Encyclopaedia of Library Manual: A Practical Approach to Management

Libraries and their information have existed for thousands of years. People recognised the value of information, although sometimes in rather unusual ways. Today, as an organised system, the library is becoming an intermediary, rather than a storehouse of information. The evolving nature of the library is characterised by a gradual change of its organisation. In this info age, information is not only recorded items of knowledge, it is also the digitised bits of information that could be moved th