Essential Technologies for Libraries in Digital Era

ISBN-13: 9783330318960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str.

O. Sivasankar Prasad

Opis

The advent of ICT technologies and digitization has the power to transform the library and information services. They become an integral part of library management. Use of these technologies in the library in-house operations and delivery of information services to its users is inevitable. This book introduces the concepts that contextualize the technological developments applicable to library management. Contributed by a team of experts, each author provided a chapter on different technologies that can be used in LIS field. This book covers the topics on modern innovative technologies and case studies of ICT-based library services which includes Open source software for digital libraries, Impact of e-revolution on collection development in academic libraries, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-Books, RFID Based Library Management Systems, QR Codes, MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses, Institutional Repositories in India, Cloud Computing and its application in Libraries, Web 3.0 Applications in Libraries, Five laws and ICT, Types of Repositories, Information needs, Green Library for Sustainable Environment in Academic Library and Mobile Library Services and Technologies.

O autorze

Dr. O. Sivasankar Prasad is working as Librarian at Sri Venkateswara College (University of Delhi, New Delhi) since 2001 and completed his Ph.D. from Sri .Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He has more than 18 years' experience in LIS field. He has published 1 book, presented around 20 papers in national and international conferences.