Information Renaissance
The growth of information technology over the past decade has revolutionized everything we do. It has shrunk our world to such an extent that what happens in the most remote areas is covered instantaneously. The use of the internet has shot up astronomically over the last couple of years. State-of-the-art technology like Wi-Fi and Wimax have grown to change everything the way people communicate, to the performing complex medical operations from remote areas. What would have been deemed as an unthinkable task a decade ago is no longer a dream. Thanks to the rapid growth of information technology. Access to information has increased due to the constant improvements in the contemporary technologies supporting its broadcast, such as mobile technology, wireless technology etc. The meteoric growth in information technology has facilitated the information renaissance. The internet has been the backbone for growth in the access to unlimited extent of information on any single topic one can imagine of. Mobile phones have also radically changed the availability of information to the common man. Today everything from the weather forecast to the latest information on the stock exchange can be accessed instantly using mobile phones. “Overcoming the flat dissemination of knowledge and information and the unavailability of information on both supply and demand sides of the market will create an information society that awakens public knowledge and opens up a vast wealth of information; indeed, this will create a self-actualization society that can be fairly characterized as an information society renaissance” (Kouji Ohboshi). Information renaissance has brought about a change in the approach reach out for information from libraries to online books and journals.