International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS) ISSN: 2455-104X DOI: 10.26761/IJRLS.8.2.2022.1546 Volume 8, Issue 2 (April-June) 2022, Page: 151-154, Paper ID: IJRLS-1546 Received: 22 April. 2022 ; Accepted: 25 May. 2022 ; Published: 28 May. 2022 Copyright © 2022 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. 2022 ©IJRLS All Rights Reserved www.ijrls.in Page 151 Research Challenges of Library and Information Science in retrieving content based Multimedia Information A. F. Adrakatti 1 ; K.R. Mulla 2 Asst. Librarian, Indian Institute of Science Education Research (IISER), Berhampur, Odisha, India 1 ; Librarian, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India 2 arun@iiserbpr.ac.in, krmulla@vtu.ac.in ABSTRACT Since several decades, the field of information retrieval (IR) has been active. Initially, IR field was concerned with effective and efficient analysis of information needs based on a set of keywords. It is still being used today in search engines. Multimedia formats are available in large amounts, including video, audio, and images. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) deals with how to process queries about multimedia objects. The present paper briefly discusses the various components and classifications of the MIR. It discusses analytically LIS perspective on text, image, audio, and video information techniques. Finally, it suggested a research gap in MIR where the LIS domain seriously contributes in the development and upgrading of existing applications. KEYWORDS: Multimedia Information Retrieval, Library & Information Science, Image Retrieval, Audio Retrieval, Video Retrieval. 1. INTRODUCTION MIR is becoming increasingly important due to the rapid development of multimedia technologies and the proliferation of diverse multimedia content. Users seeking semantically rich, personalized, and context-aware solutions for accessing multimedia content are increasingly demanding greater sophistication from MIR solutions. In the past two decades, there has been an increase in interest in the development of MIR technology that can meet such high demands by utilizing intensive international research. Due to the explosion of multimedia information today, it has become extremely difficult to locate information of interest. 2. NEED OF THE STUDY The retrieval term literally originated in old French and is widespread in the library science domain. The retrieval term referred to the early days of the library profession to find and discover the document in the library. The card catalogue is the tool for document retrieval in the library. This concept was a takeover by the computer science