The present book on "Special Libraries : Research and Technical Libraries is
the fourth book in the series. This book fulfills the long felt need of those
students who opt. paper on "Special Libraries" in MLIS degree of Indian
Universities either as a regular student or through distant learning education.
An attempt is made to cover all the aspects of special libraries as per the
syllabi of these universities. The book has a chapter on "State of the Art in
special Libraries" right from the origin to the latest development in these
libraries in India, which will be useful for research scholar who are in
interested to work for their Ph. D. Degree in the area of special libraries. It
is expected that the book will be useful and fulfill the long felt demand of the
full-fledged book on the subject and will prove useful for Special Libraries
covering various aspects of Science and Technology and Social Sciences as well.
The practicing special librarian will also find the present book quite useful as
it will cover all the administrative and organizational aspects of special
libraries CSIR (Delhi), BARC (Bombay), ICMR(Delhi) , ICSSR (Delhi) and ICAR
(Delhi) libraries will find this book practical oriented.

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Historical development of Special Libraries: The State of Art

3. Various Types of Special Libraries

4. professional Training for Special Library Staff

5. Special Library Budget and Furniture

6. Serials Management

7. Administration in Special Libraries

8. Technical Processing in Special Library

9. Collection and Organisation of Non Book Reading Material in Special
Libraries

10. Documentation Services

11. Technical Translation Services in the Special Libraries

12. Resource Division

13. Building & Planning of Special Libraries

14. Computers for Special Librarian Automation

15. The Role of the Special Librarian in the Electronic Era

Suresh C. Sinha (born on 09.07.1937) holds the M. A. in Sociology, and M.A.
(Honors) in Sociology, M. L. I. Sc. and Associateship in information science
form INSDOC, Delhi. He is a retired Library Officer E-I, Central for Industrial
Relations and Human Resources, New Delhi during 1971-2 and at D.B.S. (PG)
College, Dehradun during 1965-66. He was deputed to the Republic of Somalia
(East Africa) under as ITEC Expert to re-establish the library of National
University of Somalia, Mogadishu (East Africa) from 21st July 1982 to 22nd June
1984. He is a life member of IASLIC (Calcutta), ILA (New Delhi) and UPLA
(Lucknow). He has over two dozen papers and three books to his credits is the
field of Library and Information Science. At present, he is the Counselor of
Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon Open University
Allahabad .

Dr. Anil Kumar Dhiman (born in 1965) holds M.A., M.Sc., M.L.I.Se., B.Ed.,
P.G.D.C.A., and Ph.D degree in Botany. He is a Fellow of Society of Ethno
botanists (FES) and Fellow of United Writers' Association (FUWAI). He is also
the life member of various professional association, viz., ILA (Delhi), IASLIC
(Calcutta), IATLIS, UPLA, ULA, APSI, IBS and SEB (Lucknow). At present, he is
working in the University Library at Gurukul Kangri University, Hardware.
Besides, he is also rendering his services Training Centre, Roorkee since 1994
and as Counsellor for Library Science at Hardware Chapter of UP Rajrishi Tandon
Open University, Allahabad since 2000. He has four dozen papers and four books
to his credits in the field of Library & Information Science and Botany. He has
been awarded with APSI Young Scientist Award and Gold Medal for the year 1999
and also nominated for 'International Scholar of Twentieth Century Award' by the
American Organization of Intellectuals Inc., USA.

ISBN	8170003482
Year of Publication	2002
Binding	PaperBack
Pages
Edition
Language	English

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