ICT Infrastructures in Academic Libraries

This book aims to analyze the Information Communication Technology infrastructure facilities with reference to self-financing engineering college libraries in Tamil Nadu. The availability of ICT infrastructure facilities may differ from one institution to another on the basis of the factors such as ownership of the institution, inception and duration of the institution and minority status. It traces out the status of electronic resources in terms of topology of library network, electronic access points, electronic database, e-journals and electronic resources in the libraries of engineering colleges. The electronic sources and such other infrastructure facilities and their extent of availability could be accessed.