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Item APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CATALOGUE AND INDEX: ITS RETRIEVAL ASPECTS(2008) Sharma, Ram Prasad; Rudra Prasad DulalThe thesis entitled "RESOURCE SHARING AMONG LIBRARIES OF KATHMANDU VALLEY: ITS SITUATION WITH REFERENCE TO ISIS DATABASE" in general based upon the current situation of resource sharing among the libraries of Kathmandu valley. Today, it is virtually not possible for any library, however big and rich; to acquire all the publications due to rapid rising flow of new publications. As well as libraries are collecting, storing and processing the same documents making huge investment of money, manpower, materials and time. Resource sharing is the best and effective measure to solve many of these problems and which allows productive use of the available information and knowledge sources between and among the entire libraries' network for the reading community. It is not known that how many libraries are participating in resource sharing activities in Kathmandu valley by using computer networks. CDS/ISIS library software is used by most of the libraries in Nepal. However these libraries have not maintained CCF, due to lack of consortia. The objectives of this study are firstly to find out the existing condition of resource sharing among the libraries of Kathmandu valley through the use of IT, secondly to find out the view of libraries and library professionals about resource sharing, thirdly to find out the views of library users regarding existing condition of resource sharing and lastly to find out the importance of CCF among the libraries for resource sharing through computer network. The study is limited to ten different types of libraries of Kathmandu valley. Tribhuvan University Central Library (TUCL), Central Department of Population Studies Library (CDPSL) and Public Administration Campus Library (PACL) are the academic library; Nepal National Library (NNL) is the National Library; Kaiser Library and Kathmandu Valley Public Library (KVPL) is Public Library; Social Science Baha Library (SSBL) and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Library (ICIMODL) are Special Library; Center for Economic Development and Administration Library (CEDAL) and Nepal Academy of Science and Technology Library (NASTL) are vii Research Library. The study is limited to those numbers of libraries which is using CDS/ISIS library software for creating databases and the data is collected within 7th April 2009 to 21th April 2009 through the questionnaire. In the context of Nepal, no studies have been carried out on resource sharing through computer network. So, the fourteen related international literature have been studied and most of the reviewed literatures are focused in topic. The study focused on the digital resource sharing especially bibliographic database and eresources which is easy to share among the libraries. Most of the libraries of Kathmandu valley are using ISIS library software. The population of the study is a number of those libraries which is using ISIS library software for creating database. Ten different types of libraries have been selected as a sample for the data collection. The selection of libraries is depending upon the nature, types and easy availability. The researcher has used a set of questionnaire including 18 questions, informal interview, and observation as his basic instruments of data collection. Different types of responses are found on the way of data collection. All of the responses are analyzed and presented diagrammatically in the form of table and then tabulated data are presented diagrammatically in the form of bar-diagram and pie-chart. Every question are analyzed and presented of this thesis and drawn out the findings. According to the objectives, the major findings of this study shows that all libraries are interested to provide resource sharing service but among the libraries have no any cooperation or agreement for resource sharing. 50 % of libraries are providing resource sharing facility through their website. But this is not formal way of resource sharing on the principle of co-operation among the libraries. Because there is no any library network in Kathmandu valley to coordinate between and among the libraries, only one library is using Delhi Library Network for resource sharing. 100% libraries have maintained bibliographic databases of their collections in computer and all of the libraries have known about CCF but only 70% libraries have used CCF for creating databases. 60% libraries have faced users request for resource sharing and also 90% libraries have faced users request for collection development. It indicated that users are known about resource sharing and they are not satisfied with the collections and services of the library. This is viii the age of IT so online resources are going to popular day by day in library professionals as well as users. All types of libraries are interested to provide online resources but they haven't produced their own e-resources. They are providing some of the international eresources like JSTOR, EBSCO Host, Emerald Insight, Wiley Black-well, AGORA, HINARI etc. which is free to use along with TUCL is also providing electronic Nepali Journals to the users. To provide effective resource sharing service to the users, firstly there is urgent need of library network to connect the libraries on the basis of co-operation or agreement. This is the age of IT so libraries should be focus online resources like e-books, e-journals etc. and also focus on e-databases of all the library collections. Every library should go ahead on the principle of co-operation to fulfill their users' demand in this information explosion age. SHUBODH NEUPANE CDLIS, T.U., KirtipurItem INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF CONSTITUTION ASSEMBLY MEMBERS ON PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY AND CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DIALOGUE(2010) Bist, Prasad Lalit; Rudra Prasad DulalThe thesis entitled "Information Seeking Behavior of Constitution Assembly members on Parliamentary Library and Centre for Constitutional Dialogue" has been carried out with the main objectives of finding out the information seeking behavior of CA members of Nepal. Two libraries, namely Parliamentary library and Centre for Constitutional Dialogue have been focused along with the CA members who visit there for information seeking purpose. Information seeking behavior or pattern of using information systems and centres depends on a numbers of factors. Some of these are closely related to the personal characteristics and traits of users, where as some depend on the information centre and the information systems. These have types of activities related to the information centre have not been carried out so far. Therefore, keeping this problem in mind, the present study has been carried out. The study has been conducted from two libraries (Parliamentary Library and Centre for Constitutional Dialogue) including to 60 respondents. The individual pattern of information seeking behavior of CA members have not been included and that has been clarified in the limitation of the study area. The extended objectives regarding collection development, services, users’ demands and problem faced by them have been clearly included in the present study. Some technical terms have also been defined in this study. Related sixteen literatures have been reviewed in the concerned chapter. The study has focused on the ISB of CA members and for those, two special libraries have been selected. The sample of population is taken CA members as respondents. Among them 35 are from PL and 25 are from CCD. They have been selected randomly to make the research more uniform and valuable. The researcher has used a set of questionnaires and observation as his basic instruments of research. The questionnaire has 5 sections and 19 questions including a cover letter clarifying about the work. Section one consists of personal information of respondents, section two consists about information collection, section three consists information services provided by libraries, section four consists information needs and last section of questionnaire consisted problem faced by CA members while seeking information on library. The methodologies used to conduct the research are direct filed observation and structured questionnaire. The collections of primary data has been analyzed quantitatively by vi using statistical tools such as: tabulation, pie chart and diagram with their detail interpretation. The majority finding of the study shows information being served by the library. Therefore, 70% of the CA members have been using both the libraries for seeking the information, 37 % have frequently used newspaper and 43% reveal that the internet is the most important source to know the information. Therefore, the use of internet is the library in increasingly high. Collection development of the library for information seeking is not adequate. 60% CA members expressed that the collection of library is fairly adequate. Al most all CA members have replied, they are familiar to library services and 36% agreed that CAS is the most familiar service of the library. Due to increasing demands of internet and e-mail both the libraries have used computer and 53% CA members have been using computer for searching information. For information seeking, library staff has played important role because 68% of CA members retrieve information in library with the help of library staff. Library offers many services to their user and CA members need to select, quick and pinpointed information from library. Regarding the function of library, most of respondents (60%) expressed that the library function is good. CA members are busy person, due to time constraints many CA members spending time in libraries is 5-10 hours a week in library for information seeking. They spent many time for reading political related documents, constitution drafting related documents, newspaper and magazine and government publications. The study shows that most of the CA members are not fully satisfied with the collection of the library because majority (68%) of them are facing common problem while information seeking in library i.e. wanted books and documents are unavailable. Therefore, to overcome this problem of the respondents both the libraries have to increase the latest volume of publications. Basing upon the obtained data, its analysis and summary of the study, necessary recommendations have been made. In short, both the libraries have to facilitate physical facilities for comfortable use of the library. Similarly, documents relating to political science subjects should be added. However, the demands in CAS, newspaper clippings, power back up for internet are the demand made by CA members, are quiet reasonable. This fact also has been recommended for fulfillment. vii Reference, appendices and curriculum vitae of the researcher have been included at the end of the thesis. Keywords: Information seeking behavior, CA members Lalit Prasad Bist