Collaboration of Public and Academic Libraries in Indian Perspectives

process, systems and services

Abstract

In the 21st century, each and every sector faced many challenges from globalization and information explosion, so the library has faced the same. A one-stop solution is a demand for this generation and it is information & communication technology,
which hijacking the traditional educational formation. Generally, we speak the two types of libraries and they have two different identities, characteristics, and nature by their own, and they have attempted in different ways to services to their readers/users. Students and general users are now-a-days using one tip information solution on their hands through mobile phones and the Internet communication system. In this platform, they investing minimum time and get maximum output in the form of search results. In this parameter, the library could not fit itself at all. So now-a-days students of academic libraries and users of public libraries are avoiding libraries. There are so many frequent reasons working behind this. We have to take this issue seriously and need some definite solution for it. So, the idea was to preserve and assemble the academic library and public library as two cultures on the same platform. However, over the past few years, things have changed somewhat as new examples of “combi libraries” have emerged, where staff and materials to a greater extent have been integrated with new perceptions of 'local library system' in rural as well as urban areas.