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drurys principlesthe basic principle which still governs the selection of reading material for a library was enunciated by drury in 1930 it
general reference sources the dictionaries encyclopaedias yearbooks almanacs etc and sources which we have studied in previous block of
information resources - selection principlesselection of materials for a library requires sagacity adroitness and attention to peoples needs
non-documentary sourceson the other hand non-documentary sources are institutional and human resources both of which are important links in the
secondary periodicalssecondary periodicals secondary periodicals are abstracting and indexing periodicals they are also
biographies handbooks and dictionariesdictionariesdictionaries primarily deal with all aspects of words from proper definitions
reference booksdefinition according to william katz 1969 a reference book generally has the following qualities it is a miscellany of
management information the provision of useful management information is now an important requirement in the efficient and effective running of
functions of a serials control system the following are the functions to be covered by a serials control system management
serials control system serials represent a large portion of the stock in academic and special libraries the subscription for many of the
basic components of circulation control system the main component of a circulation control system is the transactions or loans database this
circulation control system the circulation control system is one of the important components of any library system the primary function of any
online public access catalogues opacs some of the cataloguing systems provided by software vendors usually contain some default opac program
cataloguing systemsthe main objective of any computerised cataloguing system is to create appropriate catalogues for different categories of
photographs and illustrationsphotographs and illustrations are documents which provide a visual or pictorial representation of a person place or
maps atlases and globesmaps illustrate the distribution of many things that occur on the surface of the earth information is presented by the use
ordering and acquisition systems the important functions of an ordering or acquisitions system might be specified as to receive records of
trade literaturetrade literature consists of documents that give information on the processes and materials involved in the manufacture of a
basic functions of library management systems lms the basic functions of any lms are ordering and acquisitions cataloguing circulation
management of computerised librarylibraries and information centres are increasingly using computers both for managing their house-keeping
pamphlets - classification of documentsa pamphlet is an independent publication it is normally a document of a few printed pages usually less than
reportsreport literature is an important primary source of information particularly for a research library this new medium for
government documentsgovernment publications are the official documents brought out at government expense they are the records of activities of
conducting a cd-rom search cd-rom databases are designed in such a way that the end-user may search them without much difficulty many cd-rom
periodicals and serialsperiodical publications form an important part of todays information world it is one of the oft chosen forms of research