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Library Collection Development Methods
Library Collection Development Methods Collection development is the systematic building of a library collection based on meaningful data rather than subjective choice. It is the process of assessing...
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Components of library collection development
Collection Development Policy For effecting collection development of library resources proper analysis of SWOT (Strength, weakness, Opportunities and Threat) should be done. Collection development...
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Collection Development Process
Library Collection Development Process Evans (1995) defines collection development as the “process of meeting the information needs of the people (a service population) in a timely and economic manner...
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Weeding out policy is implemented by University libraries to weeding out of unwanted stock of the libraries and to retain the stock quality. The weeding policy is required because of: ageing of stock,...
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Audio Visual Materials
Audio Visual Materials: The ever increasing amount of information covering educational and recreational interest as well as information needs is being produced in a wide range of AV formats. Access to...
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Library and Information Services
Concept of Library and Information Services Libraries are built and maintained to provide information resources for a specific and defined community. A public library serves the residents of a...
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Sources of Information
Introduction- Literature of a Subject is its Foundation. It represents a record of achievements of human race. Literature is diverse, Complex and multilingual in nature. It is becoming more and more...
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Intellectual Property Right
1.0 Introduction: Intellectually or artistically gifted people have the right to prevent the unauthorized use or sale of their creations, just the same as owners of physical property, such as cars,...
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Library Reference Service
Reference Service: Information is recorded in a variety of documents like books, reports, periodicals, digests, theses, standards, patents and so on. A reader may need a specific type of information...
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Interlibrary Loan Service
Interlibrary Loan The idea is to communicate the patron of the library with a feeling that when he enters the portal of library, he is as it, entering the portals of all libraries not only of his...
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Library Circulation Service
Circulation Service Circulation is defined by Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary as “orderly movement through a circuit.” In a library, circulation is the orderly movement in the form of a...
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Library reserve room service
Reserve Room Service The reserve collection is the name given in academic libraries to the collection of books and other materials that are kept in a controlled collection and circulated for short time...
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Library Translation Service
Translation Service “Translation” means a written work expressed in a language other than the language in which it was originally composed. The purpose of translation is to make a document accessible...
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Digital Library Services
Digital Library Services Today we live in a world of instant global communication. Everyone is well known with the technological developments that have come with dazzling rapidity. New techniques for...
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Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management The KM is a process through which knowledge creation, acquisition & sharing takes place. It is used to enhance learning and performance of an organization. Knowledge management...
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Authority control in OPAC
Introduction: The story of catalogue and cataloguing is one of the aspects of the broad panorama of library development. Earlier, libraries concentrated their efforts on the collection and preservation...
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Digital Repository
Introduction: We are in the age of digital environment where Information Technology (IT) has been used extensively to record, store, and disseminate the information in the digital form. The IT has...
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Digital Library
Advantages and disadvantages of the digital libraries are discussed below 1. Advantages of the Digital Library: A digital library is not confined to a particular location or so called building it is...
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Introduction to Metadata
1. Definition of Metadata: The decade of the 1990s saw the development of a proliferation of metadata element sets for resource description. Metadata is “data about data-. It is data for the purposes...
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Performance Audit in University Libraries
According to A. N. Whitehead, ‘Universities are schools of education and schools of research’. They preserve the connection between knowledge and the zest of life uniting the young and old in the...
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