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Foundation of Library and Information Science

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visitors, with the exception of a few institutions. Respondents from agriculture discipline
are the most frequent library visitors, followed by those from humanities and social
sciences.
Questions:

1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?
Source: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/chetansharma.pdf

1.6 Summary

Libraries are collections of books and other media.

Library science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices,
perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other
areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of
information resources; and the political economy of information.

There is no generally agreed-upon distinction between the terms library science,
librarianship, and library and information science.
A library is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation,
or a private individual.
The first libraries were only partly libraries, and stored most of the unpublished records,
which are usually viewed as archives.
The first college to be started in this country is the Fort William College in 1800.
The Asiatic society of Bengal that was established at Calcutta in 1784 started building up a
good research library since its inception.
The great contribution of UNESCO towards the library profession in India is that it gave
it an international status and the first time started the first pilot project by establishing the
Delhi Public Library in October 1951.

A library plays a very important role in promoting the progress of knowledge.
The cultural role of libraries is supported through the country governance.

1.7 Keywords

Academic Libraries: An academic library is a library that is attached to an academic institution
above the secondary level, serving the teaching and research needs of students and staff.
Committee: A committee is a group of people who take on the responsibility of managing a
community group, voluntary organisation, charity, trust or social enterprise.

Culture: Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of
the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course
of generations through individual and group striving.
Documents: Something tangible that records communication or facts with the help of marks,
words, or symbols.

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