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The Impact of Technology on Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Library Collections (Paperback)
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The Impact of Technology on Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Library Collections (Paperback)
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Libraries have been part of the human civilization for centuries by
playing an important role in the development of people and
societies and being instrumental in storing and retrieving
information for scholars and other users. Many changes have been
introduced in libraries from time to time in order to meet the
needs of the changing world. During ancient times, information was
written and stored on clay tablets and handwritten materials, which
then changed to the printing materials employed during the medieval
period. Then came microforms, CD-ROMS, and the online storage
method, including databases on the World Wide Web. Technology is
still very new to the libraries and their user; the western world
having been just introduced to it during the second half of the
twentieth century. Editor R.N. Sharma's travels to Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East on library assignments have shown him that
libraries in those regions are still far behind technologically as
compared to the United States and other developed countries. In the
Impact of Technology on Asian, African and Middle Eastern Library
Collections, sixteen well-known scholars, library educators, and
librarians from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East write about the
impact of technology on library collections and services in their
countries. Three authors from the United States contribute articles
about Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Collections in the United
States and the impact of technology on these collections and
services. This collection of well written essays gives a clear
picture of these countries' libraries as compared to the United
States and the ways to bridge the gap between developed and
developing countries of these regions.
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