ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF ICT FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES

Abstract

Developments in ICT have made significant impact on all spheres of human life. The impact has been rather prominent in case of service activities such as banking, health, transportation, education and libraries. Benefits of use of ICT in services can be broadly explained in terms of 4 Es, namely economy, ease, extension (or expansion) and efficiency. For the Libraries, ICT’s has tremendously changed the Management of Resources or House Keeping Operations as well as the way services are delivered. While general IT application tools and Integrated Library Management Systems are largely used in housekeeping operations, like acquisition, cataloguing, circulation control, serials control etc; Internet has been used extensively as a resource as well as a tool to deliver the Library and Information Services (LIS). This paper will study how ICT has had impact on delivery of LIS.