PAPER ID: IJIM/Vol. 8 (XII) April 2024/1-8/1

AUTHOR: Aheen Kumar Mandal ^[I]Bapan Kumar Maity^[II]

TITLE: STATUS OF MEDICAL COLLEGE LIBRARIES IN KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

ABSTRACT: This paper shows notable imbalances in health science libraries among the services and resources. Enough infrastructures are not available in medical college libraries to provide better service to the medical practitioners. Here find out the status of medical college libraries regarding Information and Communication Technology in the present era. This article compared five medical college libraries among knowledge management, services and resources. Questionnaire based survey method has been taken to get effective results. Most of the medical college libraries are still lacking infrastructure and resources due to internet facilities, library automation software, library consortia, digital library facility, human resource etc. If the medical college libraries are to provide better services to the users, then need to take necessary action, improvement in library infrastructures and government funding.

KEYWORDS: Medical college library, Information and communication technology (ICT), library consortia, library automation software.

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