Special Library System and Information Services

Special libraries often have a more specific clientele than libraries in traditional educational or public settings, and deal with more specialized kinds of information. They are developed to support the mission of their sponsoring organization and their collections and services are more targeted and specific to the needs of their clientele. Special libraries may or may not be open to the general public. Those that are open to the public may offer services similar to research, reference, public, academic, or children's libraries, often with restrictions such as only lending books to patients at a hospital or restricting the public from parts of a military collection. Many special libraries are not open to the general public, though access may be requested for specialized research by request. Special libraries are also sometimes known as information centers. Some authors differentiate special libraries from information centers by defining the latter as having a very narrow scope." They are generally staffed by librarians, although many librarians employed in special libraries are specialists in the library's field rather than generally trained librarians, and often are not required to have advanced degrees in specifically library-related field due to the specialized content and clientele of the library. However, it is not uncommon for librarians at special libraries to have both a library science degree as well as a degree or experience of some type in the field their library specializes in as opposed to either only library science or field specific experience. This book is written primarily for the university graduate and postgraduate students of Library and Information Science (LIS). This limitation is scope remains but not imposes too heavily in treating the subject for wider interest. Among others, current information on some of the world's well-organised information systems in the fields of agriculture, engineering, health, nuclear and social sciences should be of significant relevance to special libraries.
Contents: Library and Information Technology; Describing Geospatial Information; Library an Information Policy at the National Level; Sources of Information; Content Management System in Library; Library Information Access and User Interface: Information Access in Digital Libraries; Online Cataloguing; Information Search and Retrieval System in Libraries; Digital Libraries in Future.
About the Author
Mange Ram is an innovative and active library professional. He has the credit of establishing the Bodhisattva Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Library of the Gautam Buddha University at Greater Noida. He has the experience more than 11 years in various reputed organizations including PSS Central Institute of Vocational Studies, Bhopal M.P, Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal M.P., Sarojini Naidu P.G. Govt. Girls College, Bhopal, Ranganathan College of Communication, Bhopal, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Noida, Government Degree College, Saharanpur, U. P. (Selected through UPPSC
Allahabad). He is now with Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, U. P. He is also concerned the establishment and development of libraries. He has earned M. Com, MLIS, M. Phil. UGC-NET, MBA (HRM) and Ph.D. (Pursuing). M. Ram has contributed a number of research papers in National and International conferences and two books. He has appointed and invited personality as evaluator by many organizations time to time. He owns to his credit of organizing and attended conference, seminar and workshops of national and international level. His area of interest is institutional Repository, Library Automation, RFID security system, Library networking, Digital Library content management, library website development, E-publishing, learning, Auto (Self) Check in/Check out systems, Web based Lib. & Information Services, Standards Information, and Smart Card Application. He is life member of various associations and organizations in India.