ISBN: 9788170005445    Publisher: Ess Ess Publication Year of publishing: 2005     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 439        Language: English

This book is a collection of articles in the memory of Late Professor S M Tripathi, who dedicated his life to the library profession and worked endlessly for the betterment of the profession in general and his students and all who looked upon him for guidance, in particular. The articles contained in this book are contributions from various learned scholars of library and information science field and cover a wide gamut of new technologies which play an important role in the library operations today. This book talks in length about Intellectual Property, Online Searching of Databases, E-Resources, Library Networking, Multimedia, Digital Libraries, Electronic Document Delivery. Virtual Libraries, Information Management, Information, Society, Electronic Journals, Internet, Knowledge Modelling and Management, Total Quality Management in Library and Information Services and many other interesting topics. To sum it all, this book encompasses all there is to know for getting an insight into the modern technologies and their impact on library and information science.
All the topics have been carefully chosen and arranged so as to let the reader wade through them and know what is new and how the technology is playing such an important role in transformation of traditional libraries to the modern age knowledge store house. It is hoped that not only the libraries and information scientists, but also the students of library and information science find this book very useful reference work thus making this a befitting tribute to the luminary this book is dedicated to.
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