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Impact Of Information Technology In Library

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1. TITTLE: UTILISATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES AT CITY OF JOBURG (COJ) MUNICIPALITY.

2. SUMMARY OF THE TOPIC
With the invention of Information and Communication Technology, libraries now use various types of technologies to aid the services they render. Everyday new technological advances affect the way information is handled in libraries and information centers. The impacts of new technologies are felt by libraries in every aspect. Computing technology, communication technology and mass storage technology are some of the areas of continuous development that reshape the way that libraries access, retrieve, store, manipulate and disseminate information to users.
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In developed countries such as those in the US and UK, library automation activities started during the 1950s and 1960s respectively (Mutula 2004). During that period, library systems were developed locally on mainframe computers of parent organisations using local programming language expertise. Meanwhile, database producers such as Chemical Abstracts, National Library of Medicine and Institute of Scientific Information developed extensive computerisation programmes that led to online information retrieval system (Mutula 2004).
Chisenga (2004) reveals that the use of ICTs in public libraries in the 1990s slowly shifted from technology for staff use to facilities designed for public use in the form of personal computers (PCs), to access the Internet and undertake word processing. Libraries started providing various ICTs-based services to their users, such as the provision of web access to Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs), electronic document delivery, networked information resources, delivery of information to users’ desktop, online instructions and online readers advisory services (Chisenga: …show more content…

These facilities enable the public to, among other things, type resumes, conduct business, communicate with friends and other cultures as well as find job opportunities (Kirsch 2008). City of Joburg Municipality libraries, in Gauteng, for instance, are some of public libraries that have introduced the multi-user 441 public Internet kiosks, with the first rollout having taken place in the year 2006. The system had Linux (Mandrake Linux) operating system loaded. The system is now providing Internet access to the users as well as allowing users to type and print documents (Kirsch

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