Through its discussions on planning, using space, and selecting equipment and furnishings, this book, first published in 1988, provides guidance for those who have little or no experience in designing a facility for a special library - one that se...Loe edasi...
Libraries in Australia and New Zealand struggle with the problems of a print-oriented publishing industry dominated by countries half way across the globe. This book, first published in 1992, provides advice on the need for these librarie...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1983, presents some useful guidelines for librarians contemplating planning sci-tech library facilities, along with a number of reports on actual examples of such projects, representing a variety of sci-tech library t...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1986, is a comprehensive review of American library cooperative development programs at the regional, state-wide, interstate, and national levels. The distinguished contributors offer thoughtful assessments of the cha...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1982, focuses on providing information about the policies and practices surrounding the preparation and submitting of articles to the major journals in library and information science. This guide includes all the majo...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1983, examines translation sources and their activities, as well as ways in which librarians can become aware of what has been translated, and obtain copies. The sci-tech literature of the world reflects the internati...Loe edasi...
Defining technology transfer as ‘the process of getting technical knowledge, ideas, services, inventions, and products from their origin to wherever they can be put to practical use’, this book, first published in 1991, explores the role of the in...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1997, gives an overview of how the Internet is used in academic libraries, with a focus on the dual role librarians serve as instructors and researchers. It includes concise summaries, keyword listings, and up-to-date...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1983, examines the key role that serials play in sci-tech libraries, serials being a source of prime importance for scientists and engineers. The problems and costs associated with the selection, handling and storage...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1998, examines formal cooperative collection development programs as well as nonformal agreements. It analyses the most effective mechanisms for establishing a cooperative collection agenda, including making the most...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1990, reflects the partnership among those who create, produce, distribute, and manage serials information. Lively and informative, this volume addresses several highly important topics, including the process of schol...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1984, analyses the provision of more effective library service by relying more heavily on collaboration between reference and technical services librarians....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1999, reveals trends in selecting, acquiring, and accessing electronic journals. It stresses the need for librarians to understand copyright and contract laws, the complexity of the Internet business environment, and...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1986, discusses reference personnel concerns and problems and offers suggestions to administration and management for improving reference personnel performance and staff development....Loe edasi...
The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published in 1988. Librarians discuss the impact of brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of lib...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. This book, firs...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1988, is a guide to understand and implement the USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations with the goal of making resource sharing of serials easier. Innovative librarians on the cutting edge of technical services and...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1995, addresses the key issue of libraries and interdependence. It explores the critical questions for making resource-sharing work, with particular emphasis on interlibrary loan. Cooperative collection development, e...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive look at PaULS, the Pennsylvania Union List of Serials. It collects previously published articles recording the development and implementation of PaULS; new articles representing updated perspe...Loe edasi...
Taking a broad approach from career counselling theory to recommendations of major sources of career and job information, this book, first published in 1992, covers subjects such as cooperative programs between librarians, career planning professi...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1984, is an effective guide to help librarians develop a more systematic and effective approach to dealing with overdues. The editors present statistical data on overdues, as well as successful tactics employed by var...Loe edasi...
British university libraries face major financial, technological, and organizational challenges. Cuts in funding, the spread of new technology, and changes to the provision of university education as a whole are combining to fundamentally alter th...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1995, describes how automation is changing the face of acquisitions as librarians know it and making the future uncertain yet exciting. It documents how libraries have increasingly moved to powerful, second-generation...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1992, explores the issue of library assessment methods and the impact of accountability on the delivery of reference services. It is a call for librarians to actively adopt performance measures and learn how to work w...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1991, examines the actual costs of operating an acquisitions department. It discusses the costs involved in pre-order searching; implementing an integrated online system; automating serials acquisitions; supp...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1989, covers all aspects of sci-tech collection management. It analyses the planning, careful use of budgets and wise selections required to build a suitable collection....Loe edasi...
In the seven chapters of this book, first published in 1991, the topics of planning and creativity as they apply to the management of academic libraries are discussed fully, with specific examples and detailed guidelines. In the sev...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1986, focuses on valuable information to all public library professionals who have questions about their participation in bibliographic networks. Contributors provide insights into both the benefits and the costs of n...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching, and examines how scientists at a major indus...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1986, contains the invaluable and enlightening perspectives of an international roster of experts on the state-of-the-art of serials librarianship and the indications for the future of the profession....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1982, is specifically devoted to the analysis of problems, innovative practices, and advances relating to the control and servicing of technical reports....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1982, explores all major aspects of automated serials control. It examines major working serials control systems in the United States and Canada, describes their operations, and evaluates their successes and shortcomi...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1986, analyses womens collections in institutional and private establishments in the United States. It focuses on the development of the collections as a result of feminist advances in activism and scholarship, and t...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1985, examines the professional librarians’ needs for cataloging computer software. Examples of software labels, title screens, and catalog cards are used to illustrate how to catalog microcomputer software according...Loe edasi...
This full-length scholarly study, first published in 1981, is devoted to a specific consideration of the sex magazine in the library and the inherent problems and issues attending its controversial presence....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1992, provides vital information on the changes in Western European information services resulting from the new European Community. It contains chapters on topics such as information policy in the European Community,...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 2002, gathers some of Americas top subject expert librarians to determine the most influential journals in their respective fields. 32 contributing authors reviewed journals from over twenty countries that have succe...Loe edasi...
In this book, first published in 1998, world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship analyse the problems associated with coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1992, examines the reference librarians role as a connecting link between information seekers and the resources they need. It provides the best approaches to providing resolutions or guidance to the appropriate r...Loe edasi...
In this book, first published in 1995, managers from seven federally sponsored libraries in the United States analyse in detail their roles and responsibilities. Each librarian writes about the management of their facility and highlights significa...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1990, provides analysis for the training and development of library personnel. Contributors from varying types of libraries discuss training in busy public services departments, address vendor and in-house perspective...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1988, examines serials publishing. By exploring the relationships among the librarian, publisher, and vendor, it builds a better understanding of these three positions. Discussions include the economics of journal pub...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1988, offers valuable discussions on networking concerns such as governance, planning, economic and legal problems, leadership needs, appropriate products and services, improving the political environment, and more. T...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 2002, examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection development policies and practices. It provides insights on the use of electronic resources in major...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1992, is a comprehensive guide to publishing articles and research on the family in social science journals. It includes listings for over two hundred social science journals whose editors have expressed an interest i...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1990, examines in detail 12 serials departments, both large and small, that experts have selected as representative examples of notable serials departments. The departments have in common a general reputation in the s...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1995, helps librarians develop skills and strategies to cope effectively with the myriad changes affecting their profession due to the rapid evolution of technology. Informative chapters address the impact of technolo...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1987, focuses on the patterns of library crime and disruption in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. In addition to important data on these problems, there is extensive information on the characteristics of...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1992, equips library managers in all types of libraries to make the administrative changes necessary to deal with new information technologies. It analyses administrative adjustments to the new technological informati...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1988, celebrates the development of sci-tech libraries in honour of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first library school in the United States. The expert contributors provide a survey of the devel...Loe edasi...