Authors
Gopal Krishna Murthy
Abstract
Information is the main feature of any kind of research and development as air is vital for the existence of all living creatures on Earth. India is a developing country, we Indians are always trying to improve the technology for making country more developed. Currently, libraries are prepared to achieve the Information Technology centered services as the technology of information is playing significant role for development of library. In this paper, an effort has been made to study and understand the prominence of information technology in library services and Library consortia. Consortia is defined as a group of two or more people, firms, establishments or governments with an aim of sharing information for attaining a joint goal and library consortia is the platform for sharing the information among the library users. A discussion has been done in this paper about the advantages, disadvantages, model of library consortia. The drive of this paper is to offer brief synopsis available on library consortia. Keywords: Information Technology, Library, Consortia,
Introduction
In today’s day to day life information technology is playing very significant role for instance use of mobile phone, using computer, watching television etc. Information technology is provided very advance facilities, whose can be easily seen in different areas life Medical, Agriculture, Robotics, etc. Information technology has also changed the structure of libraries. Earlier library management were time consuming but now a days libraries are using Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for finding out the exact location of reading materials (Modi, 2015).
Information Technology
Information is universal and known to all individuals, there might be no term to describe exactly the term ‘information.’ According to Shannon and Weaver an Information is defined as “any stimulus that reduces uncertainty.” Ching- Chin Chen and Peter Hernon also defined information as, “all knowledge, ideas, facts, data and imaginative works of mind which are communicated formally and/or informally in any format”. Maurice B. Line has defined information as, “what an individual ought to have for his work, his research, his edification, his recreation etc.”
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