Education and library services are the two faces of the same coin. The library is the backbone of all the academic activities and it is the heart of an educational institution. The primary purpose of an academic library is to support teaching, research and other academic programmes and extension activities. Academic libraries serve two complimentary purposes: to support the college’s curriculum, and to support the research of the college faculty and students. The user community of College Library comprises students, teachers, staff and extension workers. Usually the students heavily depend upon text-books and such other recommended documents referred to by their teachers. Therefore the collection of a college library mostly consists of recommended textbook and reference book, fiction and non-fiction books. The basic responsibility of an academic library being to support the teaching-learning, research and extension programme of the parent institution, the collection has to be built up accordingly.
An academic library is a part of service organization whose primary role is to promote excellence in curricular and co-curricular programmer by way of providing easy and convenient access to documents and information contained in document. Library services for students have never been as important for students as they are today. In this age of information explosion and changes frontiers of educational scenario calls for access to the knowledge and lifelong learning and literacy skills to develop potentialities with the studies.
The academic libraries are witnessing tremendous changes due to the developments of information technology and the phenomenal rise of electronic resources. The academic library collections are no more only in p...
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• User does not require binding and repair.
• They save human resources for shelving and rectification.
• User can not misplace e- books.
The purpose of an academic library will always be to support the needs of its users with the most relevant highest quality information resources, and no change in format will alter this. With electronic as with print resources, quality level, and relevance must remain primary. Information that was basically available in printed format such as books , journals etc. now exists in electronic format such as e-books, e-journals, etc that are called as e-resources. 21st century library users demand access to electronic materials. They use computers to search and receive information, create documents and communicate with each others. It the academic librarians duty to meet the users need.
This library system is utilizing all the technologies and materials available to them to serve the community in the best way. Despite certain social indicators and demographic statistics indicating that the library should not be overly utilized, it is thriving and is heavily in use. There are areas that the library can look to improve based on statistical evidence, such as reaching out to the low income population and the over 55 years age group. This library seems to be meeting numerous needs for a wide range of patrons, and doing it well.
...ction of digital information. It help better people’s knowledge of the communication between society, technology, information, and technology for actions of scholarly research. It tries to further the public obligation on encouragement through the Digital Public Library of America. The program targets on problem related to information and computing facts, broad connection to in site, and computational research, intellectual connections.
Overview According to Ronald Hagler, the first of the six functions of bibliographic control, or information organization, is to identify the existence of all types of information resources as they are made available. The motive for identifying resources is obvious – one has to know a resource exists for it to be of any value. This is true not only for libraries, but for all information providers. This paper will analyze how Hagler’s function is demonstrated by the St. Charles City-County Library District (http://youranswerplace.org/home), the Einstein Archives Online (http://www.alberteinstein.info/), and the domestic organization website, FlyLady.net (http://www.flylady.net/).
Automated is transform the materials or records into digital form. As the era of the technology present, the demanding of digital records is drastically increased. Automated records may present archivists their greatest challenge in identifying, selecting, and preserving records of enduring value. Since the introduction of the computer, archivists have been concerned about its impact on their profession's mission. Based on report by the National Archives of Canada on machine-readable data stated that "if one were to take the traditional archival approach of waiting for whatever recorded information came out of the system, then the archivist in the electronic age will undoubtedly die of information starvation."23 Over the past decade archivists have tried to redefine their role in the modern information age, 24 but many seem to have been merely paying lip service to society's major shift to an "information" era. At present one can count on one hand the number of major programs established to deal with automated records, and these are only located at some of the largest archival institutions - The National Archives of Canada, the U.S. National Archives, and the New York, Utah, and Kentucky state archives. Contrast this with the facts: computers have been used for three decades, personal computers have become an ubiquitous feature of society in just the past decade, and a major portion of all information presently being created is going into automated systems of some variety. Nevertheless, there is overwhelming evidence that archivists are not effectively appraising such information nor using the helpful findings of previous research. 25 Current research is, however, both innovative and promising. Archivists have made substantial pro...
Adaptive Technology Equipment for the Library. Lisiecki, Christine; Computers in Libraries, v19 n6 p18-20,22 Jun 1999
Through things such as contact time with books, being able to familiarise with books and more, I found many ways that the classroom library helps in the development of literacy in students.
Over the years academic libraries have seen many changes within library instruction. As Fulkerson (2014) argues “ library instruction has evolved from skill-based bibliographic instruction focused on teaching students how to use a print reference book such as an index or demonstrating how to use a database to competency-based library instruction”( p.17). Even from the early 1900’s, library instruction has shifted and changed, helping library instruction become what it is today. Even as these changes were occuring “Instructional efforts in the academic libraries slowed during the 1920’s throughout the 1950’s” (Juskiewicz and Cote, 2014, p.8).
The library can also borrow books from the other libraries from different colleges, if there is a specific book that the student may need and when it isn’t in our own library. I have been to the library before many times, but it was only to study with a group of friends in the study room for the upcoming tests and finals. I thought all these resources from the libraries are great and I wish I would have known sooner. Now that I know about all the resources the library can help and provide me with, it will be very helpful for writing research
We live in an information society where the development of information and communication technologies accompanied by a corresponding increase in knowledge with a rapidly growing flow of information. In this new information environment, library professionals require new skills in seeking, processing and disseminating information.
...of a hard copy. (Berger) Since ebooks are more affordable than traditional textbooks, education itself will become more affordable. As documents change to reflect newer information, it is both a challenging and important task to update hard copies. Latamore notes that electronically published work can be updated easily through a single master document that is accessed by all users. With electronic materials, students can always have access to the most current information.
With advances in digital technology, there is increasing popularity of reading electronic books over traditional paper books. For example, ebooks now outsell traditional ones on Amazon. Although paper books still have tremendous values and have own market niche, as evident from the number of books placed on shelves at various retailers, e-books will be the trend of text publishing going forward. There are many glaring advantages that e-books have over traditional paper books, as e-books are more convenient to carry, have greater update capacity, have greater storage capacity, more accessible and environmental friendly. This paper will therefore elaborate on the advantages of e-books and provide a comparative analysis of e-books versus traditional books.
Synodinou, T, Kapidakis, S, Iglezakis, I 2011, E-publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues, IGI Global.
In order to implement lifelong learning among students, library media teachers also known as teacher librarians should perform information literacy instruction in their school with the collaboration with school teachers in lessons planning. The American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st Century Leaner (2007) mentions that school libraries are essential to the development of learning skills. However, are library media teachers capable and competence to perform their roles towards information literacy very well and does all school teachers really realize and understand about the roles of library media teachers? What are the teachers’ perceptions towards the role of library media teacher? The Library Association of Malaysia feels that if it is to be cost effective in supporting quality education, the person in charge of the library must be a person above of average capabilities who has a considerable degree of expertise in the fields of both library science and education (Winslade, 1979). All the questions can be answered by investigating the teachers’ perception on the roles of library media teachers.
Dilevko, J., & Gottlieb, L. (2002, November). Print sources in an electronic age: A vital part of the research process for undergraduate students. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 28(6), 381. Retrieved July 18, 2006, from the Academic Search Premier database. (AN: 8735647).
Library professionals are charged with the job of not only keeping abreast of the ever-changing world of technology, but also being leaders in using technology. The trends and the applications that fit within those trends will be discussed in the following sections. Additionally, some of the applications will be discussed along with ideas for use of those applications in a library setting, specifically a school library setting, although many of the applications could apply to other types of libraries. Library professionals should be informed about t...