Rapid advances in information processing, storage and communication technologies have revolutionised the role of worldwide libraries in disseminating information services to their users. As a result, libraries are facing new challenges, demands, expectations and a variety of information services from users tailored to their wants and needs. Libraries are reconsolidating their positions, redesigning their services and incorporating new technologies, upgrading information resources, changing information objects, modes of communication and information delivery in order to add value to their services and to satisfy the changing information needs of the new generation. In this digital environment, libraries must take proactive measures to develop digital collections to cater to digital information needs of their users. This publication comprises a well structured compilation to cover the current technologies and their future in library and information environment, valuable for both students and scholars, as well as professional librarians, information technologists and communicators.
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