Sustainable University Library Development

Sustainable University Library Development presents studies on various aspects of the university library system with stress to development with a concern for the technology and needs of future generations. Universities play a crucial role in the generation and application of new knowledge. They produce the trained work force required for industry, agriculture, health, administration, services and other sectors. Along with the intelligentsia in natured by them they create the ideological climate required for better quality of life and pace of development. We are facing a veritable explosion of knowledge in all fields of human activity. If universities are to keep pace with these developments, and remain internationally competitive, avoid waste of scarce resources by duplication of research and support national development; their library and information systems should be efficient. Understanding this fact educational and research institutions in advanced countries have in eighties itself developed libraries as their major divisions, automated them on priority basis and linked them to worldwide networks. But our university libraries still lag very far behind. We have to concentrate on sustainable development of library and information systems to meet the challenges of the twenty first century. The book covers sustainable library management techniques, system development, organizational set up, staffing, finances, physical facilities, training programmes and services. This volume can serve as a guide to sustainable methods of university library development.