A library catalogue is a methodically arranged record of information about the resources—books and other graphical material. Roughly speaking a library catalogue is primarily a ‘finding list’ constructed to identify, trace and locate a book and other graphic materials in the library concerned. In the age of computers and Internet conventional methods of cataloguing have become obsolete. This book puts light on different vital issues on modern cataloguing major among these are: Introduction; functions for a library catalogue; online cataloguing systems; cataloguing networks; construction of catalogue; multimedia cataloguing; opy cataloguing; managing the catalogue department; cataloguing systems; cataloguing networks; construction of catalogue; multimedia cataloguing; copy cataloguing; managing the catalogue department; cataloguing technologies; analytical cataloguing; rules for the compilation of catalogue 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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