Harnessing innovations in libraries and information centres: issues and trends

Swain, Dillip K. Harnessing innovations in libraries and information centres: issues and trends., 2009 . In ICSSR National Seminar on Capacity Building for Library Professionals in Digital Environment, Bhubaneswar, 20-21 September 2009. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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English abstract

Innovation implies the opening of new ideas, methods, and techniques applied to any organization for transformation of its operations for effective consequences. This paper focuses on the trends of innovations in libraries and information centers and addresses different core facets of library innovations. Moreover, it discusses the need of innovation in libraries, the successful factors of innovation, policy instruments, technological trends and such other related issues highlighting the significance of harvesting innovation in libraries and information centres in electronic age.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: electronic information, podcasts, RSS feed reader, web-based RSS reader, twiter
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
Depositing user: Dr. Dillip K Swain
Date deposited: 11 Jan 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14175

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