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non-print materialsnon-print materials entered the mainstream of collection development in libraries in the last two decades audio visual and
publishing agencies fall under three broad categoriesi trade publishing houses companies booksellers and others they publish books of all
print materialsthe author publisher and bookseller are all partners in turning ideas into a finished product these groups operate as a team
information materialslet us study in brief how information materials are produced the agencies that produce them and the information channels
selection tools and their importancein order to do this job well it is invaluable to have a good background knowledge of production agencies that
general reference sources the dictionaries encyclopaedias yearbooks almanacs etc and sources which we have studied in previous block of
management information the provision of useful management information is now an important requirement in the efficient and effective running of
functions of a serials control system the following are the functions to be covered by a serials control system management
serials control system serials represent a large portion of the stock in academic and special libraries the subscription for many of the
basic components of circulation control system the main component of a circulation control system is the transactions or loans database this
circulation control system the circulation control system is one of the important components of any library system the primary function of any
online public access catalogues opacs some of the cataloguing systems provided by software vendors usually contain some default opac program
cataloguing systemsthe main objective of any computerised cataloguing system is to create appropriate catalogues for different categories of
ordering and acquisition systems the important functions of an ordering or acquisitions system might be specified as to receive records of
basic functions of library management systems lms the basic functions of any lms are ordering and acquisitions cataloguing circulation
management of computerised librarylibraries and information centres are increasingly using computers both for managing their house-keeping
conducting a cd-rom search cd-rom databases are designed in such a way that the end-user may search them without much difficulty many cd-rom
criteria for the selection of databases on cd-rom the following criteria may be observed for the selection of databases on cd-rom i
databases on cd-rom the databases presently available on cd-rom can be grouped into the following categories i bibliographic databases
cd-rom database products and servicescd-rom is a derivation of the compact digital audio disc all the optical formats use a set of laser pick-up
categories of document delivery services there tare different agencies concerned with document delivery service let us try to some of these
document delivery services document delivery is considered as one of the important elements of providing access to information it involves the
the online search the first stage in conducting a search is to develop a clear specification of the information required by the end-user the
when to access an online search service there are situations when we should consider accessing an online search service one such situation
online search services online search services also known as online systems suppliers search services or online service spinners are responsible