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Library Services For The Disadvantaged

Author: N. Guruswamy Naidu

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ISBN 8170001137
Year of Publication 1989
Binding HardBound
Pages
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Language English
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The present work is the out come of a national Seminar held at Tirupati in March, 1989 which drew professionals of eminece and competence. Though a few hundred conferences and seminars have been held in India, yet this seminar stands unique in its character for the theme selected. The origins of the theme selected. The origins of the theme can be directly traced to the wider philosophical bases of librarianship embedded in Ranganathan's Second Law of Library Science 'Every Reader his /her book' and Shera's 'Social Utilization of knowledge'. The immediate inspiration for the selection of the theme was the result of the author's visit a few yeras ago to libraries serving the ethnicminorities i U. K. The democratization of Library services to all sections of the society presents an encouraging scenario in the west and has been accepted as a social necessity. In India the situation is different. It is a non-starter though good beginning has been made to serve certain types of handicapped. There is now a change in the outlook of the society to wards the Disadvantaged owing to one reason or the other. Rightly library service has been recognised as a vital factor in changing the destiny and lives of the millions of the unfortunate. It is in this direction the present book stock-takes of the current situation in India, deliberates over the problems encountered and suggests concrete proposals for starting and streng-thening the library sercvices for the Disadvantaged. This books has been acclaimed as timely. It being the first Indian book on the subject, it will be meaningful addition to any library and a useful tool to the planner and administrator.


        SECTION -A


         GENERAL


1. Promoting Library Service To the Disabled


2. Library Service for All


3. Library Service for the Disadvantaged


4. Public Library Service to the Disadvantaged: A case study of city
Central Library, Dharwad


5. Mobile Library Service for the Disadvantaged in  India: a Practical
Proposition


6. The Social  Dimensions of the Disadvantaged: National Policy
Perspectives and Planning of Library Services


7. Towards National Policy of Library Service for the Disadvantaged


               
SECTION B


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE BLIND


1. Library Service for the Visually Handicapped


2. Library Service for the Disadvantaged: Blind an observation


3. Role of Library to Visually Handicapped: A preliminary study


4.Library Service for the Blind in India: Need for an integrated approach


5. Role of National Library for  the Print Handicapped in promoting
education, research and dessimination of information


6.  Towards a Network of Libraries for the Blind


7. Library Service for the Legally Blind: A Blueprint for the National
Library


                   
SECTION- C


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE PATIENTS


1. Hospital Library: Diagnosis and Treatment


2. Library service for the Patients


                   
SECTION-D


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED


1. Organization of Library Service for Mentally retarded persons


                
SECTION -E


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR PRISONERS


1. Prison Library Service


2. Library Service for the Prisoners in Andhra Pradesh


3. Prison Library in Kerala


               
SECTION -F


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES


1. Services to the Muslims in Lucknow


2. Library Service to Linguistic Minorities: Some suggestions


               
SECTION -G


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR WOMEN


 1. Reading Habits and Library Facilities for women in Andhra Pradesh


2. Library Service for women in Andhra Pradesh


               
SECTION -H


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN


1. Importance of Children's Libraries in the Society: Perspective Study


2. Library Service for Children


3. Library facilities for the Disabled Children in Karnataka: A Case Study
of Mangalore city


SECTION-I


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE RURAL AREAS


1. Library Service to the Rural Community in Tamil Nadu


2. Library Facilities for the Weaker Sections in the Rural Areas


SECTION-J


LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED


1. Library Service for the disadvantaged Open University



Born in 1937, Dr. N. Guruswamy Naidu had his early education at Tirupati.
He earned his first degree in Library  Science from the University of
Madras in 1964. The Benares  Hindu University awarded him Master of
Library Science in 1970. He also holds a Master Degree in Economic  of
the S. V. University. He is  the recipient of the Ph. D. from the S. V.
University, the theme being 'finances of Public Libraries with Particular
Reference to Andhra Pradesh. ' After serving as the Libraries of Pachayappa's
college, Kancheepuram for a brief period, he joined the staff of the S.V.
University Library, Tirupati in 1965. He became the first full time Lecturer
in 1976, when the Department of Library and Information Science was started.
He was promoted as Reader in 1985 and later as Professor in 1989. Currently he
is the Head of the Department and also chairman, Board of Studies. he was
awarded Commonwealth Universities Fellowship in 1987 which enabled him to join
the International Graduate Summer School at the College of Librarianship,
Wales, United Kingdom. Taking this opportunity he visited a number of 
libraries in Britain and France. Author of a number of papers he has attended
many National Seminars and Conferences. He also participated in the IFLA
Conference held in Brighton, U. K. in 1987



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