DIGITIZATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE QUESTION PAPERS IN BHARATHIDASAN

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

By

V. MUTHULAKSHMI

 

 

SUPERVISOR

Dr. M. SURULINATHI

Assistant Professor

Department of Library and Information Science

Statement of the problem

Information access through electronic media has had a

lot of impact on the libraries and library community.

Almost all the librarians have been facilitated to develop

new strategy for managing the IT facilities.

This study aims to digitization of Computer Science

Question Bank of Bharathidasan University to establish

an electronic library to satisfy the end users.

 OBJECTIVIES

To provide wide access to the Library’s Online Question

Bank collections.

To preserve Computer Science (M. Sc and B.Sc.) Question

Bank available in Bharathidasan University Library.

To save the valuable shelf space.

To scan and convert the entire printed Question Papers of

M.Sc. and B. Sc. Computer Science in to the digital

format using Digital Scanner.

SCOPE

Question Bank approach to creating digital

collection outlines our objectives for providing online

access to digital versions Computer Science (Master of

Science and Bachelor of Science) question bank during

the period 2010-2012 in our collections available in

Bharathidasan University Library and defines our

considerations when digitizing for public access.

METHODOLOGY

The related question papers collected from control of

examination section, after that questions converted in to

digital format with the help of Scanner (HP) Scan jet 3110

with inbuilt OCR Software. Moreover Building Collection

used dspace digital library Software. The following tools

are used to our study. Apache Postgr MySQLJavaPerlDspace

Dspace

Dspace was Expressly created by MIT as a digital

Repository to capture the Intellectual output of

multidisciplinary Research Organizations.MIT designed the

system in collaboration with the Hewlett-PackardCompa

Dspace software can be downloaded from

(http://www.dspace.org/).The assembly of software needed for

building the repository is,Java SDK 1.4.2Apache 2.0.547Apache Ant 1.6.5Postgre SQL 8.0.2DSpace 1.5

Institutional Repository at Bharathidasan University

BDU Institutional Repository provides the access to the

Bharathidasan University Electronic Thesis and Dissertations,

question Bank, scholarly publications, Newspaper Clippings,

Lecture presentation and other resources.

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http://172.16.110.39/jspui/handle/123456789/4

Question Bank at IR

Collection Building:

Login to “ Dspace: Bdulib libaray. Click on ‘start a new submission’.

Process of Collection Building:

If you want to upload more than one file select first check box

Describe the Metadata for question

Describe the item

Upload the file into the repository

File Uploaded Successfully

Submission verification:

Grand License to submit the document

This completes the submission of your document

Search and Retrieval System

Institutional Repository provides access to the Bharathidasan University Post Graduate and Under Graduate Question Papers. It covers computer science (M. Sc and B. Sc.) department questions in Bharathidasan University.

http://172.16.110.39/jspui/

Searching

The Searching method of institutional Repository in

Bharathidasan University Library is called Two Types. That is

Simple Search and another one Advanced Search is given

below.

Simple Search

Advanced Search

Limit search for access to Computer Science Collection

The item description for this searching becomes

Downloading page for get full question paper

The Browsing methods of institutional Repository

in Bharathidasan University Library are different types.

That is Browse by Subject; Browse by Title, Browse by

Author Search is given belowBwosing by title:

CONCLUSION

This is the age of information explosion. It demands

Institutional Librarians to organize and provide right

information to the right user at the right time. To

fulfill this task they build their Online Question

Bank repositories. Many open source software are

available to build digital repositories. Dspace

software is one of the open source software. It can

build Online Question Bank repository effectively.

Bharathidasan University made considerable

progress with respect to the goal of digitizing all

the question papers available in library.

We could expect to see the entire question papers

preserved for future generations of user

community of Bharathidasan University

I would like to thank Dr.  S.  SRINIVASARAGAVAN, Professor & Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Bharathidasan University for his support.

I am very much thankful to Assistant Professors             C. Ranganathan, B. Jeyaprakash,  Dr. R. Balasubramani and Dr.  N.  Amsaveni and Library Technical Officers B. Neelakandan, A. Rajendran,           C. Kokila,  P. Jayanthi and other  Library  staffs  helping me as a resource person and providing me his valuable suggestions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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