Essential Technologies for Libraries in Digital Era

The advent of ICT technologies and digitization has the power to transform the library and information services. They become an integral part of library management. Use of these technologies in the library in-house operations and delivery of information services to its users is inevitable. This book introduces the concepts that contextualize the technological developments applicable to library management. Contributed by a team of experts, each author provided a chapter on different technologies that can be used in LIS field. This book covers the topics on modern innovative technologies and case studies of ICT-based library services which includes Open source software for digital libraries, Impact of e-revolution on collection development in academic libraries, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-Books, RFID Based Library Management Systems, QR Codes, MOOCs ¿ Massive Open Online Courses, Institutional Repositories in India, Cloud Computing and its application in Libraries, Web 3.0 Applications in Libraries, Five laws and ICT, Types of Repositories, Information needs, Green Library for Sustainable Environment in Academic Library and Mobile Library Services and Technologies.