Academic
Library System-2
Book Reservoir : A place either within
the library or at a predetermined place within a region or country where weeded
out documents can be stored or preserved.
CD-ROM : Stands for compact disk/read
only memory. A high volume convenient and inexpensive storage disk for computer
data. Updating is not possible with this disc.
Censorship : Prohibition of production,
distribution and circulation or sale of material considered to be objectionable
on grounds of politics, religion, obscenity or blasphemy.
Clientele : Users of the
library and its services.
Authority File : Term
synonymous with ‘Authority List’. A list of all personal and corporate names of
anonymous classic and sacred books, the titles of anonymous books and the
headings for series cards, which are used as headings in the catalogue;
sometimes references are given to
books in which each name and its variants were found, and
in the case of corporate entries, sources, a brief history and particulars as
to changes of name. The entries are made when a heading is first decided upon.
A list is classified order of classification symbols or numbers which have been
allocated to books, with their corresponding index entries (Harrod).
Book Support : A piece of
wood or steel placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright. Also
called ‘Book end’.
Cataloguing in Source :
Cataloguing books before they are published, the entries being compiled from
proof copies made available by the publishers and the work being carried out by
a centralised agency so that full cataloguing information is printed in the
books concerned.” (Harrod)
Division Library : A
collection attached to, and administered by a division or a group of related
departments of a university or college, usually with some form of cooperative
arrangement with the general library or as a part of the library system.
Faceted Classification : A
scheme of classification which reflects in its structure the analysis of
subject according to a number of fundamental concepts (In colon classification
they are Personality, Matter, Energy, Space and Time). In a faceted
classification scheme only simple classes are enumerated and arranged in
facets. Composite classes are expressed by synthesised notation.
Principle of Osmosis : When
a library switches over to a new scheme of classification or to a new catalogue
code the principle of osmosis suggests a smooth change over. According to this
Principle new accessions and frequently used present collection should first of
all be classified or
catalogued according to the new scheme or new code or both
as the case may be. Users should be informed through reference department and
the library staff about the existence of two collections in the library. Whenever
a book is borrowed on its return it should be recatalogued and reclassified and
absorbed in the new collection. The principle was suggested by Ranganathan.
Rare Book : A book of value,
which is scarce and not easily available.
Special Collection : A
collection of books connected with local history, celebrities, industries etc.,
or on a certain subject period or gathered for some particular reason, in a
library which is general in character.
Conventional Document : A
document where the thought content is recorded in a natural language by means
of writing, typing printing or by some near-printing process.
Curriculum : All the courses of study in a school, college,
university, etc.
Format : i) “The shape and
size of a book expressed in terms of the size of the full sheet of paper and
the number of times it has been folded to get the leaf of a document”.
(Ranganathan).
ii) A statement of height and width of a typical leaf of a
document.
Glossary : An alphabetical list
of abstruse or technical terms concerned with any specific subject, together
with their definitions or elucidations.
Meta Document : An
instrument record of natural and social phenomena made directly unmediated by
the human mind even before it got transformed into thought and got into human
mind.
Micro Facsimile : A copy of
an original reproduced in micro size.
Neo-Conventional Documents: “Standards, specifications, patents, data of properties in natural
sciences and their applications, reaction formulae in chemistry, differential
clinical data in medicine, and press cuttings of current opinion and news in
the field of social sciences (etc) which form a new class of micro documents
... They may be called Neo-conventional Documents”.
Non-Conventional Documents:
Micro reproduction of a conventional documents; audio; visual; and audio-visual
records.
Sole Agent : A book-supplier
who will supply reading materials on all subjects to a library.
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