Web Based Discovery Tools And Its Implementation In Indian Academic Libraries

Library professionals play a vital role in implementing this tool to users that can be made get-at-able such resources to ameliorate its usage. Academic Institutions spend a huge amount in its collection development thru different information platforms per year. But due to lack of capable searching tool among these resources sometimes found unutilized. These tools provide single interface to the libraries Due to not adopting proper searching tools by libraries, users may not be able to accessing the related information from such resources. This will also puzzle the users' interest in acquiring the objective of library i.e., connecting the right information to the right user at right time. If libraries use web-scale discovery as a strong successor to federated search and recognized a way to make the library’s resources more accessible to library users by using a single search interface that could serve the needs of the diverse populations that use the library resources. This paper tries to focus the concept of Web based discovery tools, its need in an academic library