Technical services are those services that provide access to information existing in some published form. It divides into two major components: (1) physical access which is created through the process of acquiring, organising, and labelling information packages, and (2) bibliographic access, which requires the creation of the descriptive and subject tags that allow the eventual users to select the information package needed. All other aspects of library service depend upon the efficiency and accuracy with which the work is accomplished. This book contains highly useful and authentic information on diverse issues like—general introduction, administration; management of automated services; interlibrary lending; online catalogs; and preservation administration etc. This will prove a dependable reference book to academics and professionals in the field.
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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