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Academic Libraries

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ISBN 8170003466
Year of Publication 2002
Binding PaperBack
Pages 550
Edition
Language English

It is very true tahat Libraries play an important roli in development of a society. Broadly speaking, there are three types of libraries. viz., Academic Libaries Special Libraries and Public Libraries. This book entitled 'Academic Libraries' gives an overview on each and every aspects of working environment of an academic library. The whole work is divided into 14 chapters which covers state of art of development of different types of academic libraries, their working, administrative bodies and today's most important aspect of library automation. This book will definitely be equally useful for the students of library and Indormation science and those working in this profession as well.

1 Introduction

2 Libraries and their development : State- of - Art

3 Different Types of Academic Libraries and their Development

4 Collection organization in Academic libraries

4.1. Document Selection

4.2. Collection Development

4.3. Collection Organisation

4.4. Physical Verifircation of Collection

5 Management in Academec Libraries

5.1. General Management

5.2. Library Organisation

5.3. Space Management

5.4. Financial Management

6 Library Services

7 Computers and Its Applications to Libraries

8 Resource Sharing Amongst Academic Libraries

9 User Needs' Assessment and User Education

10 Library Authorities And Committees

11 Problems of Library Staff

12 Professional Status of the Librarians

13 Public Relations In Academic Libraries

14 Distance/ Correspondence Education and Academic Libraries

Bibliography


>Dr. Anil Kumar Dhiman (born in 1965) holds M.A., M.Sc., M.L.I.Se., B.Ed.,
P.G.D.C.A., and Ph.D degree in Botany. He is a Fellow of Society of
Ethnobotanists (FES) and Fellow of United Writers' Association (FUWAI). He is
also the life member of various professional association, viz., ILA (Delhi),
IASLIC (Calcutta), IATLIS, UPLA, ULA, APSI, IBS and SEB (Lucknow). At present,
he is working in the University Library at Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar.
Besides, he is also rendering his services Training Centre, Roorkee since 1994
and as Counselor for Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon
Open Unversity, Allahabad since 2000. He has four dozen papers and four books to
his credits in the field of Library & Information Science and Botany. He has
been awarded with APSI Young Scientist Award and Gold Melal for the year 1999
and also nominated for 'International Scholar of Twentieth Century Award' by the
American Organization of Intellectuals Inc., USA.

Suresh C. Sinha (born on 09.07.1937) holds the M. A. in Sociology, and M.A.
(Honors) in Sociology, M. L. I. Sc. and Associate ship in information science
form INSDOC, Delhi. He is a retired Library Officer E-I, Central for Industrial
Relations and Human Resources, New Delhi during 1971-2 and at D.B.S. (PG)
College, Dehradun during 1965-66. He was deputed to the Republic of Somalia
(East Africa) under as ITEC Expert to re-establish the library of National
University of Somalia, Mogadishu (East Africa) from 21st July 1982 to 22nd June
1984. He is a life member of IASLIC (Calcutta), ILA (New Delhi) and UPLA
(Lucknow). He has over two dozen papers and three books to his credits is the
field of Library and Information Science. At present, he is the Counselor of
Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon Open University
Allahabad .