC, and AGLIS. In library and information services, he has been presented the IASLIC S.M. Ganguly National Award for the year 1998.
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Staffing Agricultural Information systems focus on the manpower strategies required for exploiting our agricultural knowledge resources. Public investment in agriculture research runs into millions of rupees. Optimum utilization of the knowledge so generated, necessitates quick access to and speedy dissemination of the information generated by research. The efficiency of more than 30,000 scientists working in thousands of institutions in our country’s agricultural sector depends on the quality of library and information support available. To harness the possibilities offered by IT in handling agricultural information, various projects like ARIS have been initiated. They have taken care of everything except the content and specialized staff for that. As information storage, organization and dissemination is as it was throughout the history; library centered it will go on like that in the coming centuries also whatever the medium used. Hence unless the library and information centers are automated. documents are digitised, and adequate library and information science professionals made available, the information system program are not going to reach anywhere except installing huge number of computers and other equipments without any clear strategy. Information will remain away from these hardware and software. If agricultural information systems are togive intended results Library and Information Science and Electronics and Communication professionals have to work in close co-operation. This can enable unprecedented cost-effectiveness, speed, efficiency, and reliability in information services. Most live organizations have now recognized the value and importance of this aspect. Efficient information support depends on the availability of information science professionals in required quality and quantity. All developed countries are very conscious of this from very early times which has contributed to their speed in development. We can not stay out of the bandwagon. This study is on this disregarded and very important aspect; Staffing Agricultural Information Systems…

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Objectives 3. Environment 4. Staff Planning 5. System Manager 6. Legal Position 7. Staff Structure 8. Job Analysis 9. Quality and Quantity 10. Professional Development 11. Performance Appraisal 12. Suggestion ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 1. Extract from Mehrotra Committee Report 2. Recommendations of the All India Seminar on Agricultural Libraries 3. Recommendations of Agricultural Library Survey Study Team 1973 4. UGC Notification on Revision of Pay Scales and Minimum Qualification 5. Norms for Staff in SAU Evolved By Prof. Ramatirth 6. Dr. Prasher's Formula: Minimum Library Staff and its Organisation for an Agricultural University Library 7. Powers Delegated to SAU Librarian 8. Report of the Expert Committee on Staff Pattern for Kerala Agricultural University and Information System 1999 Index

Prof. R. Raman Nair, an information technology expert, has designed the Multimedia Library Automation System (McLAS 1993) in India and the KAU Library and Information System with building LANs, digital library, and IT training facilities considered to be the best in the country. He has 14 books including People’s Library Movement, Computer Application to Library and Information Services, and Internet for Library and Information Services, as well as 120 research papers and articles and many national and international conference presentations to his credit. He has organized various national level seminars including the National Seminar on Right to Information and national level IT courses and training programs under various organizations which include Managing Digital Libraries in Agriculture (ICAR). Modern Information Access Facilities (NISSAN) and Worldwide Web for Managing Agricultural Information (CAGI). Prof. Nair has associated with many expert committees on IT formed by professional organizations, universities, and the government. He is a research fellow of the American Biographical Institute and is the founder member of Rural Development Forestry Network (ODI, London), Asian Watershed Management Network (Kathmandu, Nepal), ILA, IASLIC, and AGLIS. In library and information services, he has been presented the IASLIC S.M. Ganguly National Award for the year 1998.

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