Saturday, January 22, 2022

Data 101: Data Library

 ~ Data Library is often part of large institutions offering long time data preserving, sharing, retrieval and replication to various data mediums. 

~ Data Library subscribes to public/ licensed databases having thousands and millions of records and/or articles.

~ Data Library catalog lists and describes the available materials.

~ This digital library hosts archived big data for wide purposes like scholary, research and development.

~ Data Librarians are the Information Managers assisting as technical, reference guide, part of data literacy, library research.

~ Britannica mentions "Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (S R Ranganathan) - a librarian, educator, Maths post grad" as the Father of Library/ Library Science.

~ His 5 laws of library information science goes as "Books are for use ; Every reader has his book ; Every book has its reader ; Save the time of the reader ; Library is a growing organism".

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