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Library Administration and Management

Notes these principles to the unit operations in cataloguing. The general principles for standards for
bibliographic description are as follows:

1. Principle of Context: It determines the situational contexts required for specifying the
elements of bibliographic description and their role
2. Principle of Permanence: It says no element in an entry, the heading in particular, should
be subjected to change unless rules themselves are changed in response to the principle of
context
3. Principle of Consistency: It says bibliographic description should be consistent for
bibliographic records
4. Principle of Unity of Idea: It advocates structural design for cataloguing codes and standards
for bibliographic description.
Principles of bibliographic description are guidelines for the design of a set of rules to manage
bibliographic data. In ordinary usage, these two concepts (principle and rule) are used many a
time interchangeably. In fact, principles guide the creation of rules and thereby distinct from
bibliographic objectives and bibliographic rules. The term ‘principle’ is used to refer to a
proposition or other formulation, usually generalised and with one or more of the following
attributes:
It may be a statement of fact;
It may be accepted as true or helpful;
It may form the basis for deriving another proposition with one or more of the attributes
of the basis proposition;
It may provide a basis for reasoning or evaluation; and
It may guide the formulation of a proposition prescribing a procedure for fulfilling a
particular purpose.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
8. The process of bibliographic description requires……………….., for making bibliographic
file to be consistent.
9. The nature of bibliographic and …………… appears to be identical.
10. ……………….. is one of the many applications of bibliographic data management.
11. …………………… has been defined as the sum of all the areas and elements, which may be
used to describe, identify or retrieve any physical item of information content.
12. ISBD stands for ……………………………………

Case Study Noida Library System

oida Public Library is the biggest library in Noida. Currently it has about
300 members. A person who is 18 or above can become a member here. There is
Na membership fee of ` 400 for a year. There is a form to be filled in which person
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