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Foundation of Library and Information Science

Notes The system should have a central organisational base with facilities for periodic updating
of the schedules; and

The system should also have an in-built mechanism for accommodating newly emerging
subjects, without in anyway destroying the existing structure. In India, the Dewey Decimal
Classification, the Colon Classification and the Universal, Decimal classifications are the
systems mostly used.

Did u know? The catalogue of the library should also be based upon international standard
cataloguing rules. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-2 or the Classified Catalogue
Code of Ranganathan is the ones mostly used in Indian college libraries. The subject
approach to information in the catalogue must be based on the basis of currently accepted
international standard practice of deriving subject headings. Currently, computerised,
systems are being inducted into academic institutions and colleges for library housekeeping
as well as for organising services.

Professional Staff

A college library must be headed by a person with high academic and professional qualification
and experience. It is necessary to give the college librarian the academic status in addition to the
salary scale of teachers. The other staff should be recruited on the basis of the size of the library,
its current acquisitions and the different services it offers. There are U.G.C. norms on these areas.
The success of the library entirely depends on the professional services offered by the library
staff.

The College Management

An enlightened college management would regard the library as a lighthouse, a power station,
a true temple of learning. Such a management will lend all administrative and managerial
support and assure provision of sufficient funds to the library. It will also constitute a helpful
Library Advisory Committee with the Principal of the College as its Chairperson and the
librarian as its Member-secretary. A few senior members of the faculty and an outside library
and information expert may constitute the other members of the committee.

User Community and Library Services

In addition to teachers, students and staff, the clientele may consist of other users such as authors
and writers, high school teachers, lawyers, medical practitioners, etc. The library must extend
facilities to these users, treating them as its honoured guests, adhering, however; to the rules
governing the use of library. Important college library services are:

Text book services;
Lending and inter library loan service; in Reading room services;
Information and Reference;
Display of current additions or production of lists of current accessions;

Documentation services, only on specific request, should include:
Current awareness to literature, special journals. Preparation of current lists of
reference, Indexing/Abstracting services on projects, etc.

Reprographic services;

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