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Reports on the second phase of "ICAR‐INFLIBNET Training Programme for Agriculture Librarians on Networking and E‐Resources Management", a series of nine training programmes organized in two phases and hosted by the Indian Inter‐University Information & Network Centre. The programme, of two weeks duration, was supported by the World Bank through the National Agriculture Technology Project in New Delhi, India. The programme was specially designed for agricultural library professionals of Indian State Agriculture University, Agriculture Colleges and R&D institutes. The second phase was conducted during November 2003.

On the one hand the world has reached the last stages of library automation, while, on the other, the Internet has revolutionized it with different concepts such as the electronic, digital, virtual and library without walls. Now, professionals are researching knowledge management, Internet cataloguing, copy cataloguing, metadata, Z39.50 retrieval protocol, and resource sharing in the context of inter‐library loan, document delivery services, Internet services through Net etc. Unfortunately in an Indian context, libraries are still in the process of the automation and digitization of their resources. This paper discusses some of the barriers to progress in these areas in university libraries in India.

In this Internet era, when everything is going on the Web, character encoding becomes an issue for developers and facilitators. This matter also concerns India, as a country with rich diversity in languages, cultures, customs and religions, which are stored in print media as manuscripts, monographs, pamphlet, tamra‐patras (copper plates), palm leaves etc. Library and information networks in India hold the responsibility to digitise all those valuable resources stored in print media and make them accessible to users through the Web. However, due to technology limitations, so far it has not been practical to do so. This paper tries to explain the limitations and problems being faced in this regard, highlights the issues involved with multi‐script database creation and the required state‐of‐the‐art technology. Finally, Unicode is considered as a solution as it is a Universal Character Set for character encoding.

This paper aims to describe the digital object identifier (DOI) system, an implementation of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives handle system, where a handle is designed to provide an efficient, extensible, and secured global name to an intellectual object.

Explains the overview of DOI system, its components with examples in addition to benefits of DOI to user communities.

The management of intellectual objects in a digital environment such as the internet, which is flooded with various kind of objects like research articles, e‐books, electronic theses and dissertations etc. requires the existence of persistent, reliable identifiers for each distinguishable piece of content and associated services activated by these identifiers to manage access and other digital rights. The DOI is the essential part of the electronic publishing especially for the management and the access of the resources is concerned. The DOI system is the new technology developed for persistent identification and interoperable exchange of intellectual property on digital networks.

This paper offers a useful explanation of DOI and their implementation in simple way for the professionals.

To share with readers the scope and content of presentations made at the CALIBER 2005 meeting.

Descriptive case studies and innovation were presented in the context of how progress in these areas has been made in both developing and developed parts of the world.

Information technology infrastructure allows for all these themes to be developed. An increased awareness of how workflow leads to new product development and new libraries services evolve is described in this conference report. The digital arena is explored from many vantage points including digital resources, consortia development, eLearning and eScholarship, and the changing role of the internet.

A scientific approach is tested in most of the research projects described with great dependence on a range of information technology tools that promote networking and digital library development.

International development takes place in a period of great collaboration and that spirit is widely pronounced at this conference and in the presentations made there. Practical Implications: Many different projects were shared ranging in scale from modest to highly sophisticated, involving one institution or a consortia. E‐Learning and distance education were environments that had high impact at this conference.

The purpose of this article is to provide an Indian perspective on copy cataloguing and its current position in libraries.

The study is based on the experiences of visiting various colleges and universities across the country. The paper explains copy cataloguing and its sources available to the Indian libraries for retrospective conversion.

Copy cataloguing in India is not widespread. The supply of a “ready cataloguing” in MARC format by Indian publishers and supply agents is also not widely available.

Copy cataloguing features have been implemented into the SOUL software and the IndCat, an online union catalogue of Indian universities for the Indian libraries.

It is observed that copy cataloguing features have never been explained in one place for Indian libraries. The information provided in the paper will help the community at large.

This paper seeks to describe efforts in the area of converting bibliographic records into Dublin Core from the Common Communication Format.

The paper provides examples of two mappings, one for unqualified Dublin Core metadata elements, and the other for qualified Dublin Core metadata elements.

Some difficulties may occur during the conversion of bibliographic records, and these difficulties are stated along with possible solutions.

The paper provides a methodology which would enable an algorithm to be developed for converting CCF‐based bibliographic records into Dublin Core metadata elements.

India is a country rich in diversity in languages, cultures, customs and religions. Records of this complete culture, secret manuscripts and related documents of the respective religions, and 3,000 years of Indian history are available in their respective languages in different museums and libraries across the country. When the automation of libraries started in India, immediately the issue of localization of library and museum databases emerged. The issue became even more apparent with the advent of digital libraries and interoperability. At the start of automation, in the absence of proper standards, professionals tried to romanize documents as computers used to accept only binary digits of roman script to represent the English language. Later, the development of a new technology, ISCII, which is an extended form of the ASCII values from 126 to 255, helped library professionals in either developing the bilingual bibliographic databases or bilingual text files on DOS or Unix based applications. Gradually the font for Windows‐based applications was developed for creating Web sites or document files. But now, with the requirement of different languages in the world including Indian, there is a forum available called “Unicode, Inc.” which provides a solution to the localization problem of the world's languages. In this paper, Unicode as a multilingual standard is explained and the related technology available for localizing the Indian language materials is discussed.

To describe the first year of the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) in Middlesex University Learning Resources.

The technology is explained in detail to set the scene. Information on the implementation is presented in chronological order.

Problems which would generally be applicable to other installations in these early days of the use of RFID in libraries are pointed out.

It is possible to implement RFID without too much lead time, although, had longer been available, some aspects would have gone more smoothly.

Contains valuable information for other libraries considering or intending to introduce RFID.

The purpose of this paper is to reduce the post-harvest loss occurring through respiration and CO₂ emission produce by the selected produces, during logistics. This paper proposes a supply chain (SC) structure for the Indian traditional agriculture SC planning model to reduce post-harvest loss and mixed closed transportation to reduce CO₂ emission.

The Indian agriculture SC structure is modeled and solved by genetic algorithm using a MATLAB Optimization toolbox. The respiration rate is measured by a static method. These values are applied in an SC planning model and the post-harvest loss and its corresponding CO₂ emission are estimated.

This paper proposes a supply structure for the Indian traditional agriculture SC to reduce the post-harvest loss; the experiments measured the respiration rate to estimate the CO₂ emission. The mixed closed transportation method is found to be suitable for short-purpose domestic transportation.

The optimized supply structure leads to unemployment through eliminating the intermediaries. Therefore, further research encourages the conversion of intermediaries into hub instead of eliminating them.

This paper includes implications for the development of Indian traditional agriculture SC by an optimized supply structure and novel transportation method for the selected agriculture produces based on compatibility.

This paper identified that the agriculture produces respiration can also emit the CO₂. The closed transportation method can reduce the CO₂ emission of produces respiration than traditional open transportation.