LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE: Concepts, Practices and Services

The present book introduces a professional to a plethora of concepts, practices, issues and challenges from basic concept of librarianship to its advanced allied services. The chapters have been designed to give a clear and comprehensive insight into the intriguing concepts and topics. The concepts, topics and practices in the book have been dealt with simplicity yet explicitly. The chapterization of the book is as following: 1. Library, Information and Society, 2. Public Library System in India, 3.Information Resources and Services, 4. Impact of Information Technology on Library & Information Education and Trainings and 5. Recent Trends in Library and Information Science Education In India and Aboard. Thus the book is a blend of basic and fundamental principles of LIS to modern and innovative emerging concepts, issues and strategies of LIS education. The authors have made every effort to include major concepts, ideas, practices and relevance to a working professional, students of LIS, research scholars or an academician, but still lacunas in terms of its coverage and selection of topics might have remained. Suggestions and professional advice from the readers are welcome for improving the quality and spectrum of this book and will be incorporated in the revised editions which hopefully will follow in future.