Role of Libraries in the Digital era

Proliferation of information resources from multiple areas and their amalgamation in the libraries especially in the digital era precipitated many challenges in the library professionals to meet the demands of the users for their academic purposes. This further coupled with proper management of resources with the help of proprietary and open access library software, which, however, requires skills and professional competencies to deal with the software. This has predominantly become a major challenging task in Library and Information services both at International and National level. North East bestowed with 9 central universities to flourish higher education is attached with central libraries with adequate information resources both print and electronic. Further, induction of Internet, Knowledge Repositories, Open Source, Open Journals, Blogs, and Library 2.0 in libraries added exorbitant resources. It therefore, became the need of the hour to manage with the resources with the help of multiple technologies so as to reach the information users effectively in right time. Moreover, it becomes the onus of the library professionals to handle the resources effectively in view of the technology emulation. It could be visualized that major chunk of the libraries both in International and National sphere are in the transitional stages changing their services from traditional to digital.