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institutional directoriestry to recollect some yearbooks which have been covered viz europa yearbook statesmans yearbook and yearbook of the united
handbooks manuals guide-bookswe have a very large group of ready reference sources consisting of handbooks manuals source books and guide books it
practical handbookshandbooks and manuals providing specific instructions or clear directions to do to make to operate to learn to do specialised jobs
historical handbooksevery library receives queries regarding dates and events in history historical handbooks provide information regarding events
statistical handbooks statistical handbooks cover information regarding various aspects in numerical form they are also produced by the governments
handbooks manuals source-books and guide-booksthey are handy single volume ready reference sources on a specific subject in various forms they
directoriesdirectories are very useful to locate answers to agency or bibliographical quiries as they cover information about organisations and their
yearbooks and almanacsthey are referred to trace varied information about each country they are compiled to cover important developments activities
uses of ready reference sourceswe have surveyed various types of ready reference sources viz yearbooks almanacs supplement to encyclopaedias
special featuresmost ready reference sources are of specific frequency ie annual biennial or published at specific or irregular interval they are
formatthe value of the format can be determined by verifying the following aspects of the ready reference sourcessize ready reference sources are
evaluation of ready reference sourcesthere is a tremendous increase in the importance and use of the ready reference sources due to availability of
standards standard relates to quality of product in use in our daily life they cover not only house-hold goods but the various products that we need
history of patents patents have been granted by governments from the medieval ages galileo was granted a patent for an irrigation device in 1594 the
role of computersas you are aware the introduction of computers in the libraries has brought about sea-change in the various services provided by
characteristics of division departmentation the process of grouping related work activities into manageable units is known
typed cyclostyled form revised version of bound register form came into existence due to the typewriter and cyclostyling machine the entries
bound register ledger form in this form the entries of documents of a library are written by hand in a bound register or ledger pages are set
cataloguing and classification cataloguing and classification are two interrelated processes that are performed in a library the basic purpose of
guidelines to cataloguers the information furnished in the catalogue entries should be accurate generally the title page is the chief source
cataloguing process a library catalogue consists of various entries prepared for the documents acquired for the library there are two types of
trade catalogues publishers and booksellers produce catalogues periodically and send them to libraries as a routine sales promotion activity
bibliographies a library catalogue and a bibliography are distinct from each other as they serve different purposes a bibliography is an
library records a number of records are created in a library for its collections to serve different purposes some of these records are
library catalogue and the five laws of library science the five laws of library science are a set of basic guiding principles for