Usage of library services efficiently...

Library is a room or a building containing collection of books, periodicals, records, journals etc. where people can read or borrow (Audio English.net, 2012). According to Online Library Learning Center (2012) libraries are divided into 3 main categories, they are, 

• Academic
• Public 
• Special 

Academic library- The main purpose of this library is to support the teaching and the research of a particular college or university, it is comparatively larger compared to a public library, also it does not contain any non- academic material.

Public library- These type of libraries provide popular best sellers, repair manuals and self help books, it rarely contains any academic material.

Special library- This kind of libraries mainly serves for unique purpose, might contain both academic and non academic books or not, for example libraries in government institutions, business institutions, cooperate sector etc.     

(Online Library Learning Center ,2012) 

Every library has a unique identifier to ease the search of books inside the library, for example in the APIIT library if you are searching for a programming book for C++ , the code is 005.133. C++ 118/8, this is defined as below, 

005.133- represents the subject

C++ - it is the extension of subject in the alphabetical order

118/8- is the item number and the edition of the book

For further practice an interactive session was done to arrange the books according library catalog code.

Basic search techniques

Search techniques are one of the main important things which an university should be aware of, because it will be very helpful during conducting research for certain project. As everyone's aware of it is the search engine provided by every browser, most of the time these engines provide with the desired information if only the correct syntax is entered. 

There are many searching strategies introduces, they are,

• Keywords
• Using of boolean operators- It defines the relationship between words or group of words, hence they are AND, OR, NOT, NOR (Pro Quest, 2012) 
• Nesting (Used to group synonymous spelling variations or other alternate terms)
• Phrase searching (Searches on the root of the word adding different word endings or  plurals)
• Truncation and wildcards- These can expand your search scope which uses symbols such as *. ? (Pro Quest, 2012).  

References

Audio English.net, 2012. Audio English.net. [Online]
Available at: http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/library.htm
[Accessed 17 01 2013].

Online Library Learning Center, 2012. Online Library Learning Center. [Online]
Available at: http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit03/libraries03_02.phtml
[Accessed 17 01 2013].

Pro Quest, 2012. Pro Quest. [Online]
Available at: http://www.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/boolean_operators.html
[Accessed 17 01 2013].