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Discuss the two categories of Current Awareness Services? |
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Answer» Two categories of Current Awareness Services are: a. CAS directed towards individuals or group of users: This type of CAS includes communication of information to individuals or groups through informal conversation or by telephone or mobile phone; through electronic messages (SMS), messages sent on notification form, selective dissemination of information (SDI), selective dissemination of documents, routing of documents (periodicals), etc. b. CAS directed towards all users of the services: This includes accession lists (new arrivals), bibliographies, indexing and abstracting services, literature surveys, bibliographic surveys, table of contents of periodicals, etc. The end products are current awareness bulletins which may include all the above elements. |
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