Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Planning for library automation. 2. Internet: development, fundamentals and impact on libraries in Indian scenario. 3. Development and management of digital resources. 4. Digital reference service. 5. Information retrieval system. 6. Electronic resources for Indian management schools. 7. Effective communication: a key to success for library and information professionals. 8. Emerging opportunities & challenges of information superhighway. 9. Psychosocial consequences of information technology (Internet). 10. Network security issues: an overview. 11. Basics of networks and network implementation in M.D. University, Rohtak. 12. Internet use policy for libraries. 13. Internet applications in academic libraries: an Indian scenario. 14. RFID technology for libraries. 15. Electronic reference sources: an assessment. 16. Digital preservation: a challenge to libraries. 17. Content and information management: with special reference to India. 18. Role of librarian in modern age. 19. A new role of academic librarians in distance education. 20. The changing role and responsibilities of librarians in IT environment. 21. Challenges to librarianship. 22. Basics of computer based library system. 23. Winisis: database creation and information retrieval. 24. Salient features of the DDC 22 (2003). 25. Introduction to the eighteenth edition (2004) of the Sears list of subject headings. 26. Bibliometrics : an overview. 27. Copyright protection in the digital era. 28. Copyright. 29. Creating work culture. 30. James Hadley Billington: bibliography of the librarian of library of congress and his speech for budget request-2005. 31. Trends in information management & processing. 32. Definitions of library vocabulary and terms. 33. Index.

"The libraries saw their advent in their present shape towards the end of nineteenth century. Information became capital and a saleable commodity in the second half of twentieth century. Application of information technologies-computer, telecommunications and document reproduction -in 1960's for a variety of purposes gave birth to information revolution. Libraries could not afford to avoid the magnetic touch of these technologies. In fact, a library has one of the first few areas where the potential of information technology was successfully tested and exploited. The four walls of libraries are crumbling under the onslaught of these technologies, culminating into face-lifting of modern librarianship.

The present book 'approaches to modern librarianship' includes all the modern approaches which a library at following in this IT era." (jacket)