 Keeps the user Alert about latest happenings in

the related field

 Current & Updated information

 Reference Section provide the alerting service in

the form of CAS & SDI
 Keeps the user informed with latest
developments

It is general & Quick meant for community &

Group
 Strauss Defines CAS “ Establishment of a system
for reviewing publications immediately upon
receipt, selecting information pertinent to the
program of organization and recording individual
items to be brought to the attention of those
persons whose work they are related to. It
involves a combination of processes including
selection of pertinent information from periodicals,
books, pamphlets, report or anything of serious
content that is received.
cont..
 Guha defines CAS “ system through which users
of information can be informed promptly as soon
as possible after publication but before absorption
into the comprehensive secondary sources, of
current literature on a broad subject or an area in
which group of persona are interested.
 Intend to keep users abreast with latest
information
 This service is not in response to a particular
enquiry but a continuous process.
 Speed or timeliness. Aims to notify the information
to the users as quickly as possible.
 Easy to use
 Journal circulation
 List of issues of periodicals received
 Table of content service
 Current content service(Current content list at
local or at international level)
 Library bulletin
 Announcement of research in progress
 Notification regarding forthcoming meeting,
seminars etc.
 Newspaper clipping service
 Particular information
 Meant for an individual
 Exclusively restricted to the area of his interest
 Personalized CAS
 Luhn Defined SDI as “That service with in the
organization which concerns itself with channeling of
new items of information from whatever source to
those points with in the organization where the
probability of usefulness is high.

 Strauss Define SDI as “Refinement of the current

awareness idea that is designed to serve the
individual scientist directly.
 Elhence defined SDI is type of personalized CAS
involve screening of documents, selecting information
exactly tailored to meet the specific research needs of
each user.
 It is a current awareness service meant to keep its
users abreast of latest development in the field of
interest.
 Personalized service
 Information provided is exactly tailored to meet the
specific needs
 Maintaining a file of profiles which records
the specific subject interest of users
 Maintaining a file of entries for documents
 Matching
 Notification
 Adjusting the profiles
 Notification

users Interest User Profile
analyzed

User Readjustment
Assesment Analysis

Matching
Notification

Documents Contents Document profile

analyzed