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Using bibliometric techniques, the paper attempts to study 1,573 paintings and drawings by Rabindranath Tagore available at Rabindra-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati. Rabindranath paintings cover 27 themes. The distribution of themes do not follow Bradford law. He has drawn seventy-one types of figures and seven types of human faces. He used various colours and materials for his pictures. Only pen ink was used by him 466 paintings. In others, pen ink was used along with 21 combinations. Plain paper, cards, silk, wood, wooden box, wooden board, varnished paper, glazed paper, exercise book, pasted card, pasted paper were used for painting including the back of a letter. Rabindranath signed 903 paintings in Bengali, 53 in English, and two both in Bengali and English. He did not sign on 615 of his paintings. Of the 1,573 paintings, Rabindranath mentioned places of paintings only in 48 cases, of which 29 places are in India. 1150 paintings do not reveal the dates. From the dated paintings it appears that Rabindranath on some dates created five to six paintings. Rabindranath gave titles to his paintings only in 46 cases. All these titles are in Bengali. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of an intensive stock verification of more than 50000 documents of an academic library (Institute of Agriculture; Visva-Bharati) established in 1957. The physical verification process includes physical noting of all accession number of books on and out of stack and use of LibSys software to generate reports. The paper highlights that physical verification of collection can help in identifying major areas of loss and thereby can help in framing administrative guideline for collection evaluation and management policy. The paper also urges for review of existing government rules regarding loss of books and weed-out policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan introduced a number of classical theories and their practical applications with rules, regulations, laws, canons etc. The article traces the influencing philosophical factor which laid the philosophical foundation in his mind for lifelong academic and professional efforts. It is observed that Indian classical epic literature in general and Laws of Manu known as Manu Samhita or Manu-smriti in particular had a great impact on his thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rabindranath Tagore, the world-famous poet, is also considered as the pioneer of rural development programme in India. He started rural reconstruction project at Sriniketan in 1921 aiming to make villagers self-reliant and self-respecting, and competent to make efficient use of resources for the fullest development of their physical, social, economic and intellectual potential and abilities; and to get them acquainted with the cultural tradition of their own. For this purpose Tagore laid full emphasis on collection and dissemination of information. The present paper is an attempt to highlight how information on rural Bengal was collected, disseminated and utilized for preparing rural development plan and its implementation. It also tries to highlight the functions of the Rural Reconstruction Centre to the dissemination of information to rural masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published letters written by Rabindranath Tagore counts to four thousand ninety eight. Besides family members and Santiniketan associates, Tagore wrote to different personalities like litterateurs, poets, artists, editors, thinkers, scientists, politicians, statesmen and government officials. These letters form a substantial part of intellectual output of 'Tagoreana' (all the intellectual output of Rabindranath). The present paper attempts to study the growth pattern of letters written by Rabindranath and to find out whether it follows Bradford's Law. It is observed from the study that Rabindranath wrote letters throughout his literary career to three hundred fifteen persons covering all aspects such as literary, social, educational, philosophical as well as personal matters and it does not strictly satisfy Bradford's bibliometric law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rabindranath Tagore gave copyright of his intellectual output to Visva-Bharati. The extended period of copy right ended in December 2001. Private publishers have been free to publish the writings of Rabindranath Tagore since then. The paper attempts to study whether complete and accurate Bengali writings of Ranbindranath Tagore are being published by private publishers. It is observed from the study that a small number of Bengali publishers are publishing only commercially viable titles of Rabindranath Tagore. The prices of the books are lower but are of poor quality with number of mistakes that have been identified in the study. The quality of paper used is also poor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract of the article "Role of Service Sector Information for Micro-Planning: A Case Study," by Partha Pratim Ray and Bidhan Ch. Biswas is presented.