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One of the major challenges of information managers in knowledge domain such as librarians in Universities, colleges and institutions, is to provide easily accessible information to the targeted audience in a seamless manner via the internet and the intranet. This role has evolved in the last one and a half decade because of huge influence which the information and communication technology (ICT) has made leading to a more proactive role which has to be played by the library professionals and information managers.
The major task involved in this direction is to manage huge content, which is at their disposal waiting to reach out to the stakeholders. One of the paths adopted by these information managers is to look for a cost effective, reliable, up gradable and easy to manage web content management software. As the name suggests such software is an application, which is used to manage web content in its entirety. Desire remains that it should meet the expectations of technical, academic and professional expectations.
Invariably the search lands them in the hands of an out sourcing agency through very costly proprietary content management software with complete dependence for content loading and management on the vendor, a sort of what is known as predatory vendor lock-in. In recent years an answer to this slavery has emerged in the form of open source soft wares leading to freedom in the form of lower software costs, simplified license management, lower hardware costs, scaling/consolidation potential, ample support, escape vendor lock-in, unified management, quality software, etc.
Lately out of many such applications Joomla! Has emerged as a favourite open source web content management system (cms) with the information and library professionals which has almost all the desirable ready made features to meet all their web portal needs, with relative ease of use with no prior knowledge of programming languages, web development or mark up languages to create and manage web content.
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