With the advancement of computer technology and under the impact of information technology revolution the entire scenario of library science has undergone drastic changes. The sophisticated magnetic media and the silicon chip brought about a major break-through in the storage of data and information. Role of computers in library science is thoroughly assessed in this book. Information gathered in different chapters like—advancement of computer technology; multimedia libraries, library media; multimedia catalog; online computer service; technical services; information science; modern library; new directions for the library; bibliographic software etc., will be of utmost use to the readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.K. Paliwal
Dr. P.K. Paliwal received his Ph.D. degree from the East West University of Health Sciences in 1979. Presently, he is on the faculty of the Documentation Research Centre, where he is involved in teaching computer proframming, library automation, information retrieval and design development, database management systems and applied statistics. He has also conduceted several short term courses in India and abroad, some of them sponsor by UNESCO. Besides having published more than fifty reset papters, he has authored two books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyama Balakrishnan
Shyama Balakrishnan has been associated with the field of information science for nearly two decades. After having worked at the Centre for Information Processing, she worked with Institute of Health Science, Bombay. Since then she has taken a keen interest in introducing online information services and database services in collaboration with Information Services Inc., U.K. She has presented a number of papers and visited many countries.
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