The document discusses innovative library services at the Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL) of the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. BPCL provides a variety of IT-based services including self check-in/check-out using RFID, online resources, an OPAC, institutional repositories, and research support tools. BPCL also takes initiatives like custom subject guides, an active library website and blog, and user workshops. The library manages its print and electronic collections through various platforms and has received several awards for its innovative practices and resource usage. Challenges include maintaining resources and services, and increasing visibility of the institution's research output.

1. Innovative Services in Libraries:
Trends, Issues and Challenges
Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal
Endeavour Research Fellow (Australia)
Head & Deputy Librarian,
Biju Patnaik Central Library,
National Institute of Technology Rourkela,
Rourkela – 769008. Odisha, India.
Profile: http://bhojaraju.weebly.com
: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-1473
National Conference on Library Innovations for Excellence (LIFE) - 2017
February 16-17, 2017, IISER Pune

2. • Introduction
• Platforms for innovative library services
• Libraries and its role in Digital India
• Opportunities for Library Professionals
• Issues and Challenges
• Conclusion
Outline

3. • The Central Library of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
has named after Biju Patnaik - the former Chief Minister of Odisha,
the legendary industrialist and statesman and the founding
Chairman of Board of Governors of REC Rourkela.
• It has been functional since 1965.
• Has four storeys covering an area of 2400 sq. mts.
• Equipped with latest tools and technologies to provide IT based
services to NITR academic community.
• BPCL website: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Introduction about BPCL

4. Central Library
Circulation CounterMain Building
Reading HallStack Area

5. Sections of Library
Book Scanner – Digital Processing Section
Periodical Display
Reference Section
Bound Volumes
Bound Volumes

6. • Library-cum-Identity card along with Blood group
• Self Check-in/Check Out using RFID
• Campus wide (Residences, Hostels, etc.) access to E-resources
• OPAC search facility for Print and E-books of different publishers
with links to full texts
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD) to conduct
Orientation/User Education Programme at each departments
• Research/Project Support Services (RPS) to users
• Knowledge Sharing Session for all library staff (Weekly)
Best Practices to provide innovative services

7. • LibGuide – Customised Subject/Research Guide to connect all
resources by Subject-wise at one place
• Library Website – a single point to connect users with all its
content
• State-of-the-art implementations – Mobile Applications, QR Code,
etc.
• Open Access to all institutional repositories
• User Awareness Workshops (UAW)
• BPCL conducted a library survey - “My Views-Feedback on
Library” for NITR users to collect the feedback about library
services and its infrastructure.
Best Practices to provide innovative services

8. Resources* Collections Platform Access / URL
Books 78000+ Libsys http://libcat.nitrkl.ac.in/webopac
Print Journals 90 Print On Periodical Display area
E-Journals 6000+ Titles Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/search-online-
journals
E-Books 16000+ Koha http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in
In-house Archival Resources IR – 2382+
ETD – 5523+
Odia Books – 550+
NITR Documents 300+
DSpace
E-Prints
E-Prints
DSpace
http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace/
http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/
http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/
http://documents.nitrkl.ac.in/jspui/
Bound Volumes 17974 Print http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in
Full-text e-Resources 24 Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Databases 8 Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Video Lectures (NPTEL) 10000+ Online http://oac.nitrkl.ac.in/nptel/
A/V Materials –
Books accompanying CDs /DVDs
688
900+
Koha http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/cd-search
Standards (3) 29000+ Online http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
Platforms to manage library resources
*As on July 2016

9. • User Orientation Programme
• Online Public Access Catalogue
• Self Issue/Return using RFID
• Information KIOSK
• Online reserve/renew documents
• New Arrivals Alert of Books & Periodicals
• E-Newsletter (Monthly)
• Alerts (Overdue, Fine, etc.)
• Institutional Repositories
▫ Scholarly Publications
▫ ETDs
▫ Project - Open Access Odia Books (OAOB)
▫ NITR Documents
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD)
• Research / Project Support Service (RPS)
▫ Turnitin, Grammarly, Scopus, WOS, Ref Mgt.,
• Subject / Research Guide
• Library Blog
• User Awareness Workshops
• Trial Access and Demos of Products
IT-based Library Services
Information KIOSKPedestal Security Gate

10. E-Resources @ BPCL - Subscribed
Name of E-Resources Titles
ACS 50
AIP 16
APS 14
De Gruyter 2
IEL-Level 2 (IEEE)
Titles – 479 + Conference Procd – 19850
+ Standards – 3513
HBR Magazine 1
RSC Gold Titles - 38 + Database -6 + e-Book - 1
Sage-EMS includes Imeche 57
Sage eOnly (HS+Mangt) 9
Science Direct - 5SC 913
Science Online-AAAS 1
SIAM 16
Springer eJournal (1400+) 1469
Taylor & Francis (ECT) 185
Wiley Online (Core + Custom) 23
Database
Engineering Village-2
(Compendex + Inspec)
MathSciNet
Prowess - IQ
SciFinder
Scopus
E-Books
Springer 15636
Science Direct (Elsevier) 441

11. E-Resources @ BPCL – E-ShodhSindhu (ESS)
Name of E-Resources Titles
ACM DL
Titles: 141
Conference Proceedings= 1003
ASCE Journals Online 36
ASME Journals Online 29
ASTM Standard+ Digital Library
(SEDL)
Titles – 8
Standards – 12596
STP – 1560
Monographs - 169
Economic & Political Weekly 1
Emreald CFTI Collection 299
Jstor 3071
Nature 1
Oxford University Press 262
Institute for Studies in Industrial
Development (ISID)
Database
Jgate Plus JCCC Database
Web of Science Lease Access Database
http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/eres.php?memID=365

12. e-Resources Management
http://libdocs.nitrkl.ac.in/journals/list/

13. Awards & Accolades for BPCL
Year Host Award Category
2012 Elsevier Highest "ScienceDirect" usage among NIT's – 2012
2012 Nature
Science
Nature Journal Awards 2012 – Best NIT User - INDEST Consortia
2013 IEEE Authorized subscriber of the IEEE [IET Electronic Library (IEL)] 2013
2014 ASME Highest User Award for ASME online Journals in 2014 among Level 2
Core Members
2015 RSC Best usage among NIT's in India for the period
2013-2015

14. • Library Website
• Liaison Program with Departments (LPD)
• Research /Project Support Service (RPS)
▫ Turnitin, Grammarly, Scopus, WOS, Ref Mgt., etc.
• Subject / Research Guide
• Branding of BPCL over Social Media
• Mobile Applications, QR Code, etc.
• Institutional Repositories – Open Access
Initiatives taken by BPCL
IR Name Platform Contents Items
e-Papers@NITR DSpace Scholarly Publications by all NITR fraternity – Journal Articles, Conference Papers,
Books, Book Chapters, etc.
2382
E-Thesis@NITR e-Prints Theses and Dissertations 5523
Project OAOB e-Prints Open Access Odia Books (OAOB) preserves the heritage of Odia literature and
culture by digitizing old and rare literary in Odia language.
550
NITR Documents DSpace an open access repository system for all official key documents of NITR such as
Minutes of BOG, Senate, HOD, MoUs, Accreditation & Ranking, etc.
300+

15. Source: http://library.nitrkl.ac.in
• Library Website of BPCL
• Easy access to all
▫ Resources and information links
▫ Services
▫ Catalogue
▫ Search
▫ Institutional Repositories
▫ Initiatives
▫ Library blog
▫ Research Support
▫ Events
▫ Social connect
▫ Contacts
Library Website

16. Library OPACs: Books & e-Books
Library OPAC is web based application which gives freedom to search books detail
available in the library. It also enables an user to search book through different
options such Author, Title, Year , etc. It contains many databases such as Books,
Journals etc.
URL: http://libcat.nitrkl.ac.in/webopac/html/SearchForm
E-Books OPAC is web based application which gives freedom to search e-books
details available in the library. It also enables an user to search e-book through
different options such Author, Title, Year etc. It contains many databases such as
e-books, bound volumes, A/V material etc. URL: http://opac.nitrkl.ac.in/
(Libsys) (Koha)

17. Accessing Content

18. In-house Archives: e-Papers & e-Thesis
Institutional Repository (IR) is an open access repository system to make the
institute’s research output such as journal papers, conference papers etc. visible
and accessible to the globe without any barrier.
URL: http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace
Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) is an institutional open access thesis and
dissertations repository of National Institute of Technology Rourkela.
URL: http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in

19. In-house Archives: NITR Documents
NITR Documents is an open access
repository system for all official key
documents of NITR such as Minutes of
BOG, Senate, HOD, MoUs,
Accreditation & Ranking, etc.
URL: http://documents.nitrkl.ac.in/jspui/

20. Project OAOB
Open Access to Odia Books (OAOB) is a not-for-profit project initiated by National Institute of
Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela. The mission
of the project is to preserve cultural history of Odisha by digitizing old and rare literary works in
the Odia language.
URL: http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/
Book Scanner – Digital Processing Section

21. IRs visibility
Source: http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia/India
Ranking of Web Repositories by Cybermetrics Lab,
CSIC Spain for NIT Rourkela as follows:
(as on Jan 2017)
• e-Thesis (ePrints) - the institutional Open
Access electronic theses repository of our
Institute, has been ranked 2nd in India.
• e-Papers (DSpace) - the repository of all
scholarly output of NITR is ranked at the 11th
place in India.
Ranking of World Universities
• NIT Rourkela is ranked 19th place in India
Benefits of IRs and Open Access:
• Ranking of Repositories
• Fame to the Institutes
• Visibility to Scholars
• Increase citation for Scholars
• Grants and Funding
• Accreditation
eThesis (ePrints)
ePapers (DSpace)
Repository Name
Ranking
July 2014 July 2015 July 2016 Jan 2017
India World India World India World India World
e-Thesis 5 345 6 395 4 501 2 472
e-Papers 15 862 10 636 7 695 11 865

22. RPS objectives are:
• to provide value added services to NITR
community and to attend the Reference
queries
• to support research/project related
activities.
• to extend help its users in using Turnitin,
Scopus, Grammarly, Searching e-
resources, Citation styles, User education
and other related tools.
• URL:
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/iniatives/research-
support
Research/Project Support Service (RPS)

23. Turnitin
Turnitin
 Helps to Promote Originality
 Avoid academic misconduct
and confirm the originality of
research work
 Give rich, personalized
feedback with your own drag-
and-drop comments
 Grading of student work
Other links:
 http://turnitin.com/en_us/highe
r-education
 http://turnitin.com/en_us/traini
ng/instructor-training
Turnitin - http://turnitin.com/

24. Grammar Checker - Grammarly
Grammarly - https://www.grammarly.com/
Grammarly
https://www.grammarly.com/
 the world’s most accurate
grammar checker
 Contextual spelling checker –
helps to eliminate 250 types of
errors
 Vocabulary enhancement – to
bring clarity and meaning
 Plagiarism check

25. Subject/Research Guides
Subject / Research Guide
 to provide information about the key resources accessible to all NITR community in a particular subject.
 to access resources such as Books, e-Books, Magazines, e-journals, subscribed databases, Open Access Educational Resources
(OERs), Technology Enabled Learning resources (Videos, Lessons, etc.) and library catalog on a single platform. URL:
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/libguide/subjects/index.php

26. Open Access E-Resources (OERs)
All Open Access e-Resources (OERs)
are listed at Subject Guide at
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/libguide/subjects/index.php
http://library.nitrkl.ac.in/
Open Access links constitutes of
 E-Journals
 E-Books
 E-Theses (OATD, Shodhganga, NDLTD)
 Institutional Repositories
 Patents
 Harvesters (NDL, BASE, OAIster, etc.)
 E-Newspapers, News Channels
IRs are Harvesting at
 DoAJ, BASE, NDLTD, NDL, etc.
https://www.base-search.net/Search/Advanced

27. Library Services Blog
Blog: Central library is maintaining a blog on all
library Services such as latest information is
displayed such new arrivals (periodicals), latest
subscription, Trail access to resources, etc.
URL: Intranet

28. NPTEL Videos
NPTEL Videos: The main objective
of NPTEL includes curriculum based
video and web courses.
This is being carried out by seven
IITs and IISc Bangalore as a
collaborative project.
URL: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

29. Indexing Database Publisher Publications Citations h-Index
Scopus Elsevier 5146 29342 63
Web of Science Thomson Reuters 3581 20083 52
Google Scholar Google 13600 65
Microsoft Academic
Research
Microsoft 2115
Engineering Village Elsevier 2714
J-Gate Informatics India Ltd. 2111
SciFinder American Chemical
Society
1301
IEEE Xplore IEEE 720
MathSciNet American Mathematical
Society
224
PubMed US National Library of
Medicine
43
NITR Research visibility
Data as on October 2016
63
52
65
Scopus WoS G Scholar
h-Index
5146
3581
13600
Scopus WoS G Scholar
No. of Publications

30. • Annual Book Fair
• Conferences/ Workshops
• User orientation programme
• User awareness workshops
• Vendor demonstrations
Outreach programs by BPCL

31. Glimpses of Book Fair

32. Events @ BPCL

33. Conference/Workshops Organised by BPCL
Events Description Dates
ELPES-1 National Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Content
Management System (Joomla) & Data Migration: Challenges &
Prospects
May 02-05,
2016
ELPES-2 National Conference on Emerging Trends and Techniques for
Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Issues & Challenges
February 13-14,
2016
ELPES-3 National Workshop on Library Automation with Koha: An open
source solution
October 15-17,
2016
ELPES-4 National Workshop on Building Institutional Repository and
Website/Blog: DSpace and WordPress
June 06-10,
2016
RSTSP TEQIP Sponsored Workshop on Research Support e-Resources,
Tools & Techniques and Scholarly Publishing (RSTSP-2016)
October 27,
2016
ELPES-5 National Workshop on Library Automation (Koha), Application of
RFID and Reference Management Tool (Zotero)
December 05-09,
2016
NIT 3rd NIT Librarians Meet January 12, 2017
NDL Regional (East-1) Workshop on Institutional Digital Repository for
National Digital Library of India,, Jointly Organized by BPCL, NIT
Rourkela and NDL (NMEICT Project), IIT Kharagpur.
January 13-14,
2017

34. User Awareness Workshops
UAW Date Topic
UAW-1 12-08-15 Elsevier’s Research Enablement Tools
UAW-2 19-08-15 McGraw Hill’s Digital Resource Awareness
UAW-3 26-08-15 Turnitin: An Anti Plagiarism Tool & Resource Awareness
UAW-4 02-09-15
Prowess: A Database of Financial Performance of
Indian Companies
UAW-5 09-09-15 IEEE Xplore Digital Library: Delivering Research Better Than Ever
UAW-6 16-09-15 Presentation on Digital Resources by Oxford University Press
UAW-7 07-10-15 Digital Library Solution by Informatics
UAW-8 14-10-15 A Hands on Training Session on Prowess
UAW-9 31-08-16 EBSCO Product & Services
UAW-10 21-09-16
Institute of Civil Engineers, Mary Ann Liebert, American Society of Microbiology, SPIE
Digital Library Products
UAW-11 28-09-16 Journals of Visualised Experiments: JoVE

35. Opportunities for LIS professionals in Digital India
Source: http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/content/vision-and-vision-areas
Digital
Infrastructure
Governance &
Services
Digital
Empowerment
• Internet
• Mobile
• Shareable
private space on
a public cloud
• Availability of
services in real
time from
online & mobile
platforms
• Information for
decision support
• Universal digital literacy
• Universally accessible
digital resources
• Availability of digital
resources / services in
Indian languages
• e-format document
submission
• Data Gov
Opportunities for LIS Professionals
 Institutional Repositories
 Scholarly Communication and Publications
 Copyright, IPR, etc.
 Open Access
 Knowledge Management
 Information Storage and Retrieval
 Digital Curation
 Research Data Management
 Mobile Applications
 Cloud Storage
 Extensive use of resources
 Research Support Services
Vision areas of Digital India Program

36. Issues, Challenges and Solutions
Issues and Challenges Solutions
• Different perspectives of Issues and Challenges
such as
• People
• Content
• Process
• Tools & Technologies
• The impact of ICT on libraries
• Change in Users’ requirements
• Transformation in library services
• Submission of scholarly output to IRs
• Copyright and IPR issues
• Culture
• Communication
• Policy Framework
• Mandatory submission
• Training for library staff
• Orientation to Users
• Upgradation of LIS Curriculum on regular
basis
• Update Skills for Librarians to keep pace
with the demand
• Adaption of emerging trends and
technologies to meet the user requirements
• Mapping of Experts and data/content
• Change Management in libraries
• Impact of Social Media on libraries

37. • Library Professionals need to keep abreast of the latest
developments in the field.
• Need to team up with other associated professionals to develop
new technologies required for the libraries.
• Librarians must make themselves more pertinent in this Digital
Age.
Conclusion

38. Connect with BPCL
Social Media URL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bpcl.nitrkl
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BPCL_NITR
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CentralLibraryNITR/
Blog: http://library-nitrkl.blogspot.in/
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0059-6847
Stay connected with BPCL for latest updates on Social Media

39. Thank You
Dr.Bhojaraju Gunjal
Endeavour Research Fellow (Australia)
Head & Deputy Librarian,
Biju Patnaik Central Library,
National Institute of Technology Rourkela,
Rourkela – 769008. Odisha, India.
Email: Bhojaraju.G@gmail.com | Cell: +91- 9900511891 / 9040511891
: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-1473