Information Professionals in the South Asian Region:The Challenges Ahead.

The article focuses on the challenges faced to information professionals in the South Asian Region. Many Indian and South Asian library professionals recognize the current realities as well as the necessity to adopt many of the strategies for their western colleagues to provide information services enabling their fellow citizens and countries, and be globally competitive. Survey shows that the libraries across the world are shifting their emphasis due to the advances in digital content and Web-based services, improving the tools for the development of digital libraries and repositories. However, the trends of global information management come more slowly to South Asia