Modern Technologies for Reshaping Libraries in the Digital Era

Anthology from the year 2017 in the subject Library Science Information- / Documentation Science University of Delhi language: English abstract: There are a variety of challenges facing the LIS profession owing to the rapidly changing technologies and environment in which it exists. Recent developments in ICT the web and social media have led to the creation of digital resources and its access through online as well as remote login. Librarians need to be 'tech savvy professionals' who can take all their professional skills and experience and adapt them in order to align library services with the changing demands of the library user community. Written by practicing library professionals and librarians this book focused primarily on topics related to new technologies featuring a range of significant issues in current library and information science. Some of the topics included are digital consortia information literacy e-books Web 2.0 RFID plagiarism mobile technologies the Consortium for Educational Communication E-Learning Cloud Computing and Green Libraries.