This work is primarily a dictionary of library terms which also includes terms from data processing, computer, micro-computer, desk top publishing and applications of computers to library systems with which a librarian must be familiar for the satisfactory performance of his professional duties. The terms are confined to those which are, as far as it is possible to ascertain, in current use and outdated terms have been omitted, particularly those relating to obsolete methods of librarianship.

A careful attempt has been made to compile this dictionary for the use of students of library and information science who always need a book at hand during their studies. This dictionary will be useful to university, college, public and school librarians as well.

The present publication comprises three well-structured compilation to cover such crucial areas in the definition, development and design of library science and information technology, "Perspective and Profiles in Library Science and Information Technology", "Library Resource Development and Training", and "Library and information Science in Planned development".

This will certainly prove informative to all the concerned.

The modern library and truly professional librarian have both moved in tandem-from the card-index age to the electronic multimedia era of micro-film, CD-ROMs and Websites. In a true sense, the modern library is an active partner of giant of information technology and together they constitute a centre of knowledge and activity, research and learning that is global in its perspective and cosmic in its outreach.

The present book contains well-researched articles, substantially based on the writings of eminent authorities in the field.

The main topics are: Librarianship and the Professional Librarian; Modern Documentation and Information Technology; The Computer in the University (A Discussion on Computronics and Practicable Applications); The Miniature Library: Microfiche Technology; Major Issues in Software and System Selection; Documentation and computer Output Alternatives; Major Issues in Serial Publications; Documentation of International comparative Statistics (International Organisations); Libraries and Scientific Literature: A Training Perspective; and Resource Sharing and Objectives. This will prove an asset to scholars and professionals in the field alike.

Library Resource Development and Training contains authoritative material on: Books and Libraries: A Social Overview; Research Factor and Libraries; Miniaturization and Technology Options in Retrieval; Information Science HRD Approaches to Training; Practical Classification and Cataloguing; and Manual of Universal Decimal Classification etc.

Substantially based on the writings of renowned scholars in the field, this book will prove of utmost use for students and academics in the Library and Information Science besides Library professionals.