Collection and Services of Indian Coucil of Philosophical Research Library, Lucknow: A Study Mishra Priyanka1,*, Verma Shilpi Dr.2,** 1MLIS, IVth Sem. Department of Library & Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow 2Assistant Professor & Supervisor (Corresponding Author) Department of Library & Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow Mob: 8004000567 *priyankamishra.pm76@gmail.com
**shipoo_lko@rediffmail.com
Abstract Collection development is a cluster of functions, which together shape holdings of a library. A library in an order to have effective service takes all care of produce relevant reading materials which should be the context of serviced, information and productivity. Relevant reading can ensure only in the Library as it has a well-defined policy. Users of special libraries are as the varied as the types of libraries they patronize. In ICPR library only professionals come which include research scholars, PG students and philosophical professionals. Besides, a wide variety of reader's services is given by the special libraries to its readers. The paper deals with ICPR Library collection and services in detail. The problems like Selection of collection, Appropriateness of collection, services available, Issue- Return Facilities, availability of various resources, physical facilities and other related issues are analysed. At the end, it was found that Staff is not enough in the library. The Library is housed in rented building but the LAN and WI-FI facilities are available in the library. The suggestions keeping in view the problems of the library are also given at the end. Top Keywords Collection, Services, ICPR Library. Top |