NEW TECHNOLOGIES, SMART LIBRARIES AND THE ROLE OF SMART LIBRARIAN

This paper aims to explore some ways that ‘smart’ libraries and information services in the age of new
technologies. As today’s libraries are mostly dependents upon the skills of the librarians as well as
transformational impact of the integrated learning. Role of future librarians will be governed by the new
technology of Automation, Digitization, immersive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), VR,
Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics etc. The paper is highlighting the Online Learning and Machine
Learning since the librarians are working as a conduit for digital capabilities. Outlines of new concept of
smart libraries can be described in four dimensions such as smart governance, smart services, smart
place and smart people. The smart library concept does not constitute a unique model or project but a
process, a way of how to get things done that is less linear, less structured and more creative and
innovative. The paper concludes that in smart age the libraries are harnessing the power of new
technologies and they are the melt pot of ideas.