How to Design the Academic Library Smart?

This paper gives a brief discussion on how to build up the academic library smart.Smart library more personalized services to better satisfy the requirements of users.This paper discusses how to construct the college library services smart.This paper shows the the importance of smart library and the integral approach to design the smart libraries.This also analyzes the best practices that are required to be adopted to make the college library smart.A smart library is a library which is designed to provide advanced and special services to the users making use of electronic and communication technology.The technology enables remote access of library using RFID supported automatic controlling gates, self-service kiosks, public access computers, scanners.This allows us to notably increase the library visiting hours, so more community people can utilise the library holdings from time to time that is suitable for them.To access a smart library, one has to scan his/her library card at the gate and enter the password.He/she will then be allowed to open the gate and access to resources of the library.Some basic features of smart library have been enumerated in this paper.This article highlights the best practices need to be adopted to design the college library smart and the best practices suggested by the NAAC.In a very nutshell, the present article describes the application of smart technologies along with the smart campus library system.