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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Libraries, Information Centers and Databases in Science and Technology
Author: Libraries, information centres, and databases in science & technology
Author: Libraries, Information Centres and Databases in Science and Technology
Author: Scholarly Information Centers in ARL Libraries
Author: Publisher: Association of Research Libr
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases
Author: Ellis MountPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000758044
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization, examines how the scientists at a major industrial research organization have begun to do more online searching with the encouragement of the information center, and explores the proactive role that medical libraries have taken in training health care professionals to search MEDLINE.
Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries
Author: Rita PellenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317955471
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Catch up with the many innovations now affecting sci/tech libraries! The twenty-four chapters in Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries discuss the creation of digital collections, e-repositories, personalized Web environments, and discipline-specific Web sites for students and researchers. The book also explores the use of new technologies to improve document delivery and service provision as well as demonstrations of leadership by science librarians who are willing to take risks, adapt to change, control costs, and collaborate with colleagues. Here is just a fraction of the fascinating cases and important concepts highlighted in Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries: the Drexel University Library’s transition from print to an electronic-only journal collection the benefits of adopting a just-in-time (purchase on demand) rather than a just-in-case acquisitions policy IntelliDoc—how it has raised the standard for document delivery worldwide and increased international recognition of CISTI how California State University, Sacramento, merged its science library into its central reference department—an examination of the two-year merging process the creation of branch libraries focused on electronic information—an engineering library at Kansas State University and an agriculture library at the University of Manitoba the impact of electronic information upon undergraduate science education literacy competencies in the sciences—and their implications for library instruction how the MIT libraries created and developed the Reference Vision system that now guides all of their new reference services the impact of learning communities upon library services recent additions that enhance the usefulness of the IEEE Xplore online delivery system Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries will bring you up-to-date on the latest developments, sharpen your awareness of new concepts and techniques in sci/tech librarianship, and help your library stay abreast of important changes in this ever-evolving field. Make it a part of your professional reference collection today!
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition -
Author: Miriam DrakePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824720780
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
A revitalized version of the popular classic, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition targets new and dynamic movements in the distribution, acquisition, and development of print and online media-compiling articles from more than 450 information specialists on topics including program planning in the digital era, recruitment, information management, advances in digital technology and encoding, intellectual property, and hardware, software, database selection and design, competitive intelligence, electronic records preservation, decision support systems, ethical issues in information, online library instruction, telecommuting, and digital library projects.
One Hundred Years of Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis MountPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000758923
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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 development of sci-tech libraries as well as some thoughts about their future. This comprehensive volume covers several types of sci-tech libraries, information retrieval, and library education. Library professionals will be fascinated but the journey of progress detailed in these well-written chapters.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Training of Sci-Tech Librarians & Library Users
Author: Ellis MountPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000760014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book, first published in 1981, is a crucial overview of the current and future issues in the training of science and engineering librarians as well as instruction for users of these libraries.