Role of Information Technology in Information Management

Abstract

The application of Information Technologies in the libraries have made the task of disseminating information more easier. Information Technology is a combination of information science. computer technology. communication technology and management science. The author provides the activities of information production and the reasons why information is under utilised. For proper utilisation of information. the libraries should evolve effective methods of its marketing. assess the information needs of organizations. and develop attractive means of information management. These developments shall make the library. not simply the store house of publications. but an electronic access point for global information in the 21 st century