CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES AT REC, TRICHY LIBRARY

Abstract

In the mist of fast emerging Information explosion, finding a particular relevant information is a very cumbersome job. So it is very urgent and inevitable to create and manage digital resources of information and make them easily accessible to the user. The traditional libraries should be changed to Digital/Electronic libraries by providing Digitized Information Services to cope up with the needs of these 21st century end users. Now-a-days, CD-ROMs, Computer Networks, Internet, Multimedia, E-mail, Electronic Texts and Journals play vital role and involve very much in creating and managing information in digital libraries. This paper explains the above digital resources of information and also it deals with various digital information resources available and the digitized information services provided byREC, Trichy Library.