LIS pros have to keep pace with technology

VADODARA, June 8: With Library and Information Sciences LIS professionals having witnessed many radical changes, there has been a shift in the functioning of library activities. This was stated by Course Director Dr K H Shukla on Sunday, while delivering a lecture on the last day of the three-day workshop on Computer and software application to library and information activities8217;.

The workshop was organised by the Indian Library Association and Vadodara Association of Libraries and Information Centres on Friday. According to Shukla, LIS profession was a complex area involving intellectual community and any technological advancement affected the transactions involved. So professionals have to keep pace with the ever-changing technology and deliver the shifted goods to the information seekers, he further said.

8220;It is high time that the LIS professionals realise the importance of usage of computers and information technology in their activities,8221; he added.