New Approches to Modern Librarianship
The libraries saw their advent in their present shape towards the end of 19th Century. Information became capital and a saleable commodity in the 2nd half of 20th Century. Application of information technologies-computer, telecommunications and document reproduction-in 1960\'s for a variety of purposes gave birth to information revolution. Libraries could not afford to avoid the magnetic touch of these technologies- In fact. a library has one of the first few areas where the potential of information technology was successfully tested and exploited. The four walls of libraries are crumbling under the onslaught of these technologies, culminating into face-lifting of modem librarianship.
The present book \'Approaches to modem librarianship\' includes all the modern approaches which a Library ;it following in this IT Era.
