“Positive Impact of
Information and Communication Technology Based Services in Library in Digital
Era”
Ramanik S. Lengure (Librarian)
Renuka Mahavidyalaya Nagpur
- Abstracts:
The article aims to give an
overview of the changes in library, which have taken place in the recent
digital era due to the dynamic innovation. The Present paper emphasizes and
endeavors to broaden the Positive impact of the ICT based services in Library.
Information Communication Technology has functionally affected the operations
of library and information services and this is also huge impact on the
Library.
“I
came not to teach, not to explain, not to adjustment but to awaken”
2. DIGITAL ERA: ICT Metamorphosis Concept:-
It’s a new coming
and growing digital concept. It is a digital, Technical & Computer
related. Information and Communication
technologies(ICTs)- which include radio and television, as well as new digital
technologies such as computers and the Internet-have been touted as potentially
powerful enabling tools.
3. INFORMATIONCOMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY : ICT - What is it?
However, apart from
explaining an acronym, there is not a universally accepted definition of ICT?
Why? Because the concepts, methods and applications involved in ICT are
constantly evolving on an almost daily basis. Its difficult to keep up with the
changes - they happen so fast.
A good way to think
about ICT is to consider all the uses of digital technology that already exist
to help individuals, businesses and organisations use information.
ICT covers any product that
will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmits or receives information
electronically in a digital form. For example, personal computers, digital television,
email, robots.
So ICT is concerned with the storage,
retrieval, manipulation, transmission
or receipt of digital data. Importantly, it is also concerned
with the way these different uses can work with each other.
4. PLACE OF LIBRARY IN DIGITAL ERA : Needs of ICT in Libraries:
According to Arora, the following
are some of the essential application of ICT in libraries.
1.
IT
Facilities wider access to information for the users.
2.
It
increases productivity of library staff. It relieves staff from routine work.
3.
IT
improves quality of reader services rendered by library.
4.
IT
handle effective and efficient a huge quantum of information.
5.
IT
helps in rendering those services that was not possible in traditional methods.
6.
IT facilitates improved management of physical and
financial resources.
- IMPACT OF
ICT BASED SERVICES IN LIBRARY: Tools / Suggestion: About ICT Based
Services through College Library
¨ Information about should be made available through
college library
Fax/Xerox,
Television, Mobile Phones, Computer, Digital Camera, Webcam, Smart Scanner, Web-OPAC, RFID-Technology, Telephone,
Web Camera, Radio, Artificial Satellite , Satellite System, Computer Network, Video Conferencing, Audio
Cassettes, Video Tapes, Audio &
Video, CDs, e-learning Facilities,
Wireless Network, Wi-FI Technology, Blue tooth Service ,Blogs, Telephone
Internet, video, DVD, Computer Networks, Video-conferencing ,E-mail, World Wide
Web, Audio-Cassettes, Video-tapes, Audio-Video, CDs, Multimedia Videos,
E-learning, Wireless Networks, Online Forum, Online Conferences, Online
reference service, Electronic Current Awareness, OPAC, Electronic ILLS ,Electronic Bulletin
Board.
- THAT’S
IMPACT IS POSITIVE : (Jain, P.B.)
ICT has provided new media, new
modes of storing and communication information. ICT brought many services t 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 effectives of
libraries. Help to transfer data to communication network like interne
anywhere. It provides enormous search speed and facilities. It helps to
strengthen communication and collaboration among research, government and
educational institutions. The world wide librarians made their catalogues
available online which have online public catalogues (OPAC) generally available
free of cost these are useful for finding books not available locally to
identify and select books for local acquisition, bibliography data verification
and to search holding of periodical and monographs. These can be access through
telnet, gopher, and the World Wide Web. The available information present in
the libraries can be fed to home page and made available to users anywhere.
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.
v Some of the advantages information
technology includes:
a. Easy
to father different library activities.
b. Collaboration
and creation of library networks
c.
Avoid repetition of efforts within a
library
d. Increase
the range of services offered
e.
Save the time of users
f.
Increase efficiency
g. Speedy
and easy access of information.
h. Improve
the quality of library services
i.
Enhance the knowledge and experience
j.
Integration within the organizations
k. Improve
the status of the library
l.
Improve the communication facilities
m. More
stable
n. Helps
to attract the users
o. Remove
access to users
p. Round
the clock access too users
q. Access
unlimited information from different sources
r.
More up to date information
s.
Information flexibility to the users
t.
Reforming and combining of data from different sources
u. Reduce
the workload of the library staff
- Conclusion:
1.
Present
paper very useful for library
2.
ICT
based service performance in library is very positively
3.
ICT based services is very useful to library
development
4.
It
is very necessary to make the changes in library by using these latest
technologies.
5.
Library
and information services can’t lag behind and also require changing to the tune
of the progress of the civilization, keeping in view the requirement of time,
technological developments and global change.
6.
Information Communication Technology has
functionally affected the operations of library and information services and
this is also positively great impact on the education and training of the users
and library teachers on various levels.
7.
The paper presents the some of the
positive challenges and advantage of ICT for libraries, library services and
development in very effectiveness.
“Winners
do not different things they do differently”
Information:
“Information
is data that has been processed in such a way as
to be meaningful to the person who
receives it. [5]
Information Technology
IT (information technology) is a term that
encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms ( data, voice
conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and
other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for
including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the
technology that is driving what has often been called "the information
revolution."[6]
Communication:
Communication is a process by which
all forms of information are one person to other. So, for the communication to
take place there must be some information to be conveyed and there must be two
or more persons-one to deliver the massage and the other to receive it.
Communication is said to be perfect, only when the receiver understands it in
the sense the sender expected him to understand.
Dale S. Beach
defines communication as “the transfer of information and understandings are
reached among human beings.[7]
You see the letters ICT everywhere - particularly in education. But
what does it mean? Read our brief introduction to this important and
fast-changing subject.
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