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Redesigning the Library

Author: P.K. Mahapatra B. Chakrabarti

Rs. 600

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ISBN 8170002036
Year of Publication 1997
Binding HardBound
Pages
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Language English
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Technical changes are taking place in libraries because of the computer
application in the library management. Redesigning the library has become
imperative. Conventional libraries are taking shape into automated libraries.
The book deals with the vision for such change as well as practical guidelines
for the changeover. The book is neither unrealistically futuristic nor
technically obsessed. It deals with the information and technical guidance for
changing over the conventional library into electronic library in Indian
situation. The subject matter has been dealt with in steps considering the
stages of change to make the library totally automated. It also derives the
methods for access to information and international databases. The book may be
used as essential text book for pragmatic approach tithe changeover. The total
library management, communication activities as well as library and information
networking have been dissucsed to make the library a part of the international
information infrastructure.

Preface


1. Paper Library to Electronic Library


2. Planning for future Library Buildings


3. Information Technology and Libraries


4. Planning for Library Automation


5. Library Automation; Implementation


6. Designing Information services


7. Networking and Resource Sharing


Glossary of Terms


Bibliography


Index


p>Dr. Piyush Kanti Mahapatra has been teaching in the Department of Library
Science, Calcutta University for more than three decades. He also long held the
tenure of Head of the Department. His book, the computer in Library Services
(1985) was a pioneering work on the subject. He has written more than a dozen of
books on Library and Information Science. Dr. Mahapatra is a member of FID and
life member of several national associations. He is associated with a number of
universities in various capacities. He was a member of the UGC Panel of Library
and Information Science as well as the UGC Committee for Curriculum Development.
He was the Chairman of the CALIBNET Standardisation Committee, set up by NISSAT.
He is the Library Secretary and member of the Calcutta, an institution of
national importance. Dr. Mahapatra atended a number of international conferences
and seminars and visited USA, UK, Canada, France, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Thailand, and presented paper in FID General Assembly.



Dr. Bhubaneswar Chakrabarti is a sector teacher in Library Science at the
University of Calcutta. He attended the British Council course on Education for
Library and Information Science held in Aberysttwyth, Wales, UK in 1981. He is
an alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo and worked at the OCLC
terminal for a considerable period. He has an extensive publication record,
including a number of articles, conference papers and several textbooks
published by the World press, Calcutta.

 


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