Public libraries have a wealth of resources on which they can draw, both external and internal, to achieve efficient services and good training practices. These include their own staff, with specialist knowledge and skills, who can be used on internal programmes and courses and local authorities’ personnel departments, which can help with general principles and guidance. This book contains highly useful information derived from diverse authoritative sources covering major topics like-introduction; library systems and leadership; periodical listing and accessioning; multimedia catalog; library administration; public library training; technical support systems, future libraries etc. Undoubtedly, this will prove of utmost use to the readers.
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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