Library and Information Technology: Concepts to Applications - Hardcover

Library information technology is one of the major tool of today to shape our society and our institutions particularly our libraries. Our education and cultural infrastructure must change to meet the challenges, addressing them through new and creative educational techniques. It has been evident for over half a century that libraries can no longer comprehensively collect in a wide variety of subject areas. Thus, a long history of cooperative networking and interlibrary lending has been die mainstay of satisfying ever widening and interdisciplinary subject material demands of research, scholarly and student users. About The Author:- M S Ramalingam has been associated with the field of information science for nearly two decades. After having worked at the Centre of Information Processing, he worked with Institute of Health Science, Bombay. Since then he has taken a keen interest in introducing on-line information services and database services in collaboration with many multinational in UK and USA. He has presented a number of papers and visited several countries. Contents:- Preface Introduction to Computers in Libraries Information Technology in Libraries Online Computer Service Library Networking Multimedia Catalogue LAN Software Electronic Service Delivery Public Service Networking Bibliography Index. The Title 'Library and Information Technology: Concepts to Applications written/authored/edited by M.S. Ramalingam', published in the year 2000.