Sections in Library
There are five main sections in the library
Acquisition
section: This section is responsible for
acquisition of all library material. That is, they purchase or acquire
materials for the library
Cataloguing
section: The librarians in this section
classify the library materials for easy location or access and use by the
library users.
Serials
section: This section house all the periodicals, journals, magazine and newspapers
that are available in the library.
Readers’
services section: This section is the image maker of the library. It consists
of Reference unit, Circulation unit,
Reserve books room and the Reading rooms where the shelves are located.
Automation
section: This is the section of the library that maintains the computerisation
of the library and also deploys internet services as well as e-library services
to users.
Arrangement
of library materials are in alphabetical order starting from A to Z using a
predefined classification system e.g. LC , Dewey etc. These letters A – Z have their different
classes or subject areas. For example Class Q is for sciences and
class P is for Language and communication. These materials are arranged
alphabetically on the shelves and you know library materials are voluminous so,
a shelve may contain more than one class or subject area.
So the
librarians are tasked with the responsibility of preparing a 3/5 cards where an
index information of each material on the library shelve are documented. This
will serve as a pointer, director or identifier to the specific document on the
shelves. The 3/5 cards are filled or arranged in the catalogue-box using author entry, title entry and subject
entry. The catalogue-boxes are located at the circulation unit of the
library.
The unit to be consulted in an
attempt to source information in the library is circulation unit where we have
the catalogue-box that contain the index information that will guide or point
to the specific shelve where we can locate the needed document.
we can identify the needed and
relevant publication by consulting the card catalogue and using search
strategies: Authors search, Title search and Subject search. We then copy the information on it which
includes the shelf Reference or class-mark to trace the publication on the
shelves.
The shelved publication in the
library can be located with the index information that was copied from the
catalogue-card. That is the shelve
reference or classification marks on the material.
Sections in Library
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