In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Aided Library” means a public library run by private initiative, receiving State Government assistance as per existing rules;
(b) “Council” means the State Library Council constituted under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(c) “document” means embodied thought, i.e. record of work on paper or other material, fit for physical handling, transport across space, and preservation through time, and includes the following conventional and non-conventional thought embodiments: printed books, manuscripts, Braille stenographs, music in notation, ciphers (where graphic is phonetic symbols) drawing pictures, maps, microfilms, micro-cards, micro-fiche, cassettes, audio/visual documents, floppy discs (non-book material) newspapers, periodicals and other serial documents.
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(d) “book” includes—
(i) every volume, part or division of a volume, document be it a printed work or a manuscript or a micro-film, or a video/audio cassette or a photograph or a compact disc;
(ii) every sheet of music, chart or plan separately printed or lithographed;
(iii) newspapers, periodicals and other such materials.
(e) “book service” means reference service, lending out books to members of public libraries, helping groups with books, helping people to know the whereabouts of a book or books and helping them to procure the books they need;
(f) “Departmental Library” means a library maintained by a Department of the Government;
(g) “Government” means the Government of the State of Goa;
(h) 1[Public Library” means—
(i) any library established, maintained and managed by the Government and declared open to public;
(ii) any library declared to be eligible for grant-in-aid and receiving aid from the Government or from the Library fund of the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation; and
(iii) any other library notified by the Government as a Public Library for the purpose of this Act.]
(i) “reference service” means assistance from the library staff to the reader or user of the library to enable him to know, locate and consult books and other materials and to secure from such books and materials information relevant to this purpose;
(j) “State” means the State of Goa;
(k) “Year” means the financial year.