Big Data and Knowledge Resource Centre

Abstract

The explosion of information has transformed libraries into knowledge resource centres. Explosion of information is in many forms, and it can be explored in terms of “big data”. Library professionals should be aware that using big data in resource management is a need of today's era. Management of big data in knowledge resource centre is a big challenge of librarianship. Knowledge resource centre includes information in multiple formats. Handling this information is sort of handling big data in knowledge resource centres. In this chapter, the authors discuss arrangement of big data to fulfill requirements of users effectively. The different segments of library including big data are explored. It discusses the various problems, challenges, and issues involved in big data of knowledge resource centres.