Modernization of Library and Enrichment of Library Professional Skills to Enhance the Organization Development

"A complex educational strategy designed to increase organisational effectiveness and wealth through planned intervention" - Dale S. Beech

Changes occur not only in technology but also in human values, attitudes, relationships, social system, organizational climate, culture etc. The organization has to meet the challenges of these changes by enhancing the professional skills, which in turn will lead to the organizational development. In an educational organization, in order to subsist in the competitive world, one such important factor involved is modernization of library by enhancing the library professional skills by adopting suitable strategic planning, which involve the Action Research Program. Library plays a vital role in the development of college status by providing a platform to do more research work and also the Human resource development. Hence modernization of library is an essential factor in an organizational development.

This paper deals with the various skills involved in enhancing the library professionals like technical, planning, organizational, conceptual, analytical, human and administrative skills, etc. and how the modernization of library plays a vital role in uplifting the status of the college while assessment for accreditation by National Accreditation and Assessment Council.