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Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 11: Library Rules and Maintenance Work

Unit 11: Library Rules and Maintenance Work Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

11.1 Philosophy of Rules of Library
11.2 Factors Affecting the Library Rules
11.3 Scope of Rules and Regulations

11.3.1 Model Library Rules
11.4 Maintenance Work
11.4.1 Functions of Maintenance Work
11.4.2 Stack Maintenance
11.4.3 Stock Verification

11.4.4 Withdrawal and Weeding
11.5 Summary
11.6 Keywords

11.7 Review Questions
11.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Describe the philosophy of the rules of library

Discuss the factors affecting the library rules
Discuss the Model Library rules
Explain the Maintenance Work in a library

Introduction

In this unit you are introduced to the work of housing a collection and maintaining an order of
arrangement of the various types of documents for providing access to them.
If you look at the functions in a time sequence, form the arrival of documents to the library till
they are borrowed by users, you will notice that circulation work is preceded by maintenance
work. To begin with, we have the acquisition function followed by processing work. Maintenance
work comes between processing work and circulation work.
This unit gives you a description of the principles and routines involved in the management of
a maintenance section of a library. You are introduced to the different issues relating to the
organizations of library materials, especially books on the shelves in a helpful manner. Various
routines relating to these aspects are explained, with special emphasis on stacking, shelf
arrangement, and stock verification.

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