Academic
Library System
OPAC : Online Public Access Catalogue.
E-Consortia : Sharing of electronic
resources.
E-Journals : Electronic journals.
Consortium : Resource sharing initiative
to develop collection by negotiating better discounts from publishers /
suppliers for the participating Libraries.
Document : The system enables users to
other copies of Delivery Service materials retrieved by online searches, either
by direct dispatch of items by the host, or via an agent.
Microfilm : A microphotograph on
cellulose film. It may be negative or positive and may be 16 or 35 mm wide and
of any length depending on the number of exposures thereon.
Network : A system of physically
separate computers with telecommunication links, allowing the resources of each
participating machine to be shared by each of the others.
Open Access : A library system where
readers are admitted to the shelves.
On-line : Using the devices and peripherals, which are interacting directly
and simultaneously with a computer central processing unit.
Repository : A book store
belonging to one library system, or a number of co-operative library systems
prepared to inter-lend the books deposited therein.
Library : Any body which
is responsible for library Authority services. The local government responsible for the provision of
public library services in UK.
Library Board : The committee
responsible for the control of an American library system. It is also known as
“Library Trustees”, “Board of Directors”, “Board of Library Trustees” and sometimes
as “Library Commission”.
Library
Governing Body : Person or a collective body of persons
empowered by law to act on behalf of the library concerned.
Library
Committee :
The committee set up for the governance of the library.
Promotional
Role : Activities
related to raise the capacity of the library in providing services to its
users.
Bibliographic Instruction
: Course-related classroom-based library
instruction.
Cognition
acquired :
The mental process by which knowledge is through the mind.
Conceptual Instruction
system : An integrated system of concepts in a
logically closed.
Elasticity of
quantum of Demand : Measuring the impact of change
in price on the demand.
Hawthorne Study : The effect of making people
feel very special by changing their perception.
Independent Study : Cognitive
capabilities of user to access library resources and service independently.
Information Need : Are mainly
psychological and consist of the processes involving the identification,
analysis, and satisfaction at conceptual level.
Library College : The concept of independent study in the context of American
undergraduate colleges.
Orientation : Formal orientation of the
library to the user through direct and indirect method.
Paradigm : It is defined as a pattern or
model.
Personal System of Information (PSI) :
Individual user’s profile for modulated and planned
independent study.
Profiling : User profile (individual,
group/community) of information needs in conceptual terms.
Reference Interview : That part of the
reference process in which the inquirer and the searcher interact to stabilise
the enquiry.
Budget : An itemised list of expected
income and expenditure for a specific future period.
Cost-Benefit Analysis : Analytical
technique involving a momentary assessment of total costs and revenue of a project,
paying particular attention to social costs and benefits which do not normally
feature conventional costing exercises.
Cost Effectiveness : Analysis of
particular expenditure to establish whether the same expenditure could be used more
effective or whether the same benefits are attainable with less expenditure.
Endowments : Giving a large amount of
money or property for the use and benefit of an organisation.
Pamphlets : A non-periodical publication
of at least five but not more than 48 pages, exclusive of the cover pages.
Productivity : Relationship between
input and output of an organisation. Input being measured in men, machines,
materials and money, and output in products and services.
Standard Cost : A predetermined cost of
using some resource (such as labour or materials) in the production of
something by the manufacturer.
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