Agricultural Libraries in Digital Era - The changing trends

The article discusses on how Indian agricultural libraries have transformed in digital era. Talks over the changing trends in building collection, levels of automation, visibility of libraries on university websites, access to e-resources resources and information literacy. The agricultural libraries have gone through a considerable change in their operations and services, most libraries have the basic IT tools and infrastructure in terms of both hardware's systems and application software's. Grants from ICAR has encouraged libraries to take up digitization projects like Krishi Prabha and resources sharing activities for instance e-GRANTH, and also reinforce their services by bringing about libraries and users community into closer proximity virtually by removing boundaries. Also discusses that most Library websites are in static form and there is a necessity to further advance and enhance library services in interactive ways using web 2.0 technologies. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down.