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Managing Newspaper Clippings in Print Media Libraries: A Study


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1 T.S. Central State Library, Sector 17, Chandigarh - 160017, India
2 Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh - 160014, India
     

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This study is about the management of newspaper clippings in print media libraries of North India. The study includes data from twelve print media libraries from north India. The data was collected using the questionnaire method. The result shows that the print media libraries used traditional methods for storing newspaper clippings. Only 16.66% of the newspaper libraries used computerized indexing for managing their newspaper collection.

Keywords

Indexing, Newspaper Clippings, Newspaper Libraries, Print Media Libraries.
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About The Authors

Parveen Kumar
T.S. Central State Library, Sector 17, Chandigarh - 160017
India

Preeti Mahajan
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh - 160014
India


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Authors

Parveen Kumar
T.S. Central State Library, Sector 17, Chandigarh - 160017, India
Preeti Mahajan
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh - 160014, India

Abstract


This study is about the management of newspaper clippings in print media libraries of North India. The study includes data from twelve print media libraries from north India. The data was collected using the questionnaire method. The result shows that the print media libraries used traditional methods for storing newspaper clippings. Only 16.66% of the newspaper libraries used computerized indexing for managing their newspaper collection.

Keywords


Indexing, Newspaper Clippings, Newspaper Libraries, Print Media Libraries.

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