Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2014

Five Laws Of Library Science And Emerging Database Technologies For Libraries

Pardeep Rattan

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The liary and information centres, around the world have acquired an advanced status in terms of implementation of information communication technology (ICT), as a result which they have now become centres of excellence in information delivery .The present paper is an attempt to provide an outline of the emerging database technologies that are facilitating the liaries to provide their services in a quicker, effective and more efficient manner.The five laws of liary science propounded by Dr. S. R.Rannganathan are still relevant and prevalent today in the sense that they have acted as guiding principles for developing the digital/ electronic databases for efficient management of liaries with the help of information technology. The internet databases, the web databases, digital/ electronic liaries, multimedia databases, mobile databases and spatial databases have all proved that these are essential to enhance the existing status of liary and information centres.

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PARDEEP RATTAN Five Laws Of Library Science And Emerging Database Technologies For Libraries Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. II

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