Role in Traditional Librarianship

With the flourishing of the libraries as a centre of knowledge, it became evident that a librarian and his team were needed for preserving the books and later the periodicals. The establishment had become vast and the basic service of preserving books along with occasional readership had multiplied into acquisition, processing, storage, dissemination, preservation and conservation. Gradually all of those blossomed into intricate branches with many library scientists offering theoretical and practical treatises on different aspects of librarianship. All of that literature was of the same opinion on one count: all were preaching custodianship.