The actual acquisition of videocassettes is arguably the most intensive library process because of the continuous monitoring of the market, surveying vendor catalogs, and making deals with industry representatives, the process of cataloging those materials is much more detail-oriented and has a greater potential for negative consequences, if not performed to certain standards, than the simple act of purchasing. The number, correctness, and inclusiveness of cataloging records for videorecordings has been less than satisfactory. When these unsatisfactory records are imported into a local database without correction or modification, they can cause substantial difficulty and chaos. Students, scholars and professionals will find this vade mecum.
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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