PAPER ID:IJIM/V.I(VIII)/168-176/30

AUTHOR:Dr. Nilam Sharma and Dr. Hemant Sharma

TITLE : A DETAILED SURVEY OF THE MAP LIBRARIES OF NORTHERN INDIA: A STUDY

ABSTRACT: Maps Plays a very important role in our daily life whether it is a social, economic, political, rheological, cultural, without map in any special area we can’t imagine the ‘existence of knowledge’, for an example the existence of the travel & tourism industry cannot be imagine without the map. In the present scenario there is strong requirement to identify the difficulties while exploring the map libraries and social, economic & psychological impact of these difficulties on the users. This paper presents detailed study of the 10 important northern India map libraries. To have deep insight in the functioning of these libraries, this study analyzed several aspects of these map libraries i.e. services provided by these libraries, budget, collection, digital facilities, staffing, classification and cataloguing techniques, stock verification, merits and demerits, conservation and preservation, organizing structure, infrastructure etc.

KEYWORDS: Classification, Cataloguing, Preservation, Conservation, E-Map, Budget, Collection, Map

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