Electronic Information Sources And Services In Select Medical College Libraries In North India An Evaluative Study

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library is a social institution engaged in the preservation and newlinedissemination of human culture and civilization. Knowledge is power and newlinelibraries are the storehouses of this power in the form of books and other newlinereading materials. It constitutes direct incentives to the development of newlineeducational, social and cultural activities. Library does not mean merely a newlinecollection of books. It is a learned institution equipped with treasures of newlineknowledge maintained, organized and managed by trained personnel. newline1.2 Definitions of library newline1.2.1. Collections of systematically acquired and organized information newlineresources, and usually providing assistance to users. (ERIC Thesaurus, newlinehttp://www.eric.ed.gov/ accessed 2/1/2008) newline1.2.2. A place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material newlinefor reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of newlinerooms, or building where books may be read or borrowed newline(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/library/ accessed on 17/05/2011) newline1.2.3. A place in which literary and artistic materials, such as books, newlineperiodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, prints, records, and tapes, are kept for newlinereading, reference, or lending (http://www.answers.com/topic/library/ newlineaccessed on 17/05/2011) newline1.2.4. Library is collection of information resources, in print or in other newlineforms that is organized and made accessible for reading or study. The newlineword derives from the Latin liber (quotbookquot). The origin of libraries lies in newlinethe keeping of written records, a practice that dates at least to the 3rd newlinemillennium BCE in Babylonia. newline146 newline(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/339421/library accessed on newline17/05/2011) newline1.2.5. Library, a collection of books or other written or printed materials, newlineas well as the facility in which they are housed and the institution that is newlineresponsible for their maintenance. Modern libraries may contain a wide newlinerange of materials, including manuscripts and pamphlets, posters, newlinephotographs, motion pictures, and videotapes, sound recordings, and newlinecomputer databases in various forms. newline(http:/