GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The paper assessed the role of Information and Communication Technology in the effective provision of library services. The emergence of ICT is one of the wonderful gifts of modern science and technology which has brought tremendous changes in library and information science. ICT is the combination of information technology and communication technology. ICT has a longstanding influence in almost all areas of human activity, including the library sector. With the influence the roles of ICT have had on library services, it has helped Liberians to work as information brokers, navigators, and information experts. The available information present in the libraries can be fed to the home page and made available to users anywhere. One of the roles ICT has played in the library service is that it is possible to acquire information such as books, journals, newspapers, etc. easily and speedily. It also fosters the communication, management, and marketing skills of the Liberians. The study concluded that Information Communication Technology ICT has been supporting education, research, and development in different ways; it plays an important role as a link between users and librarians. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have had a profound impact on the way information is gathered, stored, organized, accessed, retrieved, and consumed. ICT has helped and supported libraries to overcome the barriers of time and space. Many countries and their university libraries have begun to rely on information and communication technologies (ICT) as a result of electronic information. Inadequate application of ICT to libraries is a challenge facing the effective functioning of library service. One of the recommendations made was that the government should provide constant electricity power supply to libraries in order to ensure the stable use of computers.