Modern Librarianship is changing its face with the introduction of digital media. Even the Academic Libraries are becoming hybrid in nature. No institute which imparts technical knowledge can escape from the e-literature and digital libraries, as well as multimedia recourses. Managing theses e-recourses is a challenging task. It is the need of the day for the librarian to be equipped for the management of digital libraries, so that they can offer best services to the users.
- Librarians need to enhance the skills of information gathering, processing and dissemination, available in electronic format.
Digital Library has a great deal of potential for information. Managing Digital Library has many parameters from software selection, data entry to assigning metadata for the documents in Digital Format. Special awareness and training of ‘know-how’ is a must for the same |