“
ICT : Positive Challenges to Library
Professionals ”
Dr.Veena Prakashe Ramanik
S. Lengure
(Information Scientist) (Librarian)
Mb. No,9420869043
Abstracts:
Information Communication Technology
has functionally affected the operations of library and information services
and this is also great impact on the education and training of the users and
library teachers on various levels. The
paper presents the some of the positive challenges and advantage of ICT for libraries,
library services and development in very effectiveness.
Introduction :-
ICT is an Net term that includes any
communication device or application,encompassing:radio,television,cellular phones,computer
and network,hardware and software,satellite system as well as the various
services and applications associated with them,such as videoconferencing and
distance learning. The ICT Center of an academic library is aimed to empower
the teaching-learning ,research,consultancy and support operations. The strategic objectives of the ICT Center is
to provide secure,reliable,efficient network-based services and ensure that all
university community has access to ICT resources. The ICT service delivery process is desired
to provide speedy,dffective,demandbased and quality ICT support to users,namely,researchers,instructor,consultants,support
staff,managers,data administrators,member of college, ICT Helpdesk
Teams,student representatives,guests and local community.
ICT has been one of the major factor
causing changes in the field of Library and Information Science which people or
user can communicate, retrieve and disseminate and used information. Libraries and information centers have been
using ICT based resources and services to satisfy the diverse information needs
of their users. However, these resources
and services are not utilized fully.
Under utilizations of these resources and services has been a cause of
concern to libraries worldwide. The use
of information and communication technologies has become increasingly important
in libraries. The libraries are
switching over to ICT based resources and services at an accelerated pace. E-Journals,CD-Rom,databases,online
databases,e-book,webbased resources and a variety of other electronic resources
are fist replacing the traditional resources of libraries.
What is
ICT?
The term ICT describes the use of
computer based technology and the internet to make information and
communications services available to wide a range of users. ICT are hardware
and software that enable society to create, collect ,consolidate and
communicate information in multimedia formats and for various purposes. The term is used broadly to address a range
of technologies, including telephones and emerging technology devices. Central to these is the internet, which
provides the mechanism for transporting data in a number of formats including
text,images,sound and video.
Positive Impacts of ICT :
In primitive ages traditional services,
very poor services had been given through library. Its very difficult to find
correct information which had been given. Students had no choice. But now a
days due to ICT we can get information
anytime & anywhere. ICT has the potency of expanding pool of teachers
& students & reducing the cost of education. The Ministry
of human Resource development has already launched the nation mission on
education through ICT at a large scale.
What is
the impact of ICT on the Library and other information centers?
Ø
ICT
made in information creation in digital
format possible
Ø
ICT
made online access and file transfer possible
Ø
ICT
made networking and sharing of information resources possible
Tools
of ICT :-
1.
Computer
2.
Internet
3.
Digital
Camera
4.
Smart-card
5.
Scanner
6.
E-Book
7.
Printer
8.
Electronic
Journals
9.
WEB-OPAc
10.
Animation
11.
E-Mail
12.
CDROM
13.
DVD
14.
RFID
Technology etc.
ICT based Services in Library :-
Immense services is provided through ICT. Due to ICT
every services easy to accept knowledge . The implementation of ICT in the
libraries demands new form of library services to get more user
satisfaction. In ICT to justify the realization of five laws
of library services laid down by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Specially Fourth law of
Library Science “Save the time of Reader” is really coming true. Library
services include information about all
the services
- Online Public
Services
- Information
Services
- Reference &
Information Services
- Current
awareness services
- Documentary
services
- Interlibrary
loans union catalogue
- Audiovisual
services
- Database
Collection
- Digital
Resources
- Online /Off-line
reservation
- Electronic
reference desk
- User education
and training programmers
- Access to library
catalogue,database,internet
- Circulation of
books photocopying of article
- Exhibition of
New arrival books and Journals
The
change and Challenge :
The are facing a variety of complex
challenges from multiple sectors of the knowledge society in the 21st
Century. The Major Challenges are:
Ø
Information
explosion
Ø
Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution
Ø
Explosive
growth and usage of web resources
Ø
Dwindling
Library budgets
Ø
Escalating
cost of printed documents
Ø
Intensive
use of digital resources
Ø
Heightened
level of users expectations
Ø
Interactive
virtual learning environment
Ø
Evolution
of virtual educational Institutions
Ø
Changing
nature and number of information resources
Positive
Challenges/Advantages of ICT :
ICT reduce labor and save time of
staff and users too. LAN provides cost
effectiveness in various services and allows secured resource sharing through
link to a variety of different communication devices. Internet and E-mail system enable the
students and scholars to remote access, worldwide communication among library
and information science societies has become easy with the help of E-mail.
The world wide librarians made their
catalogues available online which have online public access catalogues(OPAC)
generally available free of cost these are useful for finding books not
available locally to identify and select books for local acquisition,
bibliographic data verification and to search holding of periodical and
monographs. These can be accessed
through telnet, gopher and the World Wide Web.
Many OPACs have full text databases, libraries can use these databases
to queries form patrons. With the
emergence of ICT the areas library are
expanded world. The available
information present in the library can be feed to homepage and made available
to users anywhere.
ICT has provide new media, new modes
of storing and communicating information.
ICT brought many services to library to speed up their activities. It helps to remove barriers of communication,
distance and time. The advances in
technology will continue to improve the effectiveness of libraries. It helps to transfer data through
communication network like internet anywhere.
Conclusion:
ICT is not only a technology but it
manages with the library objectives with the adoption of ICT, libraries can
face the new and modern information techniques. ICT has greatly affected the
information environment. Librarian must
have the knowledge, skills and tools in handling digital information and that
will be the key success factor in enabling the library to perform its role as
an information support system for society.
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