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| Title: | Libraries of the Digital Age
: Issues & Challenges |
| Author: | A Rajagopalan |
| ISBN: | 8189741047 : 9788189741044 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 330 |
| Weight: | .494 Kg. |
| Published: | SBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd - January 2006 |
| List Price: | 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES |
Libraries have become active agents of a social change and early adopters of new information and communication technologies. The range of materials and media they handle has diversified enormously in the last decade. Access to full-text databases, networked resources and multimedia information systems has become the norm in a matter of years, fuelled in no small measure by the prodigious growth of the internet and World Wide Web. The coming years promise even greater advances -- global digital libraries, intelligent interfaces, interactive books, intelligent agents, virtual reality. This book complies highly useful information encompassing various crucial issues pertaining to libraries of modern times, rightly known as digital age. An exhaustive bibliography and glossary of important terms are added features.
