2. USE OF INTERNET FOR LIBRARY APPLICATIONS BY S.M.DESAI, K.V.HOSPET.

3. TECHNICAL SERVICES Collection Development Cataloguing Classification / subject index Reference & Information service Document delivery

4. COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT NAMEURL Amazon.comwww.amazon.com Barner and noblewww.barnerandnoble.com Book stackswww.books.com/scripts/default.exe Internet book shopwww.bookshop.co.uk/hme/hmepge.asp Water stones storewww.waterstones.com.index.htm Go book shoppingwww.gobookshopping.comwww.gobookshopping.com (Indian site) Book and youwww.bookandyou.com

5. CATALOGUING By including various websites in local catalogues. Example : 1.reference collection www.refdesk.com 2. Translation services in S & T www.niscair.res.in

6. CLASSIFICATION Websites may be classified as per the subject and services they provide. Search will become faster as classification numbers are allotted to these sites. Broader to concrete search is possible.

7. REFERENCE SERVICE EASIER AND FASTER. AVAILABLE ON PAYMENT AND FREELY. CONSUMES LESS SPACE DUE TO DIGITALIZATION.

8. SOME REFERENCE SOURCES www.refdesk.com : new sources, USA/world news pages, top 100 U.S newspapers…, top reference tools, OWL writing Lab resources for writers www.rabtleby.com/reference : The 6900 entries from 4000 sources organized in 25 category.

9. www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/erefs/ : From university of Illions online reference collection, Encyclopedia, Dictionaries and other quick fact sources. www.itcompany.com/inforetriever : Librarians tools.. http://www.eduessays.com Information related to Education. http://www.sldirectory.com : resource for school librarians

10. DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE Some times documents not available freely. Librarian / Head of the Institution has to take decision. Basic needs of the reader are to be kept in mind.

11. SKILLS FOR LIBRARIANS Campbell’s job descriptions: 1.knowledge of cartography –Learning all existing and emerging sources of information and navigate among them. 2. Understanding the consumer i.e. the type of service and the information he needs. 3. Creating new delivery mechanism to transfer information on demand.