Abstract

Information service delivery in libraries generally is a pivot ingredient to helping users share or benefitfrom the various information outlets in the library. Libraries combine both technology and information resources -with a n internet connection to deliver information services such as online reference services, online catalogues, online chat, online document delivery, full-text databases, email services, institutional repositories, etc. This paper is discussed under the following sub-headings: Historical presentation ofthe rise and the development oflibraries and archives; influence of computer technology on document format; technology enhancement in information service delivery and technology to supplement the print resources not supplant. Technology enhancement in library and information services is the profit ofevolution at work, increasing the potential so that more can be done in a shorter period of time. Technology is faster and more efficient in complex functions than humans. What makes us great is not the vehicles from which we speak, but rather that which we have to say through them. Hence the paper concludes that librarians should not allow technology to supplant the print resources they were intended to supplement