Library in Electronic Era : Redefining the Role of Librarian
Contents: Preface. 1. Redefining the role of librarian in electronic ERA/Surya Nath Singh. 2. Essential competencies for library and information professionals/T.S. Kumbar. 3. Librarian: a key player in emerging electronic information scenario/Urmilaben Bhatt. 4. In twenty-first century ICT customer services library and info centers/Satish Deshpande. 5. Marketing communication for LIS professional/Shailesh R. Yagnik. 6. Librarian as an active participant in knowledge creation and dissemination/Anjali Bandiwadekar. 7. How college librarian cope up with an era of electronic/Jaya Barevadia. 8. Role of librarian in ICT environment/Ravindra M. Mendhe, Shamkant Deshmukh and Vinay Patil. 9. Redefining role of librarian in electronic era/S.A. Kulkarni. 10. Ways to update college librarians themselves with latest electronic techniques/Kunjal Panchal. 11. How school librarians can perform best in electronic era/Indira Dodia. 12. Librarian as knowledge and information manager in electronic era/Vishnukumar H. Suthar. 13. Goals and challenges for librarians in electronic era/Himjaben Vyas. 14. Ability of librarian to meet the challenges in electronic era/Niharika Udani. 15. Changing role of librarian in the new technological area/Rajpal Singh. 16. Impact and implementation of ICT in libraries/M.K. Galhotra and A.M. Galhotra. 17. A new role of libraries and librarian in electronic era/Milaben M. Langalia and Darshita V. Ranpura. 18. Services for everyone in everywhere: a mobile library/Atul Akabari. 19. Changing role of librarians in digital library era/S.K. Sharma. 20. IT (Information Technology): Professionals passion for excellence/Prakash Bhairu Bilawar, Chandrashekar N. Gurav and Anill B. Matekar. 21. Importance of periodicals and journals for college library/Kinnari D. Thakar. 22. Electronics era in the library e-resources/Kinnari D. Thakar. 23. Revolution of e-library in distance learning courses/Dipali Patel. 24. RFID based library automation for library management/Navnit R. Patel. 25. Ways to attract the students to library in electronic era/Saleha. List of contributors.
With the advancement of science and technology, communication process demands timely dissemination of knowledge being generated daily and updated and accessed easily across the globe. With the rapid growth of Internet facilities and advancement of web enabled technology, almost all reputed international journals are available online and can easily be accessed all over the globe. The twenty-first century is a century of knowledge power and advancement of information communication technology. ICT demands paradigm shift from traditional to digital form of records, big volume to nano-drive options, print to digital version with unbelievable pace to access at tip of the finger across the globe. The recent development of ICT is playing an important role in restructuring of libraries. Each of the libraries and librarians have to be updated themselves with latest electronic technologies because librarians have to remind themselves and others that technology can only be a tool in the hands of librarian to help and guide their users. The methods of librarian help to the users may change as technology advances, but the principles remain stable. However, librarians have to update their libraries, their products, services and procedures to cope up with the fast developing world of an electronic era. On the occasion of a National Seminar on Redefining the role of librarian in electronic era experts of ICT, librarians and others were got together and wholeheartily discussed about the role of librarian in electronic era. It is great pleasure that a compendium of papers is being published. This would help all the stakeholders for their endeavor to up scale the existing R and D resources to e-resources and provide plate form to build human resources to modern world.
With the advancement of science and technology, communication process demands timely dissemination of knowledge being generated daily and updated and accessed easily across the globe. With the rapid growth of Internet facilities and advancement of web enabled technology, almost all reputed international journals are available online and can easily be accessed all over the globe. The twenty-first century is a century of knowledge power and advancement of information communication technology. ICT demands paradigm shift from traditional to digital form of records, big volume to nano-drive options, print to digital version with unbelievable pace to access at tip of the finger across the globe. The recent development of ICT is playing an important role in restructuring of libraries. Each of the libraries and librarians have to be updated themselves with latest electronic technologies because librarians have to remind themselves and others that technology can only be a tool in the hands of librarian to help and guide their users. The methods of librarian help to the users may change as technology advances, but the principles remain stable. However, librarians have to update their libraries, their products, services and procedures to cope up with the fast developing world of an electronic era. On the occasion of a National Seminar on Redefining the role of librarian in electronic era experts of ICT, librarians and others were got together and wholeheartily discussed about the role of librarian in electronic era. It is great pleasure that a compendium of papers is being published. This would help all the stakeholders for their endeavor to up scale the existing R and D resources to e-resources and provide plate form to build human resources to modern world.
