For the past few years, the tremendous
strides taken in the fields of information
technologies have changed the society into an
information conscious society. There is little
doubt that the impact of these technologies on
the day-to-day functions of information centres
is an everlasting one. The innumerable
advances in different fields such as computers,
communi- cations, electronic mail, voice mail,
teletext, videotext, telefax, videodisc,
CD-ROM, electronic publishing, etc have left
no area in the library, and information field
immune for their application. And many areas
still remain undiscovered.
This paper, first in a series, makes an
attempt to overview the impact of the
information technologies on the library and
information services. A brief discussion of
electronic message and documentdelivery
systems,and electronic mail are also
presented
