USE OF ICT IN IIT AND IIM LIBRARIES OF INDIA

The present era is an information era which has its base on information and communication technologies. The ICT acts as a soul for all kinds of information processes may be it information processing, storage, maintenance and dissemination. The ICT has made its influence in all walks of life, libraries and information centres are not an exception. Use of ICT in libraries has become inevitable in an era of information explosion and the emergence of a wide range of new technologies in order to satisfy the changing complex information needs of users. The ICT has provided libraries with an opportunity to provide various information services and access to huge collection of digital information resources to their patrons at any time without any boundary of time and location. Thus the undertaken study focuses on impact of ICT in libraries. Further the study will examine the use of information communication technology (ICT) in IITs & IIMs libraries in India by investigating the ICT infrastructure, current status of library automation.