ISBN: 9788170005490    Publisher: Ess Ess Publication Year of publishing: 2005     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 450        Language: English

In this volume of papers brought out in honour of Professor S Parthasarathy, the editors have put together invited papers from information professionals and friends, admirers of Professor S Parthasarathy. The papers present the authors' views and comments on Library and Information Systems and Services, Social Networking, Intellectual Property Rights, Right to Information, Human Resources Development, Bibliometrics, and appreciation of the qualities of head and heart. The paper in the first section discuss the history of Prof. S.P of the new Library of Alexandria, knowledge economy in India; and national information system in Iran. The second section focuses on AGRIS search system, corporate information system in the knowledge society era, and the importance of archives and archival collection development. The third section deals with mobile phones, Wimax, Web 2.0 and YouTube in social networking. The fourth section includes a paper each on intellectual property rights and Right to Information Act. Three papers on human resources development are included in the fifth section. There is one paper on bibliometrics in section six.
The section seven gives biographical sketches of Professor S Parthasarathy and appreciation of his humane qualities by his friends and admirers. Multi-lingual thesauri, Classified Catalogue Code of Dr S R Ranganathan and an analytical study of the Pancharatna Kritis of Saint musician Sri Tyagaraja are included in the last section.
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