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The present paper analyzed the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of cooperatives sustainability and examined the sustainability oriented competitive strategies adopted by sample cooperatives. Field survey method will be followed. Multi-stage sampling method was adopted to select study area, cooperatives and respondents. Six cooperatives and by adopting PPS 100 members were selected. The sustainability score card approach advocated by Measuring Cooperative Difference Research Network (MDCRN), Canada and Morris Inequality Index were used. The result shows that the agricultural cooperatives do have better position with economic sustainability, to some extent social sustainability, but they do not have favourable situation in environmental sustainability so that the cooperatives are located at moderate and low level of sustainability condition. With regard to comprehensive cooperative sustainability the same result is seen among sampled cooperatives. Sustainability level and ranking are in consonance with the strategies they adopted and right strategy at right time effectively is advocated.

The study examines the barriers related to Library and Information Science. A structured questionnaire was designed and directly administered to the LIS Research Scholars who are currently involved in the Research in the Universities/Colleges of Tamil Nadu (India). A total of 124 questionnaires were distributed and 109 respondents have replied. The majority of common barriers faced by the respondents are ‘High Expenditure’, ‘Lack of Statistical Skills’, and ‘Inadequate of infrastructures’ and ‘Poor response in data collection’. The study is also recommended that the Universities/Colleges offered the research programmes should consider to reduce the expenditure in terms of fee structures for the research and also the schools/departments which offer the research programme should redesign the syllabus to include the skills required to carry out the research. Further, it is emphasized that the LIS professionals should encourage and support the research scholars by means of providing the required data for the research.

Este artigo analisa as barreiras relacionadas ao campo científico da Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação (BCI). Um questionário estruturado foi elaborado e aplicado diretamente aos bolsistas de pesquisa da área de BCI, e que estão atualmente desenvolvendo pesquisas nas universidades/faculdades de Tamil Nadu (Índia). Um total de 124 questionários foi distribuído entre os pesquisadores e obteve-se o retorno de 109 respondentes. A maioria dos obstáculos enfrentados pelos entrevistados refere-se a ‘gastos excessivos’, ‘falta de conhecimento estatístico’, ‘infraestrutura inadequada’ e ‘má qualidade das respostas obtidas na coleta de dados’. Recomenda-se que as universidades/faculdades que oferecem programas de investigação devem considerar a redução de gastos, no que tange a estrutura de custos para o desenvolvimento de pesquisa e, também, as escolas/departamentos e seu corpo docente que oferecem programas de investigação devem redesenhar o conteúdo programático, a fim de incluir os conhecimentos necessários para se executar uma pesquisa. Além disso, enfatiza-se que os profissionais de BCI devem estimular e dar apoio aos bolsistas de pesquisa, provendo-lhes os dados indispensáveis à pesquisa.