Library Building and Furniture Design and Planning

The Book 'Library Building and Furniture: Design and Planning is written in simple and lucid style. It covers university, college, school and special library buildings and furniture and shall be useful for working librarians who intend to plan new buildings or design new furiture for their libraries. It shall equally be sueful for the students who are pursuing the coureses in LIS. This book covers the syllabi of P. G. courses of manjor Indian universities/ institutions teaching LIS. The book has a chapter on building for housing computers and other electronic gadgets and another chapter on the state of the art library buildings, which shall be particularly useful for the readers who are pursuing doctoral studies in the area. The book also emphasizes on the type of furniture to be used in the libraries. The present book has been written keeping in mind the indian milieu. It is hoped that this book shalll bridge the gap of two decades, which is when the last book on this topic was brought out and considering the changes that have taken place in all this time, this book is highly required to fill the vacuum.