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Meola, Marc; Stormont, Sam – 2002
This guide discusses the essentials of live virtual reference, preparing for virtual reference, and implementing and incorporating virtual reference. Chapter 1, "Understanding Live Virtual Reference," lays out what virtual reference is and how it compares to other forms of reference. Chapter 2, "Offering Live Virtual Reference," presents ten…
Descriptors: Computer Software Selection, Electronic Libraries, Internet, Library Personnel
Craver, Kathleen W. – 2002
This book provides school library media specialists (SLMSs) with practical guidelines and suggested Internet sites for designing cyber libraries that are reflective of their school's research, curriculum, and recreational reading needs. An introduction provides SLMSs with a rationale for designing cyber libraries. Chapter 1, Cyber Library…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Information Technology
LaGuardia, Cheryl, Ed.; Mitchell, Barbara A., Ed. – 1998
Adapting today's libraries to better serve tomorrow's needs challenges even the most forward-thinking library staff. This book offers practical, workable solutions from several authorities in the industry. Fifty-five conference papers are included and divided into the following subject areas: "Technology and the Network: Daimons or Demons?";…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Curriculum Development, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society)
Schwartz, Charles A., Ed. – 1997
This book is a collection of 19 essays and case studies about the challenges libraries face today. It assesses a broad range of opportunities and achievements, and emphasizes both theory and practice. The essays are divided into six sections: (1) Introduction--"Restructuring Academic Libraries: Adjusting to Technological Change" (Charles…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Change, Electronic Libraries
Download full textBenton Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1997
Libraries have long been pivotal community institutions--public spaces where people can come together to learn, reflect, and interact. Today, information is rapidly spreading beyond books and journals to digital government archives, business databases, electronic sound and image collections, and the flow of electronic impulses over computer…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advocacy, Case Studies, Change Agents
Pearson, Debra, Ed. – 1992
The papers presented at this conference challenged participants to become an integral part of the planning necessary to keep libraries on the cutting edge of technological advances. Academic libraries are admonished to reposition themselves to deliver both new and traditional services, or face the prospect of being preempted by other agencies. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Libraries
