International Journal of Library & Information Science (IJLIS)

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A STUDY OF IMPACT OF USE OF IT ON

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN INDIA
Pramod Patel
Ph. D Research Scholar, Assistant Librarian,
Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management,
Constituent of Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT),
Gujarat-India

Dr. Govind B Dave

Dean, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)
Principal, Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM)
Constituent of Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT),
Gujarat-India

ABSTRACT
We live in an age of Technology, clearly designates that of technology has
now become an acknowledged, accepted and established across the globe.
One of the uses of technology is partially practised in Indian libraries i.e. it is
used as a search engine, which should now be enhanced. The use of
technology and digitalization on libraries is quite significant. This research
paper discusses Challenges in using technologies in libraries. Effective
techniques are required to search and store the data. It also discuss various
benefits and changes to Indian libraries due to advancement in search engine
technology that drive the growth of the libraries.
Key words: Library, Information Technology, Search Engines, Digitalization,
Technology
Cite this Article: Pramod Patel and Dr. Govind B Dave. A Study of Impact of
use of IT on Academic Libraries in India. International Journal of Library &
Information Science, 5(1), 2016, pp. 36-40.
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1. INTRODUCTION
The Topic 'Advances in search engine technology' focuses as a broad range of
activities related to the assessing user needs, evaluation of the present data collection,
weeding out, and storing parts of the data and planning for resource sharing.
Advancement in search engine technology is not any single activity or group of
activities; it is a planning and decision making process. In recent years, information

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technologies have advanced to such an extent that their impact on libraries is

significant. Particularly, development regarding digital libraries, Internet, electronic
publications, CD-ROMs, etc., have forced the librarians to change the way they are
now functioning. An attempt has been made in this paper to discuss the impact of
recent advances in IT on search engine.

2. CHALLENGES IN ACADEMIC INDIAN LIBRARIES

 There are various major challenges that every librarian faces in Academic Indian
Libraries. Some of the more serious challenges facing the development of Indian
libraries are outlined below.
 Technical architecture
 Building digital collections
 Digitization
 Metadata
 Naming, identifiers, and persistence
 Preservation
 Preserving material on a digital scale
 A growing and diverse spectrum of customers
 Nailing down library policies
 Digital licensing
 Becoming familiar with a wide range of digital content
 Making services engaging to researchers and students
 Lack of skilled manpower – training
 Birth and death of new technologies -Convergence of technologies
 Information explosion – availability and quality of resources and services

3. TRADITIONAL OUTLOOK OF OLD INDIAN ACADEMIC

LIBRARIES
The traditional library has received some bad press over the past few years. It's been
described as archaic, primitive, and outdated. A traditional library is characterized by
the following:
 Emphasis on storage and preservation of physical items, particularly books and
periodicals.
 Cataloging at a high level rather than one of detail, e.g., author and subject indexes as
opposed to full text.
 Browsing based on physical proximity of related materials, e.g., books on sociology
are near one another on the shelves.
 Passivity; information is physically assembled in one place; users must travel to the
library to learn what is there and make use of it.

4. DIGITAL / MODERN LIBRARIES

A digital library differs from the above in the following ways:
 Emphasis on access to digitized materials wherever they may be located, with
digitization eliminating the need to own or store a physical item
 Cataloging down to individual words or glyphs

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 Browsing based on hyperlinks, keyword, or any defined measure of relatedness;

materials on the same subject do not need to be near one another in any physical
sense.

5. TERM TECHNOLOGY FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES:

 Consumer Technologies
 Internet Technologies
 Social Media Technologies
 Enabling Technologies
 Digital Strategies
 Learning Technologies
 Visualization Technologies

6. IMPACT OF ADVANCEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY IN

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Advancement in technology will alter the fundamental role of librarians. Far less
attention will be paid to Acquisitions, Cataloguing and Circulation, and much more to
systems, online assistance, navigation assistance and conversion issues. Technology
in libraries is for better management and exchange of information, for more efficient
communication and ultimately for the benefit of the users.
 One of the distinct gifts of technology has been the discovery of devices with huge
storage capacity. CD-ROM’s, DVDs and flash memory cards have changed the face
of libraries.

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 The next benefit of IT is the automation of library activities. Many in-house

operations in the library like acquisition, processing, circulations, maintenance, serial
management are changed manual to automation. Application of IT has contributed
the improvement in provision of quick, quality services in the libraries.
 Another impact of technology is remote access of variety of commercial and
noncommercial information sources i.e. online full text databases, e-journals, e-
books, library catalogue (OPAC) etc. The present day information seekers can access
the worldwide information through internet on their desktop without any time
limitation.
 Able to create Metabase.
 Collecting and digitalizing archival Material.
 Able to maintained digital repositories.
 Broadcast technology; users need not visit a digital library except electronically; for
them the library exists at any place they can access it, e.g., home, school, office, or in
a car

7. LITERATURE REVIEW
Dr. A. Vijayakumar, Sudhi S. Vijayan, (2011), here researcher attempts to discuss
the fast development of Information Technology and its application in the library
services. Today libraries are equipped to accomplish the newly Information
Technology based services. Information Technology enabled services fulfill the
information needs of the users at the right time in the right place to the right person.
D K Singh, Mohammad Nazim, (2008) in his study discusses the impact of
information technology and role of libraries in the age of knowledge and information
societies. It also highlights the problems faced by the Library & Information Service
(LIS) sector in India and achievements over the years using modern information
technologies.
Dr. Satish Kanamadi, Dr. B. D. Kumbar, (Spring 2007) the researcher identifies
Management libraries are facing a piquant situation and unforeseen challenges in this
age of information technology. They are reeling under pressure to fulfill their
obligation of meeting the diverse information needs of clientele. IT has brought in
sweeping changes in the traditional way libraries are functioning. Libraries need to
evaluate, measure the impact of information technology on them. This will equip
them with the knowledge of turning this information Technology into a boon for
improving their services. This paper is one such attempt with reference to
management libraries affiliated to University of Mumbai, Mumbai City, India.
S. Dhanavandan, M. Tamizhchelvan, (2012) discusses the Role of Information
Technology in Academic Libraries: Personal Computer to Cloud Computing,
International Journal of Advanced Library and Information Science. He emphasis that
The information environment is greatly changing throughout the world. The rapid
development in Communication and Information Technology and recent innovation in
technology have witnessed as challenges and changing emphasis in the role of
information and its management. This century has witnessed the every information
contents changing into digital format. This paper made an attempt to analysis the
changing of the academic libraries and skill required by the library professionals.

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8. CONCLUSION
The presence study has shown that Indian academic library is strategically placed in
the exploit which is largely stopping libraries from advancing to next level of
technology. The solutions already implemented by the libraries and creation of other
suggested strategies could help Indian library to overcome these obstacle and reach
the pinnacle in collection development. It concludes that there is need for
advancement in technology in academic libraries at India.

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