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Library Automation

Notes Subscription Books: Books published periodically or at irregular intervals and distributed against
advance subscription rather than by sale of individual items.
User Need Survey: A survey conducted for a systematic study of the information needs of a
specific group of people.

6.8 Review Questions

1. Enumerate the favours that govern the planning of the routine jobs of document selection
work
2. List the major categories of sources of book selection, both for current and retrospective
books.

3. Name the person (s), group(s), committee(s) that the involved in the process of selection of
documents for a library.
4. List the bibliographical data that go into a Book Selection Card”.

5. State the various routines of document selection procedure in 6/8 lines.
6. State the information to be supplied to the indentor with regard to the book recommended.
7. Name the records, registers and files that are maintained in the acquisition department of
a library.
8. State the four categories of non-book materials.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. True 2. False
3. False 4. Professional

5. Documents 6. AD
7. False 8. True
9. True 10. Micro-Photograph
11. NBM 12. Bibliographic

13. True 14. False
15. True

6.9 Further Readings

Books Aswal, Rajinder Singh (2006). “Library Automation for 21st Century.” Ess Ess
Publication.

Brown-Syed, Christopher (2011). “Parents of Invention: The Development of Library
Automation Systems in the Late 20th Century: The Development of Library Automation
Systems in the Late 20th Century.” ABC-CLIO.
Kochtanek, Thomas R. and Matthews, Joseph R. (2002). “Library Information Systems:
From Library Automation to Distributed Information Access Solutions.” Libraries
Unlimited.

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