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T
HE BOOK
Progressive Trends
in Electronic Re-
source Management
in Libraries
provides relevant
theoretical and practical
details from an international
perspective on the current e-
resources landscape. Through
a detailed discussion of the
specific aspects of e-resources
management, this book is a
useful source for library science
faculty and students, academic
librarians, research scholars
and IT professionals aiming to
improve their understanding of
theoretical details, history, se-
lection, acquisition, fair use and
management of e-resources.
Electronic resources have
made a great impact on library
and users. They are available in
a variety of e-journals, e-books,
full-text/aggregated databases,
digitised and born-digital
documents, digital images,
streaming video sound and
audio books. Operational and
organisational issues of these
resources pose a huge challenge
to information managers. There
is an urgent need to discuss
these issues and find opti-
mum solutions for managing
these digital resources. There
is a need to have a one-stop
solution for their evaluation,
selection, acquisition, renewal/
cancellation, licence agreement,
open access and institutional
archives, access rights, usage
statistics, single-access point,
copyright, implementation
and administration. Electronic
Resource Management System
exist but their proliferation has
also become another issue for
libraries to select the right one.
This book attempts to
identify the various issues in
the management of e-resources.
It provides relevant theoretical
and practical details and em-
pirical research findings in this
area.
Authored By:
Dr. AK Pani, XLRI, Prof. NK
Patra, National Institute of
Food Technology Entrepreneur-
ship & Management,
Prof. B Kumar, Management
Development Institute
I
NCLUSIVENESS
AND
sustainability was
the theme for Seven-
teenth National HRD
Annual Conference 2013,
held in Kolkata last year. This
book is a compilation of 22
papers written by academi-
cians and practitioners from
India, North America, Europe
and Australia.
Inclusiveness,
Sustainability and Human Re-
source Development
focuses
on the challenges of inclusive-
ness and sustainability at the
societal, organisational and
family and individual level.
Sustainability and inclusive-
ness have emerged as key
concepts during the past
decade not only in manage-
ment thought-circles but also
as a management strategy
and management practices to
bring about business advan-
tages. Organisations have
realised that an inclusiveness
strategy facilitates meeting
the expectations of multiple
stakeholders and creates a
superior branding for them
which in turn helps them in at-
tracting and retaining superior
talent. It looks almost impos-
sible to create a long-term
performance culture without
imbibing inclusiveness and
sustainability as part of the
organisational culture.
The book discusses the role
of HRD systems and process-
es and HR fraternity in creat-
ing an inclusive and sustain-
able society. Here is a great
opportunity for HR leaders to
take charge of sustainability
management in organisations
making it the central part of
core business strategy to bring
in business advantages. HR
functionaries must design and
implement sound and sustain-
able people practices which
will create long-term sustain-
ability of individuals, organ-
isations and societies.
Authored By:
Dr. MG Jomon, XLRI, Prof.
NM Agrawal, IIM, Banga-
lore, Prof. Biju Varkkey, IIM,
Ahmedabad, Prof. Chandrima
Banerjee, Head of HR at
Sahaj e-Village, Kolkata
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
BOOK REVIEW
RESEARCH ROUNDUP
DR. ES SRINIVAS
co-authored an article on
Surviving an Abusive Su-
pervisor: The Joint Roles
of Conscientiousness
and Coping Strategies
in the
Journal of Ap-
plied Psychology
– in the
American Psychological
Association (APA).
