Different types of libraries have evolved in response to different kinds of problems. The public library, the special library, and the research library, for example, all differ in this regard. Nevertheless, all libraries are concerned in one way or another with acquiring, organizing, and providing effective access to recorded information. It might seem obvious that, to understand how to improve libraries, one should study how people seek and use information. Indeed, much research is so directed. Nature and functions of library science are categorically portrayed in this book. The authentic information is organised in seven chapters. Students and teachers of library and information science besides the library professionals will be immensely benefited by the contents of this book.
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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