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Synopsis Knowledge Society is an Enlightened Society. To create knowledge society, there is a need to collect, preserve and provide access to World's information resources with the help of network of information resources or libraries, which promote world of ideas and creativity. The progress and sustainability of the nations is dependent on availability, access and adaptability of appropriate knowledge/information as a solution to the specific problems of the nations. Therefore, knowledge/information management and transfer to the society is of great importance, particularly for the developing countries like India. In light of the above issues, the present work Knowledge Societies and Libraries - a Festschrift in honor of Prof. A.A.N. Raju is being brought out, with scholarly contributions made by several eminent library professionals from throughout the country. This work provides information on the recent developments in various facets of Library and Information Science such as - Right to Information, Marketing and Pricing of Information, Library Automation, Digital Libraries, Internet Services, TQM in LIS, Human Resource Planning, LIS education and Research and many more. The present volume is expected to be of immense value to the professional librarians, students of various library and information science programmes and faculty members.