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Library Administration and Management

Notes Internal House Journals: Internal house journals are meant for the employees under the roof of
an organization.
Journal: Journal is a scholarly publication devoted to disseminating current information about
research and developments in a specific field or subfield of human knowledge.
Magazine: The magazine usually refers to the non-scholarly publications written for an educated
audience and contains popular reading.
Secondary Publication: Those documents having the character of reviews can be grouped as
secondary publication.

Trend Report: Trend report gives an account of the general direction of research in the subject
based on a review of the documents on current development.

14.8 Review Questions

1. What is statistics?

2. Explain the history of statistics.
3. Discuss the characteristics of statistics.
4. What method is used for computing statistics?

5. Describe the key terms used in statistics.
6. What is library statistics?
7. Explain the source of library statistics.
8. Describe and discuss the significance of statistics in library development proposal.
9. What type of statistics needs to be maintained in the reference section of a library?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Demographic 2. Statistics
3. Refinement 4. Causes
5. Documentary 6. primary publication
7. secondary publication. 8. Newspapers

9. Audience 10. Internal house journal
11. Dissertation 12. numerical data.
13. observational

14.9 Further Readings

Books C. K. Sharma, Kiran Singh. 01-Jan-2005. Library Management (Vol 1), Atlantic
Publishers & Distributors.
D. K. Pandey. Jan, 2004. Library and Information Science. Atlantic Publishers &
Distributors.

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