Why name is "Central Library"
Dear All, Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below: 1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library? 2. If the name of Central library has been given name in honor of any person than why "Central" world is included like Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, Biju Patnaik Central Library etc. my view is why it is not only Mahatma Gandhi Library or Biju Patnaik Library? Please explain to me the differences between above? Thanking You. -- *With Regards,Vinod Kumar Mishra,Assistant Librarian,Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),* *NIT Rourkela,* *Sundergadh-769008,* *Odisha,* *India.* *Mob:91+9439420860* *Website: http://mishravk.com/ <http://mishravk.com/>* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Mr. Vinod has raised a very pertinent question. In my opinion the name came when there were departmental/branch libraries as well as main library in an institution. Now, even if there is no departmental/branch libraries, the main library is called central library. This is just convention and we are so conservative about the old names. That is why we are called librarians even in the digital world of libraries. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below:
1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library?
2. If the name of Central library has been given name in honor of any person than why "Central" world is included like Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, Biju Patnaik Central Library etc. my view is why it is not only Mahatma Gandhi Library or Biju Patnaik Library?
Please explain to me the differences between above?
Thanking You.
--
*With Regards,Vinod Kumar Mishra,Assistant Librarian,Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),*
*NIT Rourkela,*
*Sundergadh-769008,*
*Odisha,*
*India.*
*Mob:91+9439420860* *Website: http://mishravk.com/ <http://mishravk.com/>*
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In Universities it is mostly found that they do have departmental libraries with lesser collection. But many universities do have a main library where they try to have collection development exhaustively to serve all users even users from various departmental libraries. Some main library is given the authority to have collection development of itself as well as all departmental libraries of that university. Most of the decisions for all university libraries are taken by main library. Departmental librarians are also reporting to librarian of main library. As most of the library development or related work is taken care by the main library that's why it is called Central Library. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below:
1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library?
2. If the name of Central library has been given name in honor of any person than why "Central" world is included like Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, Biju Patnaik Central Library etc. my view is why it is not only Mahatma Gandhi Library or Biju Patnaik Library?
Please explain to me the differences between above?
Thanking You.
--
*With Regards,Vinod Kumar Mishra,Assistant Librarian,Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),*
*NIT Rourkela,*
*Sundergadh-769008,*
*Odisha,*
*India.*
*Mob:91+9439420860* *Website: http://mishravk.com/ <http://mishravk.com/>*
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Dear Professionals, I believe that Mr. Vinod Mishra has arisen a right question. If we call the main library of an university as XXX University Central Library, then there is no need to give that particular library a separate name. However, a separate name is sometimes chosen to add some specific importance to a library or honour some body. When such a name is chosen, then there is no need to call a library as XXX University Central Library. It is possible that people add 'University Name + Library name + Central + Library' to show all the aspects of name of library and all the people should know the library by any angle. Kind Regards, On 10 September 2015 at 09:47, Pradip Das <pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com> wrote:
In Universities it is mostly found that they do have departmental libraries with lesser collection. But many universities do have a main library where they try to have collection development exhaustively to serve all users even users from various departmental libraries. Some main library is given the authority to have collection development of itself as well as all departmental libraries of that university. Most of the decisions for all university libraries are taken by main library. Departmental librarians are also reporting to librarian of main library. As most of the library development or related work is taken care by the main library that's why it is called Central Library.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below:
1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library?
2. If the name of Central library has been given name in honor of any person than why "Central" world is included like Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, Biju Patnaik Central Library etc. my view is why it is not only Mahatma Gandhi Library or Biju Patnaik Library?
Please explain to me the differences between above?
Thanking You.
--
*With Regards,Vinod Kumar Mishra,Assistant Librarian,Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),*
*NIT Rourkela,*
*Sundergadh-769008,*
*Odisha,*
*India.*
*Mob:91+9439420860* *Website: http://mishravk.com/ <http://mishravk.com/>*
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Dear All, Please find here the link on findings of the said topic and further suggestions. http://mishravk.com/2017/01/central-library-2/ With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi* On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Prabhat Ranjan <prabhatranjan21@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Professionals,
I believe that Mr. Vinod Mishra has arisen a right question. If we call the main library of an university as XXX University Central Library, then there is no need to give that particular library a separate name. However, a separate name is sometimes chosen to add some specific importance to a library or honour some body. When such a name is chosen, then there is no need to call a library as XXX University Central Library.
It is possible that people add 'University Name + Library name + Central + Library' to show all the aspects of name of library and all the people should know the library by any angle.
Kind Regards,
On 10 September 2015 at 09:47, Pradip Das <pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com> wrote:
In Universities it is mostly found that they do have departmental libraries with lesser collection. But many universities do have a main library where they try to have collection development exhaustively to serve all users even users from various departmental libraries. Some main library is given the authority to have collection development of itself as well as all departmental libraries of that university. Most of the decisions for all university libraries are taken by main library. Departmental librarians are also reporting to librarian of main library. As most of the library development or related work is taken care by the main library that's why it is called Central Library.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:19 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Perhaps i am asking very silly question but this question came in my mind so i would like to know some explanations on below:
1. Why we name any Institute/University main Library as central Library? and what is the meaning of Central Library?
2. If the name of Central library has been given name in honor of any person than why "Central" world is included like Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, Biju Patnaik Central Library etc. my view is why it is not only Mahatma Gandhi Library or Biju Patnaik Library?
Please explain to me the differences between above?
Thanking You.
--
*With Regards,Vinod Kumar Mishra,Assistant Librarian,Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),*
*NIT Rourkela,*
*Sundergadh-769008,*
*Odisha,*
*India.*
*Mob:91+9439420860* *Website: http://mishravk.com/ <http://mishravk.com/>*
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