Munesh Kumar presents on using a grid layout for a library website to accelerate access to e-resources. A grid layout can be more helpful than traditional menus and tabs. It allows information to be easily portrayed and accessed directly or through search. Features of a grid layout include being responsive across devices, reducing complexity, and increasing visits. Technical skills needed include programming, tagging, and tools like analytics. The grid method implemented at NIT Goa Library was found to better explain resources and be easy to update without extra coding.

1. Grid Layout of Library
Website for Accelerating the
uses of E-Resources
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Munesh Kumar
Assistant Librarian
National Institute of Technology Goa
e-Mail.: muneshkindia@gmail.com
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2. Introduction
Web sites are the real face of organizations in the cyber world. It reflects what exists in
reality. A well-designed website with all the information available in the library can be
supportive to Library authority in increasing the access to information among the Non-
Techie users. Grid website construction is one of latest favorable style which could be
more helpful than the traditional menu/tab based website. Most of the websites are
built in HTML or in PHP; Grid technology embedded web designing is more suitable and
purposeful with lots of additional cost saving majors. Here, I explain the Grid
Construction of Library website and dissemination of information usings quick linksfor
increasing the uses of e-resources.
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3. Grid Techniques
There are various methods of serving information and knowledge, web based
method is one of them. In the order of web programming, Grid Technique emerged
in Grid Method built websites are a grater navigator to the information seekers
without consuming their time much. Grid methods benefits us in finding
The information easily portrayed in the website(Bradley, 2013).
As per the routine practices, two methods are followed for providing the access,
either a direct link or by an internal search panel by a set of embedded programming
code. The Grid System is something out side of which get accommodated,
responsive with each reading devices interactive of the screen size(jimmyweb,
2017)
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4. Grid Layout Features
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6. Usefulness
●People Understand; Form for
Observation,
●Direct the Eyes,
●Reduce Realism,
●Make the Abstract Concrete,
●Simplifying the Complexity,
●Charge it Up
●Less complication in the creation and updating
●Doesn’t nest the extra textual data
●Less burden on web-server
●Increases the visits/hits
●Easy to teach / demo the users
●Satisfying to the various laws and principles of LIS
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7. Technical side
Simple Grid,
Pure Grid,
FlexBox Grid,
Bootstrap,
Foundation
Columnal,
Skeleton,
Less Framework,
Semantic Grid System,
Golden Grid System,
Gridless etc.
Local servers
Cloud servers
Domain
Wordpress
Joomla,
Drupal
Google Analytics
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8. Technical Competencies
●Library Science in an updating approaches
●Experts of the technical world as the second life zone.
●Digital marketing
●Search Engines Tools and techniques
●Programming skills, HTML, CSS, and XML, XSLT
●Tagging and highlighting
●Assistive Approach / Site Demo
●Self-motivation
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9. Conclusion
In the fast growing information, age and trend of multidisciplinary research libraries are
getting more users expected to get much more information than earlier. Grid method of the
website will be able to serve the electronic information within a fraction of the time by not
holding users at the website. It also has better features like easy to explain and show by
navigating users one by one. It is implemented a basic level for intranet users at Library,
National Institute of Technology Goa. It is found more continents for library staff to explain
the resource also. The best feature of this grid method website is that it is easy to update and
change since there is no need of extra cascading and coding for other features. Primarily, it is
not needed but for adding features more than an s service is also easy subject to other
factors of production input. It might be criticized that it is only the pages in other way but this
change has greater value in it. It is tried to bring a change by putting an idea for changing the
trend and meeting the requirements by upgrading the sites in the purview of a global pattern.
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11. Thanks for the attention
Contact me:
Munesh Kumar
Assistant Librarian
National Institute of Technology Goa
muneshkindia@gmail.com
Questions
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