Integrated Indian Public Library System

By Dr. Kapil Singh Hada and Dr. R. p. Bajpai

The main feature of the book is which library is beneficial for the user especially in the Indian scenario. Public libraries or electronic librariesboth libraries work. A public library working under the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) and an e-library were established under the Sarve Shiksha Mission under the project of GIAN (General Information Access Network) in 2002. The study gave comprehensive information about both libraries and also compared different areas and gave historical background on public libraries in India and also electronic libraries. Which types of collection are available, the status of manpower, infrastructure, services provided to the user, and other related areas and uses by both libraries gave some suggestions to improve the present conditions of existing libraries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: May 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482821635

Dr. Kapil Singh Hada

Dr. Kapil Singh Hada, presently working as a Junior Teachnical Assistant (Library), Faculty of Education, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, since Dec, 2010. He was born on 8 July 1976 at Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. He earned B. Lib. & Inf. Sci. from MCNUJ & C, Bhopal, M. Lib. & Ins. Sci. Dr. Hari Singh Gour Vishwavidyalay, Sagar), M. Phil (Lib. Sci) and Ph. D. (Lib. Sci.) from MGCGVV, Chitrakoot, Satna (Madhya Pradesh). He has 14 years experience in his field. He started his professional career in 1999-2000 as a School Librarian at Delhi, after these works as Asistant Librarin at Crescent Insititute of Management, Bhopal (2001-2003). After he was jointed TIT Group of Institute, Bhopal as Librarian and Incharge (2003-2010). He has also contributed 35 research articles published/presented in National/International seminars/conferences and journal reput and participated in many conferences, seminars and workshops for presenting his research papers. It is the first book of author. His area of interest is Public Library, Digital/Electronic Library, ICT’s, and Library Automation.

Book preview

Copyright © 2014 by Dr. Kapil Singh Hada/Dr. R. P. Bajpai.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4828-2164-2

                eBook         978-1-4828-2163-5

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

To order additional copies of this book, contact

Partridge India

000 800 10062 62

[e-mail]

www.partridgepublishing.com/india

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Tables

List of Map

Chapter One Introduction

Chapter Two: Genesis and Development of Public Libraries in India

Chapter Three: Administrative Organization of Public Libraries in Madhya Pradesh

Chapter Four: Status of Collection of Reading Materials

Chapter Five: Status of Manpower

Chapter Six: Status of Financial Organization

Chapter Seven: Status of Infrastructure Physical (Building) and ICT’s

Chapter Eight: Services Offered By the Public Libraries

Chapter Nine: Resource Sharing and Network

Chapter Ten: Historical Background of GIAN

Chapter Eleven: Sarve Shiksha Mission

Chapter Twelve: Model for Integrated Public Libraries System for Madhya Pradesh

Chapter Thirteen: Suggestion and Recommendations

About the Author

Appendics-I: Minimum Required Hardware and Network

Appendics-II: List of District Public Libraries and e-Libraries

Appendics-III Responsibilities of Public Libraries (As Per Recommendations of National Knowledge Commission

Glossary

Bibliography

"To My Parents and

Grand Father (Nana Jee)"

"Om Vaakdeviyai cha Vidhmahe

Virinji Pathniyai cha Dheemahe

Thanno Vani Prachodayath".

"Om, Let me meditate on the goddess of speech,

Oh, wife of Lord Brahma, give me higher intellect,

And let Goddess Vani illuminate my mind".

Foreword

(With a Foreword by Prof. Umesh Chandra Sharma)

I am most gratified to place in the hand of the teachers, researchers and students of Library and Information Science, this work on Integrated Indian Public Library System, as book brought by Dr. Kapil Singh Hada and Dr. R. P. Bajpai, I am confident that, this will serve as firm and accurate base for research and study and teaching on the subject.

Public library plays a crucial role in the society as a centre for education, information, recreation and culture. Because of these functions, Alvin Johnson rightly calls public library as People’s University. It is said that a public library should render free service to all without any discrimination based on caste, creed, age, sex or any other consideration. The role of public library is great indeed in the changing educational and societal circumstances in the third world countries like India, in order to achieve such a multifarious goal, a public library system should be brought under the mandate of law. This aspect has been emphasized in the official document called UNESCO manifesto.

The information explosion and ICT has led to the emergence of the electronic information. We live today in an information era wherein information as a commodity is increasingly playing a central role in our daily life. The digital revolution has alerted the way of societies function at the global, local, and personal level. We have entered the third millennium with the promise of new infrastructures and capabilities to handle information in ways the 21st century might have imagined. Libraries have changed with time from mere static storehouse of interested collections of documents to dynamic service centers, serving all professionals utilizing useful and need-based collection of documents. The medium of information storage has changed from clay tablets to paper and now to electronic and optical media of CD-ROMs. The library building is not limited just to a library, now we have digital library/electronic library, virtual library and a library without walls. Digital libraries provide instant access to digitize information by utilizing avenues of information communication technology. Today’s electronic library based on digitized data is gradually replacing paper-based records and by means of networking one can have access to resources 24*7.

The rapid technological developments have opened up additional facilities by providing multiple choice of media, showing improved performance and assuring greater economy in time, money and effort. At the same time here is an increasing complexity in selecting the right, useful, authoritative information from vast available information sources.

However, a library cannot save itself as a switching centre. To justify its existence in the electronic world, the Library must continue to perform one of the most important functions it now performs in the print-on-paper worlds to organize the universe of resources in such a way that those most likely to be of value to the user community are made most accessible to the community, physically and intellectually. For libraries to stay in the game, they will not only need to become learning centre’s and make their collections and stack available electronically over the World Wide Web and other online services to people, who want to get their information and knowledge from their office or home, but they will also have to contend with documents in the new media. There will be a new role and skill for library and information professionals, who will need to investigate the future of library and information services.

The aim of this book is to bring out the role of public library in modern society as well as role of technologies in libraries, in the present day information environment and their new challenges and promises for library services and information science. The book consist following chapters, Chapter One, Introduction Chapter Two Genesis and Development of Public, Libraries in India, Chapter Three Administrative Organization, Chapter Four Status of Collection of Reading Materials, Chapter Five Status of Manpower, Chapter Six Status of Financial Organization, Chapter Seven Status of Infrastructure, Chapter Eight Services Offered, Chapter Nine Resource Sharing and Network, Chapter Tenth: Historical Background of GIAN (General Information Access Network), Chapter Eleventh Sarve Shiksha Mission, Chapter Twelve Model for Integrated Public Libraries System, Chapter Thirteen Suggestions and Recommendations, book also include list of tables, maps, and glossary, which is helpful for information retrieval.

Hope, this book is useful for the students, Professionals, Researchers and Teachers of the library and information Science.

Prof. U. Chandra. Sharma

Professor,

Dept. of Library and Information Science,

Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (M.P.)

Preface

I n modern society which is a knowledge based society depends on the production and efficient use of information through the libraries, specially developing country like India, where 70% population were living in rural areas, so public libraries plays a significant role to collect, storage and dissemination of information in ICT’s age.

It had been dreams came true to present a book on Integrated Public Library System for India, especially the heart of India Madhya Pradesh and the role of concern authorities.

In this book, I have tried to touch various aspects of public library development in Madhya Pradesh, the role of public libraries in modern society, collection development, status of manpower, financial Organisation, status of infrastructure (Physical and ICT’s), uses of computers, services provision, technical status of Divisional and District public libraries in state and also including comparative study for financial aspects, various committees and its recommendations on public library, which was appointed by Government of India and state governments. I also planned this volume to serve as a handbook for library professional to various queries regarding comprehensive information of public libraries in a state.

Electronic library are also established and working at District levels in state, these libraries are established under the Sarve Shiksha Mission, Madhya Pradesh under the General Information Access Network (GIAN) in the year of 2002 and financial assistance given by 12th year plan, both libraries are compared different parameters by IFLA standards for Public Library services and RRRLF Guidelines for Public Libraries.

In Madhya Pradesh both libraries established and have different collection formats, but it governed by two different entities i.e. Public Libraries under the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) and Electronic libraries the Sarve Shiksha Mission, so for these problem, proposed a Integrated Public Library System for Madhya Pradesh or GIAN Network, it should be applicable entire our country. If merge the both libraries in one entity in proposed plan, The proposed plan is totally based on the recommendation of National Knowledge Commission, 2005. so well called Public E-Library, The Public Libraries is offered different fundamental services like lending document for home reading, lending within the libraries, reference service, searching through catalogue cards and referral services to their users, but it can’t offered applied services like or IT based information services like Current Awareness Service (CAS), Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), Bibliography, Inter Library Loan, Online Searching, Indexing Service, Abstracting Service, Document Delivery Service, Translation Service, Online Services, Bibliography information of document, Blogs, feedback of library and Resourcing Sharing resource sharing among the libraries in entire state and create a consortia among the public libraries in state and as well as India. The library can be an effective facilitator of self learning through its extension service activities. It formed on the basis of experience and knowledge gained in the entire study.

Dr. Kapil Singh Hada

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my deep and heartfelt gratitude to the ‘ Almighty GOD’ for giving me health, wealth, strength and mind to accomplish this venture.

This humble attempt of mine owes. Its origin mainly to the inspiration and encouragement, I received from Prof. V. N. Gautam, Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidayalaya, Chitrakoot, Satna (Madhya Pradesh).

I am pleased to place my special debt of gratitude to Prof Aditya Shastri, Vice Chancellor, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali, Rajasthan, for gave me a chance working at Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali (Rajasthan) is the Women University.

I would like to express my immensely thanks and respect to Mr. Ramraj Karsoliya sir, Chairman, TIT Group of Institutions, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to his support and encouragement to complete my project (where, I was working from 2003 to 2010 as a Librarian). I can not express my regards and respect in words.

Dr. B. K. Dubey, Director-TIT College of Pharmacy, Bhopal to his support and encouragement to entire my project;

I must express my heartfelt for love, support, encouragement of my Parents. The accomplishment could not been achieves without unconditional love, support and prayer from them. Thank you, I have reached this place not my efforts alone, but also throughout yours support, love, guidance, patience and best wishes. To my precious Patricia your patient ears, interesting eyes and loving heart meant the world to me throughout this endeavor, you are my strength, love and you truly bring me a special meaning to the depth to my heart.

My heartfelt thanks to my wife Nitu for providing me moral support, everlasting encouragement is generous help for the success of my project and how can I forget to my son Master Diviz , who bearing with equal measures of acceptance and irritation the presence of the project in my life, where my cheering squeal urging me toward.

I proudly place my accord to Keith and keen for their support, constant encouragement and eternal patience, without which this work would not have been possible.

I would like to special thanks to Archna for her support, guidance and encouragement in my entire work.

I thank all those who have helped me directly and indirectly in my pursuit and also all librarian and professional colleagues, who spent their precious time to fulfilling the questionnaires.

I am also indebted to the various authors, whose books and papers I have consulted or quoted in this work. I am thankful to all those seen or unseen hands and heads that have rendered direct or indirect help in the completion of this project.

Lastly, I would not be doing full justice without expressing my admiration and feeling towards the great ideals to Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalay, Chitrakoot (M.P.), institution, where I got the opportunity to study. I would make every attempt to imbibe and cherish the memories the same throughout my life.

Finally, I thank the publisher Partridge Indian, A Penguin Random House Company, Bloomington IN 47 403, who have willingly agreed to take up the work of this publication and also Bert Solit, Publishing Consultant and Ann Minoza, Publishing Service Associate, Partridge India, a Penguin Random House Company, Bloomington IN 47 403.

Dr. Kapil Singh Hada

List of Abbreviations

List of Tables

List of Map

Chapter One

Library

L ibrary is the giant brain of the humanity. It preserves the various thoughts of different minds, the lovely imaginings of sensitive brains, the wise and weighty counsels of sound and sagacious heads, in short, all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the hoary, dim and distant past. It links up hundreds and thousands of generations with one another and thus provides a panoramic picture of the humanity.

"A library is an institution charges with the

•   Maintain a collection of documents;

•   To making them accessible to those who require;

•   Function of persuading every person within its jurisdiction to accept and continuously use its service.

•   It is essentially a trinity of Document, Library Staff and Reader".¹

Purpose of Library

"A library is a social institution. As such, it has to serve several purposes:

•   Should help in life long learning, self education;

•   Should provide up to date and pin pointed data and information on required subject or area;

•   Disseminate and store all records, views, information and thoughts and discharge on local, national and international affairs;

•   It should provides the latest trends in diversification of information to the researchers, designers, and technologies and also store every new thoughts, promptly and pin pointedly;

•   It should encourage and provide use of leisure in library;

•   It should preserve literary remains of humanity for posterity, as a vehicle of culture and as source material for antiquarian research; and in general;

It should work for continued social well-being as the agency in charge of all socialized recorded thought. Thus a library has educational, informational, political, economic, industrial, cultural and antiquarian research functions".²

The Public Library

A library established by the Government and which collects fees is considered to be a subscription library, although it serves the public as a public library. In order to function as a true public library, it must have two characteristics—it must render free services to all and it must be established from the public funds. We can’t say that library serving the general public are public libraries. They could be either private or subscription libraries owned by voluntary organizations. Such libraries can also be classified as aided and non aided libraries. Some such libraries charge a membership fee and take deposits for home lending of library resources. These types of libraries extend their services to all its community members.

The public library acts as a catalyst for socio-economic development by providing facilities for acquiring knowledge, education, information recreation and research. It is rightly believed that where formal education ends, informal education begins and this life-long learning process continues with the support of public library services. The focus of a modern public library therefore remains on dissemination of information to the common man.

Definitions of Public Library

The phrase public libraries denotes, differently to different authors, which could be seen from the following definitions:

"William Ewart—The Libraries, which are established by the public, for the public and entertain the people