Libraries are the repositories of knowledge and form an integral part of education. Libraries in the educational institutions are concerned with the teaching and learning process, experienced by specific communities, teachers, students and faculty members.Academic libraries are considered to be the nerve centers of academic institutions, and must support teaching, research, and other academic programmes. Academic libraries play an important role in support of academic institutions and in the dissemination of knowledge to the researchers so that they can do their investigation in the right direction.
This book provides an overview of various aspects of academic libraries. An attempt has been made to fill the gap by bringing together the relevant material on academic libraries which can be very useful to the academic librarians and the students of library science pursuing BLib.Sc. and MLib.Sc courses. This book has been specially intended for the library science students, teachers, working librarians and informational professionals in general. It has been written with the specific objective of helping the professionals and students to have sufficient knowledge of various aspects of academic libraries. The topic “Academic Library System and Services” forms the part of syllabi of most of the universities at B.L.I.Sc. and M.L.I.Sc. level.
This book has been divided into 19 chapters and covers wide range of topics related to academic libraries .It provides sufficient information on various aspects of academic libraries such as growth and development, role of UGC, human resource management, financial management, collection development, stock verification, planning library building, resource sharing, reference service in academic libraries, academic libraries in digital age etc. Information is also provided in tabular format for easy understanding of the concept.
This book would be of immense help to library professionals in understanding various concepts of academic libraries and would help them in providing effective and efficient services to their users. Attempt has been made to describe the various concepts of academic libraries and related areas in a systematic manner and in a very simple and easy language. The main objective of this book is to provide sufficient information to library professionals and students about the various aspects of academic libraries.
