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…
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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…
To fulfill the intellectual needs of the users, education acts as the active instrument of a library. It should possess available recent resources as well as…
Reprographic Service The term reprography was first introduced as “office printing.” at the First International Congress on Reprography held in Cologne, Germany in 1963. Landau defines…
1. Introduction: Libraries are facing serious competition from commercial information services providers which essentially use the resources available from libraries and analyze and repackage the same…
The focus of S. R. Ranganathan’s first three laws of library science on the user tell that the libraries are for the user. Let us also…
Importance of user study in a library: In a library and information system, the user study plays a vital role in planning designing and introducing new…
Preservation is recognized as a virtually necessary component of collection development and an area of librarianship that concerns all libraries. Books, millions of books are falling…
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…
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…