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Modern Library Services: Shifting from Print to Virtual

Modern Library Services: Shifting from Print to Virtual

Edited by B.G. Mukhyadal, Shashank.S. Sonwane and Rahul.B. Khandare
1826 2200 (17% off)
ISBN 13
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9788193431139
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2017
Libraries are constantly facing challenges due to technology acceptance and are forced to adapt to it for providing better services. To tune the libraries with the latest developments, modernizing libraries and using electronic information tools and techniques to provide services in digital form has become essential. This fact has brought about a major shift in the responsibilities of librarians and the libraries. They are not only engaged in collection development but are also entrusted provide advanced services and generate financial resources for their respective institutions. This change has become easier in the electronic information era as information is treated as the resource of all resources. Computers and library networks are expected to play an increasingly important role in the libraries for resource sharing and information management. Use of ICT is now treated as an essential technology for libraries. Emerging technologies, media, publishing trends, information storage methods, information retrieval practices etc. have changed the concept of library and information services in past decade. The continuous paradigm shift in libraries developed digital libraries and virtual libraries from traditional libraries and the transformation made an impact over library functions including library and information services. Reference and information services are major library functions. In the present book efforts are made to analyse the possible changes in library and information services due to the emergence of digital and virtual environment. The contents of this volume are broadly divided into twelve chapters involving 55 Articles. They are: Use of ICT in Libraries, Electronic Resources in Libraries, Soft Skills and Librarians, Institutional Repository, Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright, Marketing of Library Services, Application of Cloud Computing in Libraries, E-Learning and Librarianship, Knowledge Management in Digital Era,