USE OF INTERNET FOR

LIBRARY APPLICATIONSBY

S.M.DESAI,K.V.HOSPET.

TECHNICAL SERVICES Collection Development

Cataloguing

Classification / subject index

Reference & Information service

Document delivery

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

NAME URLAmazon.com www.amazon.com

Barner and noble www.barnerandnoble.com

Book stacks www.books.com/scripts/default.exe

Internet book shop www.bookshop.co.uk/hme/hmepge.asp

Water stones store www.waterstones.com.index.htm

Go book shopping www.gobookshopping.com (Indian site)

Book and you www.bookandyou.com

CATALOGUING

•By including various websites in local catalogues.

• Example : 1.reference collection www.refdesk.com 2. Translation services in S & T www.niscair.res.in

CLASSIFICATION

Websites may be classified as per the subject and services they provide.

Search will become faster as classification numbers are allotted to these sites.

Broader to concrete search is possible.

REFERENCE SERVICE

EASIER AND FASTER.

AVAILABLE ON PAYMENT AND FREELY.

CONSUMES LESS SPACE DUE TO DIGITALIZATION.

SOME REFERENCE SOURCES

• www.refdesk.com : new sources, USA/world news pages, top 100 U.S newspapers…, top reference tools, OWL writing Lab resources for writers

• www.rabtleby.com/reference : The 6900 entries from 4000 sources organized in 25 category.

www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/erefs/ : From university of Illions online reference collection, Encyclopedia, Dictionaries and other quick fact sources.

www.itcompany.com/inforetriever : Librarians tools.

. http://www.eduessays.com

Information related to Education. http://www.sldirectory.com : resource for

school librarians

DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE Some times documents not

available freely.

Librarian / Head of the Institution has to take decision.

Basic needs of the reader are to be kept in mind.

SKILLS FOR LIBRARIANSSKILLS FOR LIBRARIANS• Campbell’s job descriptions:

1.knowledge of cartography –Learning all existing and emerging sources of information and navigate among them.

2. Understanding the consumer i.e. the type of service and the information he needs.

3. Creating new delivery mechanism to transfer information on demand.