Librarian’s Guide to WWW

Librarian’s guide to WWW is designed to be used by the students with varied backgrounds, teachers, working professionals as a reference source. Whether you are a novice or have been using the internet for years, you will find plenty of thoughts, great techniques and useful information in this book contained in invariably interesting and refreshing chapters. A wide range of topics were selected to illustrate how the internet and IT can be used and organised flexibly in a systematic manner and in a simple way. This book can be used as a good source for understanding and creating some internet applications. The input for writing this book has come largely from the hands-on-experience of the professionals working with the internet over the years and teaching and interacting with computer science students, librarians, information managers, professionals, information scientists and technocrats working with different universities. This book is divided into two parts, first part is concerned with applications of the internet while the second part consists of advance applications. This book contains seven chapters. Almost every chapter has a list of URLs at the end. Chapter 1 tells about the basic need and objectives for writing this book; Chapter 2 provides a bird’s eye-view of the internet and world wide web and compares both in addition to discussing various other protocols and applications, its also an introduction on how internet applications are useful to libraries and information centres; Chapter 3 highlights all types of resources available on the WWW and imparts necessary skills in order to enable readers to compare different types of resources. Chapter dwells on imparting the know-how to search for specific information and formulate effective queries for searching; Chapter 5 discusses on setting up a web server with a step-by-step approach with ‘screen shots’. It discusses the installation procedure and configuration of web server software ‘IIS’ from Microsoft as well as ‘Apache’ software from Apache Inc; Chapter 6 provides a collection of necessary information and guidelines to design ‘Library web page’ in a meaningful way; Chapter 7 follows a step-by-step illustrative way to ‘build your own digital library’ using greenstone software. This is tailored specifically for working librarians, future librarians and for anyone at the portals of digital craze. This book will be very useful to the students as well as the teachers as an internet usage guide.