Title: Literature Review on Local History Collection, Its Various Sources and Roles of Libraries
Abstract: Local history is the study of regions in the past. The region under study generally tends to be geographically small city, town or village. The writing of local history enriches the life and times of the community of a particular place by providing information related to historical sites and societies. The local history collection can help the students, researchers, historians, local administrator, social workers and writers by giving them the past history of that locality and this collection can be used in community information service. A large number of various types of documents like maps, pnjis, punthis, and paintings are to be considered as the information sources for local history writing. These are the valuable information sources for the historians, researchers and writers. Library can play a big role for local history collection. It may collect, organise and disseminate right information about local history of a place to the right user in right time for solving their queries.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-19
Language: en
Type: article
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