Impact of price hike and soring foreign exchange conversion rates on special libraries

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">An industrial undertaking has to maintain, for use by its technicians, research workers and others an up-to-date technical library. The task of keeping pace with the latest development of technological improvement makes it essential for such a library to obtain books, journals and other documents in almost all fields of science and technology. In India the main collections, however have to be in English. Indian technical libraries are, therefore, to depend mainly on foreign publications which are imported. The Procurement of the latest required publications at the earliest is one of the essential pre -conditions for efficient library service.</span>