Multimedia in Information Services

This publication ‘Multimedia in Information Services’ deals with the technological usage in information.  Information can be considered as data (both factual and numeric) that is organized and imbued with meaning or as intelligence resulting from the assembly, analysis, or summary of data into a meaningful form.  Examples include research results, technology evaluations, and new methodologies.  Today the world is becoming a global village which has a digital face and the internet is changing into the national information infrastructure, which is evident from the fact that after only a few years of life, the World Wide Web (WWW) is crowded with time-sensitive data, news summaries, chat, and multimedia entertainment.  Digital imaging technologies create an entirely new form of information dissemination.  Imaging involves transforming the very concept of format, rather than creating an accurate picture of a book, document, photograph, or map on a different medium.  This transformation will force librarians and archivists to transform their services and programmes in turn.  Digital images are everywhere in libraries and archives, and the ability to produce high-quality images will improve as the technology matures.