Legal Deposit and Bibliographical Control in India

The two subjects - Legal deposit and Bibliographic control are of great concern in India, yet we are far from satisfactory in understanding these two activities as compared to US and UK in particular. Dr. Ranganathan introduced the concept of Documentation as early as in early 1950s and he brought out several products like the Union Catalogues and Social Science Bibliographies to focus their importance, but subsequently no such attempts were made comprehensively. In the light of this lacunae, it can be said that this publication is a welcome addition to remind our library professionals about the importance of the two interrelated issues. Each time an innovative subject is practiced in the west, we library professionals in India jump on it, without making perpetual pursuance of the effort, we skip it and get attracted to other new areas. Today we find there is craze for creating Institutional Repositories, leaving many other more important issues behind.