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Unit 5: Reference Sources

4. Based on the library’s mission, librarianship will receive the majority of: Notes
(a) Candidate (b) Loss
(c) Weight (d) Promotion.

5.4 Bibliographical Sources

Bibliography, as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural
objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliopoly. On the whole, bibliography is
not concerned with the literary content of books, but rather the “bookness” of
books, how they were designed, edited, printed, circulated, reprinted and collected.
A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a systematic list of
books and other works such as journal articles.

Bibliographies range from “works cited” lists at the end of books and articles to complete, independent
publications. As separate works, they may be in bound volumes such as those shown on the right or
computerized bibliographic databases. A library catalogue, while not referred to as a bibliography, is
bibliographic in nature. Bibliographical works are almost always considered to be tertiary sources.
Bibliographic works differ in the amount of detail depending on the purpose, and can be generally
divided into two categories: enumerative bibliography (also called completive, reference or
systematic), which results in an overview of publications in a particular category, and analytical, or
critical, bibliography, which studies the production of books. In earlier times, bibliography mostly
focused on books. Now, both categories of bibliography cover works in other formats including
recordings, motion pictures and videos, graphic objects, databases, CD-ROMs and websites.

Write the bibliography of your favourite subject with the help of internet.

Self Assessment
State whether the following statements are true or false:
5. The primary role of library is not to support the teaching and research mission.
6. A bibliography, as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical cultural object in
this sense it is also known as bibliopoly.
7. Bibliographical works are almost always considered to be tertiary sources.

5.5 Summary

• The ISPL Acquisition Process is the actual process of obtaining a system or service to achieve
a goal contributing to business objectives and/or needs.
• The first process to be executed by the customer contract authority within an acquisition is
the acquisition initiation process.
• The procurement step of the ISPL acquisition process embodies the obtaining of one single
contract.

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