Library Management

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A group of professional librarians and information workers is a structure quite unlike the arrangements one might find in many factories or large commercial organizations. Many professional librarians and information workers have a strong identification with their users and will measure any proposed change against the likely effect on those users. Few libraries or information services represent either a purely hierarchic or a purely democratic structure. Most represent a mixture, often of a type where the formal structure appears hierarchic, with departments and formal lines of communication, but the informal structure for the professional staff emphasizes something of a collegiate approach, where ideas are shared and power is defined more in terms of the power base of information than in terms of authority or resource control. Library management in the present day context is analysed pros and cons in the present book. Major topics dealt with here are: library management; motivation; staff organization; library administration functions; coordination; electronic service delivery; online computer service; online databases; terminal software; digitalization in libraries etc.

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.

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Title
Library Management
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788126108732
Length
viii+279p., 23cm.
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