Libraries and online databases: Influential tools for researchers

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Narender Kumar (Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Library, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Library is a place where huge amount of data is kept for the use of existing and budding users in print and non-print form. Shera writes ‘The library is a product of our cultural maturation’. After inventing the nascent technologies, the production of data in digital form is being done like a jet speed, but to select the relevant from the countless databases for concerned library is the main challenge in front of the libraries. The prime objective of the library is to impart the relevant information to its end users with minimum possible time. It has been observed by many studies that libraries are a research discovery platform that provides unlimited access to the most comprehensive and authoritative source of desired information of different disciplines like science, humanities, commerce, medical or science & technology. Latest research activities cannot be imagined without library services and online databases.