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The Academic Library of the Future
There is little doubt that the role of the academic library is changing in the digital age. A recent feature on the future of libraries in the Guardian newspaper stated: ‘Academic libraries are changing faster than at any time in their history. Information technology, online databases and catalogues and digitised archives have put the library back at the heart of teaching and learning and academic research on campus’ (JISC, 2009). Such media... 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 » -
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 » -
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 » -
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 » -
Information Networks and Digital Libraries
The steady growth of digital information as a component of major research collections has had significant implications for college and research libraries. Libraries are currently burdened by the explosive growth of printed academic documents to digitize and also the great quantity of digital data published over the Internet to deal with. Many libraries have been creating or collecting digital information in a range of standards and the role of librarians has changed... Read more » -
Necessity of ICT Infrastructure in the University Libraries
Automation and Electronic Information Processing Systems in Library: For more than twenty-five years, university libraries have been investing in information technology due to the awareness that to effectively and efficiently function in the face of increasing stock and variety of media, and provide services to an increasing number of users, they need up-to-date technical equipment. Therefore the fundamental motive behind the rapid adaptation of information technology is the desire for efficiency and... Read more »
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