Changing Role of Digital Librarian

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The changes in technology using electronically stored and retrieval information has changed the way patrons and students are able to access, retrieve and use information.  The instantaneous access of information through the Internet has made vast amounts of information and data available to anyone with a computer, a modern and a provider.  Digital information is changing the role of librarians from a person who students ask for assistance in finding information in a place called a library to someone who needs to provide services and instructions regardless of place, time or format.  A librarian or information professional must be able to actively participate in the educational process rather than gathering information and disseminate it to the public through workshops, orientations, training etc.  this book elaborately discusses the impast of digital technologies in libraries and the role librarian in the changing context.  It will be a highly valuable reference tool for librarians, information professionals and students and teachers of library and information science.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kamla Sinha

Kamla Sinha, a librarian by profession, received her undergraduate and the post-graduate degree in social science and got the library and information science professional course degrees of B.K.I.S. and M.L.I.S. with first class from Canada. She has gained twenty years of Service in the field of librarianship. Besides library management, she has also been engaged in teaching since 1992. Her academic involvement had made her a research guide supervising the work of many scholars who have registered under her for Ph.D. programme. Widely traveled around the world she has participated in various national and international seminars and conferences on subjects relating to library science. She has presented more than twenty research papers in various seminar proceedings and has published about fifteen research articles in reputed journals.

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Title
Changing Role of Digital Librarian
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8189652860
Length
viii+285p., Figures; Index; 23cm.
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