Managing University and College Libraries: Academic Functions and Administrative Organisation

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A university library is both a collegiate and research library in its provision of library materials and collections in depth. It plays the role of a public library by serving the university community as a general intellectuals and cultural centre. It is a school library in giving instructions to students for competing course assignments. It is a specialist library in meeting the specialized information and resource needs of students and faculty engaged in advanced research. If the university librarian is to act as the disseminator of knowledge he must make the library a magnetic force around which teaching and research revolves. This volume has been designed to provide the working librarians a compendium containing management techniques for administering the libraries on teaching and research level. This study introduces the students and library scientist with the administrative organisation; governmental and administrative relationships of the library; issues involved in human relationships, securing finance, preparation of budget, personnel requirements and their professional development highlighting role of the librarian in planning physical plant; running library off the campus, etc. The book will prove of immense value to the users in LIS.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.K. Khanna

The author has M.A., Ph.D. (Pol. Science), and M.Lib. Sc., Ph.D. (Library Science) to his credit. S.R.Ranganathan who created men out of clay has also divine eyes. Discerning the real mettle of the author, he wrote to the latter, immediately before his death, to stay in the profession and work for its elevation. In Ranganathan's words: For the last 10 years I had been observing the rapid degeneration in the profssion. It is for a person like you to take off the coat as I did my self in my younger days and work hard to put the profession on the right rails. Influenced by the same advise of the Philosopher ----King (Ranganathan ), the author dropped the very idea of switching over of the teaching of Political Science, and re-dedicated himself to the profession. By burning mid-night-oil, he has enriched the profession. He authorship spans numerous research papers and highly appreciated 8 books in India and abroad.