Robinson (information and library studies, State U. of New York-Buffalo) updates her guide both to sources themselves and to methods and strategies for accessing information. Web sites, of course are
The head of systems at the U. of Houston Libraries enlightens library users and personnel on the responsibilities, roles, education, and not-soon-to-be-replaced future of that mythological position of
Librarians from the University of New Mexico synthesize the recent literature and responses to their survey of over 200 academic research libraries involved with outsourcing projects to set out the pr
Providing the basics for working with spatial-data collections in libraries, this book describes in detail the processes and procedures of map selection, acquisition, classification, cataloging, ever
Details research and reference strategies using the Internet with tips on search engines, subject directories, e-mail discussion lists and newsgroups, and forgotten tools such as gopher, Veronica, Jug
Varsity Letters is a functional study of modern colleges and universities intended for readers who seek to understand the nature of higher education. Varsity Letters should be used by those individua
Most of the papers in this volume were first presented at the Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval that was held August 22, 1996 dur- ing the SIGIR'96 Conference. Alan Smeaton of Dublin
Contains papers from a recent Harvard Library conference, in sections on technology and the network, satisfying users, the changing face of research, changing materials and economies, the future of in
You're here! That means you've at least started to discover life online. But if you still are in the dark about a lot of what's going on here . . . or you know someone who still thinks the Internet an
A leader in cooperative collection development for the school library presents a framework for developing school library collections in today's era of "access vs. ownership" and cooperative resource s
No other book provides such a comprehensive approach to educating library customers and staff in the preservation of library materials. Over 35 case studies provide innovative programs and strategies
Shows librarians how to combine creativity with professional expertise to improve customer service. After reviewing the historical background of and research on the reference interview, chapters discu
Without recommending any chemical bibliocides, helps librarians improve their collection by systematically weeding out volumes. Summarizes opinion, experience, and research on the matter, and also ser
Great advances have been made in the database field. Relational and object- oriented databases, distributed and client/server databases, and large-scale data warehousing are among the more notable. Ho
Collection management is becoming increasingly complex due to electronic access to information, the growth of the Internet, greater reliance on document delivery and resource sharing, and changes in s
Like their librarian colleagues, reference archivists mediate between the user and the source material. However, given the nature of archival materials and of their holding repositories, unique issues
This is an exploration of the richness inherent in genre and ethnic collections. The contributors were asked to provide an overview of their topic, its relevance to library collections and suggestions
