Need for emerging tech in library management stressed

​Hyderabad: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Deputy Director General (Education), Dr Narendra Singh Rathore, here on Tuesday stressed the need to use emerging technologies in the library management to provide 24x7 services.

Addressing a meeting after inaugurating five-day national-level Capacity Building workshop at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University (PJTSAU) here, Dr Narendra Singh Rathore, libraries were considered in the past as the storehouses for books. But, the emerging technologies like digital and artificial intelligence were bringing sea changes in the way library are being managed.

Using the emerging technologies libraries should turn into centres for providing knowledge, he said. The PJTSAU Vice-Chancellor, Dr Praveen Rao, announcing the change of the name of the university into 'Knowledge Management Centre (KMC), said the university has been trying to deploy technologies for the modern management of the university library.

The check-in and check-out process in the library will be automated, besides providing a separate facility with 25 laptops for the benefit of the students, scholars and others accessing the services at the library. The vice-chancellor said that the universities and libraries should function in line with the thinking of the government, which is focussing on making the agricultural profitable to the farmers.

The workshop is being organised by the PJTSAU in association with ICAR. Later, Dr Rathore, who visited the solar plant, established at the PJTSAU at Rajendranagar Campus appreciated the universities the efforts of going for alternative energy resources and achieving 40 per cent reduction in its power bills.