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Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the best practices observed in libraries as it enables automation and modernisation of library services. Today's environment is digitally driven and library semi-professionals play an important role in providing up-to-date information to the users using modern technologies. The objective of the present study was to assess the perception of semi-professionals with respect to the use of ICT in Manipal Academy of Higher Education Libraries by them. 58 Library Assistant working in the seven constituent institutional libraries of MAHE at Manipal campus were included in the study and data were collected using questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed that EasyLib, the library automation software, and Electronic Public Access Catalogue (EPAC) had most impact on the role of semi-professionals (84.2 %) in providing ICT enabled services to the users. More than thirty percent (31.5 %) of the semi-professionals were of the opinion that ICT has considerably changed their duties and responsibilities. Semi-professionals are also of the opinion that they are now in a position to provide faster, more accurate and up-to-date information services to the users in their libraries. The findings of the present study support a need to implement the appropriate technologies in the libraries as they support the semi-professionals in their library housekeeping activities as well as in providing effective library services to the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Web is becoming a major source of health information also. Computer networks in general and the Internet in particular are likely to play more important roles in many aspects of medicine in the future. But for the healthcare professional and the health consumer, accessing accurate information on the web is not easy. There is a growing supply of medical resources for teaching and learning available on the world wide web. Most large medical centres have put information on public domain and some large organisations, such as the National Institutes of Health, have extensive databases and services that can be used by medical researchers, clinicians, and educators. This paper makes an effort to list the selected web recourses on medical sciences which are useful for learning, teaching, patient care and research activities of the medical institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]