Impact of Multimedia Technologies on Library Services

Exploring the Impact of Multimedia Technologies on Library Services

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to assess whether thedevelopments in information communication technologies have any influence onthe library professionals’ professional development, and the need for furthereducation and training in the profession and evaluate their skills in handlingdevelopments in information communication technologies. Multimedia libraryinformation kiosks, walk-through programmes, training, digital libraries,multimedia databases, multimedia catalogues, multimedia library collections,geographical information systems, electronic publishing, etc are its keyapplications.