Rejuvenated Libraries for Empowered Users

Essays in honour of Dr. T. A. V. Murthy (former INFLIBNET Director)

Released at London by Prof German Ivanov, Rector of the Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia

Editors

J. K. Vijayakumar

P. Pichappan

Foreword by Ingrid Parent, President of IFLA

Published by: Digital Information Research Ltd, UK

Division of the Society for Information Organization, Harrow, UK

http://www.socio.org.uk/

First Edition 2013

ISBN- 978-0-9926566-0-7

e-ISBN- 978-0-9926566-1-4

E-book version at http://socio.org.uk/reju.php

Six parts- 40 chapters contributed by authors from 16 countries

About this book

This special edition of the book is significantly quite special, in many senses. It is so special because the information journey of Dr T A V Murthy to whom it is dedicated to his achievement is an extraordinary one.

Over the years, the disciplines LIS and various domains in it have changed in a number of important ways. This has created almost limitless opportunities fiber new digital networks of greatly enhanced capabilities. Many domains in LIS have been influenced by Information technology which created the need to LIS professional for developing methods rather than using the methods and applications. This book is designed both to provide a fundamental understanding

of the common LIS principles and to provide insight into some of the new progress that evolve in recent years. This book is designed to be used at many levels varying from an understanding of the basic concepts to a more advanced level. It would take this publication as a reference work for the researchers in the field.

The volume has received 153 submissions and accepted 40 submissions across sixteen countries

Contents available at http://socio.org.uk/reju.php

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