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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Over the past decade, ever-increasing number of libraries is in the process of abandoning the traditional card catalogue as a means of access to their collections and switching over to computer-based catalogue. This phenomenon is characterized as transition from manual methods to mechanical method in the design and development of Online Catalogues, it knows as OPAC. Through the online public access catalogue (OPAC) now functions against a background of alternative information-gathering technologies... Read more » -
Definition Collaborative Selection, Acquisition of Resources & Evaluation of Library Resources
Collaborative Selection: The rising cost and decline in purchasing power of individual libraries makes it difficult to acquire the electronic resources and this has led to collaborative selection of these resources. For this purpose, they form unofficial consortia where one library in a group purchases a particular item and the cost is spread across the group. On the payment of subscription and additional charges, a user license is obtained from the vendor,... Read more » -
Collection Development of Library
Introduction: The primary purpose of libraries is to preserve knowledge which is available in any documentary form. However, the scope has widened to ensure that the user is satisfied. University libraries acquire the documents to provide the documents or information to satisfy the changing needs of the students, faculty and researchers. The objective of the libraries has been subject to transformation from preservation to provision of information to utmost satisfaction of the... Read more » -
Library Budget: It’s objectives & methods
Library Budget The term budgeting refers to the process of budget planning and preparation, budgetary control and related procedures. The formal presentation of the plan is called budget. Budget is the written statement of income and expenditure during the year. It covers all items of work to be taken up over a specified period of time in future. thus an overall budget covering the institution as a whole is also known as... Read more » -
About Electronic Journal (E-Journal)
Electronic Journal E-journals are the simple electronic representation of a journal. In most cases, they replicate exactly the printed version of the journal, occasionally including additional information (such) as interactive graphs or external links), but in some cases there is no parallel print sources as the journal was ‘born digital’. Any journal available on Internet can be called and electronic journal’. It may or may not have a print equivalent. There is... Read more » -
Brief Information about Institutional Repository
Institutional Repository Introduction: In India, there are a number of internationally reputed institutions, which are producing a good number of research documents that are expanding the frontier of knowledge and scope of technological innovation. The recent phenomenon of outsourcing of scientific research, applications development as well as business-intelligence-related research to India has generated a good deal of enthusiasm in advanced studies. Recently some internationally famous journals published cover stories on Indian scientific and... Read more » -
Cost Benefit Analysis and Library
“A library has been rightly enabled with the functions of collecting, preserving, preparing and disseminating knowledge with a certain aim-the aim being the fulfillment of the purpose of the parent body” (Mittal, 1963). The general aim of libraries is the provision of reading facilities to the public so that their personality is enlightened. These aims and purposes differ to some extent in different kinds of libraries. In public libraries, the aim of... Read more » -
Attitudes of the Librarian
The library must have a trained and qualified librarian and the librarian should have attitudes like love for books serving the readers etc. One of the responsibilities of the librarian is to understand the behavioral pattern of the user; so that he can adopt an appropriate approach to help them fruitfully. The librarian has an overall responsibility for proper functioning of the library. Attitudes may be two types, positive or negative. Positive... Read more » -
Objectives and Functions of Engineering College Library
Objectives of the Engineering College Library: Main objectives of the Management of the Engineering colleges are: 1. To promote quality of the Engineering Education. 2. To provide classroom instruction to the students. 3. To provide good laboratory facilities. 4. To provide good library facilities. The college library is primarily a teaching instrument and as such the objectives of the college library is mainly based on objectives of the college itself. The college... Read more » -
Librarianship as a profession.
The art and science of managing libraries are called “Librarianship”. The essential function of librarianship is to make available “information” in its widest sense, serving leisure as well as work needs, for the benefit of people seeking day to day information. Librarianship essentially concerns the problem of storage, retrieval and access to documents, in other words, information. It basically refers to: 1. Document collection development. 2. Technical processing for the organization of... Read more »
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