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Book lovers, writers and library professionals are apprehensive because of doomsters forecasts like death knell of libraries, epilogue of library profession and expiration of paper society. History of last five thousand years exhibit there was always acceptance to new formats and configuration in the libraries by the readers, scholars and library professionals. In the present age of incessant Tsunami of information, the libraries and professionals are moving with ...
Papers presented at the National Seminar on "Information Access Initiatives and Rural India" held at Amritsar during 25-26 June 2009.
The work unfolds the development of libraries in India as well as oriental countries, significance of archives, journey from clay tablets to manuscripts on paper, role of ancient kings, Mughal rulers, British rulers, Christian missionaries, post-independence Indian Governments, lack of quality service, dissatisfaction of users, role of librarians in society, Indian information technology: hardware and software development, e-book, e-mail, CD-ROM’s DVD’s, ...
Thousand years ago human beings started expressing their ideas in different languages in Oriental countries. Albeit they started fro the clay-tablets yet were conscious of preserving their writings. Millions of manuscripts, rare documents of ancient, medieval as well as modern times need proper preservation, conservation and restoration. The book covers different aspects such as ‘Loss of human knowledge’; ‘Origin of writing in Oriental countries’; ...