An Overview of TQM in Libraries

This paper discusses the evolution, principles, stages of TQM. It points out the difference between traditional organization and TQM organization. It also discusses the implementation of TQM in Libraries and the practice of TQM in Libraries

Electronic Journal: A new way to get Information

Today information available is communicated by various means. While publication is a public announcement, which helps to communicate and transmit information, with evolution of new technology, the way of publishing has also changed. Data centers have changed their role and now act more as hubs for distributed specialized repositories of different types of data and material rather than, as in past, holding as much as possible themselves and carrying out the integration work a their own locations. This is due the fact that evolution of information technology has brought major modifications to hardware and connectivity as well as new tools for e.g. client/server, WWW browser, etc. and concepts like hypertext/hypermedia concepts, virtual libraries, etc. With the emergence of new technology, one way to communicate scholarly information is ‘Electronic Journals’