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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VI)/47-67/9
AUTHOR : Ravi and Mithilesh Kumar Jha
TITLE: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARY WEBSITE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL & F/OSS TOOLS
ABSTRACT: Competition to do better in the age of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and the changing mindset of library users it is the question of survival for the LIS (Library and Information Science) professionals. LIS professionals have to come forward with ICT and develop their working and promoting the library services according to user’s requirement/ demand. Library website is the key for the LIS professionals to promote the library and its services as per the demand of present era. Design and development of library website with the help of proprietary/commercial software is not an easy task for the libraries which are facing financial crunch. The present comparative study of graphic and web designing tools/software, Various Proprietary/Commercial and Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) aims to explain and develop various check points such as price, hardware requirement, platform etc for evaluation of these software. Simultaneously, the pros and cons of these designing tools are explained which help the LIS Professionals and others to draw a parallel line with the help of choosing required software in low cost with maximum feature. The data is collected from various sources such as websites, various articles in the relevant filed and arranged in a manner that can be analyzed and presented in tabular form to make understand with less effort.
KEYWORDS: ICT, F/OSS, Adobe Software, Comparative Study of Website Designing Tools, Library Website.
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