China 's Libraries : The Influence Of A Large Population

Just like any library, ancient special libraries, also known as archives, where created to preserve and keep records of specific materials, such as business documents that were written on clay tablets at that time or papyrus scrolls that were about personal or business matters. At first, general libraries were mainly focused on providing educational materials for the adult population; however, libraries have gone through great transformations. Now-a-days, the libraries’ purpose has widened and now they focus on providing any needed information, educational or leisure materials to people of all ages and types of their communities (Rowland, Collection). Also, now public libraries have partnerships with school libraries and academic

Davis gives the reader an overview of what is to be expected in the article including library statistics for the year from public and school libraries and methods currently being used in libraries. The author does not want to limit the research to only one type of library by separating the libraries by academic and public will show the differences in what effect eBooks have had on

On October 26, 1895, the New York Public Library was found. Around the middle of the nineteenth century, New York had passed Paris in population. Quickly to follow was London. Men understood that New York must have a great library if it was to become a world's great center. To establish and maintain a free reading room, and library, Samuel Tilden gave around 2.4 million dollars. At the time of Samuel's death, The city of New York already had two libraries, the Astor, and Lenox library. Neither of the libraries could be considered a public place because Tilden had envisioned. The Astor library was created by John Jacob Astor. He gave 400,000 dollars for the establishment. To get in the Lenox library, tickets were mandatory. A little while latter,

The bookstore chain has been decreasing in profit in the US over the past 20 years. Most of the books retailers are shutting down their operations and only a few are still operating in the country. Barnes and Noble has become the largest bookseller in the book retailers industry. The firm has integrated its business philosophy into web presence though eBook marketplace. This business strategy assisted the firm to be able to reach a large scale customers and remain as a strongest competitor in the book retailing market.

“Technology” by H. Stephen Wright is a scholarly article detailing the inefficiencies of technology dealing with cataloging in libraries. In this article, Wright’s main argument surrounds the difficulty of predicting future technological breakthroughs, specifically in libraries and the music industry. He continually criticizes and undermines the power that modern technology possesses. He goes on to find fault in the durability of technology because libraries have to constantly update its collection. Granted that this article was written more than a decade ago, Wright’s criticism still presents a limited understanding of the possibilities of technological advancements.

Our modern-day equivalent of this great library is the Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, composed of about 164 million items on 838 miles of bookshelves. The Library receives approximately 15,000 pieces of literature each day and houses material in 470 different languages

Chinese culture is truly one of the great civilization our world has come across. It boasts a vast geographic expanse, over 4000 years of written history, as well as a rich and profound traditional society. Many aspects of Chinese civilization can be traced back many centuries. It is so diverse and unique, yet harmoniously blended, and presents itself a priceless benefit to the world.

The physical entity of the library is the prevailing advantage that allows books to remain relevant even though the technological convergence has occurred. While individuals have greater access to information than in the past, people, for the most part, will congregate at a place where others gathered. For this reason, the look and feel of libraries will change as technology advances.

Government has introduced some policies to protect the publishing industry. According to National Book Policy which adopted in 1985, it proposed that the book industry should be recognized as an essential industry and, therefore, support must be given for its development. Moreover, the Government policy towards local printing and publishing industry was meant to give ‘protection’ to the industry.

“Libraries in the Ancient World” by Lionel Casson is the book that details inclusive study of libraries in the ancient world and provides the origination of the libraries to its founding and development starting in the western world from the ancient Near East to the early Byzantine period. As the history tells ancient writing pertains that there have been the foundation of the libraries and the most helping archeology remains of the Sumerians details on the idea that number of sites has laid bare library remains. Lionel Casson in the book compact the ideas of the libraries throughout the history focusing on writings and civilization beginning from the ancient Near East, Greece, Roman Empire, Alexandria, and the middle ages. Not only that Casson also relates the development and archeological facts of the ancient library systems, holdings and addresses the connection between the rise in education and literacy, also the early development of the public libraries. The authors provides us various information about the ancient libraries providing their holdings, nature of publishing in the Greek and Roman world, also the transformation of the nature of the library holdings.

The Library Management System (LMS) must allow performance of all necessary procedures for librarians and patrons. According to customer requirements, the software to be developed must consist of three databases:

Sofi Zahoor Ahmad said that more than 89% rural and 90% urban schools claim existence of a library with no standard physical requirements and specifications, She condected a survey entitled A Survey of Senior Secondary School Libraries in Jammu and Kashmir India. This give her a conclusion that 89.55% are housed in insufficiently spaced single rooms within the schools while 5.47% are accommodated in principal offices where students always have inhibitions to go. However, a few schools 4.97% possess separate library blocks, though these also lack the basics of a library design.

China Zhijian Publishing House, founded in 2010, is a company which mainly publishes Chinese publications and about 600 categories of new books can be published every year. The category of publications includes popular books, reference books, applied technology books, textbooks, medical electronic and audio-visual publications and so on. In addition, China Zhijian Publishing House had 2 readers services departments at Beijing and established 50 agent sites, and meanwhile, it had also achieved internet selling by applying online sales platforms. In recent years, China Zhijian Publishing House plans to bring American books into China markets, thus, some outstanding American books can be sold in China. This report is going to analyze the underlying profitability of importing American books into Chinese market through the aspect of culture and economy.

The Statement of Principles by the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles in Paris in 1961 established the rules and concepts that create catalog standardization for libraries multinationally. Based, in part, on Samuel Lubetzky’s unfinished book Code of cataloging rules; author and title entry. An unfinished draft for a new edition of cataloging rules (1960), the Paris Principles created order in a library community that was much less communal than it is today by modernizing antiquated cataloging systems and bringing consensus and consistency to the world of library information organization (Lubetzky, 1960). Communal borrowing and sharing of bibliographic data was primarily implemented to serve library catalogs, particularly of large general libraries and are designed for printed books and documents (Frost 1983). Here in lies the weakness of this system - libraries have evolved. The main focus of this paper, and a primary component of the Paris Principles, is the main entry point - a prime component that allowed for international cataloging consistency. With the move from the Paris Principles to AACR2 (Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition) and the evolution toward RDA (Resource description and access), modern library catalogers are finding less and less of a need for the main entry point in a record, or at least the traditional main entry point of an author’s name or a resource’s title (Ridley, 1997). Using an access point as the main entry point has

In this current phenomena, information technology has arrived to a pick point where everything depends on it as well as the business sector. It is quite impossible to run a business without the use of information system. RFID is one of the booming technology of this era which helps the business sectors in monitoring and securing inventory, serving customers fast and easily. RFID systems use tiny tags with embedded microchips containing data about an item and its location to transmit radio signals over to a short distance to RFID reader (Laudon 2017-2018). Library is one of the biggest areas where information system can be used extremely. North South University Library is one of the best library in Bangladesh. Bi-lingual Library Management