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Reference Sources and Services

Notes • Within the context of a librarian’s evaluation, librarianship shall be considered that body of
work which constitutes the primary roles for which the individual was hired.
• The deliverables used in this phase are of the Decision point deliverable type. The final decision
of the complete acquisition process is the Acquisition completion. The most important activity
of the contract monitoring process is the execution of the decision points.

5.6 Keywords

Acquisition : Acquirement
Implementation : Accomplishment
Demonstrate : Exhibit
Tangible : Substantial

5.7 Review Questions

1. Analyze the different types of reference sources.
2. Explain service procurement in libraries.
3. Write a short note on target domain and service domain.
4. Define Acquisition initiation.
5. Define the Acquisition goal.
6. Explain the Acquisition planning.
7. Explain procurement process.
8. Explain the criteria for evaluation of reference.
9. Discuss in detail - Bibliographical sources.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. ISPL 2. Three 3. (a)
4. (c) 5. False 6. True
7. True

5.8 Further Readings

RANGANATHAN (S R). Reference service. Ed 2. 1989. Ranganthan Endowment for
Library Science, Bangalore.
KRISHAN KUMAR. Reference service Ed. 3. 1996. Vikas Publishing, New Delhi.

Online links http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/refsources.html
http://books.google.co.in/

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