Use of Internet in Academic College Libraries - A Study

The advancement of Information, Communication and Technology has brought a lot of changes not only on the library and information services but also in post and telegraph, Radio, television ,telephone, mobile phone, fax machine, satellite communication etc. The ICT is very useful in almost all areas of human life . Recent developments in the Technologies have brought changes in the modes and methods of information, storage, retrieval and transmission. The Internet and web technology has open new dimension to the information systems. WWW has created a sound impact on the library and information centre to have access to different information sources and disseminate to the users. The paper mainly discusses about the importance of Internet and web technologies for the college libraries in the digital environment. Web provides significant advantages by integrating different library and information services with a common user interface provided by web browsers. This paper narrates the changing role of modern academic librarian in the Internet.. With the global shift from storing the information to knowledge era, the tents of library profession has also changed .This paper narrates the changing role of modern academic librarian in the Internet environment