http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/27499 2026-10-08T23:19:29Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/27549 Title: Handling of non-return of documents: A case study from NICMAP library Authors: Reddy, K. Ramakrishna Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;="" mso-bidi-font-style:italic"="" lang="EN-US">The procedures adopted to realize overdue documents from the defaulter users of National Information Centre for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (NICMAP) library have been discussed.</span> Page(s): 116-120 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/27548 Title: Use of public library: a case of deposit holders of Visakhapatnam District Central Library Authors: Satyanarayana, M Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">A <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">survey study to identify usage pattern, reading behaviour and other characteristics of deposit holders of the District Central Library of Visakhapatnam (India), are presented. For effective services, it is necessary to reshape the library as a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">community-based agency.</span></span></span> Page(s): 108-115 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/27547 Title: Citation analysis of doctoral dissertations in mathematics using dBase III+ Authors: Bandyopadhyay, Amit Kumar Abstract: <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Bibliometric study of the citations in 27 doctoral dissertations in mathematics submitted at the Burdwan University (West Bengal) from 1981 to 1990, and also of the references in the published articles cited in these theses was conducted using a database management software package (dBase lll+). The bibliographic forms of literature used, ranked list of journals in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, normalized ranking of journals with corrected citation number according to Sengupta's formula and correlation study between two lists found out by the use of the software developed are presented. The programme appended with this paper may be used for similar such studies.</span> Page(s): 81-107 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z