This book, first published in 1987, is a stimulating and informative appraisal of the international librarianship scene and the reference service function. Experts discuss how international reference services can be improved to facilitate true exchange of information around the world. They look squarely at problems and provide answers to a host of pertinent questions, such as information counselling and policies, reference services and global awareness, integrating a central reference international studies program, and more.
1. Introduction: The World of Reference and Information Services Bill
Katz The World
2. Information Counselling and Policies Marta L. Dosa and
Darla Holt
3. International Comparison and Problems in the Application of
Information Technology to Information Services Esther E. Horne
4. Reference
Services and Global Awareness Mohammed A. Aman and Mary Jo Aman
5.
Information Service: Supporting the Educational Program Around the World Jean
E. Lowrie
6. Integrating a Central Reference Service in an International
Studies Program W. Daviess Menefee United States
7. Hospitable Harvard: Five
International Libraries and their Services to International Readers Barbara
Mitchell
8. Overseas Publications of the Library of Congress: Their History
and Use as Reference Resources Jack C. Wells
9. International Information
Activities of the U.S. Geological Survey Gary W. North and Nancy B. Faries
10. A Viewpoint for Successful International Marine Data/Information Transfer
Steven J. Tibbitt
11. Scientific/Technical Translations in a Research Library
Ted Crump
12. Indexing and Abstracting Services' Coverage of Soviet English
Language Periodicals Gloria Jacobs Africa
13. Resources for the Study of
Africa and the Middle East: An Overview Julian W. Witherell Australia
14.
On-Line Information Services in Australia Howard Coxon United Kingdom
15. The
International Component of Reference Work at the Science Reference and
Information Service, The British Library M.W. Hill
16. BBC Data as an
Information Provider and Publisher David Stoker Germany
17. Automated
Information Services for Supreme National Authorities: The Libraries'
Contribution: The Example of the Federal Republic of Germany Ernst Kohl
Israel
18. Information Services in Industry: Difficulties in Less Developed
and Small or Peripheral Countries Beth Krevitt Eres Latin America
19. The
Most Useful Reference Sources on Latin America: Results of a Survey of Those
Who Use Them Most Edwin S. Gleaves
20. Foreign Trade & Econ Abstracts
Measures up Internationally R.A.J. Van Loen
Bill Katz, Ruth A. Fraley
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