Libraries and Librarianship in India (Guides to Asian Librarianship) - Hardcover

Patel, Jashu; Kumar, Krishan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313294232 ISBN 13: 9780313294235

Publisher: Greenwood, 2001

Synopsis

This guide provides the historical background of traditional and modern libraries and librarianship in India. It focuses, chapter by chapter, on various types of libraries including national libraries, academic libraries, school libraries, and special libraries. It also covers the state of bibliographic control and services, professional organizations, library education, and automation.

From ancient through medieval and modern India to the end of the 20th century, this book offers detailed description of the development of libraries and related activities in the field of librarianship. This is an informative guide to libraries and the profession of librarianship in India that will be of great value to scholars and researchers of world librarianship. Providing a historical background of traditional and modern libraries and librarianship, this book will be useful to library science students and faculty worldwide.

About this title

About the Author:

JASHU PATEL is Professor of Library Science and Communication Media at Chicago State University. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar that took him to seventeen universities in India and Nepal. He has published several articles on librarianship, as well as chapters in books.

KRISHAN KUMAR was formerly Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, India. He has been chariman of the editorial board, of the Journal of Library and Information Science and editor of the Library Herald. He is a past president of both the Indian Library Association and the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science. He is the author of numerous articles and several books.

Review:

"This book is a worthy addition to a literature that supports and thereby provides scholarly links to develop comparitive studies...The book has two distinct features: first, it is a handy and updated textbook on the subject, and second, it provides a good research perspective on the basics, even for and advanced reader. The book is also a major contribution to existing resources on the intellectual history of India. It is simple and creative, readable and detailed, gratifying, penetrating, and eloquent, probing and easy to comprehend even by a foreign student who is little aware of the Indian ethos of print and imprint or of the culture of the Orient and the traditions of the sublime but who with an open mind believes in the dictum "Wise are those who learn from their own experiences; wiser are those who learn from others' experiences.""-Libraries & Culture

"This book is a good addition to the library literature and is recommended for all library schools and library collections interested in international comparative librarianship and library education."-American Reference Books Annual

?This book is a worthy addition to a literature that supports and thereby provides scholarly links to develop comparitive studies...The book has two distinct features: first, it is a handy and updated textbook on the subject, and second, it provides a good research perspective on the basics, even for and advanced reader. The book is also a major contribution to existing resources on the intellectual history of India. It is simple and creative, readable and detailed, gratifying, penetrating, and eloquent, probing and easy to comprehend even by a foreign student who is little aware of the Indian ethos of print and imprint or of the culture of the Orient and the traditions of the sublime but who with an open mind believes in the dictum "Wise are those who learn from their own experiences; wiser are those who learn from others' experiences."?-Libraries & Culture

?This book is a good addition to the library literature and is recommended for all library schools and library collections interested in international comparative librarianship and library education.?-American Reference Books Annual

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0313294232
• ISBN 13: 9780313294235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280