TYPES

OF
LIBRARY
Presented by: Ms. Kimberly A. Villan, RL
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the student should be able to:

a. identify, differentiate, and analyze the three core types of library

services — Generic Services, Internal Functions/Services,
and Essential Services
PRESENTATION
OUTLINE
• Generic Services
• Internal Functions/Services
• Essential Services
 GENERIC SERVICES

INFORMATION
SERVICES
• Lending books and other materials as sources of information
• Maintaining institutional and community information listings
• Conserving and digitizing organizational and local heritage
collections
• Setting up and running websites and intranets supporting the host
organization, local community or even local government services
 GENERIC SERVICES

LEARNING
SERVICES
• Foster reader development
• Offering information literacy or user education programs
• Homework clubs and family learning programs
• Developing lifelong learning in the community by means of basic
literacy and numeracy initiatives
• ICT skills training
• The provision of wide range networked learning resources, some of
which may be library-produced
 GENERIC SERVICES

ADVICE
SERVICES
• Offering personal guidance on obtaining services or rights – this
might involve areas such as health, careers, social security/pensions,
housing, consumer rights or family matters
• Advice can be seen as general information tailored to an individual
need
• It might involve referral (to another agency) or an action (i.e. help in
completing form)
• Advice might be delivered by an expert or by some who has had the
same need
 GENERIC SERVICES

LEISURE
SERVICES
• Lending books or other materials for leisure reading consumption. This
materials are merely fiction: cookery, do-it yourself manuals, history,
biography and so on
• Such materials can be consulted in the library, for example, by offering
drop-in access to read newspapers and magazines
• Leisure does not involve just reading: libraries can maintain listings of
local clubs and events where like-minded individuals can meet and
exchange knowledge
• The library can offer itself as a venue for meetings of interest-based user
or community groups
 INTERNAL FUNCTIONS/SERVICES

ACQUISITION
• The library needs to acquire stock, or access to remote resources which
involves selection, ordering, receiving
Selection – can be done carefully with a full knowledge of user needs, the existing
collection and the range of potential new acquisition
• Unnecessary duplication is a mistake to be avoided
Ordering – can be done via an established dedicated library supplier or from
whatever is the best source, such as an online shop
• On receipt, items should ne confirmed against the order and their condition
checked
• An eye needs to be kept on the acquisition budget
 INTERNAL FUNCTIONS/SERVICES

COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
• Once acquired, materials need to be managed
• A policy for acquisition is needed to differentiate between materials that
must be in the collection and those that merely ought to be.

Collection evaluation – formal strategy for mapping the strengths and

weaknesses of a library collection either a standardized, generic method can
be followed or more qualitative analysis of collection size, quality, citation,
pattern, usage and so on carried out
 INTERNAL FUNCTIONS/SERVICES

COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
• Weeding (removing and disposing of items) and relegation (moving
items to a store) need to be performed
• Digital resources and externally accessible collections can counter
problems of diminishing space that beset growing collection
 INTERNAL FUNCTIONS/SERVICES

CATALOGING
AND
• Users find material they need by consulting a catalogue, essentially a
finding aid using the expected range of access point.

CLASSIFICATIO
Classification – means of organizing the library’s stock so that similar
materials can be stored together for ease of access, it can be very basic,

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(eg. all fiction) or it can be precise, pinpointing individual subject using
created codes (DDC)
 INTERNAL FUNCTIONS/SERVICES

CIRCULATION
SYSTEM
• Among reasons, users go to the library to borrow items for
personal use
• A circulation system tracks this operation, recording a link
between borrower, item and time loan
 ESSENTIAL SERVICES

READERS
SERVICES
– otherwise known as public services which is the frontline service in the
library

• Reference service
The reference transaction involves the user requesting a piece of
information and receiving an accurate timely response, or being guided
towards a book or other resource that contains required information
 ESSENTIAL SERVICES

READERS
SERVICES
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Referral service
Circulation services
Reading promotion
• Current awareness service
• Photo-duplication
• Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
• Abstracting and indexing
• Library Instruction Program (LIP)
• Library displays
• Internet/Online services
 ESSENTIAL SERVICES

TECHNICAL
SERVICES
– behind the scene service in the library

• Acquisitions
• Cataloging and classification (typing and preparation of entries in
the OPAC)
THINGS DONE AFTER
RECEIVING THE
1.Pre-order form – check the material if it is already
REQUEST
available FORM:
2.Bibliographic verification – see error in the form (title,
author, ISBN, etc)
3.Consult books in-print – answers the question if the
book is still available
STEPS IN
ACQUISITION:
1.Check request against library catalog and files
2.Sort request according to whether verification is needed and
according to which tools are to be checked
3.Verify information on request and finding additional necessary
information
4.Rechecking request on which information has been corrected
and checking all series in the appropriate files
THINGS TO CONSIDER
FOR
1.Type of VENDOR
materials handled

SELECTION:
2.Speed of service
3.Discount given
4.Additional service
5.Cataloging and processing
THAN
K