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Alerting Service

 An Alerting Service alerts an individual about some contemporary and current literature or information of relevance to him. Currency and relevancy are important issues. Alerting Services notify, inform, announce, signal, create awareness of, or forewarn the user about nascent, current information as it is generated and released for public consumption. Such information items need not necessarily be available readily in the library but accessible or otherwise procurable. At times, alerting services also concern themselves with future events, book releases, publications in progress, etc. Alerting services are offered to most customers throughout their membership as a continuous service.

Modern libraries have come a long way from being mere repositories of books and other publications, limiting themselves to just circulation of documents. The type of documents held by a library has also drastically changed: libraries now have a lot of documents in electronic form – ebooks, e-texts, ejournals, etc. Information proliferation or knowledge explosion adds to the librarians problems. Therefore, in order to reach a large number of customers, to maximise the usage of documents among their customers, to satisfy the users needs as much as possible and to bring the publications held by a library closer to its customers, a number of innovative services are being offered now. Such services may be broadly categorised into: Alerting Services, Bibliographic and Literature Search Services including Full text Services, Document Delivery Services, Reference and Referral Services, etc.

Information and Referral Services (IRS) is a generic umbrella service. It is a broad term denoting many similar services. Alerting Services, Bibliographic Services, Reference and Referral Services (that is, excepting document delivery) may be grouped under IRS. They are aimed at turning potential users into actual users of a library. Or, in converting existing dormant users into active users. In a public library, IRS may take the form of Community Information and Referral Service. 

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