A Bibliography on Punjabi Books

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgement. List of abbreviations/Acronyms. 1. Punjab, Punjabi language and Punjabi literature: an overview. 2. Bibliography and related literature: a review. 3. Computer science, information and General works. 4. Philosophy and Psychology. 5. Religion. 6. Social sciences. 7. Language. 8. Science. 9. Technology. 10. Arts and recreation. 11. Literature. 12. History and Geography. Subject Index.

A bibliography is called a list of reading material which provides required information to scholars about the particular source of information. An academician can know very well about the existence of a document in a particular field of knowledge by knowing its bibliographical details through a bibliography. It can serve as book selection tool for the libraries. In well-established libraries, the bibliographies are frequently consulted to know the current literature output, for verification of bibliographical details and the location of material. It is useful for readers as well as research scholars. Every research begins with a bibliography and ends with a better one. Bibliographies are tools for bibliographic control and research and their compilation and service is the essence of librarianship.

This book is comprehensively, systematically identifies, lists and classified more than 7900 books published in Punjabi during the period of 2004-2013 from North India. The books published only in ‘Gurmukhi Script’ and translated in the Punjabi also mentioned in the work. It has considered all the books including humanities, social science, science and technology etc. published in Punjabi language during the time span. The subject distribution in the book is based on the key concepts, derived from the titles of the books and content also. The key concepts have been validated standardized through the Dewey Decimal Classification (22nd edition) Scheme.