• Amol Pravin Mehendale

The library is one of the pillars of any academic institution. Now a day ICT (Information and Communications Technology) growing vastly in every sector due to which every sector trying to automate their system among that library is also one. In era of ICT library and information center need new tools that will allow them to increase their productivity and improve user service without less man power. The use of barcodes for faster library services is time-tested and used by ICT equipped libraries in our country. The application of barcode technology in library and information center for distribution system is most successful due to its properties of speed, accuracy and reliability. Even though now its old technique but till not used by many libraries and information centers. This article explains the description of the uses of Barcode technology in libraries, its working mechanism with its advantages and disadvantages and also to create alertness among the librarians to use Barcode technology in the library.

Barcode technology, Library, Barcode scanner.

"USE OF BARCODE FOR COLLEGE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.991-995, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809940.pdf

"USE OF BARCODE FOR COLLEGE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp991-995, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809940.pdf