What do you understand by de-institutionalisation of information services? Discuss the provision of information services in the de-instituionalised mode.

 Information technology will make our present huge conurbations unnecessary, and they will no longer exert a magnetic attraction because they will have no more work to offer than smaller communities, including probably small rural communities. Much work will be capable of being done without travelling to it. We may see a revival of small towns, on a truly human scale, where people know one another and feel some sense of responsibility to and for one another. Indeed, conurbations, many of which are historically amalgamations of small townships created largely by the Industrial Revolution, may break up again into small townships. Social life in such communities can flourish.

'Deinstitutionalisation and 'Reinstitutionalisation' seems to be the emerging trend. Because of networking, libraries of the future would not be confined to the four walls of an individual institution, and L&I professionals will not be providing services from within the traditional libraries only. As the traditional constraints of space of time will be eliminated, the provision of any information at any time from anywhere, would be possible via online systems and networks. Online catalogues and gateways playing a significant role in furthering bibliographic access to networked information, would cause the reinstitutionalisation of libraries. 

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