The actual acquisition of videocassettes is arguably the most intensive library process because of the continuous monitoring of the market, surveying vendor catalogs, and making deals with industry representatives, the process of cataloging those materials is much more detail-oriented and has a greater potential for negative consequences, if not performed to certain standards, than the simple act of purchasing.

The number, correctness, and inclusiveness of cataloging records for video recordings has been less than satisfactory. When these unsatisfactory records are imported into a local database without correction or modification, they can cause substantial difficulty and chaos. Historical background; Acquisitions process; Video in libraries; Cataloging videocassettes; Distribution routes; Copyright issues; Online catalogs etc., are the major themes, discussed in this book. Students, scholars and professionals will find this vade mecum.

A single book is the chief repertory of knowledge on any important subject. Wile, therefore, epitomes of information are more frequent than every, epitomes of particular authors have become rare. The canon, also, is a classification difficult to maintain in presence of the extreme complexity of modern literature. In the modern literature the principle of the canon is less easy of application, on account of the difficulty of establishing an absolute criterion of style, and also of its greater complexity and variety. The supreme perfection of prose style the felicitous expression to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away, has perhaps, hardly ever been attained but by those authors of the first rank with whom the modern world has least concern.

Two systems have been followed in these volumes, each of which has its advantages, The first, especially recommendable for poetical complications, is the system of fastidious severity, which can only be carried out by a compiler of exquisite taste and on consummate judgment. Another principle may here be involved, and the selection may in a manner be entrusted to the public suffrage, those pieces being especially chosen which are known to have appealed with special force to the general heart and conscience.

The Encyclopaedia will be of great interest to the research scholars and to the literary person but will be of general interest to those who love literature without any barriers of language or country.

Academic Libraries play their important role in giving right direction to the cultural, political, social, scientific and technological development of a nation. They help in promoting the formal education in a country. If the academic institutions are body, the libraries attached to them function as heart. Without heart there can not be a body, without body one can not think of a heart to function. Being the heart of the academic institutions the importance of the libraries is still more.

The study of academic libraries forms the part of syllabi in most of the Universities, Department of Library and Information Science Teaching Library Science at graduate and postgraduate levels. The present book is a collection of essays on Academic Libraries written by well known Librarians and Library Scientists of the country.

It is hoped that this publication will help the student to gain better knowledge of the functioning of the academic libraries. It will also help them to understand the need, nature, history and development of academic libraries in India.

The Classified Catalogue Code by Dr.S.R. Rangnathan which is considered a Bible in the field of Library Science is thus being taught at all levels in Universities and other Institutions where Library and Information Science is being taught as a course of study not only in India but also in the western countries. The present book "a Practical to Classified Catalogue Code" 5th rev. edition with amendments is entirely based on the Laws, Cannons and Principles propounded by Dr. S.R.Rangnathan. It has been written keeping in view the practical needs of the teachers, students and the cataloguers. The Laws, cannons, and Principles have been interpreted and real problems of practical cataloguing have been solved supported by examples.

The present book will be of great practical use to teachers, students, and specially the cataloguers in assisting them in understanding the principles of cataloguing in its right perspectives.