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READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

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Building digital libraries: Librarians are having rich experience of organizing<br />

knowledge. This can help them to build in-house digital libraries to capture organizations<br />

knowledge, codify and make available to all. Libraries can become multimedia publishers<br />

of its staff projects. This in turn enhances the process of knowledge discovery in the<br />

organization.<br />

Building rich catalog of resources: Libraries now required providing access to<br />

materials available in digital <strong>for</strong>m anywhere on the web and their role as in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

evaluators or navigational guides becoming important. Libraries can help users to make<br />

choices about freely available material and or rank, evaluate different services or sources<br />

available on the net.<br />

Building communities: Libraries can acts as places of social and expert<br />

networks. It can host tools <strong>for</strong> social networking, develop guides <strong>for</strong> specialized<br />

disciplines to help researchers navigate through the subject. Further, they can provide<br />

access and retrieval of knowledge produced through these networks <strong>for</strong> future use.<br />

Domain experts: Libraries can develop domain expertise to provide consultation<br />

services to researchers.<br />

Content integrators: Libraries will be encouraged to combine various sources of<br />

content from different sources and service providers including the internal content into<br />

one large offering <strong>for</strong> users’ access. Thus in<strong>for</strong>mation professionals can thrive to delivers<br />

the right content, to the right people, at the right time by focusing on business process<br />

management of the organization. This requires librarians to understand roles,<br />

responsibilities and business needs of the organization. Also, they can deploy content<br />

effectively through licensing agreements or other means.<br />

4. CONCLUSION<br />

Library staff requires understanding how different the world of knowledge<br />

became and they should be flexible and agile to learn new skills required managing and<br />

progressing in the new world. This would mean librarians to act navigation guides in<br />

knowledge world to users, embracing new technologies and changes and finally being<br />

proactive in dealing with in<strong>for</strong>mation policy issues in the organization.<br />

REFERENCES<br />

1. Hillenbrand, C. (2005). Librarianship in the 21st century – crisis or trans<strong>for</strong>mation?<br />

Australian Library Journal. 54(2)<br />

2. Changing Roles of Academic and <strong>Research</strong> Libraries This essay derives from a<br />

Roundtable on Technology and Change in Academic Libraries, convened by the<br />

Association of College and <strong>Research</strong> Libraries (ACRL) on November 2-3, 2006 in<br />

Chicago.<br />

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