Role of Libraries in Emanating the Information to the Society: An Overview

Authors

  • H Lokeshappa Librarian, Kodachadri Govt First Grade College, Hosanagara, Shimoga, Karnataka 577418, India,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Library, Repository place of great thinkers of the past and the present, Market Place of Ideas, Creating Reading Habit, Self-education, Love of Books, Love of Humanity

Abstract

Library as the world’s oldest social organization as performed to all through its different functions, its  main task was to disseminate the memory to share the memory and preserved it, library is product of  cultural maturation, culture of world is deposited in the library, and sharing that culture to the society.  Traditionally library is looked as cultural center. Now a day it has changed with the induction of  technology that too in different concept on public academic research and special libraries, are in the  process of critical transformation. They are being transformed for collection center organization to access  center organizations, from repository of printed format to the non-printed place. 

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Published

2019-12-20

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2019): Library Progress (International) (Jul-Dec) 2019

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Role of Libraries in Emanating the Information to the Society: An Overview . (2019). Library Progress (International), 39(2), 409–413. https://doi.org/10.48165/