Chapter X

Standards for IOD Activities

Abstract

Standards are required in the field of information organization and dissemination mainly for maintaining a minimum standard or quality of information service and for bringing uniformity in sizes and quality of materials used in information organization and also uniformity in procedures and practices followed in IOD. National and international standards have been formulated in different areas relating to IOD and allied fields. Some important standards formulated in the areas of information retrieval, vocabulary control, information consolidation, documentation list, bibliographical references, reprography, terminology relating to IOD, translation service, transliteration, abbreviations relating to ...

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