DELNET ANNUAL LECTURE

The DELNET Annual Lecture for 2014 on Personalising Libraries and Their Access was delivered by Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Sancheti, President (Vice - Chancellor) Manipal University Jaipur on 08 Feb. 2014 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. It was followed by the introductory address by Dr. H.K.Kaul, Network manager, DELNET, New Delhi.

Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Sancheti referred to the growth of Libraries and use of electronic domain and re-productivity and regeneration of knowledge. Libraries are road of current development and growth. Library personilsing is very important. It means that each person’s experience of the digital library will vary from that of others. The library will produce different experiences, and possibly different answers, for each individual, thus reducing the common experiences and shared references that bind the community together, and increasing problems associated with transparency, divergent interpretations, and training. Even without direct social interaction, a social effect can thus arise from personalization. Sharing information with others creates possibilities for discovery, reinterpretation and discourse. Personalization as the ways in which information and services can be tailored to match the unique and specific needs of an individual or a community.

Personalization can be user - driven which involves a user directly invoking and supporting the personalization process by providing explicit input.

The growing diversity of digital libraries, the communities accessing them, and how the information is used requires that the next generation of digital libraries be more effective at providing information that is tailored to a person’s background knowledge, skills, tasks, and intended use of the information.