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the Government-State as well as Central, should provide sufficient funds to library service with the conviction that, in its turn, it (library service) would help develop the scholarship and increase productive capacity of the nation;

the faculty should give up the age old text-book-centered, examination-oriented and mass-talk method of teaching and should encourage library-centered, individual and group guidance method through tutorials, discussions and seminars etc., to make education really effective and worthwhile;

the librarian should collaborate with the faculty and provide necessary literature, supplementary and parallel reading, keeping in view that library service does not merely aim at satisfying the immediate requirements of the reader, but also aims to assist the reader in strengthening his creativeness and satisfying his intellectual curiosity;

the publishing trade, instead of producing text-books only, and easy question and answer series and other cheap books aimed at providing short-cuts to students to get through examinations, should try to publish standard works, informative books and periodicals and such other literature that may help to broaden the vision, to strengthen the intellectual capacity of the student. In this process, the Government may come up to help the authors as well as the publishing-trade by awarding well-written books and by framing a suitable policy for the supply of paper, printing and binding facility etc. It would be much better if Government sponsor the scheme of subsidising good and standard publications.

4 Elements for the functional layout of University Library System

The successful operation and functioning of a library is based on the premise that it would have adequate resources to support training and research, fully trained and qualified staff capable of organising the information contents in the most scientific and helpful order, and the readers who come to use the library and its resources. Books, staff and the trinity of librarianship as Dr S.R. Ranganathan has put it, are the basic ingredients for the working of any library-may, the university library.

Wilson and Tauber [1] 9 have stressed that, (I) resources for instruction, research and extension; (ii) a competent library staff, (iii) organisation of materials for use; (iv) adequate space and equipment; (v) integration of the library with administrative and educational policies; (vi) integration of the with community, state, regional, national and international library resources; (vii) adequate financial support; and (viii) a workable policy of library government, are essential and are fundamental to the successful operation and development of the university library system of a country.

Though Dr. Ranganathan Library Review Committee on University and college Library (1957) and other committees on higher education recommended the central role of library in academic Institutions, it is seen that a tendency of ad hocism prevail in support to university library sector. The states government and the UGC had not formulated any standard for financial support to the libraries it also have no special norms made to support maintenance of quality to library services and to modernise university library and to modernise its services.

Looking back to the history and development of university lib