Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Library Innovation

               The librarian of today is much more than a mere keeper of books, or a custodian of archival materials, or even a bespectacled father figure haunting the corridors of knowledge. It is evident that the book occupies, and will continue to do so, the prime place in the hall of culture and development, in spite of the communications revolution, the electronic hegemony or the television invasion -- perhaps even because of all this that the book strengthened its rightful place and even assured its permanence in the larger scheme of things human.

               The modern library and the truly professional librarian have both moved in tandem-- from the card index age to the electronic multimedia era of microfilm, cd-roms, and websites. In a true sense, the modern library is an active partner of the giant of information technology and together they constitute a center of knowledge and activity, research and learning, that is global in its perspectives and cosmic in its outreach. Library Science and Information Technology are the twin frontiers of the new information order. Thus, new orders of organization, management, resource development and upgradation have come into into being all for the benefit of mankind in its relentless quest for knowledge, progress and betterment. 

Contractor, Meher