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Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10533

ORGANISATION OF LIBRARY Jyoti, Ph. D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Library and Information Science, Monad University, (Hapur)

The present paper highlights the needs of staff to introduce the organization of library and to understand what part his own job plays in achieving library objectives. Introduction training begins before new employee comes to work and includes the information he/she is given about the library and the job he/she is applying for. In this article we have discuss about different sections of library, planning of library building and work efficiency of library staff. Keywords: Organizational Chart, Library Building, Strength of Staff, Staff formula in Public, Academic and Special Libraries. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com

Introduction Library is a social institution. It needs a simple and systematic organizational structure to achieve its goals and objectives. The Librarian should adopt various suitable criteria to structure necessary programmes and activities of a library. He has to describe and to apply principles, useful for creating an organizational structure and also to draw organisation charts explaining the inter-connections, inter-relations and inter-dependence among various sections/units of a library. Organizing the functions of a library, its activities relating to each function have to be divided into works and jobs and grouped and arranged to form a structure. So it is a practice to divide and group the activities of a library into desirable sections/units for getting best management results. The most common form of organizational design is the functional structure. This divides a library into functional departments/sections/units such as

Acquisition Section

Technical Section

Processing Section

Circulation Section

Reference Section

Documentation Section

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