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The face of Library and Information centers are changing to the paperless society by the use of Information Communication Technology. ICT has changed the real space in unlimited cyber space. This technology has put the global knowledge within certain keys and clicks on the URL. ICT has changed the print knowledge in to Electronic form and made it easy to access through the means of INTERNET. Due to this change, the traditional libraries are converting to Virtual Libraries. ICT has revealed new different reality of displaying broadest range of information and has made resource sharing possible without any formalities of rules and other barriers. ICT has not only changed the face of Library but also changed the class rooms to digital classrooms. In the forthcoming years Academic institutions are not away from becoming digital institutions. This article discuss about the needs and influence of ICT on Libraries, major issues and challenges faced by library professionals and how the challenges can be achieved.
INDIAN STREAMS RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2014
This article attempts to define the changing role of the academic library professionals in digital library environment. It gives an introductory background of the digital era which impacts on the changes occurring in the academic libraries. It describes about the indicative role of the emerging trends in information services that the librarians play in the academic libraries. Finally, it presents the vision of the new generation; the challenges facing implementation of the digital libraries and to review the problems faced by the librarians in the academic libraries in new digital era.
Library and Information Science profession is a profession which century, Library and Information Science Professionals working library sources and services. The Information and Communication by introducing new concepts and services. Due to these changes, the concept of librarianship has totally changed. The present paper discusses how the advancement of ICT has brought changes in the libraries as well as in the profession of librarianship. It also discusses about the changing role of library profession followed by the LIS Career and LIS education in the ICT era. Further, challenges and opportunities for the library professionals have been discussed followed by conclusion. Information Science Career, LIS education
This paper focused on the practical changes to the library field that continue to take place as technology advances. These changes include modified to physical space, collection improvement, and librarian workflows. It will also include best exercise to modernize the academic library to best complement a technologically driven university. As education institutes change from passive learning atmosphere into active ones, thus the role of the librarian has to adjust as well. Academic reformation requires that the librarian venture from the library to collaborate with teachers and administrators. The addition of ICT into the learning environment enhances information retrieval and offers the librarian a new investiture into the classroom program of study. New, more student-centered teaching methods demand the support of information resources and instruction in their use. Library technology reaches ahead of the library walls via computer networks to put information sources into the hands of users at the point of need. The most excellent place to access information resources may no longer be within the walls of the traditional library.
Libraries need to change quite dramatically to modernise almost every aspect of their operations, information resources and services in order to meet the rising users’ expectations. As the world advances, the library must also evolve and redesign their activities in order to deliver highly quality, need based, and value added services according to the expectations of today’s library users. The article describes how PG college librarians face the challenges of change and what their role is and responsibilities to adopt this change and do all the needful for meeting their library users’ expectations. The article emphasises how the change in libraries met the expectations of its users.
2011
Rapid developments of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have changed the traditional concept of library development across the globe. Modern libraries are more dynamic and reach their users without any geographical barriers. In this Internet era, libraries are fast moving towards digital mode and are accessed universally. With the advent of WWW, e-libraries are redesigning their services to borderless world and are becoming lifeline of the scholarly community. They are no longer information dominant and a huge number of information can be exchanged through some new types of academic exchange models and network exchange platforms. It can be Open Access, Wikipedia, Weblog, and Institutional Repositories. These models play an active role in electronic data exchange system. It facilitates to link users by providing knowledge, technology and research. In brief, digital libraries promote interaction and improve knowledge sector globally. It has become a common factor that offering of Internet access with latest multimedia technologies for scholars to fulfill their thrust of knowledge. Scholars and researchers need the help of library professionals to organize information into structured knowledge. At this stage, libraries have to face a challenging task to provide effective service to their users. Role of librarians and libraries have dramatically changed. To face the challeng, librarians should be familiar with new technologies. They should support their users for group learning, problem
The paper which is purely wisdom in nature examines the concept of virtual library development. It delves into the prospects and challenges of establishing and sustaining virtual library in Colleges of Education. The paper highlights the factors militating against virtual library development at College level to include near absence of initial physical structure, low level training in global electronic information networks, dwindling fund allocation to libraries, inadequate telecommunication gadgets, power cuts, poor value system to information utilization and dissemination, inadequate management and technical experts and very low level computer literacy among others. Against this backdrop, the paper appraises the ways most of these factors could be converted to surmountable challenges which can pave way to firmly rooting virtual library appreciation, utilization, and development at College level.
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