Elements of Information Organization and Dissemination

Preface

More than 30 years ago, the author of this book brought out a textbook, Elements of Documentation, on the then emerging subject of documentation. The book became very popular among the Library and Information Science (LIS) students. The intervening period saw enormous changes in the field of LIS, specially due to ushering in of digital age. Though efforts were made to revise the book earlier, it did not materialize so long due to various reasons. When finally the revision work was taken up, it was realized that simple revision would not be sufficient and there was need to rewrite majority of the chapters. Not only that, many new chapters needed to be added to cover new developments. While doing so, almost a new textbook has emerged ...