How to Create Agile Library: Build Information Services on Cloud

By Manoj Sonawane

In this book, we will build the 'agile library' by using various e-tools ranging from cloud storage to e-content management to online delivery of information and it would be a handy guide for librarians to create the online library.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BLISS Services
• Release date: Jan 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9789356203556

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Introduction

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Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.

-Arundhati Roy

During the pandemic and lockdown situations, we LIS professionals had this question: how we can be relevant to our organisation by providing continuous library support while confined at home? And the answer to the above question was always ending like this: it is possible only through an online channel or if we can manage and convert our information services online. But we have to solve many questions if we want to convert our library services online like: How to convert information services online?, Which tools to use?, What exactly would be the nature of our services? and so on, and on. This book would be a handy guide for you to get the answer to all such questions.

In this book, we will build the agile library by using various e-tools ranging from cloud storage to e-content management to online delivery of information.

The book will start with a conversation on how the IT industry shifted from the waterfall model to an agile model and provided benefits to the end customers.

In the next part, the book will discuss on how to use this agile model of the IT industry and shift the traditional library services into an agile library which will use various e-tools or resources to build the information services on the cloud and make it as agile. Let’s explore the book how to create agile library in detail.

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Agile Methodology of the IT Industry

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The agile movement in software is part of a larger movement towards more humane and dynamic workplaces in the 21st Century.

-Rowan Bunning

There is a new term around for a long time in