•The tool for mending thoughts.•The base for checking thoughts.•The life long unforgettable Companion.•The pole for supporting the climber.•The walking stick that safeguard before falling down.•The master to bolster and give courage if fall down.•The good friend to rebuke with the intention of correcting when flurried.

• Friends for those who feel loneliness.

• Dispel grieve and give pleasure and peace of mind • Clear confusion and provide courage.

• Act as guide to decide one’s own future • Help to improve progress by sowing self confidence

• To live with oneness of mind for few hours with scholars, good people who lived thousand years back.

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Smell

Smelling

Sound

Listening

BodyTouching

Light

Viewing

Taste

Reading

Man

Obsolence of materials

Information overload

Language difference

Reliability

Information scatter

Information explosion

• Pictorial recording • Handwritten recording

• Print recording • Micro recording

• Electronic recording

Pre historic society

HuntingPictorial recording

Human energy

Feudalistic society

AgricultureHandwritten

recordingLand

Industrial society

IndustryPrint

recordings Machine

Knowledge society

Research activities

Micro recordings

Research

Information society

Information Industry

Electronic recordings

Information

• Stone• Clay• Leaves• Cloth• Wood• Metals• Papers• Photographic materials;• Others

My Body

• Stone• Clay• Leaves• Cloth• Wood• Metals• Papers• Photographic materials;• Others

Pre historic cave paintings

Inscriptions Stone painting

My Format

• Realia and Artifacts• Models• Materials

– Tablet• Paper based• Non Paper based

– Scroll• Paper based• Non Paper based

– Codex • Paper based• Non Paper based

My Size

• Miniature, • Small, • Medium, • Large, • Oversize

My Style

• Soft bound• Hard bound• Publishers bound• Quarter bound• Half bound• Full bound• Section bound• Spiral bound

My Content

• Primary Information Resources

• Secondary Information Resources

• Tertiary Information Resources

Primary Information Resources

– Original Findings of research

Secondary Information Resources– Compilations of facts

Tertiary Information resources

- Recompilations

Reference resources

• Source Types– Dictonaries– Encyclopaedias– Year books

– Almanacs

– Directories

– Current reference sources

• Directional types– Bibliographies– Abstracts– Indexes– Accession lists

– Book reviews

– Book exhibitions

Dictionaries

Encyclopaedias

Year books

Almanacs

Directories

Guiness records

Biographical resources

Hand books and manuals

Atlases

Bibliographies

Periodical directories

My Concept

• Reading for Recreation

• Reading for Information

• Reading for Inspiration

• Reading for recreation– Resources that provide new feeling of

recreation , sensation, excitements, ect. • Literatures – Poetry, Drama, fictions,

short stories. • Arts- Paintings, Sculpture • Classics- puranas, Ithigasas

• Reading for Information– Information resources that provide general and specific

information about each topic.

• Monographs in a particular subject• Text book for educational fulfillment• Reports, Theses, Research articles

Periodicals that help for research• Reference books

• Reading for Inspiration– Resources that motive, stimulate, induced

knowledge, thoughts in every human and ultimately develop the society as a whole.

• Wealth of nation- Adam smith• Das Capital- Karl marx• Principles of Evolution – Charles Darwin• Population theory- Malthus• Prince- Machiavelli • Volga to Ganga- Ragula Sankrithiyayan

•Elementary materials•Seminal materials•Research Materials•Expository materials•Condensed materials•Reporting materials

My Standard

Elementary materials

• Children books; • Text book for

–primary –Secondary education

Seminal materials • Materials that provides the deep concepts

and description in a particular topic.

• Topics related to Principles and philosophy

• Pictures, Paintings, Drawings

Research materials• Theses

• Dissertations• Primary periodicals

• Reports• Unpublished documents

• Pamphlets• Monographs

• Government documents

Expository materials• Text books• Hand books

• Manuals• Dictionaries

• Legal documents

Condensed Materials

• Abstracts• Indexes

• Technical reports• Trend reports

• State-of-the-Art-Reports

Reporting materials• Government and non government

reports

• News lettersmur mwpf;iffs;>

• News Bulletins

• Year books

• Almanacs

My Nature

• General Purpose

• Reference purpose

Nature

Normal book; Reference books

My Help

• Know what Information

• Know why Information

• Know how Information

• Know who Information

• Know where Information

Know What Information

Dictionaries

Encyclopaedias

Year books

Almanacs

Know Why Information

•Philosophical books

•Historical books

•Scientific books

•Research books

Know How Information

•Handbooks

•Manuals

•Practical books

Know Who Information

Biographies

Auto biographies

Directories

Know Where Information

•Atlases

•Guide books

•Gazetteers

My Home

• Academic libraries– School libraries– College libraries– University libraries

• Public libraries– Municipal council libraries– Pradesha sabas libraries– Rural libraries– Community centre

libraries

• National libraries• Special libraries

London public libraryIdea Stores

British library

Oxford University library

University of london library

New york public library

France National library

Library of Congress

Public library, Jaffna

National Archives , Britain

Library, University of Jaffna

School libraries

My Location

• Book shelves• Periodical Shelves• Pamphlet boxes• News paper stands

Lending section

Chilren section

Display shelf for magazine

Display shelf

Newspaper stand

Map section

Training materials for teachers

Notice boards

Computer services

My Protection

• Environments• Physical form• Content • Handling

Pamphlet Box

Boxes rare materials

Picture Folders

Picture covers

Acid and Acid free paper

Try to avoid acid paper

Photocopying

Try to avoid Photocopying

Non quality binding

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Mishandling

Heavy use

Folding the corner of the page

“Library is like Sea.

Take sands those who may want Pick up the shell, conch shell those who may want

take bath those who may want Enjoy fresh air those who may want

Fish variety of fishes those who may want .Sit in the coast and see only the waves those who

may want Dive to collect pearls those who may want .Achieve according to the purpose of visit.

-M. Shanmugalingam-