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BLOCK 1 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION

IN SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Introduction
Information plays a significant role in the development of mankind. It is needed
for different purposes, viz. education, entertainment, decision making, etc. Library
is one of the agencies that exists to serve the information needs of the society.
Data centres, information analysis centres and referral centres and clearing houses
are other agencies involved in providing information. This Block is devoted to a
discussion of social perspectives of library and information.

Unit 1 sets the perspective by giving an overview of the information society. It


explains the different perceptions of information society. There is a discussion
on the factors of the arrival of information society and its evolution into the
knowledge based society.

Unit 2 is devoted to different types of libraries. It discusses the definition,


functions and services provided by these libraries. The Internet has an important
role to play in fulfiling the information needs of people. It is advantageous to
find information from digital and virtual libraries. These have been discussed in
the Block. In view of the increasing electronic collections, libraries are
transforming into hybrid libraries that has been explained in detail in the Unit.

The growing importance of information and its presence in electronic form has
resulted in the conceptualisation of a number of other information institutions.
Their evolution, character, structure and functions have been discussed in
Unit 3. De-institutionalisation of information and its disintermediation have also
been dealt with in the Unit.

S.R. Ranganathan has immense contributions in library and information science.


Five Laws of Library Science given by him, is one of the fundamental contributions
that is valid even today and in the times to come. These laws have been explained
in Unit 4 with their implications on different aspects of processes and services
in a library. Their interpretation in the changing information scenario has been
discussed in detail in the Unit.

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