This document discusses the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on libraries and librarians. It notes that ICT has changed libraries by making information digital, enabling online access and resource sharing, and shifting users from physical to digital access. This has impacted librarian roles and required new skills in ICT. The document outlines how libraries must integrate ICT and train librarians in its use to remain relevant information centers in a digital society.

1. Introduction to Information and Communication Technologies Lesson 1. Why do librarians need to know about ICT and acquire skill in its use?

2. Rationale In Asia, information is recognized as an important resource but the ICT tools to create, collect, consolidate and communicate information are not yet used in the majority of libraries. Libraries are seldom included in the technology vision of institutions because librarians have not been able to convince management that libraries need ICT.

5. What are ICT? I nformation C ommunication T echnologies ICT are the hardware and software that enable society to create, collect, consolidate and communicate information in multimedia formats and for various purposes.

6. Impact of ICT on society Developments in ICT have brought about the merger of the computing, information, communications, entertainment, mass media industries thereby providing a means of exchanging information in the digital format used by computers.

7. ICT - i.e. computer linked to all facets of society

10. ICT has made the transfer of digital information from remote sites possible Shift from Print to Digital Internet