Theory and Practice in Library and Information Science

Contents Preface. 1. Advances in library science an introduction. 2. Information services procurement library. 3. Digitalization of libraries. 4. Advance trends of documentation. 5. Growth of library and information science in India. 6. Copyright. 7. Application services library. 8. Online and automated cataloguing. 9. Use of computers. 10. Online learning context. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. The present study Theory and Practice in Library and Information Science focuses and highlights the crucial and vital issues of new and modern trends in library and information science. In the wider sense this study on Library and Information Science includes how information resources are organized to serve the needs of select user groups how people interact with classification systems and technology how information is acquired evaluated and applied by people in and outside of libraries as well as cross culturally how people are trained and educated for careers in libraries the ethics that guide library service and organization the legal status of libraries and information resources and the applied science of computer technology used in documentation and records management. 276 pp.…