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Public Library : Types of Public Library it Characteristics, Core Functions, Services and Key Organisation by Muhammad Yousuf Ali

This short writing blogs about the Public library in this blog provide the to answer to the five following questions. This is blog is a part of my small writing library and its types

1. What is a Public Library?

2. What are the different types of Public Libraries?

3. What are the characteristics of Public Library?

4. What are the services of a Public Library?

5. What are the Important Organization of Public Library?

1. What is a Public Library?

A public library is an organization established, supported and funded by the community, either through local, regional Provincial or national government or through some other form of community organization.

Public Library provides access to knowledge, information and works of the imagination through a range of resources and services and is equally available to all members of the community regardless of race, nationality, age, gender, religion, language, disability, economic and employment status and educational attainment.

2. What are the different types of Public Library?

There are two important types of Public Library

1. Community Library

Community Library is also a type of public library. Community library serve to a specific community they live in specific area fisherman community lives near by the coastal area. Any library small library serve to that community is known as community library.

2. Mobile Library

Mobile Library is type of public library serve the remote area. Mobile library is a vehicle designed for use as a library. It is designed to hold books on shelves in such a way that when the vehicle is parked they can be accessed by readers. Mobile libraries are often used to provide library services to villages and city suburbs that have no library buildings.

Besides these two types there different types of public library i.e, as per the population of the area ruler library/village library, town library, city library and etc.

3. What are the characteristics of Public Library?

There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries:-

1. Public Libraries are open to all, and every community member can access the collection.

2. Public Libraries are governed by a board to serve the public interest.

3. Public Libraries are entirely voluntary in that no one is ever forced to use the services provided.

4. Public Library provide basic services without any charge.

5. Public Libraries are generally supported Public funds i.e., taxes (usually local, though any level of government can and may contribute).

4. What are the core functions of a Public Library?

I. Education & Information

Supporting both individual and self-conducted informal education as well as formal education at all levels. Information The public library is the local centre of information making all kinds of knowledge and information readily available to its users.

II. Personal development

Public library Provides opportunities for personal creative development of the individual.

III. Reading Habits

Public library also plays very important role to develop the reading habits of the individual, community and society.

IV. Cultural Development

An important role of the public library is providing a focus for cultural and artistic development in the community and helping to shape and support the cultural identity of the community.

V. Social Need of The Public

Public library also support In developing policies to fulfil the role and purpose of the social need of the community and provide services according to the community social needs.

4. What are the services basic service provide a Public Library?

There are following 06-core service provided by the Public Library

I. Reading Hall Facilities

Public library provides reading hall facilities to its users where library patron stay and read the library material as per their reading habits.

II. Book borrowing facilities

Public library also provide the book borrowing facilities to its library users.  

III. Internet access to library users

To provide online access to e-content public libraries have internet and wifi facilities. And Public libraries have also small internet café or computer room.

IV. Document Delivery Service

Public library also provide the Document delivery to its user’s article and easy and other reading stuff supply to the community.

V. Reference Services

Reference services is also provide to the public library where reference librarian support/assistance to library users and their day to day query.

IV. Events Organisation

Public library also organise events for the respective users For Kids Library Organized story telling session, Book launching, Seminars and other related events as per the need and demand of the respective library users.

VII. Services to Special users Groups

Public Library also provides services to special groups of communities like women, Senior Citizen, people with special need/learning disabilities.  

Any other library services like community support services to promotion of reading habits and education.

5. What are the key Organization of Public Library?

There are two important Organization of Public library

I. Public Library Association (PLA) 

The Public Library Association (PLA) is the largest association dedicated to supporting the unique and evolving needs of public library professionals. PLA is division of ALA.Founded in 1944, PLA serves nearly 10,000 members in public libraries large and small in communities across the United States and Canada, with a growing presence around the world.

II. Public Libraries Section

This Section provides an active international forum for the development and promotion of public libraries which serve the whole community in the context of the information society and ensure free and equal access to information at the local level. It also includes mobile libraries.

https://www.ifla.org/public-libraries

References

Koontz, C., & Gubbin, B. (Eds.). (2010). IFLA public library service guidelines (Vol. 147). Walter de Gruyter.

Rubin, R. E. (2017). Foundations of library and information science. American Library Association.

How to cite this Article

Ali, M.Y. (09 Aug 2021). Public Library : Types of Public Library it Characteristics, Core Functions, Services and Key Organisation. https://profileusuf.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/public_library/

5-Minutes Information, Literature Review, Scholar, Scholarly Communication

What is Literature Review? Why do 5-minutes information Episode # 6

What is the literature review?
A literature review is a search and evaluation of the available literature in your given subject or chosen topic area. It documents the state of the art with respect to the subject or topic you are writing about.
What is the purpose of Literature review?
There are following purpose research do the literature review
• To see what has and has not been investigated.
• To identify data sources that other researchers have used.
• To learn how others have defined and measured key concepts.
• To develop alternative research projects.
• To put your work in perspective.
• To demonstrate your understanding, and your ability to critically evaluate research in the field.
• To provide evidence that may be used to support your own findings .i.e. Discussion Segments.

What are the Characteristics of the Good Literature Review?

Characteristics of Good Literature review
Write Clarity & sum up the narrative of review items (Articles, Book Chapters and Conference Papers etc.)
Topic/Subject Models/Theoretical frame work/Thematic Match from the Topic
Topic covers From Broad to Narrow and all the aspects International to local literature
Literature pick up form Authentic Sources i.e Scopus, Web of Science or other renown indexing cites

5-Minutes Information, Scholar, Scholarly Communication

5-minutes Information Channel Episode # 5 Mendeley as Scholarly Networking Sites

As 5-minutes information series Episode # 5 about the Mendeley Please watch and comments video regarding the Mendeley as social media network for young/early career researcher and students. how can they join Mendeley and what is the advantage of this academic scholarly networking sites and its feature are discussed in this video clip?

5-Minutes Information, Scholar, Scholarly Communication

5 Minutes Information Channel Episode # 4 Pubmed Search Engine Demo Literature Searching, Search

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.

Pubmed is the largest search Engine the Health Science and Medical Literature field. Pubmed Search Engine as per December 2018 data 29.1 Million record 14.2 million article has full-text link and 3.8 Million 3-fulltext record for its users.
Pubmed provides free login and you can access from around the around the world. Through this record user id and login you can
1. Save Searches
2. Filtering search results
3. Setting up automatic updates sent by e-mails

Pubmed Users, are mostly Medical Students, Physician, Consultants, Scientists, Researchers and Nurses. If you are the first time users It is suggested to you please create an account on NCBI PubMed for its best use.

Millions of user used this Special Medical Search Engine, 5-Minutes Channels presents this video for the Medical Students, Doctor, Physician, Consultant, Scientists, Researchers, Nurses and others How to search, filters, import and e-mails of search Records.

This video is the Episode # 4 in the connection of 5 Minutes information.

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