Kasi Rao, V; Ramesh Babu, B(INFLIBNET Centre, March NaN, 2001)
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Abstract:
The ongoing Information Technology(IT) revolution has deeply affected
almost all areas of our life and all aspects of humans activity. Libraries,
Information and Documentation Centres(LIBIDOCS) are no exception to
the impact of Information Technology. The application of IT in different
types of libraries in India has gained sufficient momentum. The IT
application tools are essential for providing efficient and cost effective
library and information services to the user community in the present
scenario. Review of literature reveals a number of studies conducted in
the application of IT in LIBIDOCS in the recent years. This paper
presents one such study which has been carried out by surveying the
application of IT among academic LICS in and around Chennai. There
are nearly 100 academic institutions at graduate, post graduate and
research levels in various disciplines. Libraries of 45 institutions like
universities and colleges have been covered in the survey to analyse the
nature, extent and types of application of IT based services. It also studies
the areas of IT application, collection development policy , manpower
development and the attitude of staff towards IT application. Finally, it
also analyses the reasons for poor use of IT if any, and concludes
objectively that application of IT in university libraries would certainly
bring about orderly operations in Library and Information Manager
Environment (LIME) without much of human interventions.