GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The paper examined the management of library equipment and facilities as a correlate of effective library services. Availability of all the library facilities is not useful for the library users alone; it is most useful to the librarians to facilitate their process of getting information readily available to be consulted by the users. Library services are the ongoing maintenance activities of a library's collection, including the three broad areas of collection development, cataloging, and processing. Technical services are the infrastructure that enables the user's experience of many library services. Library Services are services provided to library patrons. Also, the paper highlighted that library facility are facilities that is owned or leased by the library and which is directly managed and operated by the library. Summarily, the paper viewed that library facilities and equipment are those facilities required to be acquired by the library for the effective functioning of library services. Effective library services are activities provided by libraries to address the information needs of users. One of the recommendations in the study was that a librarian should be knowledgeable enough about all the variety of information sources and follow the new trends and advancements in computers, media, and publishing.

KEYWORDS:          Management, Library Equipment and Facilities, and Effective Library Services