<p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoTitle">Indian Statistical Institute</p><div>
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Documentation Research and
Training Centre</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">8<sup>th</sup> Mile Mysore
Road, R.V. College Post</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bangalore-560059</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seminar</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On</span></h3><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Next
Generation Catalogues: User expectations</span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Since the days of Cutter, tools to access the resources of
libraries are changing their structure and interface rapidly and dramatically
to fulfill the dynamic user needs. Today almost every library user comes with
expectations set and defined by their experience of using the Web. So the
catalogues, which are offered by the libraries, need to operate at the same
level of sophistication as other popular Web destinations. In the past decade
people's expectations regarding search and <i>e</i>-access to information have
dramatically changed. The proliferation of desktop computers, the increasing
amounts of <i>"born digital" </i>content, and the advent of the
Internet have all contributed to this. People expect to enter one or two words
(or maybe a phrase) into a search box, click a button, get a ranked-list of
relevant items returned, select an item from the results, and view/download the
information. The process has to be quick, easy, and immediate. Even though
people know that the information available from libraries is free and
authoritative they often use libraries as a last resort because they see
library systems are overwhelmingly associated with books, confusing, difficult
to use, time consuming, complex and inconvenient. </p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The seminar will examine the present developments and
explore the likely future developments in re-designing the OPAC to support
resource discovery.<span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b>Speaker:</b><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Vinit Kumar
</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>JRF</span><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";">
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</div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style=""> </span></h1><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><h1 style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: center;">***All
are cordially invited***</h1><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><h2 style="text-align: center;"> </h2><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><h2 style="text-align: center;">Venue:<span style=""> </span>DRTC Classroom<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Professor and Head</h2><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Date:<span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span>14<sup>th</sup> December, 2007<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>DRTC</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Time:<span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span>2 p.m.<span style=""> </span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">
-- <br>Regards<br>Vinit Kumar <a href="mailto:vinit@drtc.isibang.ac.in">vinit@drtc.isibang.ac.in</a><br>Junior Research Fellow<br>Documentation Research and Training Cent re<br>Bangalore<br><a href="http://M.L.I.Sc">M.L.I.Sc
</a>. (BHU)<br>Varanasi<br></div><br></div>
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