Jange, Suresh; Sherikar, Amruth; Gaddagimath, R B; Policegoudar, S B(INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)
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Abstract:
Information and communication technology is transforming the society, education, business
and the economy. The Library managers must understand these changes in order to position
their organizations to flourish in the networked environment to provide effective information
services to the users. In the Local Area Network(LAN) world, an attempt has been made to
describe the network establishment in Gulbarga University Library and their experiences
to enhance the techno-based services to the users. Besides, network architecture with
optical fiber, hardware and software requirements for the effective implementation of LAN
in the library are explained in detail. Further explores steps taken to establish CD-ROM
databases; Internet Lab in accessing electronic resources under UGC Infonet, status of
DBMS, library web page and Institutional productivity. Future plan for establishment of
Learning Resource Centre, Provision of video camera, retrospective bar coding of collections
and touch screen in the library are highlighted.