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Reference Services and The Digital Sources of Information

Author: Amjad Ali

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ISBN 8170004136
Year of Publication 2004
Binding PaperBack
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Language English
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The last few decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the quality of information on all aspects of life. As a result, libraries have experienced drastic changes in respect of their holdings, management techniques and retrieval of information. The invention of computer and the advent of Internet Complicated the process of locating desired information due to the vastness of resources. The ultimate aim of a library is to serve its users and to give them maximum satisfaction out of minimum resources. Reference service stands to find answers to their queries and even direct them outside a library for a proper source of information in case the answer is not available within their reach. This book will be useful for the students of library and information science, working librarians and information professionals, researchers and all other persons who are interested in retrieval of information available in the print media or on the World Wide Web.

Preface
1. History of Reference Service
2. Reference Service in the Digital Environment
3. User Education in Libraries
4. Information Sources and their Evaluation
5. Ready Reference Sources
6. Searching the Internet
7. Abstracting Services
8. Indexing Services
9. Dictionaries
10. Encyclopedias
11. biographical Sources
12. Yearbooks, Almanacs and Directories
13. Geographical Sources
14. Bibliographical Sources
15. Statistical Sources
16. Union Catalogs
Index

Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service carer from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian ( in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King abdulaziz City for science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel ) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is a Council Member of the India Library Association. Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He is a recognized Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and Information Science. The other books authored by him and brought out by the Leading publishers of the countryu include:

1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperbackeditions)
4. Learning in the Information Age
5. Infomedia in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2vols)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2vols).
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News Media
13. Libraries and librarians of the World
14. Builders of the Global Village

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