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Application of Information Science and Technology in Academic Libraries: An Overview

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Informational is imperative in support of person evolution since air is most needful for staying alive of all surviving things on the earth, includes humans. The slight change made by new info techniques has a key factor of people live span, working, and playing worldwide. The Information Science and Technology (IST) take part in an important function in the evolution of academic library services in proactive to the challenging task of the informational services. The paper aims to deal with the rapid evolution of IST and implementation of its services in the academic libraries. Presently all academic libraries are established to provide IST based digital library. IST includes services such as Electronic Sources to enhance the info required as per the needs of user’s effective manner.

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Velmurugan, S., Ramesh, G.P. (2020). Application of Information Science and Technology in Academic Libraries: An Overview. In: Balas, V., Kumar, R., Srivastava, R. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32644-9_9

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