Information technology in library

                    Today 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 searching, indexing and sorting can be processed by the  technology.


                              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.