Academics frequently see their own success as having been achieved despite the confusions and inefficiencies of the libraries they used, and may feel contemptuous of any suggestion of the need for professional expertise in the assistance to readers. For these reasons, the librarian's abandonment of the bibliographic mystery of cataloguing, which academics did conceive of as an occupation for professionals, has made it even more difficult for academic libraries to preserve and increase the number of professionals posts on their establishments.

For effective library management-well organised systems and practices must be adopted. Some crucial issues like-librarianship; library organisation; library automation; automation system; planning multimedia resources; online computer services; periodicals listing etc. are given competent treatment in this book.

Academics and professionals in the field will find this a dependable reference book.

Technical services are those services that provide access to information existing in some published form. It divides into two major components: (1) Physical access which is created through the process of acquiring, organising, and labelling information packages, and

(2) Bibliographic access, which require the creation of the descriptive and subject tags that allow the eventual users to select the information package needed. All other aspects of library service depend upon the efficiency and accuracy with which the work is accomplished.

This book contains highly useful and authentic information on diverse issues like-General introduction, Administration; Management of automated services; Interlibrary lending; Online catalogs; and Preservation administration etc. This will prove a dependable reference book to academics and professionals in the field.

Librarianship, despite being derived from a distinct field of intellectual activity, cannot be regarded merely as form of bolt on support discipline. Many would dispute this interpretation. It is more common to attempt to distinguish 'core' elements of knowledge and skill as distinctive of a particular kind of professionality and to categorise other aspects of working knowledge as non-professionals.

Different theories and practices of librarianship are categorically discussed in this book. Major themes, discussed herein are: Library systems; professional's status; Operations research; Planning; Theory of librarianship; Training and development etc.

Students, teachers and library professionals will find this book a dependable reference work.

In view of fast-changing computer technology and the increasing manufacture of sophisticated computers during last few decades of library management. Hence what will be the ideal theories and practices of modern library management?

This book puts light on many such vital issues like-introduction; planning and decision-making; organisation; administration; library automation; computer in library management etc.

This will prove a vade mecum for academics and professionals alike.