Public libraries in the Internet age : Indian scenario

Ghosh, Maitrayee Public libraries in the Internet age : Indian scenario., 2003 . In IFLA Council and General Conference (69th : 2003 : Berlin), Berlin (Germany), 1-9 August 2003. (Unpublished) [Conference poster]

[img]
Preview
 PDF
E_LIS_paper.pdf
Download (267kB) | Preview

English abstract

In India majority of people live in rural areas and new technologies are not accessible from remote villages, therefore a wide gap has been evolved between the libraries of ‘knowledge haves’ and knowledge have-nots. Today Internet and web technologies open up new ways of interactive communication between public libraries and the civil society. The progress in the Information and communication Technologies (ICT) enable remote people can be connected by several technical options in a more affordable manner. Based on the widely accepted conceptualization of "ICT for development," this article suggested various ways where convergence technologies can be used to improve and promote the existing library services. An attempt is made here to make a proposal for ICT driven public libraries for Indian states with suitable library extension programs to help the entire rural as well as urban community especially unprivileged masses.

Item type: Conference poster
Keywords: ICT, Public libraries, India, convergence technologies, library Extension Program
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user: Maitrayee Ghose
Date deposited: 07 Aug 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7916

References

Anne Grimshaw (Compiler] “Records, document and content management in local Government: a look at the some of the latest e-government initiatives’ Information Management & technology,Jan-Mar 2003,p14-20 & 31.

Aashish Sharma & William Yurcik “The emergence of Rural digital Libraries in India: The Gyandoot Digital Library intranet” published in the conference proceedings of the ASIS Annual Conference(ASIS 2000) Chicago IL.USA, November 2000. Available at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/May-01/sharmayurcik.html}

Marina Fors and Alfredo Moreno. “ The benefits and obstacles of implementing ICTs strategies for development from a bottom up approach” Aslib proceedings, vol. 54,no 3.2002,pp198-206

Kaul.H.K “Knowledge Centres: The key to self employment and poverty alleviation” Delnet newsletter, vol.9, no.2, December 2002, pp17- 18.

Vikas Nath “Empowerment and governance through Information and Communication Technologies: Women’s perspective” International Information and library review, 2001, vol.33 pp. 317-339

Kirsty Williamson & others “The role of the Internet for people with disabilities: Issues of access and equity for public libraries” Austrian library Journal, May 2001 , pp 157-174.

Christopher Edwards “Global knowledge: a challenge for librarians”, IFLA Journal vol.27, no. 2 2001, pp.65-69

David stoker “Social exclusion, joined-up government, public libraries and the Internet” Editorial, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol.32,no.2, 2000,pp53-55


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
Contact us
Send email Sponsors
Sponsor: AIMS Sponsor: D&P Sponsor: UniNa CAB Get connected
Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Linkedin LinkedIn RSS RSS