Chapter Y

Automated Information Organization

Abstract

Information and communication technology is now being increasingly employed in libraries and information centers for improving organization and dissemination of information. Many of the activities, which were earlier being done manually, have now been automated. Besides, a sizeable amount of information sources are now available in electronic or digital format, and Internet has become an important source of information. Not only the existing libraries and their services are now being automated, libraries of new varieties, such as digital libraries and virtual libraries are also coming up. The main areas where efforts are being made to apply computers for increasing the efficiency and speed ...

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