Role of Libraries in Teacher Education of Manipur

Education of teacher is considered as a significant input for quality improvement of education system. Teacher is the backbone of delivery system of an educational enterprise. For this reason, pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes are conducted for orientation and reorientation of teachers to become efficient and competent ones. In this 21st Century of Digital Era the role of libraries in teacher education is tremendous. Application of ICT, library automation and wide range of services provided by libraries in teacher education will bring another revolution in nearby future in learning and teaching process. Lack of finance, resource and aware of library services are big challenges in giving proper library services to the teacher educational institutional in Manipur.