About the Book For long public libraries are known to have been meeting the
educational, informational needs of the society. However, in the context of
emerging era of knowledge society, the public libraries have arrived at a
critical moment in their services. The volume debates the current and emerging
roles of public libraries, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses as well as
of the public library system in order to ascertain their potential to provide
digital techniques, services and facilities to meet the challenges of knowledge
society of 21st century. This scholarly volume should be of special interest to
teaching and academic community in library and information science,
professionals