Acquisition And Deployment Of Technology In The Library Environment

Acquisition And Deployment Of Technology In The Library Environment

Abstract

Major traditional libraries particularly the academic libraries turned to electronic or digital libraries and offered information services without boundaries. The library druggies could pierce library coffers from any where at any time. The changing face of the library

services supported the life-long literacy terrain and toward developing the literacy society in the country.

The preface of information technology and automated library systems to the library has made these effects happed. This paper addresses the accession and deployment of technology affecting similar development. Keywords

Academic Libraries, Technology structure, ThaiSarn, ThaiLIS, UNINET

preface

maturity of the academic libraries concentrates more on acquiring maximum information coffers by copping handbooks, reference workshop, journals( both in published as well as electronics media) which includes course accoutrements and colleges. In this environment can we presume the argument that “ better library and laboratory grease better education ”? Of late the argument was modified as “ better access to coffers and well informed druggies are life long learners ” and hence creates good academic terrain. Whereas,

the technology grounded developments are pointing towards broad diapason, i.e. from simple executive requirements to high end grid computing fore-research. generally, in university terrain, all the functional units areinter-connected, may be at an admission of

a scholars or at the high end exploration exertion, wherein operation is commensurate to their requirements. In Thailand, information structure is created as public structure, optimized and stationed at university position to support all type of functional requirements. The

selection and deployment of structure at enterprise position or the desktop operations is guided by conditions, norms, and recommendations of standard development associations and accepted

Development of Technology structure The major development of Information technology structure in Thailand was started by the government in the time 1992 through National Information Technology Committee( NITC), with the accreditation of planning, easing, and covering the perpetration. The commission comprised of 22 members from leading public and private agencies chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of profitable and social development. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center( NECTEC), a government statutory agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, was

honored as the secretariat of the commission. Major conditioning covered were mortal resource development, application of IT

in public sector, exploration and development creation, legal structure, public mindfulness programme, software assiduity creation, and electronic commerce. As computer networks were getting more and more pivotal to the development of wisdom and technology, the Thai Social, Scientific, Academic and Research Network( ThaiSARN) was established in 1992 to meet the demand for new ways of literacy and exploration conditioning. ThaiSARN was completely funded by the Thai government since its commencement, and was successful in carousing further than 50 spots of government agencies, public universities, their libraries and sodalities each over Thailand and therefore erected a good foundation in information exchange forinter-organization as well asintra-organization dispatches including cross- database access for the sharing parties.