Technology Integration with Library Services of Engineering Institutes of Haryana for Spearheading Competitiveness: A Case Study

The latest technologies are emerging day by day in the routine activities of the human beings life and their work. Generation Z users are maximum dependent upon the technology as many new concepts have been emerging like e-newspaper, ebanking, e-marketing, e-buying and tab-accounting. The users of the Generation Z cannot sustain in the traditional academic and professional environment without technology. In fact they feel suffocating and handicapped in the absentia of advanced technological gadgets. The dichotomy, that the developing nations like India are facing between metropolitan library users, who are having every instruments available at their disposal and the users of suburban and rural India who are yet to witness the technological advancements at their thresholds. Although we are crossing the transition phase of the technology but some studies elicited this fact that maximum (about 80%) technology is at maturity level and users are familiar with the existing and forthcoming technology because they have set up their mind in respect to fight with the technology, (whether they want to do or not) its application and usage. In this critical era of technological contamination, where the luddites-type traditional library users of old generation are supposed to go hand in hand with the Generation Z users, it is quite difficult for the service providers to accommodate their various demands, needs and interests. This study attempts to make a need analysis of such complex situations where the Triangular Sails of Traditional Library, E-Library and (Mobile Library) M-Library are roped jointly for harnessing the academic growth and pacing the professional excellence through a case study conducted at The Technological Institute of Textiles and Sciences, Bhiwani.