Page 65 - DLIS101_LIBRARY_AND_INFORMATION_SOCIETY

Library and Information Society

Notes Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
9. Brussels Institute was established in 12 September, 1895.
10. The International conference on Bibliography assembled in Brussels from the 2nd to 5th
September, 1895.
11. The bulletin of the Brussels institute was issued from 1886.
12. La Fontaine died in 1943, Otlet in 1944.

5.6 Summary

• For many people, this is what a library is - a publicly funded institution that provides books
for loan and is used mainly by the very old and the very young.
• Special libraries are libraries that serve a particular institution that has a specific role to play,
and they will therefore tend to be “one subject” libraries.
• The National library is located at the Belvedere Estate very near to the Alipore Zoo in Kolkata.
• The Indian Library Association is a premier association committed to the cause of Library
Movement and Development.
• For initial 12 years the office of ILA was housed in the Imperial Library at Calcutta.
• The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading
international association of library organisations.
• The collaboration between the two founders began in the early 1890’s. In 1893 they trans-
formed the bibliographical section of the Societe des etudes socales et politiques, in which
they were both active, into an International Institute of Sociological Bibliography.
• The Bulletin of the Brussels Institute was issued from 1895.
• In 1909 Otlet and La Fontaine co-edited with Alfred Fried the Annuaire de la Vie interntionale.
This directory had been started by Fried in 1904.

5.7 Keywords

Vaguely : Not clear
Commitment : A promise to do something
Enormously : Very large

5.8 Review Questions

1. Why there is a threat for public library?
2. What is meant by IFLA?
3. What is the function of a special committee of FAIFE?
4. Write a short note on Special libraries?
5. Where is the national library?
6. Describe the function of Public libraries.

60 LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY