Modern Technologies for Reshaping the Libraries in Digital Era

ISBN-13: 9783330320376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

O. Sivasankar Prasad

Opis

There are variety of challenges facing the LIS profession owing to the rapidly changing technologies and environment in which it exists. Recent developments in ICT, the web and social media, have led to the creation of digital resources and its access through online as well as remote login. Librarians need to be 'tech savvy professionals' who can take all their professional skills and experience, and adapt them in order to align library services with the changing demands of library user community. Written by a practicing library professionals and librarians, the book focused primarily on topics related to new technologies featuring different significant issues of library and information science that can be used in different libraries functioning in digital environment. Some of the topics include are Digital consortia, Information literacy, E-books, Web 2.0, RFID, Plagiarism, Mobile technologies, Consortium for Educational Communication, E-Learning, Cloud Computing and Green Libraries.

O autorze

Dr. O. Sivasankar Prasad has been working as Librarian in Sri Venkateswara College (Univ. of Delhi) since 2001, He has published two books and presented 20 papers in national and international conferences. He has also participated in several seminars,workshops, refresher courses and other training programmes.