Department of Library and Information Science, S K University, Ananthapur, A. P.
The word ‘community’ has several meanings. It can be applied to a place made up of a number of communities definable by race, culture, social class or income group, employment, leisure interest, religion. It may also mean a number of people who share the same ideas, beliefs, or professional interests. According to Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Sociology, “a community is a concentrated settlement of people in a limited territorial area within which they satisfy many of their daily needs through a system of interdependent relationships. Thus a community is a self conscious social unit and a focus group of identification”(1).
Community always means a group of people who share a common concern and who contribute something to the common concern.
