Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) is one of the methods of providing current awareness services. Even though the term SDI was introduced by Hans Peter Luhn in 1958, to describe personalised current awareness service provided with the help of computers, librarians wee providing SDI service to their users from time immemorial. Unfortunately there are hardly any books published on this topic of great importance. Even though few doctorate degrees have been awarded in the subject of SDI in foreign countries; they have not been published and thus not easily available. A student or a researcher finds it very difficult to collect information on the topic of SDI. This book tries to fill up these lacunae. The book, no doubt, will be source book to students, researchers and information professionals throughout the world. It can act as the main source of information to the researchers who have taken up the task of evaluating the SDI services in any part of the world.

The present book is an outgrowth of Author's doctoral research. It gives a balanced presentation of the concepts and application of Materials Management. The efficiency in materials management releases substantial gains to the organization in terms of cost and capital requirements. This has been empirically elucidated in the book. The main components of materials management system addressed to in this book are, materials planning and procurement, inventory control, stores management and management information system: materials; Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), demand forecasting, vendor rating, value analysis, PERT, selective inventory control-2 dimension (SIC-2D), inventory classification model, determination of re-order points and safety margins scientifically and proposal of scientific materials codification structure are the special features of this book. This book will prove as an indispensable text to the executives in business and government as well as students preparing for different examinations in the university system, Institutes of management, Institutes of Chartered Accountants and Cost and Works Accountants and competitive examinations like Indian and provincial civil services.

The primary objective of establishing Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) was providing banking services in the rural areas of the country- particularly those sections of rural society where commercial banking facilities had not reached. The RRBs have become an integral part of the rural banking system of the country. Though they started playing a commendable role in providing credit and banking services to the rural areas, still there is a need to reorient a qualitative and quantitative change in their structure, philosophy, planning operations within the domain of marketing orientation relevant to local rural conditions. The present study was taken up to evolve a suitable and effective strategy for marketing orientation in RRBs. This study has been divided into eleven chapters. Students, researchers and policy planners in the field will find the results of this study of utmost use.

With the rapid growth in the operations of the financial institutions during 1980s and early 90s, they are facing resource constraints and it is expected that the resources that would become available to them would not grow as rapidly as demand for their funds. It is for this reason that these institutions are in favour of a healthy and rapid growth of capital market to augment overall availability of funds to the corporate sector. The capital market in India is taking shape for turbulent times; the debate on economic policies has been resumed recently due to problems of balance of payment, inflation, industrial recession and consequent recent programme of restructuring the financial sector. This book is an attempt to examine the role of development banking in the industrialization and the emerging trends in the area of development finance in a transitional economy. This book will be of great use to all interested in the study of development banking institutions and its impact on industrialisation.