"India is a multilingual federal country with 25 states and seven union territories (UT). Re–districting has resulted in an increase in the number of states/UT since independence. Each state and UT is divided into districts and sub–districts called talukas, tehsils, or blocks. Constitutionally, the subject “libraries” is the responsibility of the individual states in India. The central government has jurisdiction only over those libraries which it has established, and those institutions which it has declared nationally important." - National Policy on Public Libraries in India by Neeta Jambhekar (http://www.worlib.org/vol05no2/j_v05n2.shtml)
This week's articles:
Ghosh, M., (2005). The public library system in India: challenges and opportunities. Library Review, 54(3), 180-91.
This article discusses the importance of the public library system in India heavily focusing on information needs in their basic sense. Suggestions are made on how to transform the libraries, which offer very little materials of substance and if they do they are rarely in the native language, from an unequipped and uniformed warehouse to an information sanctuary.
Singh, A. & Gautam, J.N., (2004). Electronic databases: the Indian scenario. The Electric Library, 22 (3), 249-260.
This article reviews the online and electronic resources that India has or is able to support but discusses the financial problems hindering India as an information depository.
Subba, S.R., (2006). Distance education and the role of IT in India. The Electronic Journal, 24(2), 225-36.
Ghosh, Maitrayee & Ipsheet, (2009). ICT and information strategies for a knowledge economy: the Indian experience. Program: electronic library and information systems, 43(2), 187-20.
1823 returns on EMERALD through ESU on search terms libraries in India
http://0-www.emeraldinsight.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/search.htm?st1=libraries+in+india&ct=all
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