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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 » -
The role of 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 behavioural pattern of the user; so that he can adopt an appropriate approach to help them fruitfully. The librarian has an overall responsibility for the proper functioning of the library. The Role of Librarian: “The main role of... Read more » -
Information Technology and Library Automation
Library automation which started in the late 70s in few special libraries has now reached most of the university libraries. Automation is used to reduce the amount of time devoted to repetitive (and often less challenging) activities that must be done in any properly functioning library. Library automation is the application of computers to perform traditional library housekeeping activities such as acquisition, circulation, cataloguing, reference and serials control. Information and Communication Technology... Read more » -
Brief overview of college Library
College Library The objective of a college library is to supplement the instructions imparted in the classroom. It aims to function as an independent teaching agency, encouraging and promoting the use of books in the ways beyond those suggested or required by the classroom.The college library functions basically to assist and support the study and teaching in the respective college. It helps to meet the reading requirements of the students as well... Read more » -
Professional Attitudes and Library
Change is one reality with which individuals, groups and organizations must constantly cope in order to survive. The needs for progressive changes in people’s attitudes and behaviours are essential for global acceptance. Nevertheless, for Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals, a change is often linked with modern information technologies and management issues. Over the past few decades, the nature of library environment and mode of service has changed drastically. A library is... Read more » -
Leadership and Education: A conceptual framework of Leadership and its effects on Education
Leadership: More complex adjustment problems in the society, multiplied tendencies of indulging in conflicts, vanishing social concern, pseudo-patriotism, irresponsibility at work and much other uncanny behaviour can float up, projecting negative personality when good leadership values are not taught. Through various school programmes that include study, games and activities, the subtle task of infusing leadership qualities can be effectively practised. The meaning of Leadership: Leadership is a process by which one person... Read more » -
Collection Development and Library
Collection development is systematic planning and rational building of library material. The term includes all activities involved in assessing the users’ need, evaluating the present collection, determining the selection policy, coordinating the selection of items, re-evaluating and storing parts of the collection and planning for resource sharing. It is not a single activity, but an agglomeration of activities (Parameswaran, 1997). Similarly ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science (1983) defines collection development... Read more » -
Scientometric Research: An overview
Introduction: The effectiveness of scientific research performance could be realised only through a proper communication system. Communication in science could be viewed from the standpoint of a historian, an economist, a sociologist, and a library professional, and so on. Thus science and scientific communication are so interrelated that one influences the other for the generation of information. Among scientists and social scientists, it is widely accepted that public research performed in academic... Read more »
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