Digital
skills competency and providing value based services in e-learning environment to
the learners both in-house and distance mode has become crucial for the
libraries in the changing scenario of higher education. Librarians in the midst
of globalization of education, availability, acquiring and managing abundant literature
especially in digital form on Internet domain including prevailing of multidimensional
research reports required reshaping the resource collections to meet the varied
demands of the e-learners and in the process, the notion of the librarian
changed from document manager to document provider and subsequently to
knowledge disseminator, network manager, technology manager, cybrarian, etc. Moreover,
the prevailing technologies in libraries altered the learning horizon especially
among the students through e-learning which is synonymously represented as
web-based learning, digital learning, Internet learning, On-line learning etc.
and such learning procedure solely rests on e-resources. This is the upshot of
the change management in learning environment which shifted from traditional to
blended and then to electronic. Strategic changes of the libraries in its
service in the present days of education system, rather concentrated to uphold
the value of the library for sustainable development. A true value of learning
wheel, the future librarianship is going to witness encapsulating required
skills and competencies in view of unconditional prevailing of ICT in every
stage of its operation like, acquisition, organization, dissemination and
preservation of knowledge for yielding new horizon in service domain. Skill
development being the major and indispensable criteria in such a pervasive change,
there is no way out than to accept the challenges unhesitatingly and shoulder the
responsibilities in facilitating services in future librarianship.
