Impact of Information Technology in the Libraries
- Author Umesh Prasad
- DOI https://ww
- Country : India
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Keywords : Information Technology, ICT, Libraries, Information and Communication Technologies
Abstract
A library of any type or size implies the close collaboration of the documents, the user and his or her document of interest. The series provided by library staff comprise a series of jobs namely acquiring, preparing and preserving the documents. The activities related to acquisition of documents and making them available to the users, technical processing of acquired documents, circulation and maintenance of processed documents are known as housekeeping operations. These activities are highly labour intensive basically routine clerical chores performed slowly and expensively by human beings. With the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Libraries are increasingly attempting to automate some of these activities for minimizing human clerical routines and thereby making library staff more productive and enabling them to provide fast and comprehensive information through services.
The performance of a library largely depends on the organisation of its housekeeping operations. Most of the activities related to library housekeeping follow some definite routines and obviously amenable to computerization. It means a computer or group of a computers can perform clerical chores quickly and cheaply.
Library housekeeping operations are routine chores that are to be performed to maintain day-to-day functions of a library. Application of ICT helps in the mechanization of these labour-intensive works and thereby ensures more productive use of library staff. Automation of library housekeeping operations requires analysis of the library system and subsystems in the terms of procedures, activities and jobs, such analysis would help to identify gaps and overlaps in the existing system. Automation of library housekeeping operations may be divided into four subsystems-computerized acquisition subsystem, computerized cataloguing subsystem, computerized serials control subsystem and computerized circulation subsystem.
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