International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Adequacy of infrastructural facilities is one of the important elements for offering qualitative teaching, learning & research. The infrastructure includes the teaching and other non-teaching staff and laboratory equipments. It is noticed that except few university departments, the majority of the departments do not have the proper infrastructure facilities. The teaching departments are suffering from the minimum staff having the latest knowledge of ICT although many developments are occurring in this field. At the same time, the laboratories attached to the teaching departments have inadequate number of computer and other equipments to train the library professionals. The UGC is also in its stride to having comprehensive and proper training facilities for the in-service training for the LIS teachers. In this paper highlight’s impacts of ICT on various components of LIS education, teaching, learning, research and also focus the problems, future perspectives of LIS education of India.

Keywords: ICT, LIS education, LIS research, Teaching, Virtual Learning, Knowledge commission