Academics frequently see their own success as having been achieved despite the confusions and inefficiencies of the libraries they used, and may feel contemptuous of any suggestion of the need for professional expertise in the assistance to readers. For these reasons, the librarians’s abandonment of the bibliographic mystery of cataloguing, which academics did conceive of as an occupation for professionals, has made it even more difficult for academic libraries to preserve and increase the number of professionals posts on their establishments. For effective library management—well organised systems and practices must be adopted. Academics and professionals in the field will find this a dependable reference 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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