How information technology will influence library
Nowadays information technology (IT) highly revolutionized in the field of
library and information services, which provide collection, storage,
organization, processing, analysis, presentation etc. Information technology
will influence library services as the GPS apps that help locate material
inside the library, mobile apps that allow patrons to access library
services, book delivery robots, and access to 3D printers and binding services.
The traditional
libraries are now digitized in a new manner. It enable the users to access the
information required for knowledge enhancement. It’s services include the
information about all the services, collections, digital resources, library
instruction sessions and services, also provide remote access library resources
both printed and non-printed and generation information on library.
Application of information technology in libraries, that provide efficient
and effective services and online information retrieval. Library automation is
one of the important applications of information technology in libraries.
Libraries are using the information technology to automate the administrative
and technical process, build databases, networks and provide better services to
the users.
Information technology give a new face to traditional libraries that
include both digital collections and traditional, fixed media collections. We
know that traditional libraries are limited by its storage space, but the digital information requires little space to contain information, so digital
libraries have the potential to store more documents. The use of information
technology in digital libraries that will increase the number of users and
increased the expectations of the users.
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