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Unit 8: Special Libraries

Current Awareness Service: It is a service that helps you to organize and mediate the information Notes
that you need to conduct your research.
Information Centre: An information centre is a centre designed specifically for storing, processing,
and retrieving information for dissemination at regular intervals, on demand or selectively,
according to express needs of users.

Periodicals: Periodicals are publications which are issued at regular intervals, such as journals,
magazines, and newspapers.
Reference Services: Reference Service is assistance that will help you find the information you
need.
Research: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to
establish facts and reach new conclusions.
Selective Dissemination of Information: Selective Dissemination of Information is a service that
consists in routing to readers, on a regular basis, news alerts corresponding to their readers’
profiles.
Special Library: Special libraries are information collections where the entire collection is a
single, or several special collections.
Subscriptions: A purchase made by signed order, for example, a periodical for a specified period
of time.

8.7 Review Questions

1. Define special libraries.
2. Discuss the history of special library.
3. What do you understand by information centre?

4. Highlight the main purposes of a special library.
5. Why special libraries are called “special”?
6. Explain the services offered by special libraries.
7. Write brief note on the collection development of special library.
8. What are the functions of special library?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. False 2. False
3. True 4. True
5. Larger 6. Information
7. Special 8. Projects

9. True 10. False
11. False 12. True
13. Power House 14. Current Awareness Service (CAS)
15. Translation 16. Orientation

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