Library Administration and Resources

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Each organisation performs certain office functions for implementing various decisions taken by the management from time to time. A library also performs similar functions, though in a modified forms due to its special functions and jobs. Library administration looks after various functions e.g. Planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting. Some significant issues like library management planning; resources and staff training; library public relations; public library training; library records; financial management; data processing; library leadership; administration functions; dynamics of organization; and theories of information science etc. are competently dealt in this book which will prove a veritable mine of information to academics and professionals alike.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.K. Paliwal

Dr. P.K. Paliwal received his Ph.D. degree from the East West University of Health Sciences in 1979. Presently, he is on the faculty of the Documentation Research Centre, where he is involved in teaching computer proframming, library automation, information retrieval and design development, database management systems and applied statistics. He has also conduceted several short term courses in India and abroad, some of them sponsor by UNESCO. Besides having published more than fifty reset papters, he has authored two books.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyama Balakrishnan

Shyama Balakrishnan has been associated with the field of information science for nearly two decades. After having worked at the Centre for Information Processing, she worked with Institute of Health Science, Bombay. Since then she has taken a keen interest in introducing online information services and database services in collaboration with Information Services Inc., U.K. She has presented a number of papers and visited many countries.