Challenges in the digital information era: Situation at the General Sciences Library of HoChiMinh City
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reveal a practical situation at a public library as General Sciences Library (GSL).
Design/methodology/approach
The effects of the digital information environment to activities of public library how to deal with this challenging based on the situation of the GSL of HoChiMinh City. The process of changing from traditional services to modern services the difficulties that GSL has experienced and lesson-learns.
Findings
The difficulties during the period of changing the library is just the challenges to help GSL improves our position in the community of users.
Originality/value
This is a conceptual paper which is presented at the Shanghai International Library Forum on July 2014.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
This paper was presented at the seventh Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF 2014) July 9-11, 2014 at the Shanghai Library, China.
Citation
Tran, H.A.T. (2015), "Challenges in the digital information era: Situation at the General Sciences Library of HoChiMinh City", Library Management, Vol. 36 No. 4/5, pp. 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-08-2014-0096
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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