Library Services are equated with Information Services. Libraries are now
being forced to change because increasing numbers of users are no longer
dependent on a static storehouse to satisfy their information needs. New
services are being demanded of libraries, and new skills are expected from the
staff within them. Modern libraries are therefore, information centres above
all. Today, libraries are in a state of continual change within a changing
society. The changes are taking place in the materials collected and circulated.
The book concentrates on a comprehensive, balanced and updated collection of
documents as essential activities of libraries for providing effective
information service. It deals with the organisation of knowledge to retrieve
documents or unit of information for different reasons. Authors introduce the
information professional to the basic concepts of making records so that they
may be readily identified, located and examined. Since the records are preserved
and used in the library in the pursuit of knowledge, the study of documents,
both as physical objects and investigations are made, the results are tobe
recorded and this is bibliography which has been discussed in detail. The modern
library has to play the roles of information centre, resource centre and
referral centre as well. For these purposes it requires various types of
materials, multiple sources of information, co-ordinated manpower planning and
effective management concepts, principles and technique. The second volume has
been scientifically written to incorporate further developments in the field of
information retrieval. It offers a broad treatment of all important trends in
the development and use of information technology. Its strength lies in it's
practicality and accessibility to students and information professionals at all
levels. The book is ideal for newcomers to the profession or for those
practitioners wishing to update themselves on the latest trends.
PART--I
Preface
1. Library: The Information Centre
2. The Tradition of Libraries
3. Collection Development
4. Classification: Identity and Techniques
5. Cataloguing: The Science and Art
6. Bibliography: The Document
7. Library Management
Bibliography
Index
PART-II
Preface
1. Information: Characteristics and Theories
2. Indexing: Principles and Processes
3. Abstracting: Methods, Procedures and Products
4. Reference and Information Services
5. Book Indexing: Principles and Procedures
6. Computer Application in Information Services
7. CD-ROM: Information Technology
8. CD-ROM: Information Resources
9. Conservation of Documents
Bibliography
Index
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 attended 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 senior teacher in Library Science at the
University of Calcutta. he attended the British Council course on
Education for Library and Information Science held in Aberystwyth, 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.
