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Information Sources and Services
Notes Librarians have been providing this kind of service on manual basis for a long time.
During recent years the trend is towards computer based SDI. It is a highly personalized
information service directed to individuals so as to cater to their requirements.
Bibliography is a list of citations or references to books or periodical articles on a particular
topic. Bibliographies can appear at the end of a book, journal, or encyclopaedia article, or
in a separate publication.
According to UNESCO/Library of Congress Survey, bibliographic control means “the
mastery over written and published records which is provided by and for the purpose of
bibliography”. Effective bibliographic control should be made at subject and national
level.
Reference service, as a distinct function of the library, began in the late nineteenth century,
largely in response to the growing prevalence of publicly funded libraries (both public
and academic) seeking to serve relatively inexperienced and unskilled readers and scholars.
Document Delivery Services are an important component of the Library’s inter library
loan activity by which users’ are facilitated not only to obtain information about the
location of a document but the document itself as well.
5.7 Keywords
Alert: Alert is a colloquial term used to define a machine-to-person communication that is
important and/or time sensitive.
Alert Messaging: Alert messaging or alert notification is the delivery of alerts to recipients.
Analytical Bibliography: It is an investigation of the physical nature of the book which can be
and frequently is sufficiently exhaustive to enable all the circumstances of the book manufacture
and history to be revealed.
Author Bibliography: An author bibliography is the list of writing by an author together with
the works on him by others.
Bibliography: Bibliography is a list of citations or references to books or periodical articles on
a particular topic.
Bibliophilic Bibliography: A bibliography that records old and rare books, first editions of
celebrated authors is known as bibliophilic bibliography.
Citation Alert: This service will alert you when a chosen author or article has been cited by
another.
Current Awareness: Current awareness means knowledge regarding recent developments relating
to matters of special interest to an individual user.
Current Awareness Services (CAS): CAS is concerned with dissemination of information 'that
will keep its users well-informed and up-to-date in their fields of basic interest as well as in the
related subjects.'
Descriptive Bibliography: Descriptive bibliography is the application of analytical bibliography
to the external form of the book i.e. it concern itself with the materials forms of books and not
with their literary contexts.
Email Alert: Email alert services offer a way to have new content sent automatically to your
email inbox.
Feed Reader: A feed reader is a personal web space where you can log in and view your
subscriptions to various types of content.
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