Dynamics in Digital Information Systems

This Volume is brought out in honour of Professor M Bavakutty as a befitting tribute for a dedicated, glorious and competent colleague of the LIS profession yesterday, today and tomorrow. He has been always very good as a teacher, research guide, or organiser, a prolific writer and an active participant and contributor in professional deliberations, both at the national and internal planes. Most of the papers in this volume are hence in the areas of Knowledge Management, Knowledge Organization, Library & Information Systems, Services and professionals in the digital and networked environment. Knowledge management will facilitate empowering rural and indigenous communities on the one hand and enable the sharing and use of the wealth of tacit community knowledge for the good of the nation, the global community of nations and states. The concern is not only the need to empower the marginalised communities through information outreaches programmes but also to collect and record the community knowledge, make efforts to understand their cultures, and leverage on the wisdom they possess for the good of the society. Recent development and extension of ICT applications points to the possibilities of bridging the digital divide and better management of rural community knowledge. Attempts to use ICTs to reach out to indigenous and marginalised rural communities with a view to empowering them through implementation of e-governance, providing access to a variety of government documents relevant to the life of rural communities, village kiosks,, land-sat imaging and remote sensing, geographical information systems etc.

About the Author :
A Amudhavalli educated from Madurai Kamaraj, Karnataka, and madras Universities. She was a TCTP scholar to earn her M. Phil. from Loughborough University of Technology, England, UK. She earned her doctoral degree from University of Madras in the area of Scientometrics. Member of several professional bodies is currently the President of Madras Library Association (MALA) and Treasurer of Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies (RCIS). She is presently the Professor and Head, Dept, of Information Studies Madras. She is also a Salzburg Seminar Fellow. She has authored several papers and actively contributing to wards the progression of the profession. Widely traveled across the country and globe, Prof. Amudhavalli has teaching and research experience for nearly three decades. She is consultant for several academic, corporate library and Information Systems.