Use of ICT for Quality Enhancement and Sustainability in Libraries

Today’s academic libraries are confronted with challenges on several fronts Information availability, rising costs, mega bookstores, online information providers, multimedia products, document delivery services, and other competitive sources of information are apparently threatening their role and even their very survival. With evolving technological innovations and the variety and abundance of information that is becoming available to information users, competitive pressures will continue to intensify for academic libraries. The products/ services introduced in library should match the requirements of intended users. A study on assessing the impact of ICT-based services on library’s efficiency would definitely be beneficial for library administrators and policy makers to adopt appropriate services in their library. Professional education, particularly management education has gained importance in India and private organizations are participating in large number to establish institutions of higher learning. Professional education does require and demand many ICT supported services from libraries and studying ICT based services in those libraries would clearly indicate the impact of technology and becomes model for other types of libraries too. Considering the important role of the ICT in quality education, it was thought of processing into the existing situation in the Management institutes about the user of ICT in teaching and learning activities .This will be compared to the ICT facilities in the respective college libraries under study there for the topic “Use of ICT for quality enhancement and sustenance: A critical study of Management Institute libraries in Maharashtra state” is chosen for the research study. 4 Though the intended beneficiaries of this project are LIS professionals in management institutions, the ultimate beneficiaries are parent organizations and academic community of India because: • LIS professionals will be in a better position to understand the current state of art technology • They make combined efforts to improve the technology base to provide efficient and enhanced services to their users. • The study also leads an assessment of staffing & training needs, budget implications, policies and procedures, and building/equipment up gradations. • It facilitates the Government authorities for formulating appropriate policies

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