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 »

Electronic Publishing

Introduction: Information is an intellectual resource that has the capacity to change the image of the society. Consequently, large investments are being made by government all over the world on information technology industry for generating, processing and disseminating the information. Most of the scientific research literature today is coming on an array if information resources, such as floppies, magnetic tapes, internet, websites, CD ROMs, the outgrowth of advances in computer and communication... 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 »

Multimedia Resources and Library

The convergence of computer and communication technologies emerged as a new technology named, ‘Multimedia Technology’ which is mainly concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still images, animation, audio, video and any other media where any type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation and video content forms. It enables the users to integrate and manipulate data... Read more »

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 »