The Role of Library and Information Services in Agricultural University in India: A Study

Library and Information

Agricultural University libraries plays a significant role in the transformation of agricultural education to assist sustainable development in India. Agriculture in India has been given eminence among the sectors of the economy. Agricultural institutions were established to accommodate for agricultural education research and extension lead of rural agriculture. Knowledge about the users and their demands is indispensable to make library and information services operative and user oriented. Agricultural University libraries offers information services to farmers, agricultural business organizations, students, livestock producers, research workers subject specialist teachers, this is in expectancy to encounter the challenge of man, food and deprivation and to make for a sustainable development. The problems limiting their sustainability such as poor funding, resistance to use of modern information technology, lack of formal training, government neglect, and poor bibliographic control were explored and recommendations offered, like introduction of short-term courses to educate farmers and the inclusion of modern information technology in the curriculum on database searches, information retrieval engines, retrieval software.

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