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dusting and cleaning of shelves these are important and indispensable routines of libraries which have to be attended meticulously books have
shelf registershelf listshelf register or shelf list is an important record of books which shows the position of any book on the shelves in order to
stack guidesguides are to be put up at different places in the library in order to enable a user to find his her way into different parts of the
stack maintenancewe have explained that maintenance work implies the organisation of stack rooms arrangements of books on shelve in stack rooms
shelf arrangementonce the library has a taken decision on the number of sequences in which the total collection is to be organised the material in
sequence arrangementdistribution of library materials in the library may be based on any one or more of the following featuresaccess consideration
library material arrangementirrespective of the category to which a library belongs collection of a library is first broken into sequences
issues of periodicals and non-book material-storing shelving and arrangementmost libraries have periodical collections the current issues having
conventional shelvingas you may have observed in most libraries books are kept on open shelves which are usually arranged in parallel rows
compact storage another method of storage equipment is the compact storage system compact storage methods have been advocated and explored since the
stacking systemsthe main consideration in stacking is to achieve economy of space while ensuring ease of accessibility for the readers to the
stacking principles laws of library science refer unit 2 of course blis-01 give clear guidelines to the ways of organising stack rooms and the
management the magnitude of maintenance work like all other work in the library depends on the size and complexity of the library and
areas of responsibility - library managementthe main areas of responsibility of the maintenance section or division are taking responsibilities
conservationthe second aspect of maintenance work is book conservation only books in good physical condition should be allowed to stay on
maintenance work and managementof all the functions in a library the maintenance work is the least discussed in professional literature
organisationin an open access library which allows users to browse choose and select books of their interest shelf organisation and arrangement of
choice of an inner form for a library catalogueas can be seen from the foregoing discussions of the inner forms of a library catalogue no
alphaetico - classed cataloguethe alphabetico-classed catalogue may be considered as a combination or mixture of the best points associated with
difference between dictionary and classified catalogueof the many inner forms of a library catalogue the most popular ones are the dictionary and
limitations of alphabetical indexreaders must have some knowledge of the classification scheme used for the arrangement of entries before the
alphabetical indexthe alphabetical index to a classified catalogue consisting of author title wherever necessary subject entries and other entries
classified part it is the arrangement of entries of documents by class number that gives the systematic and structured display of subjects in a
classified cataloguea classified catalogue is a form of subject catalogue in which the entries are arranged by the class number which representing
demerits of dictionary cataloguethe alphabetical arrangement of entries in one sequence is at once the strength and weakness of a dictionary