The Nano Library in Futuristic Society
Dr. Sambhu Nath Halder
Shimurali Sachinandan College of Education
Shimurali, Nadia, West Bengal
[email protected]
The new generation is constantly realizing that the large system paradigm shift due to innovation
of new technology. Because of information exploration, people feel compressed by information
overload. Many libraries are in the process of rethinking the effectiveness of the automation tools
they’re using to provide library services, both within and outside of their library buildings.
Internally, the core component driving many of these services has been the integrated library
system (ILS). The next generation of these systems is called “”library servi ces platforms”” (Grant,
2012). According to Noh (2015) the feature of modern library encompasses intelligence -based,
massive data, augmented reality, context aware, cutting -edge displays, and infinite creative
space.
Selective dissemination of information, collecting it, organizing it, standardizing it, sharing it,
comparing it, analyzing it and even retrieval of information has become an exhausted job in the
library. Information s cientists have used several strategies to manage this modern -day flood of
data. Nowadays , information scientists and policy planners have initiated thinking about ?nano –
informatics,? or how to manage accumulating information about the nano -world. Although it is
currently at the elementary level , some Nano -Frontiers ponder this is an ideal time to prepare a
blue print for legendary Nano -Library. There is no doubt that progressively increasing inter –
disciplinary research of nanotechnology will be benefit ed from using informatics tools . Nano –
informatics can manage accumulation information about the Nano -world.
(Source: Center for Bioinformatics , the University of North Carolina )
Future Nano Library will play a vital role, specifically for innovative research, by providing
interconnected databases and new nano -information coming in. The Nano Library could also
foster transparency by giving the public greater access to information about nanotechnology. In
this way, the Nano Library could encourage the safe development of nanotechnology and its
transfer to industry.
Databases: On the simplest level, the Nano Library might begin as a network of databases that
help researchers answer practical questions. Clues, theories and real answers might already be
out there, but they are hard to find in the vast sea o f scientific data. Information about
the nanoworld is mostly scattered in journals, published by many different professions
in dozens of countries.
Nano database
The Nano Library could bring together similar kinds of data and create easier access to it.
Conversely, in the event a quest ion could not be answered, the query process might identify gaps
in d ata and understanding, and help researchers plan further studies.
Informatics Tools: The Nano Library might also be used to branch es of discovery. F or exa mple,
that the Genome Browser used by life scien tists has helped them find important new disease
genes. Informatics is needed to help researchers really explore that new frontier of interactions
between biomolecules and atoms. By viewing data from studies by physicists and biologists side
by side, it might be possible to see pattern s that were not apparent before . Using and
manipulating data in this way would require complex informatics tools based on new
mathematics. It might also require new computer simu lations that integrate different kinds of
data.
Collaboration: The Nano Library could also be extended into the domain of virtual laboratories.
New computer -based tools could be used to bring toget her research groups by allowing them to
share data, as well as instruments, remotely. Mutual collaboration among internationally
renowned scientists would enable multi -disciplinary and multi -national teams to work together to
find nanotechnology solutions to big problems.
Sharing of information in the library
It is easy to imagine the benefits of the Nano Library, but the Nanoscience presents some unique
challenges for informatics. Emerging data on how matter behaves at the nanoscal e is, in a s ense,
another whole layer of knowledge that needs to interface with many other areas of science.
Linking data that is coming out of so many disciplines each with i ts own terminology and
culture integration of such thing is nothing but a h ercule an task (Schmidt, 2007).
It has been determined that the followi ng parameters may be considered for making plans for the
Nano Library:
1. Harmonize the creation of new Nano databases : This will allow information to be
easily shared and transferred among databases and will link new nano -databases with
important existing ones in other fields. In this regard, uniform standards for sharing
research data is most important, which need to be utilized consistently by the
nanotechnology community.
2. Organising workshops on Nano -Library: There is a symbiotic relation shi p between
Information Scientist s and Technical Professionals . Organising workshop would
provide a good platform for bring together eminent Library and Information Science
Profes sionals, technical persons , policy maker s and other group of experts to discuss
on various issues associated cutting -edge advances in informatics. The meeting would
also help lead to the adoption of standards related to data collection, storage and
dissemination .
3. Develop simulations that connect physical and biological data. This will lead
to more -unified models that incorporate information from the physical and biological
worlds. It will also encourage the expansion of existing databases outside the field of
nanotechnology to include more data from the nanoscale.
It has been determined that the Nanotechnology is nothing bu t the fundamental design science.
Nanotechnology will play an unprecedented role in the futuristic s ociety . Although it is now in
the theatrical stage and is progressively research -based , but in near future the Nano -Library will
provide a new era of information processing an d retrieval. The f utur istic society must be called
upon by the collective efforts and cooperation of all people in global village. We have to move
forward bravely in the possible nanotech futures in sake of the nation . This will conclude
whether we have a ?Brave New World ? or a ?Bumpy Road ?.
Reference s:
Grant, C. (2012). The Future of Library Systems: Library Services Platforms. Information
Standards Quarterly, 24(4), 4.
Noh, Y. (2015). Imagining Library 4.0: Creating a Model for Future Libraries. Journal of
Academic Librarianship, 41(6), 786 797.
Schmidt, K. F. (2007). Nanofrontiers: Visions for the future of Nanotechnology. Retrieved from
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