DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Ku. Pratibha N. Atram

Librarian, Shri Pundlik Maharaj Mahavidyalaya Nandura, India

ABSTRACT

Library and Information Services are playing a vital role in digital era. Library services are

now depends upon the Information and Communication Technology. This paper is highlight the

services of libraries with new technology. It identify the various components of ICT. It also define

the functions and challenges of ICT based library services.

Key words: ICT, Library Services, Library Transformation

Cite this Article: Ku. Pratibha N. Atram, Digital Library Services in the Digital Age. International

Journal of Library & Information Science, 6(1), 2017, pp.79–82.

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1. INTRODUCTION

In the present era libraries are playing an important role to fulfill the needs of users. In the knowledge

society users perceptions has also changed. ICT is playing a vital role to transformation of the libraries.

The use of Information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become the reason a transformation in

the users ‘ perception from what is being hosted in the library to how and when service are rendered to

fulfill their request.

ICT and IT both are parallel concept. Both assembled the technologies like telecommunication due to

IT and ICT there has become phenomenal change in the information collection, preservation and

dissemination scene of the world.

2. MEANING OF ICT

According to Hamelink, “ICT are those technologies that enable the handling of information and facilitate

different forms of communication. It include capturing technologies for e.g. camcorders storage

technologies, CD-ROMs, processing technologies e.g. application software, communication technologies

for e.g. Local Area Networks and display technologies like Computer Monitor.

Information and communication technology is the set of technological tools and resources used to

communicate and to create, disseminate, store and manage information.

3. BENEFITS OF FUNCTIONS OF ICT BASED LIBRARY SERVICES

Generally computers in library have been used to automate the following functions.

• Acquisition and budget

• Cataloguing and short loans

• Circulation



• Serial control

• OPAC etc.

The ICT products and services are beneficial for the libraries.

• It saves the time of service providers

• It takes small space to save the information.

• It save the energy and resources

• It helps to control the information

• Due to ICT librarians can give more information in time.

Since the 1950s use of ICT in libraries has basically gene through four stage, corresponding to the

major reasons for automating.

• Improving the efficiency of internal operations.

• Improving access to local library resources.

• Providing access to resources outside the library.

• Interoperability of information system.

4. THE CURRENT TRENDS

Library is vast store house of information. Emergence of internet and communication technology (ICT)

libraries has been acquiring different approaches of the same and mode of service is changed.

5. TRANSFORMING THE KNOWLEDGE INTO DIGITAL CONTENTS

During the classical period, distinction was drawn between libraries, archives and museums. The chief task

of all sections of these institutions was the collection and preservation of documents. The library

departments looked after the collection of the written word, whether on clay tablets, as in the Babylonian

empire or on papyrus rolls, as in Egypt. But now the condition has been change. In this digital age, the

overwhelming majority of newly created information is digital. Moving from a hand-on, real-life learning

experience of substance to a digital version of it presents many interesting challenges depending on what

the goals are, several models are possible.

5.1. Digital Archives

Digital technologies increasingly serve to integrated information resource. Text numeric data, image, voice

and video have heretofore resided in print or other analogue media for storage and transmission.

Multimedia and hyperlinked objects on the World Wide Web represent some of the new kinds of

information and new ways of knowing in the digital that bring together and traditional from to information

and transform their use.

5.2. Benefits of Digital Archives

• Flexibility of the digital material.

• Digital archives are very useful to save the place.

• It saves a lot of time of the users in searching of information.

• Easy to access the information and content.

Digital Library Services in the Digital Age


6. ICT BASED USERS SERVICES

Due to information explosion information are coming out in electronic format. Users are also advent.

Research scholars are now want the information in not only hard copies, but they want in electronic format

too. As required the users, so many libraries are adopting electronic habits. They using the web, Intranet,

Extranet and other technologies too to preserve and disseminate the information.

Now a days ICT is used in various fields of library activities to enhance users satisfaction. It provides

numerous benefits to the users.

• ICT provides unlimited information from different sources.

• It provide the information easily and speedily.

• It facilitated the reformatting and combining of data from different sources.

• ICT provides remote access to users.

With the help of ICT, libraries are also providing various ICT based services to the users.

Which are given below:-

6.1. Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the term gives to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focus on the

ability for people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition

from static HTML web pages to a more dynamic web that is more organized and is based on serving web

applications to users. Other improved functionality of web 2.0 includes open communication with an

emphasis on web based communities of users & more open sharing of information. Over time web 2.0 has

been used more as a marketing term than a computer science-based term. Blogs, Wikis & web services are

all seen as components as web 2.0.

Web access to OPACs: - With the help of Web-based Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) users can

learn how to use one universal access client, the web browser.

Online Instructions:-The Web Browsers are helping to librarians to implementing online based

bibliographic or library use programmes. It provides online tutorials on searching online resources and

virtual tours of library collections.

Electronic document delivery:-ICT based services has become helpful to the libraries to deliver the

copies of journals and other documents in digital format mainly in portable document format (PDF) to the

library users.

6.2. Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

Web 2.0 tools are:-

Wikis: - It is powerful content management system. It allows any one add a new article or revise an

existing article through a web browser. It is an ideal for students and researchers and support staff for

collaborative work allowing focus and content. Wikis are as knowledge management tools. It’s work as

public knowledge repositories.

Flickr:- It is a social network for showing photos with the help of Flickr users can work together to photo

projects and use each other tags to find new photos Flickr enables users to contribute organize, share and

discuss photos .

Podcast:- The podcast like broadcast, it is a series of digital media files which are distributed over the

internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.



7. IMPACT OF ICT ON LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS

ICT has brought tremendous changes in library services. Today’s highly sophisticated information

technology to facilitate the storage of huge amounts of data or information in a very compact space.

Information technologies promise fast retrieval of stored information and revolutionized our concept of the

functions of a traditional library and a modern information center.

ICT is changing the various aspects of libraries and the information profession. Advantages of ICT are

resulting in digital information sources and digital media replacing and becoming the dominant form of

information storage and retrieval. Now it has become easy to access the digital information resources

without any restriction to specified hours and day of the week like a physical library. ICT are also

implementing the rules of library and information science which had given by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, the

father of Library and Information science.

8. CONCLUSION

ICT has bring the new changes in the whole world of information. Computer and new technologies has

brought revolution in knowledge society. It changed the thinking the of the people and way of interaction.

It affected the life of everyone in every field. World most population is shifting from ‘techno-illiterate’ to

‘techno-literate’. Without the ICT libraries and information centers cannot move a single step. In the ICT

world professions also adopted the new technologies to develop the every field.

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